Patiala

Councillor and former senior deputy mayor Anil Bajaj is new president of the Patiala (urban) district unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

With peak summer months here, power cuts are back to haunt Punjab. Several parts of the state are witnessing power cuts, and the Punjab State Power Corporation Ltd is struggling to cope with the sharp increase in demand for electricity as a result of the rising mercury.

In its first chargesheet in the Patiala land scam, the Punjab vigilance bureau (VB) has said that former Patiala deputy commissioner Vikas Garg was in constant touch with the accused and had acted as the executor for selling government property after declaring it as private.

In its first chargesheet in the Patiala land scam, the Punjab vigilance bureau (VB) has said that former Patiala deputy commissioner Vikas Garg was in constant touch with the accused and had acted as the executor for selling government property after declaring it as private.

Railway minister Pawan Kumar Bansal had migrated from his native town of Tapa Mandi in Barnala district to Chandigarh when the family's textile business failed following the death of his father in 1974. Coming from a Congress background-his father Pyara Lal Aggarwal remained the president of the Tapa Mandi municipal committee for several years-Bansal was appointed as the general secretary of the Chandigarh Youth Congress in 1976.

The state government is accused of not fulfilling its commitments under the Scheduled Castes Sub Plan (SCSP). Chamar Mahan Sabha president Paramjit Singh Kainth on Thursday submitted a memorandum in this regard for the governor to deputy commissioner Arun Sekhri here.

Nearly 60 mobile phones seized from inmates in the past four months has rung alarm bells for the prison authorities here. Inmates have been chatting with girlfriends, surfing the internet, posting messages on Facebook and doing videoconferences via Skype on mobile phone.

For the zila parishad and panchyat samiti elections coming up on May 19, 344 nomination papers, so far, have been filed here. For the zila parishad elections, 46 candidates have entered their names, and 298 are in the contest for block samiti seats.

Moved by the tragic story of veteran lead actor Satish Kaul, Punjabi University here has come forward to give it a happy ending.The man who ruled Punjabi cinema for more than 30 years now lives in poverty and isolation in Patiala.

The enforcement directorate (ED) has court's permission to record the statements of expatriate Anoop Singh Kahlon and Devinder Singh "Happy", accused in the high-profile drug haul case of Fatehgarh Sahib. Special judge Kuldip Singh granted it the permission here on Wednesday.

Two days after students of Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET) went on rampage, the local police registered case of attempt to murder, rioting and damage of public property against the students. The police failed to mention number and name of students in the FIR, who had been booked on above charges rather registered the case against unidentified students of SLIET, a deemed university, situated 15km from here.

A day after destroying property at the Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology (SLIET) here, students failed to build consensus with the deemed university management.

An actor who ruled the Punjabi film world for more than 30 years is now a pauper in the royal city.

Three members of a family were killed on Tuesday evening when their car fell into a canal in an accident near Mandi Ahemadgarh.