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The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday expanded its organisation set up in Punjab, appointing five new state secretaries, six joint secretaries, two Lok Sabha in-charges and state-level functionaries of several wings. Gurdev Singh Lakhna, Dr Sunny Ahluwalia, Shaminder Khinda, Rajwinder Kaur Thiara and Amandeep Singh Mohie have been appointed as state secretaries, according to orders issued by AAP state president Bhagwant Mann, state affairs in-charge Jarnail Singh and state co-in-charge.

AAP state chief spokesperson Malvinder Singh Kang has been made in-charge of the Anandpur Sahib Lok Sabha constituency whereas Sharan Pal Makkar is in-charge of Ludhiana seat. Similarly, party spokesperson Neel Garg, Mohanlal, Harcharan Singh Sandhu, Prem Kumar, Kartar Pehelwan and Gurpal Singh have been made the state joint secretaries. Apart from this, the party appointed Baljinder Kaur as the state head of the women’s wing and Surendra Singh Sodhi as the sports wing head.

Scheduled power outages in Bengaluru on Sept 10, 11

Bengaluru's electricity board, the Bangalore Electricity Supply Company Limited, has put out data indicating that there will be some planned power shutdowns this month in the city, which has ongoing battles with flooding and waterlogging in some areas. Here are the areas that might be affected: Pillagumpa and surrounding areas, Mauneshwara, Basaveshwara, All areas coming under the 220kV Guttur-Chitradurga line, Honnenahalli, Haraluru, KM halli, Carmobiles, Hirehalli, Maranayakanapalya, Siddaganga mata, Raitharapalya, Nandihalli NJY and Ranevalves.

Goraguntepallya National Highway to be upgraded soon: CM Bommai

Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has decided to upgrade National Highway starting from Goraguntepallya and promised to take a decision on hiring an agency to fix the cables, said Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Friday. Talking to reporters after chairing a meeting of PWD, BBMP and Finance Department officials here on Friday, he said instructions have been given to send proposals on how to improve National Highway projects in Karnataka.

Relief for ex-PM Deve Gowda, SC bags out of HC order in defamation case

In a relief to former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda, the Supreme Court on Friday refused to interfere with the Karnataka High Court order staying execution of a trial court decree asking him to pay Rs 2 crore in a defamation suit filed against him by a construction company.

Delhi high court convicts man over a decade after he raped an 11-year-old

In its judgment, the high court justified the delay in the registration of the FIR stating that the girl, who had lost her mother at a very young age and whose father was also missing, was staying with her aunt who was looking after 10 children, 6 of her own and 4 of her brother’s, including the girl.

Delhi: Microbreweries set for a comeback after 9 months

The owners of these establishments said the demand for craft beer -- generally made with traditional ingredients such as malted barley -- produced by microbreweries is quite high in Delhi. A Delhi government official said under the now scrapped excise policy of 2021-22, microbreweries were allowed but they could not start operations as the revised terms and conditions could not be notified in time.

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