Welcome to Ludhiana
ImageLudhiana the largest city in the Indian city of Punjab, with a population of over 1.5 million people.

The city is over 500 years old, rich in history and is very popular with tourists, particularly as it has easy access by road and rail to other places such as Amritsar, Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Delhi, and Chandigarh.

It is the major industrial center for the Punjab and is known as the "Manchester" of India because of its numerous manufacturing plants. Its an important hub for the knitwear and textile trades in adddition to being home to factories producing vehicles, machine tools, generators and more.

 
Latest Ludhiana News
Ludhiana: Student dies in college clash (The Times of India)
A fourth-year electrical engineering student died in a campus clash at Guru Nanak Engineering College here on Wednesday.

    • Killer bus set on fire in Ludhiana (New Kerala)
    Ludhiana, May 12: A private bus was set on fire by an irate mob in this industrial city of Punjab Monday after it crushed to death a teenaged girl.

    • Britain to get first Asian woman Lord Mayor (The New Straits Times)
    Britain will get its first Asian woman Lord Mayor today when Ludhiana-born Manjula Sood takes over as the first citizen of the multi-cultural town of Leicester in the East Midlands, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

    • Britain To Get First Asian Woman Lord Mayor (Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA))
    LONDON, May 15 (Bernama) -- Britain will get its first Asian woman Lord Mayor Thursday when Ludhiana-born Manjula Sood will take over as the first citizen of the multicultural town of Leicester in the East Midlands, Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

    • Britain's first Asian woman Lord Mayor (The Times of India)
    Ludhiana-born Manjula Sood, a High Bailiff of Leicester till now, will become the first Asian woman Lord Mayor of Britain.