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Plenty of potential: IT board facilitating young entrepreneurs
PITB set to establish 13 facilitation centres across the Punjab.
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Inconvenient convenience: E&T Dept to introduce new helpline
This is the third time they have changed their helpline and text code.
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Incurable virus: Committee constituted to preempt ebola
Cheema stresses need for coordinated action to overcome the challenge.
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Maintaining order: No pillion riding on 9th, 10th of Muharram
DCO says cellular phone services to be suspended in certain areas.
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Protest campaign: ‘PTI Gujranwala gathering will be a historic one’
PTI Punjab president’s meeting with local leaders marred by arguments, name-calling.
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ATC sentences Gullu Butt to 11 years and 3 months in jail
Butt, an active member of the PML-N, has also been ordered to pay a Rs0.1 million fine
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Punjab registers 57 dengue cases in 24 hours
Total number of patients rises to 910 in province
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Violent Crime: Woman’s body found in cotton field
Police found the body of a woman from a cotton field in Dera Ghazi Khan on Wednesday.
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Corruption asserted: Two chinkaras stolen from park
a case had been registered against three gardeners for stealing the animals
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Cracking down: 201,437 herbal companies sealed for violating law
Maher said drug inspectors had also nabbed 40 people in scores of raids.
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Deadly Accident: Soldier dies; 14 injured in road accident
An army jawan died and 14 others sustained injuries in a road accident
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The fourth estate: Journalists urged to promote national solidarity
The seminar was organised by Punjab University Academic Staff Association.
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Joint initiative: Virtual University signs MoU to share teaching resources
memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the VU of Pakistan and the UoS
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Housing development: New road proposed for LDA City
Go-ahead given to extend area of LDA City from 45,000 to 61,000 kanals.
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Muharram Arrangements: Controversial posters to be removed
action taken against display of controversial posters and banners.
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New Posting: Resident auditor appointed at GCU
The government has appointed Muhammad Tayyab Siraj Bhatti as resident auditor
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College Standards : ‘Teachers should encourage research’
HE Secretary Abdullah Khan Sumbal said that research in schools and colleges should be promoted.
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MBBS admissions: LHC strikes down new policy
Court terms policy a violation of fundamental rights.
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PDWP meeting: 10 development projects approved
Rs214.3 million approved for establishment of wildlife park at Jauharabad.
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Crestfallen: Warden commits suicide in Chiniot
The depressed warden was posted at Clock Tower Circle.
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Law and order: Kidnapping bid foiled at court
Rubina, a resident of Okara, was recovered from her in-laws’ house and presented in court.
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Popular support needed to eradicate polio: CM
A cabinet committee for the eradication of polio has been constituted.
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Admission criteria: Most varsity students say entry tests no good
Many say MCQ tests encourage a cramming culture.
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Workers convention: ‘Legislation for home-based workers in the works’
Workers threaten to stage a sit-in outside the PA if legislation for them is not passed by November 20.
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Ambassadors-at-large: Shahbaz praises contribution of overseas Pakistanis
CM says commission being established to resolve their problems.
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EU concerns: ‘Other provinces should follow Punjab’s lead’
EU delegation’s concerns regarding fundamental rights addressed.
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Security guards foil kidnapping bid outside LHC
Woman was leaving court building after a hearing when unidentified men tried to abduct her
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Road accident leaves one army personnel dead, 15 others injured
The army truck, transporting young army personnel for duty in Jhang during Muharram, was allegedly overspeeding
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Issueless: Man strangles wife
Police said on Tuesday that a man had killed his wife after an argument in Tandlianwala
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High-tech system: Land record centres set up in 143 tehsils
the computerisation of land record in 16 districts has been completed.
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Affordable education: PU has kept tuition fees capped for seven years
He was speaking to journalists at the undergraduate study centre’s committee room.
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Use authority: ‘Accept Rashid’s resignation’
A petition has been filed in Lahore High Court
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Illegal: FIA acts against gas theft
SNGPL Detection and Evaluation Committee says the theft has caused a loss of Rs146.44 million.
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Sargodha University faculty, workers stage protest
Protesters say government has not approved varsity’s 2014-15 budget.
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Four robbers shot dead in Chiniot
the suspected gunmen shot at police and were killed when police returned fire
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Healthcare: ‘Proper tests help diagnosis head, neck tumours’
More than 80 pathologists
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Education for all: Way forward after passage of free education bill
Experts say government must fully enforce the law to attain goals.
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Electricity from coal: No word from railways on transporting coal
Official says PR lacks resources to buy locomotives and hopper vans.
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Capacity building: 2,237 vocational teachers to be trained
They will be trained in 185 batches.
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Helping peasants: UAF to set up farmers’ market at Jhang Road
VC says the initiative will protect farmers from exploitation by middlemen.
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Medical education: LHC issues notices on plea challenging gender-based quota
Petitioners say the UHS imposed the policy ‘secretly’ five days before application deadline.
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Health services: Paediatric surgery department at Mayo Hospital forced to seek outside help
Heads of other surgical depts asked to take care of pediatric patients.
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CM in London: Politics of sit-ins has failed: Shahbaz
Chief minister says the country cannot afford agitation.
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Better late: PPP sets up 7 committees to recover lost ground
Committees constituted in Rawalpindi, Mandi Bahauddin, Sargodha, Faisalabad, Sheikhupura, Okara and Lahore.
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Know your rights: Domestic servants
The minimum wage for a labourer in the Sindh is fixed at Rs11,000
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Botched attempt: Villagers kill robber in shootout
Villagers killed a robber while three others fled on Monday
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Stranger danger: Woman, her daughters kidnapped
A woman and her two daughters were abducted by five men on Monday.
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Misleading the nation: MNA’s disqualification case adjourned
LHC adjourned hearing of a petition seeking disqualification of National Assembly Member Asfandyar Bhandara
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Public Health: Board set up to monitor food quality
A district food quality control board has been constituted to check adulteration
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Violent Crime: Woman strangled by husband
A woman was strangled on Sunday night by her husband

















































