With around 6,000 sanitation workers employed by the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation remaining off duty, the prolonged deadlock has severely disrupted civic services and intensified concerns over hygiene during the monsoon

The announcement comes a day after sanitation workers held demonstrations outside the municipal corporation’s (MC) Zone-A office in Ludhiana where they suspended work and demanded…

According to traders, some shopkeepers had opened their establishments in the morning, but members of the Valmiki community and safai sewak unions later visited markets and…

With around 6,000 sanitation workers employed by the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation remaining off duty, the prolonged deadlock has severely disrupted civic services and…

Union representatives agreed to suspend the agitation after the government assured them that most of their long-pending demands had been accepted, while discussions on the…

One of the worst-affected locations is Kochar Market in Jawahar Nagar, where garbage left uncleared for four to five days has begun decomposing, engulfing the city’s bustling…