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Raising awareness: DHA residents walk for education, hunger
LAHORE: The Hope Uplift Foundation arranged a fund raising walkathon and carnival on Sunday for the residents of the Defence Housing Authority. As many as 500 people participated in the first-ever...
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Road works: Ferozepur Road to open in a week
LAHORE: Ferozepur Road will be open to traffic on both sides in one week, while a route for traffic from Garden Town’s Main Boulevard to Kalma Chowk will be open in five days, said Kalma Chowk...
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‘Fugitive’ killed in ‘encounter’, accomplice flees
FAISALABAD: A man, who the police said had injured a police constable a week ago, was killed in a shootout with the police on Sunday. His family protested against the police saying the ‘encounter’...
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Pre-election decisions: Governor’s 3 sons join PPP
BAHAWALPUR: Governor Makhdoom Syed Ahmed Mehmood on Sunday announced that his sons, MNA Makhdoom Syed Mustafa Mehmood, MPA Makhdoom Syed Murtaza Mehmood and Makhdoom Syed Ali Mehmood had joined the...
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Death of a child maid: 3 years on, Shazia’s mother appeals to president
LAHORE: The mother of a 12-year-old maid whose death sparked protests amongst the Christian community three years ago has appealed to President Asif Zardari for justice and accused a lawyer and two...
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Architectural work: Theses look at how to build in congested spaces
LAHORE: The theses by graduating architecture students displayed at the NCA art gallery explore ways to develop infrastructure across congested spaces. Some of these focus on designing buildings that...
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Measles cases start emerging in city
LAHORE: At least 13 children with measles were brought to two public hospitals in Lahore on Sunday, as the Health Department sought to dispel fears of an epidemic in the province. Five children with...
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Abbot Road: Six perish in plaza fire
LAHORE: Six people including a three-year-old boy and his mother died and ten were injured in a fire in the six-storey Aiwan-i-Mashriq plaza on Abbot Road on Saturday night. At least four people are...
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Food basket: Punjab achieves 98% wheat sowing target
LAHORE: Punjab has achieved 98% wheat sowing target for cultivating the vital food crop on 16.8 million acres of land in the province that is likely to achieve an output of 19.2 million tons of staple...
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Disagreement: Senator pokes holes in Bahawalpur plan
LAHORE: As a mere eight weeks remain before the expiration of the current government’s tenure, it was announced that a bill for the formation of Bahawalpur province will be introduced in the coming...
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Crime against women: Woman ‘killed by brother’, over alleged elopement
GAKHAR MANDI: The body of a woman was found near a police station on Monday. Police said she was killed allegedly by her brother after she eloped with a man from the neighbourhood. They said her...
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Assault: Eunuchs protest colleagues’ beating, mugging
BAHAWALPUR: Some 50 eunuchs protested against the police in front of the Press Club in Rahim Yar Khan on Monday after their two colleagues were allegedly beaten up by some policemen at a wedding...
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Consumer court: Goods business ordered to pay damages
LAHORE: A consumer court on Monday directed the proprietor of Rustam Punjab Goods to pay Rs110,000 in damages to a petitioner who had sued the company for not delivering goods to a third party....
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Zahid Akkasi: A distinguished writer remembered
LAHORE: Zahid Akkasi was remembered as a distinguished and principled writer, journalist and filmmaker at a commemoration reference organised by the South Asia Free Media Association here on Monday....
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Education survey to be launched on 28th
LAHORE: The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) Pakistan 2012 will be launched in Islamabad on January 28, Idara-i-Taleem-o-Aagahi (ITA) Programmes Director Baela Raza Jamil said on Monday. The...
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Bureaucratic delay: 762 teachers await salaries since Aug 2012
GUJRANWALA: As many as 762 school teachers in the district have not been paid their salaries for over five months, The Express Tribune had learnt. These teachers belong to Gujranwala, Kamoke,...
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Preventive measures: Six-month-olds to get measles vaccine
LAHORE: The Health Department has decided to lower the age at which children get their first measles vaccination from nine months to six months in areas where cases of the disease are being reported....
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Treaty violations pointed out in Indian dam plan
LAHORE: The Irrigation Department has gone over India’s plans for a hydropower dam on the Marusdar River, a tributary of the Chenab, in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir and forwarded its...
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Punjab Assmebly: Treasury benches reject PPP’s Bahawalpur proposal
LAHORE: The treasury benches in the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Monday rejected a Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) proposal for the formation of a single southern Punjab province rather than two separate...
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Commission on New Provinces: Dera Ghazi Khan’s voice went unheard, says Leghari
LAHORE: Independent Senator Mohsin Khan Leghari submitted a letter to the secretary of the Parliamentary Commission on New Provinces in Punjab to express his strong reservations over the exclusion of...
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