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Getting an education: Graduating from the school of hard knocks
DASKA / GUJRANWALA / DG KHAN: The top performing students in the secondary school exams include a handful of remarkable young people who had to balance time studying with time working to make ends...
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Guard thrashed ‘for asking woman to submit to body search’
MULTAN: A private security guard was beaten by relatives of a woman when he allegedly told her to submit to a body search before entering Nishtar Hospital. Sughran Bibi had arrived at the hospital...
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Draft bill: ‘No true devolution under proposed local govt system’
LAHORE: Opposition members believe the Punjab Local Government Bill of 2013 would put the provincial government firmly in control of local governments and hence does not fit with the devolution of...
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Health: 15-year-old dies waiting for treatment
SARGODHA: A 15-year-old boy was killed and a man was injured on Friday when a QingQi rickshaw collided with a car in Chak 70. The unidentified boy and the rickshaw driver, identified as Muhammad...
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Consumer court: Defective phone ruins a picnic
LAHORE: A consumer court on Friday issued the proprietor of a mobile shop a notice for August 30 in a suit seeking Rs100,000 damages for allegedly selling the petitioner a defective mobile phone,...
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Monitoring: Population secy inspects Ramazan Bazaars
FAISALABAD: Population Secretary Altaf Aizad Khan said on Friday that the entire administrative machinery of the government was monitoring arrangements of Ramazan Bazaars to ensure availability of...
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Land dispute: ‘My son’s murderers are roaming free’
BAHAWALPUR: “My son and a servant were killed by a land-grab mafia, and two other servants have been critically injured, but the police have not arrested any of the criminals,” Saleem Akhtar, a...
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Rain accident: Seven killed in roof collapse
MULTAN: Seven members of a family were killed on Friday when the roof of a house in Basti Lashari in Rajanpur collapsed. Rescuers said the roof collapsed due to heavy rain that continued for more...
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Power woes: Govt asked to justify LESCO chief’s transfer
LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice Umar Ata Bandial on Friday gave the federal government till August 7 to justify its decision to transfer Lahore Electric Supply Company (LESCO) Chief...
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Upgrades: CDGL planning an e-registration deed centre
LAHORE: The city district government (CDGL) is set to launch an electronic registration deed centre in one week. This is a replica of Faislabad’s model of Computerised Deed Registration System. The...
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Literacy and non-formal basic education: ‘350,000 children to be enrolled by...
LAHORE: The Literacy and Non Formal Basic Education Department has received a budgetary allocation of Rs1.1 million this year and will initiate two new projects aimed at educating and providing...
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Law making: Local government bill introduced in PA
LAHORE: The government tabled The Punjab Local Government (PLG) Bill 2013 in the provincial assembly on Friday. The bill was referred to the special committee No 2. The third session of the assembly...
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Raising awareness: ‘Journalists can help end bonded labour’
MULTAN: “Journalists have been instrumental in creating awareness about the endemic bonded labour in Pakistan and promoting their rights,” said Dr Saifullah Chaudhry, resource person for a workshop...
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Man arrested in tainted liquor case
FAISALABAD: Police on Monday arrested a man they said had sold tainted liquor resulting in at least 24 deaths reported from Christian Town in Warispura last week. They said the suspect had confessed...
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Registering a protest: Cheating accused tries to burn himself in front of...
MULTAN: A boy, accused of cheating in exams, set himself on fire on Monday in front of the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education office in Muzaffarhgarh. He was taken to the trauma centre,...
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Illegal detention Officer held in court for two hours
LAHORE: Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sindhu of the Lahore High Court detained the officer in charge of investigations at the Chuhng police station for two hours on Tuesday for illegally keeping four people...
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Eye infection: Two patients from Layyah are recovering, says doctor
MULTAN: Of the 13 patients who were transferred from Layyah District Headquarters Hospital to Nishtar Hospital for treatment of severe post-operative eye infections, two have shown marked improvement...
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‘We must grab a bigger share in halal market’
FAISALABAD: Pakistan can earn enormous foreign exchange by increasing its share in the global halal food market worth billions of dollars, Government College University, Faisalabad Vice Chancellor Dr...
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Punjab ombudsman: ‘Government failing to implement my orders’
LAHORE: The government has not set up a monitoring mechanism for the implementation of the ombudsman’s orders, so the ombudsman has decided to do this through his own office. Addressing a meeting...
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Public health: ‘Advance disease warning system must be improved’
LAHORE: Health officials must inform the public of the threat of seasonal diseases well in advance so people can take preventive measures, Health Secretary Hassan Iqbal said on Tuesday. Speaking at a...
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