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Endangered: Two Belgian parrots stolen
BAHAWALPUR: Two Laal Sohanra National Park watchmen were suspended on Wednesday and a case had been registered against five suspects after two parrots of a rare breed that is near extinction were...
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Locomotives: Chinese firm withdraws petition
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday allowed a Chinese company to withdraw its petition against the cancellation of a contract by the government for supply of 75 locomotives. The counsel for the...
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Water management: ‘Lack of water access adds to social inequalities’
LAHORE: Lack of access to water in the subcontinent is adding to the prevalent social inequalities in the region, according to the Human Development in South Asia 2013 report, launched by the...
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South Punjab MPAs lash out against new water distribution plan
LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) MPAs Dr Muhammad Afzal, Aamir Sultan Cheema and Waqas Hassan Mokal hae submitted an adjournment motion questioning the mandate of the Indus River System...
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Power crisis: 100 MW solar projects approved
LAHORE: The Punjab Energy Council has given formal approval to a 100-megawatt solar energy project in Bahawalpur which is slated to start generation from the beginning of next year. Chairing...
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Gas and power theft: Only 1 utility employee among 225 accused
LAHORE: A total of 136 large-scale gas and electricity theft cases – involving pilferage of more than Rs500,000 worth of electricity or Rs1 million worth of gas – have been registered since the...
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Remedial classes Reading: Clinic opens for kids with learning disabilities
LAHORE: The Foundation for Rehabilitation and Education of Slow Children (FRESH) has opened a Reading Clinic for persons with reading and writing disabilities. She said the Reading Clinic would hold...
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‘Substandard’: LHC stays tender opening for transformer supply
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday restrained the Lahore Electric Supply Company from opening tenders for the supply of transformers, and sought replies from the National Transmission and...
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Degree fraud: Former MPA’s bail cancelled
RAHIM YAR KHAN: A district and sessions judge on Friday cancelled bail of former Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz MPA Haji Zulfiqar Ali and ordered his prosecution in a fake degree case. The indictment...
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Appeal: LHC acquits murder convicts on appeal
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday set aside the ruling of a trial court and acquitted three people convicted of murder giving them the benefit of doubt. A division bench headed by Justice...
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Dangerous gas cylinders: Drive against violators to launch soon
FAISALABAD: The Traffic Police and the Transport Department will launch a crackdown on Monday (September 16) on public transport vehicles that have installed gas cylinders in violation of the Oil and...
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Monsters-in-law: LHC calls for report on acid attack case
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday called for a judicial report regarding a 24-year-old man allegedly attacked with acid by his in-laws in Muzaffargarh. The LHC directed the district and...
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[In] justice: FIRs registered against panchayat
LAYYAH: Kot Sultan police on Friday registered FIRs against 105 men, including five panchayat members, for throwing a woman, her husband and their children out of the neighbourhood over alleged...
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Crackdown: 55-member gang, including WAPDA officials, arrested for power theft
MULTAN / SIALKOT / GUJRANWALA: Police have arrested a gang for stealing electricity in the Sialkot district and beyond through remotely controlled chips, District Police Officer Muhammad Gohar Nafees...
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Condolence reference: Journalists remember IH Raashid
LAHORE: Speakers at a condolence reference at the Lahore Press Club on Friday paid tribute to journalist and union leader Irshadul Hussain Raashid at the Lahore Press Club. Khawar Naeem Hashmi said,...
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Economy matters: ‘Culture, not religion, holds back progress’
LAHORE: World Bank former vice president Shahid Javed Burki and Flinders University President Emeritus Riaz Hassan gave a talk on Friday on Pakistan’s Economic Prospects and its Islamic Identity at...
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Health Department issues Congo fever alert
LAHORE: In view of the transport of sacrificial animals for Eidul Azha, The Health Department, the Health Department has put all hospitals and executive district officers on high alert for a possible...
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Affirmative action: Lahore College set to appoint male professors
LAHORE: The Lahore College for Women University (LCWU) has decided to hire men as permanent faculty members, The Express Tribune has learnt. Several men have applied for the positions of associate...
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Five-year-old raped in Lahore: IG Punjab presents report to SC
LAHORE: Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry took suo motu notice of the rape of a five-year-old girl in Lahore, Express News reported on Saturday. Doctors said that the condition of the girl is...
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Minor girl raped in Faisalabad
FAISALABAD: A minor girl was raped in the Kanjwani area of Faisalabad on Saturday, Express News reported. It has been reported that the girl was playing in a market area when she was picked up by...
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