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Govt to take issue to logical conclusion
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State BJP chief Ashwani Sharma said today that their party would firmly stand with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on the issue of demanding royalty on river waters being given to other states.
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Officials' absence fails BPL survey
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Lack of communication between officials of municipal corporation and health department caused inconvenience to residents, who had gathered in the Leisure Valley for registration of smart cards, as officials did not reach the spot for the same on Sunday.
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Punjab wildlife gets Hiss Royal majesty
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Hiss Majesty in Punjab! That's true. The presence of Royal snake in an obscure Nai Majara village near Nawanshahr has come as a startling revelation amid the gathering gloom over fast depleting biodiversity in the state.
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Bears bearing with soaring mercury
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It is not only the human beings who are finding it hard because of ever-soaring mercury, animals in the city-based zoo, too, are having a tough time in adapting with the changing weather. And the Himalayan Bear seems to be the worst affected.
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City to start dengue awareness drive
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With the health department having learnt lesson from the 2008 dengue outbreak, it will soon start a drive to spread awareness regarding the disease in the schools.
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Bonded children: Cops fail to nab accused
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The rescued children, who were working as bonded labourers in different factories, have been saved from leading deplorable lives but are still waiting for their journey back home.
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Rebidding for Punjab-di-Train on the cards
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There is a ray of hope for putting Punjab’s first luxury tourist train — Punjab di Train — back on track as the concerned authorities are planning to re-bid the project.
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PU Senate's no to fee hike
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Ending the confusion over proposed hike in fees, Panjab University decided on Sunday that no such step would be taken this academic session. During its meeting, the Senate deferred the proposed 5% fee increase till the academic session of 2012-13.
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Milch cattle poorly fed, milk yield remains low
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More than 50 per cent of the country's total milk production comes from low milk yielding cows and buffaloes as the milch cattle in the country are either under fed or fed on a diet that is not rich in proteins and other ingredients.
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Punjab govt approves IIT coaching centre for rural students
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Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today gave in principle approval to the Vice Chancellor Guru Nanak Dev University Prof A S Brar to open a centre at the Khalsa College Public School at Amritsar for preparing rural students of the state
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Protest over appointment of former don as librarian
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The teachers of Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (GADVASU) are up in arms against the decision of university administration to re-employ a retired professor of the department of animal breeding and genetics on contract basis
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Chandigarh’s non-AC taxi: A four-wheeler but not a car
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The much-awaited non-air-conditioned taxis will soon hit the city roads. But they will look different. The only operator in the city is going to launch Tata Magic — a four-wheeler but not a car — under the non-AC radio taxi project of the Chandigarh Administration.
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SGPC condemns beheading of Sikhs in Pakistan
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Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee today strongly condemned the beheading of Sikhs in Pakistan and asked Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up the matter with his counterpart in Pakistan.
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Punjab appoints Epic Energy for master plan
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The Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has entrusted Coimbatore-based Epic Energy Ltd with the preparation of master plan to make Amritsar and Ludhiana solar cities
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Rat delays Air India Amritsar-London flight
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A rat delayed a London-bound Air India flight from the Rajasansi airport here Saturday morning. Flight AI-187, which was scheduled to depart at 6.30 a.m. Saturday, had not left the airport even three hours later.
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107 MM army-type rockets fired into India: BSF
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Even as the Pakistani authorities on Saturday denied that any rockets were fired from its side into Indian territory, paramilitary Border Security Force (BSF) officials here said they were fully equipped to retaliate against any provocation from the neighbouring country.
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BSF strikes back as Pak fires rockets into Punjab border
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Pushed to the wall by Pakistan on Friday night, when it reportedly fired two rockets into border villages of Punjab — the second such provocation in two months — India for the time is said to have struck back with machine guns.
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Cell separator machines to be installed at civil hospital
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Spelling good news for dengue patients, cell separator machines will soon be installed at the civil hospital in the city.
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Health dept to lodge case against adulterators
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Tightening the noose around people indulging in milk adulteration, the health department is all set to lodge a case against adulterators as two samples taken by the health department during a raid conducted on July 11 have failed the purity test.
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'Release funds allocated for women welfare'
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Gurdev Kaur Sangha, chairperson of Punjab State Women Commission, while reviewing performance of department of social security, women & child development, Punjab, on Wednesday.
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Nursing staff stage protest
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The health workers on Tuesday organised a dharna at civil surgeon’s office demanding reinstation of the terminated 176 ANMs (auxiliary nurse midwives) appointed under National Rural Health Mission (NRHM).
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On death row since 1991, he waits for hangman
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Piara Singh (80) can neither walk nor even see. His dementia, too, is getting worse by the day. And the world has forgotten about him.
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Sukhbir Badal sworn in as Punjab deputy CM for second time
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Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal was on Monday sworn-in as deputy chief minister of Punjab for the second time this year, becoming second in command to his father and chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.
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BSF units in Punjab hit by AIDS attack
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Apart from Pakistani bullets, Border Security Force (BSF) jawans in Punjab are facing a new threat - AIDS. Each of the seven units posted in the Ferozepur sector along the Indo-Pak border has at least two full-blown cases of the deadly virus - most probably passed on by sex workers.
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Akal Takht tells Sikhs to go green
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Akal Takht, the highest Sikh temporal body, has embraced the save-the-environment mantra telling Sikhs across the world it was their "moral and religious duty" to care for the nature.
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