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Saturday, May 23, 2009, Chandigarh, India
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Manmohan Singh sworn in as PM
19 Cabinet ministers on board, 
9 from Rajya Sabha
New Delhi, May 22
Economist-turned-politician Manmohan Singh was today sworn in as Prime Minister for a second term at the head of a 20-member Congress-led UPA ministry, which is expected to be expanded in the new few days to give representation to the DMK, a sulking partner of the coalition, and induct young blood.

Dr Manmohan Singh greets Congress president Sonia Gandhi after taking oath as the Prime Minister. Dr Manmohan Singh greets Congress president Sonia Gandhi after taking oath as the Prime Minister. Tribune photo: Mukesh Aggarwal

Azad likely to visit Chennai to mollify Karuna
New Delhi, May 22
The newly-inducted cabinet minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is likely to visit Chennai on Saturday for talks with DMK chief M Karunanidhi to end the stalemate over allocation of ministerial berths.

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Although Prime Minister Manmohan Singh began his second innings as head of the new UPA government today in the backdrop of the unresolved controversy over the sharing of ministerial berths with the DMK, this minor irritant was not allowed to cast a shadow over the swearing in ceremony of the new UPA government.

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Chandigarh, May 22
The Medical Council of India (MCI) has come to the rescue of nearly forty thousand medical practitioners, who were facing the threat of losing their right to practice, in Punjab. The Punjab Medical Council (PMC) had asked them to re-register or lose their licence.

Heat claims 5 more lives in Punjab
Bathinda/Chandigarh, May 22
The ongoing severe heat wave in the region has claimed five lives in the past 24 hours, taking the total toll to 15. In Jalandhar, a cyclist, identified as Pala, suddenly collapsed near APJ College on Mahavir Marg. A passer-by tried to give him water but he fell unconscious. He was immediately rushed to the civil hospital, where he was declared as brought dead by doctors, who cited heat stroke as the reason for his death.

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Jalandhar, May 22
The only surviving legendary revolutionary of the Ghadar party Baba Bhagat Singh Bilga died today. Baba Bilga, who was one of the most respected revolutionaries of pre and post-Independence era, breathed his last in the UK where he was with one of his sons.                                A file photograph

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