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Municipal elections in Haryana are set to be held in June-July before the elections to the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs).

Even as stubble burning cases have registered a decline during the current wheat harvesting, popularly known as rabi season, which is drawing to a close, Ludhiana remains the second most polluted city in Punjab as on Thursday, the official data has confirmed.

A Food and Drug Administration team today raided the office of M/s Family Planning Association India in Panchkula and took samples of medicines. The team also seized some medicines.

Minister for Animal Husbandry, Fisheries and Dairy Development Kuldeep Singh Dhaliwal today discussed the problems being faced by dairy and fish farmers.

While PCC chief Amrinder Raja Warring termed Sunil Jakhar’s switchover to the BJP as something “not unexpected”, sources in the party have not ruled out the PCC ex-chief being used by the saffron party to trigger defections among disgruntled Congress leaders.

Concerned over illegal parking on roads in front of the markets in the city, the traffic police today issued chalans to 1,188 vehicle owners.

Panic gripped Janetpur village after a group of workers saw a leopard in the fields this morning.

The local Municipal Corporation (MC), which has been struggling for a long time to recover dues running into crores from mobile companies for installing towers and cables, received Rs 5.84 crore from Reliance Jio today.

The district administration here today directed officials of the Irrigation and Water Resources Department to complete various flood-control schemes by June 30.

Former Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu will surrender before a local court in Patiala on Friday in a 1988 road rage case, in which the Supreme Court imposed a one-year jail term on him.

Rachit and Anita claimed top positions in the boys’ and girls’, respectively, wheelchair/autism/cerebral palsy category during a yoga competition for students with intellectual disabilities organised by the Government Rehabilitation Institute for Intellectual Disabilities (GRIID), Sector

An unknown person has been booked by the UT police for using the PGI Director’s picture on WhatsApp and sending messages to a doctor.

The Punjab Pollution Control Board (PPCB) today imposed a fine of Rs 5 lakh on the Saidpura-based pharma firm Nectar Life Sciences Limited.

A ragpicker was bludgeoned to death while another was seriously injured after being attacked by a man in Sector 38 during the wee hours of today. The suspect, who is also a ragpicker, has been arrested by the police.

Mayor Sarbjit Kaur today launched “Helmet Bank” on the premises of the Municipal Corporation under the road safety project, “Sadak”, of an NGO, Patiala Foundation.