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Need stressed for equal education system

Staff Reporter

Lahore—Education budget must be spend on ensuring an equal education system for all with greater focus on human resource development as well as infrastructural advancement to achieve the goal of quality education in the country. This was crux of the speakers at a pre-budget consultation seminar on ‘How to ensure effective speeding on Education: Ideas for Provincial Budge 2012-13’ under the ages of Punjab Assembly’s Standing Committee on Education at a local hotel on Wednesday.

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Shahbaz orders strict security arrangements

Mayor of Istanbul to get rousing reception

Salim Ahmed

Lahore—Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that a rousing welcome will be given to Mayor of Istanbul Kadir Topbas on his arrival in the provincial metropolis and Lahorites, in line with their traditions, will extend maximum hospitality to the Turk guests. He said that the Mayor of Istanbul during his visit will attend inaugural ceremonies of various development projects besides agreements of cooperation in different sectors will also be signed.

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Doctors urged to sensitise people on ill effects of smoking

Staff Reporter

Lahore—Provincial Labour Minister Haji Ehsan-ud-Din Qureshi has urged doctors community to launch a awareness campaign for sensitising people about hazardous aspects of smoking with a view to saving them from TB, heart, lungs, bronchitis and various types of lungs cancer.

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Water filter plants to be installed in jails

Lahore—About 100 modern filter plants would be installed in all 32 jails to ensure provision of hygienic drinking water to all 52019 prisoners across the province. Prisons chief Punjab Mian Farooq Nazeer told Associated Pakistan Press here Wednesday that due to financial constraints, the co-operation of philanthropists and public sector organisations was being sought for donation of water filter plants.

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A heavy breakfast spells wonders for your health

MANY people who want to lose weight try to pick which meals they feel they can skip in order to reduce their intake of calories, and breakfast and dinner are the two meals that most people skip. Some diets promote an after-six timeframe, wherein no food is taken in after six, but with today’s busy lifestyles that go well into the night, few people are actually successful with that. Instead, more people feel they have more willpower to skip breakfast, as they are usually in a hurry to get to work anyway so not having breakfast is usually much more convenient.

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