The post of the President of Punjab Youth Congress (PYC) has been given to Ravneet Singh Bittu, a close confidant of the former Congress chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh.

Bittu's grandfather was the former congress chief minister of Punjab, Beant Singh who was assassinated during the peak days of militancy in Punjab.

According to a new study, chocolate, tea and wine can improve people's memory. Researchers have discovered that wine is most effective in boosting the memory.

Researchers in Norway and the Oxford University conducted the study on 2,031 older people aged between 70 and 74. They studied the relation between cognitive performance and the consumption of three common foodstuffs (chocolate, wine and tea). Research showed that those who consume all three in modest amounts everyday were found to perform best when asked to carry out a series of brain tests than those who did not.

A two member CBI team is in New York to record the statements of two eyewitnesses of the 1984 anti Sikh riots- Jasbir Singh and Surinder Singh.

It has been learnt that the two men saw the Congress leader Jagdish Singh Tytler lead a mob during the riots, but were unwilling to come to India, fearing for their lives..

It has been announced by the Mahindra Ugine Steel Company that it has decided to align the company's production plans with the expected demand due to the ongoing economic slow down in the steel as well as the automotive industry and taking into account the slowdown in demand for the company's products.

Ghulam Nabi Azad, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir was one of the first voters to exercise his right during the final phase of the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls on Wednesday. He said that the elections were "historic".

Accompanied by his wife, Shamima Azad, the former CM said, "These polls are historic as compared to 1996 and 2002 ones as the separatist's call for poll boycott has been rejected and people are no longer getting carried away by hollow slogans of separatists or those parties trying to create a divide."