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Mosquito menace: Dengue fever case confirmed in UC-131
LAHORE: District Coordination Officer Rizwan Mehboob has ordered officials to check Union Council 131 after a confirmed case of dengue fever was reported in the area. At a meeting on Tuesday, the DCO...
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Extra-judicial killing: Two killed ‘in police encounter’, family to protest
BAHAWALPUR: Two men, said to be robbers, were killed on Tuesday in what the police called a shootout. Police said three of their accomplices fled. Family of the deceased said the encounter as staged....
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Epidemic: Four more children die of measles
LAHORE: Four more deaths related to measles occurred at Children’s Hospital and 101 new cases were reported across the province on Tuesday. A total of 81 children have died and 12,082 cases of the...
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1,000-acre housing project planned
MULTAN: The Multan Development Authority (MDA) is going to launch a 1,000-acre housing project called Allama Iqbal Town under a public-private partnership initiative, a press release said on Tuesday....
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LDA Plaza fire: 24 families of the deceased to be offered Rs1m each
LAHORE: The Lahore Development Authority (LDA) has decided to double the financial compensation being offered to the families of 24 employees who perished in the LDA Plaza fire last week. The...
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Women’s say: Where voting is a cardinal sin
MULTAN: As many as 1,100 registered women voters in Mohripur, a town in Khanewal district, did not cast their votes. “Our elders decided long ago that it is a sin for women to vote,” said Baba Omar,...
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No recounts: Returning officers dismiss complaints
LAHORE: The returning officers for NA-125 and NA-126 have dismissed complaints of rigging and requests for recounts by the losing Tehreek-i-Insaf and Muslim League-Nawaz candidates at the two...
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Rigging allegations: ‘Only re-election will make us stop protesting’
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf candidate from NA-125, Hamid Khan, requested hundreds of protesters at Ghazi Chowk, Defence Housing Authority, on Tuesday to make their sit-in a two-hour long...
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Punjab Assembly: Mahmoodur Rasheed to be opposition leader
LAHORE: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has nominated Mian Mahmoodur Rasheed as its parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly and the likely next opposition leader. “The PTI will not do...
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Duty done: Teachers protest against rigging allegations
LAHORE: Some one hundred teachers staged a protest in front of the Punjab Assembly chambers on The Mall on Thursday to reject claims of rigging by polling staff in the general elections. Teachers...
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LDA fire: Victims not rich enough for our time?
LAHORE: It was our first day back at school after the election holidays. Everyone was anxious and impatient to share their stories. Amidst the rowdy crowd, my classmates and I sat in a laboratory and...
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LUMS vice chancellor to step down
LAHORE: After almost 2 years in office, Dr Adil Najam announced his decision to step down as the vice chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences in an official email sent to the LUMS...
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That fruit’s not free: Vendor beaten up ‘for charging policemen’
GUJRANWALA: A fruit seller was beaten up allegedly by some policemen on Friday after he asked them to pay for the watermelon that they had eaten at his stall. Muhammad Tanveer, who sells fruit near...
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Election woes: LHC suspends vote recount in Nankana
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Friday suspended the election commission’s orders of a recount of votes in NA-137 (Nankana Sahib). The order was passed on a petition by Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz...
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Loadshedding: ‘Caretaker government disappointed industrialists’
FAISALABAD: The Faisalabad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FCCI) president warned the government of street protests on Friday if unscheduled electricity loadshedding was not stopped within two...
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Creating awareness: ‘I pledge to consume energy’
FAISALABAD: As many as 500 students and their parents at a painting competition took oath on Thursday to conserve electricity. The competition, titled Save Energy, was held at the Nusrat Fateh Ali...
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Epidemic: 30 beds reserved for measles patients at BVH, Civil Hospital
BAHAWALPUR: As many as 30 beds at the Bahawal Victoria Hospital and Civil Hospital have been allocated for measles patients, participants of a meeting of district officials and the Health Department...
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Election duty: Teachers protest over ‘beating’ continues
MULTAN: The Professors and Lecturers Association (PLA) on Friday protested for the fifth day against a returning officer in Cheecha Watni for arresting and beating up a presiding officer. On Friday,...
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Endangered species: LHC seeks details of import licences
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court green bench on Friday directed the secretary of climate change to submit details of the licences issued for importing wild animals during the last five years. The bench...
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Energy conservation: City to get solar-powered, sponsored traffic lights
LAHORE: City officials are looking for private investors to help convert all the traffic signals in Lahore to solar power, with three companies already expressing an interest in doing so at five...
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