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CM to attend I-Day function in Ludhiana @@Chandigarh: The Punjab Government will organise its state-level Independence Day function at Ludhiana where Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal will unfurl the National Flag. Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal would be the chief guest in the I-Day function at Ajitgarh (Mohali). Cabinet ministers Chunni Lal Bhagat will unfurl the National flag at Ferozepur, Sarwan Singh Phillaur in Jalandhar, Ajit Singh Kohar at Kapurthala, Gulzar Singh Ranike at Gurdaspur, Madan Mohan Mittal at Amritsar, Parminder Singh Dhindsa at Ropar, Janmeja Singh Sekhon at Bathinda, Surjit Kumar Jayani at Fazilka, Bikram Majithia at Patiala, Sikander Maluka at Hoshiarpur, Anil Joshi at Tarn Taran, Surjit Singh Rakhra at Sangur, Sharanjit Dhillon at Moga and Deputy Speaker Dinesh Singh at Dharkalan. — TNS@@DTO’s police remand extended @@Bathinda: The court of Chief Judicial Magistrate Ashok Kapoor on Monday extended by a day the police remand of BM Singh, District Transport Officer, who was arrested in a cheating and forgery case. The police pleaded before the court that it was yet to recover Singh’s laptop. — TNS@@Relief for students with compartment@@Chandigarh: The government has allowed students having compartments in Class XII to take provisional admissions in technical colleges, polytechnic colleges and ITIs. Students in this category will be required to clear the compartment before the examination of first semester failing which the admission of such students will be cancelled. — TNS@@Now, BDPOs to 
administer oath@@Chandigarh: Surjit Singh Rakhra, Rural development and Panchayat Minister, on Monday directed the BDPOs concerned to administer oath of office to the left out sarpanches and panches. Rakhra said these panchayat members had failed to take oath due to certain reasons. — TNS @@SGPC to build Kashmir school@@Amritsar: The SGPC will build rooms at the Khalsa Middle School at Chattisinghpora in Kashmir after the school management approached it for aid. — TNS

CHANDIGARH

HARYANA

Bhadana lays stone for cemented road@@Faridabad, August 12 @@Congress MP from Faridabad Avtar Singh Bhadana today laid the foundation stone for a 10-km cemented road starting form Khedi bridge to Dadasia village. The road is expected to be completed by November. He said the number of projects accomplished in Faridabad during the Congress rule was higher than those in the preceding 40 years. — TNS

Man robbed of `30 lakh

Sonepat, August 12 @@Four car-borne armed gangsters looted Rs 30 lakh from Sonu of Krishan Vihar in Delhi between Jhinjholi and Halalpur villages this evening.@@Before escaping, the gangsters thrashed and injured Sonu and his car driver Sheesh Pal. Both were admitted to hospital. Sonu informed the police that he was carrying a cash to buy a plot. His car was stopped forcibly by parking a car in front of his car. — OC

HIMACHAL PRADESH

JAMMU & KASHMIR

DEHRADUN