Anurag Verma

Birthday bash? No, just fash! Everyone assumed it was the birthday bash of Anurag Verma when he called for a party at 1 Boulevard recently.

Anurag Verma turned 55 and the fashion fraternity gathered at Elf Cafe Lounge to celebrate with him.

Bathinda: Punjab ADGP MF Farooqui on Monday said the Punjab government had compiled details of 992 persons, mainly students, stuck in Ukraine. Additional chief secretary Anurag Verma is monitoring all operations. tnn

Stones and grit were mixed in more than 15000 sacks of paddy procured at a procurement centre in Satna.

A 16-year-old girl mesmerized the city with her soulful music at Press Club, Chandigarh, on Thursday, during a monsoon event organized at the premises.

A government school teacher in Satna district, who happens to be the father of an IPS officer, was suspended for applying for pilgrimage under Mukhyamantri Tirth Darshan Yojana meant for pilgrimage to elderly non-taxpayers.

In a one of its kind drive, Satna district administration conducted more than 1550 demarcations across the district in a single day. District collector, sub-divisional magistrates, tehsildars and other revenue officials were in the field on Saturday resolving land demarcation applications.

Controversy is raging over the mathematics exam of MSc course at Punjabi University, Patiala, with reports of question paper having been leaked. While the university officials are denying that the question papers was leaked, vice-chancellor (VC) Anurag Verma has sought a reply from his staff and also the reasons for change in the date of the examination.

LUDHIANA: Ludhiana deputy commissioner held a meeting with LPG distributors and petrol pump dealers to curb malpractices.

Punjab’s flood situation remains grim, while evacuation and relief work continued in parts of Patiala, Ropar, Fatehgarh Sahib, Mohali, and Tarn Taran districts on Tuesday, with the homes and fields still under water, taps still dry, and power still out.

Fourteen teams of National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), two units of state disaster response force (SDRF) and 12 columns of the Army and Punjab Police personnel have been deployed in the districts of Punjab which have been worst hit by flooding due to incessant rain, Punjab’s top cop DGP Gaurav Yadav said on Monday.

The VC had got developed a new software under which the complete information of purchase and spending will be uploaded.

The AAP government in Punjab on Monday appointed 1993-batch IAS officer Anurag Verma as new chief secretary with effect from July 1. Verma, who superseded 11 officers senior to him, would be the 42nd chief secretary of the state.