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Kalam calls for second Green Revolution
Mesmerises farmers, school kids, PAU students
A. P. J. Abdul KalamLudhiana, September 4
President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam today exhorted the farmers of Punjab to usher in a second green revolution in the country. He also urged them protect the rights of the children, especially the girl child, in view of the skewed sex ratio in the region.


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The President, Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on the wheels of a tractor after inaugurating the Kisan Mela at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, on Thursday. 
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Bid to storm Army camp, 2 killed
Poonch, September 4
Two Pakistani terrorists were shot when they tried to make a Tanda-style suicide attack on an Army camp here today. 

BJP leaders on Jaish hit list
Security beefed up at party headquarters
New Delhi, September 4
The top BJP leadership, including its President Venkaiah Naidu, and the party headquarters here have come under threat from the outlawed JeM terrorist outfit.

Jugraj Singh’s condition stable
Ludhiana, September 4
Dhanraj Pillay, captain of the Indian team who came here last night to inquire about hockey star and penalty corner specialist Jugraj Singh who suffered multiple fractures in a car accident on the outskirts of Jalandhar on Tuesday night, said India would certainly miss him during the forthcoming Asia Cup and the Afro-Asian Games.
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Vigilance quizzes VC for 4 hours
Shimla, September 4
A team of the Vigilance Department today questioned Dr S.D. Sharma, Vice-Chancellor of the Himachal Pradesh University, for about four hours in connection with the case registered against him.

Bonanza for Haryana non-teaching staff
Chandigarh, September 4
The Haryana Cabinet today decided to revise the pay scales of non-teaching employees of four universities in the state — Kurukshetra University, Maharshi Dayanand University, CCS Haryana Agricultural University and Guru Jambheshwar University, with effect from January 1, 1996.

HC deprives SC candidates of statutory benefit
Chandigarh, September 4
The constitutional provision of 20 per cent reservation for the Scheduled Castes candidates seems to have been done away with in the Punjab Civic Service (Judicial Branch) examination.

Baba Ghala accepts tankhah for 1984 kar seva
Amritsar, September 5
Baba Ghala Singh, chief of Nanaksar Kaleran (Ludhiana) today accepted the tankhah for carrying out kar seva of the Akal Takht building, which was damaged during the Army operation in June 1984.
Baba Ghala Singh, chief of Nanaksar Kaleran who accepted the tankhah on behalf of Baba Narain Singh Baba Ghala Singh, chief of Nanaksar Kaleran who accepted the tankhah on behalf of Baba Narain Singh who carried out kar seva of Akal Takht which was damaged after Operation Bluestar in June 1984. The tankhah was pronounced from Akal Takht by Giani Joginder Singh Vedanti on Thursday. 
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