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Election arrangements: Poll preparations going well, says home minister
FAISALABAD: All arrangements have been made for holding free and fair elections in the province, said Home Minister Tariq Pervez at a press conference here on Saturday. Pervez said the interim set up...
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Road accidents: 8-year old dies in motorcycle crash
BAHAWALPUR: A man and his eight-year-old son died on Sunday after the motorcycle they were riding was hit by a train. Rescue officials said that the man had died on the spot, while the son died at a...
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Lwmc campaign: ‘Litter wardens’ stop citizens from littering
LAHORE: In its attempt to educate people not to litter the streets, last week, the Lahore Waste Management Company put together a team of ‘litter wardens’ comprising students of the Punjab...
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Tipped off: Three arrested, kites worth Rs15,000 seized
SARAI ALAMGIR: Three men were arrested on Sunday for selling kites. Police said they recovered 15,000 kites from those the possession of the men arrested. City Station House Officer Raja Sajjad said...
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‘Give up your second jobs by May 1’
FAISALABAD: Allied Hospital nurses having private jobs have been directed to give up private jobs until May 1 and submit an undertaking in this regard. Otherwise, disciplinary action would be taken...
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Defauting measures: FESCO disconnects 229 govt department connections
FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Electric Supply Company (FESCO) has suspended 229 electricity supply connections of various government departments in Faisalabad, Jhang and Mianwali over arrears of more...
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Poster size: More election code violations reported
LAHORE: District Returning Officer (DRO) Nazir Ahmad Gajana has directed the police, the local administration and the Parks and Horticulture Authority (PHA) to remove all election banners, hoardings...
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Notice issuance : PTI chief may appear before DRO
LAHORE: PTI chief Imran Khan is likely to appear before District Returning Officer Nazir Ahmad Gajana by April 30 to receive his notice for violating the code of conduct set by the Election...
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Au naturale: Foodies flock to City’s first farmers’ market
LAHORE: Nine months ago, Qasim Khawaja, a resident of the Cantonment, started experimenting with cheese recipes at his home. He began selling cream cheese and ricotta in January this year....
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Election preparations: 3,500 election staff inaccurately listed
LAHORE: As many as 3,500 election staff appear to have been assigned duties with more than one returning officer in the lists sent by the Education Department to the district returning officer. An...
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School enrolment: ‘Hello, I’m Jamshed Dasti. Please send your child to school’
LAHORE: Twenty-four out-of-school-children have recently been enrolled in government schools as part of a campaign attempting to bring politicians closer to their constituents by knocking on their...
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Joseph Colony: ‘Minor’ assault revives fears of mob attack
LAHORE: The inhabitants of Joseph Colony suffered a wave of terror on Sunday after a youth raised a hue and cry about another assault on Christians, but his claims appeared to have been exaggerated....
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PPP willing to offer PM slot to Imran: Wattoo
OKARA: While Imran Khan is drawing huge crowds on his campaign trail, a senior leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) predicts that his party and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) could form the next...
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In deep anguish: Sarabjit’s family in Lahore
LAHORE: The prisoner’s daughters gathered around his bed, crying, gazing at his swollen face, urging him to speak, as he lay in coma at Jinnah Hospital, Lahore. Poonam Kaur, 23, and Sawapandeep, her...
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Wheat Procurement: 426,372 gunny bags distributed among farmers
FAISALABAD: Food Deputy Director Anjum Sardar said on Monday 426,372 gunny bags had been distributed among farmers of the Faisalabad division in four days of the wheat procurement campaign 2013. He...
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EPD to file reply by May 3
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Monday issued notice to the Environment Protection Department for May 3 on a petition challenging the import of allegedly substandard carbon dioxide from India. The...
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Five die after being trapped under rubble
KASUR / MULTAN: Four people, including a 10-year-old, died on Monday after they were trapped under the rubble while digging a well in Kotli Najabaat in Shujabad. It took Rescue officials 10 hours to...
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Loadshedding: ‘Lesco is misguiding the public’
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court chief justice on Monday sought a detailed report and reply on the electricity loadshedding in the Punjab from the Ministry of Water and Power, the Ministry of Petroleum,...
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Forests workshop: Trees in south Punjab felled at ‘alarming rate’
LAHORE: The riverine forests in southern Punjab are being chopped down at an “alarmingly fast rate”, according to a recent survey by the World Wide Fund for Nature-Pakistan (WWF-P). “In Punjab, there...
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Education development: ‘Release education funds at start of fiscal year’
LAHORE: The school education budget for the fiscal year 2013-2014 is expected to be approximately Rs200 billion with almost Rs16.5 billion to be allocated as development budget, said Deputy Secretary...
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