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Deepika Padukone makes stylish pit-stop at Louis Vuitton event ahead of Cannes. See stunning pics

Deepika Padukone attended a Louis Vuitton event in California ahead of the Cannes Film Festival.

Mumtaz says she loved Shammi Kapoor ‘tremendously’ but their marriage ‘wouldn’t have worked’: ‘The Kapoor family was strict about their bahus’

Mumtaz shared that the Kapoor family was very strict about their 'bahus' not working in movies and she wanted to act, so she refused to marry Shammi Kapoor.

Modern Love Mumbai review: Amazon Prime series makes you fall in love with Mumbai, all over again

Modern Love Mumbai review: This city is perhaps India’s only true ‘mahanagar’. Does the anthology inspire the same awed-affection? Maybe not all the way, but each story does have something uniquely Mumbai about it.

Technology

Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal says two leaders will depart company, hiring paused

The news comes as billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is working to close a $44 billion deal to acquire Twitter. Parag Agrawal also said in the email that Twitter would pause most hiring and would review all existing job offers to determine whether any "should be pulled back."

Astronomers capture 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole

Astronomers believe nearly all galaxies, including our own, have these giant black holes at their centre, where light and matter cannot escape, making it extremely hard to get images of them.

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Spinal fluid from young mice sharpened memories of older rodents

The finding was the latest indication that making brains resistant to the unrelenting changes of older age might depend less on interfering with specific disease processes and more on trying to restore the brain’s environment to something closer to its youthful state.

Ludhiana News

Power theft: PSPCL fines Bhikhiwind dera Rs 26L

A PSPCL spokesman said that the enforcement team was investigating a complaint regarding theft of electricity.

Punjab: 25-yr-old dies after taking drugs, his friends dump body in drain

Meanwhile, the youth’s father alleged that for four days since his son went missing on May 8, he was made to run from one police station to the other as cops refused to register the FIR.

Punjab: Dalit body protests changes in land auction policy, to meet CM on May 24

The new lease policy for panchayati land, which was notified on March 10 this year, has done away with several relaxations previously offered to Dalit land labourers, leaving them miffed.

Battle lines drawn between farmers, farm labourers over paddy transplantation rates

In Sangrur’s Daska, farmers fixed a rate of Rs 3,500 per acre for labouers and announced Rs 20,000 fine for farmers who flout the rule.

5-year-old dies in Ludhiana roof collapse, probe on

The incident took place when the child was sitting outside the house under a tree with his mother and his younger brother. Later, when he went inside the house to drink water, the makeshift roof of the house suddenly came crashing down trapping the child.

Ludhiana: Rs 15 lakh looted from a factory at gunpoint

Sources said that the factory employees were distributing salaries among the workers when the robbers barged inside and escaped with the cash.

Bathinda girl brings laurels by winning Gold at Deaflympics

Shreya, who hails from Bathinda, is the only disabled player from Punjab in the current Indian team. She left for Brazil on April 27 and participated in matches played on May 2, 3 and 4.

Mann’s ‘Delhi model’ for Punjab schools: training tours abroad, portal to share ideas

All praise for the Capital school story, Mann said that teachers from the state will be sent to sent to countries such as Finland, Switzerland and Singapore for training, ‘just like Delhi government does’.

Row over paddy sowing dates: Talks with minister fail, farmers to begin ‘Chandigarh morcha’ May 17

Earlier on May 8, sixteen farmers’ bodies had rejected the electricity supply schedule for the upcoming paddy sowing season issued by the state government and had asserted that they would start transplanting paddy plants from June 10.

Punjab Agricultural University’s PR-130 rice variant gets nod from state approval committee

Dr Gurjit Singh Mangat, additional director of research (crop improvement), said, “It is mid-maturing, lodging tolerant, bacterial blight resistant variety with better milling quality characteristics.”

Ludhiana: Major fire at diesel shed near railway station

According to the fire department, the blaze started at around 1.50pm after someone allegedly discarded a smoked cigarette near the waste engine oil and waste diesel filters.

Nadda to meet Punjab BJP leaders, workers

Municipal elections in Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar and Patiala are scheduled for January next year, but corporations can be dissolved 6 months ahead as well by the state government. So, political parties are making advance preparations for the polls.

Breach in Sirhind feeder, twice in five weeks, leaves farmers reeling

Villagers not only fear flooding, but also water scarcity during peak cotton sowing period. Farmers also complained that the breach has happened twice in around five weeks.

Panchayat Land Auction: Confusion as govt ‘advises’ bidders to adopt DSR tech

Punjab has a total of 1.57 lakh acres of panchayat land out of which one-third or nearly 52 lakh acres is reserved for Dalits.

Tejinder Bagga arrest political vendetta as AAP finds us a threat in Punjab: BJP

Jeevan Gupta, general secretary of state BJP, said Kejriwal is misusing his MoU on knowledge sharing.

Man booked as 2-month-old son dies after he threw him on floor

Inspector Neeraj Chaudhary, SHO Dugri police station said, “The FIR has been registered on the statement of the mother but we are awaiting autopsy report to know the cause of death,” said SHO.

Punjab: Van with students turns turtle, 15 miss Class 10 board exam

One student and the driver have been referred to Guru Gobind Singh Medical College in Faridkot while the others were being treated at the Civil Hospital in Kotkapura.

Elderly couple murder: Son’s brother-in-law from UK held, held grudge against couple, say police

Investigators said that Charanjit Singh who was born and brought up in London, held a grudge against the elderly couple for ‘harassing and ill-treating’ his sister Sanpreet Kaur, who was married to couple’s son Jagmohan Singh and lived in Edinburgh, Scotland.