No of drug users shoots up 33 times in ten years in Meghalaya

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• No of drug users shoots up 33 times in ten years in Meghalaya
• Sarabjit's sister urges Pak to probe case again
• Faithful friends to booze buddies
• Judge harasses officer, loses job
• Wooing deras: Badal spends night at Rampur Khera
• SAD-BJP's own man quits over injustice to poor
• For him, blood donation is also celebration
• Pilots may stick neck out to land
• Vehicle-lifter nabbed after 10 days of release
• Immigration agent dupes 80, extracts Rs 1 lakh each
• Beas destroys crops in Punjab
• Yamuna, Tangri in spate
• Amid Saraswati revival, colonizers encroach river
• Girl gangraped at Haridwar
• Men on bike shoot at milk shop owner
• Health dept to enforce smoking ban
• 'Rajasthan leads in cotton shift’
• Cooks paid less than wagers
• Diarrohea outbreak in Ropar, 46 cases
• ‘Hail on natural disaster list’
• Deserted women demand land
• Scalpel helps teen fight flab
• Hackers hit NSG website
• Karat attacks Cong of reversing stand on PM under Lokpal
• HRD says no to move for limited 'for-profit' higher education institutions

No of drug users shoots up 33 times in ten years in Meghalaya Posted: 02 Jul 2011 08:28 PM PDT Drug abuse has emerged as a serious problem in Meghalaya, with the number of users increasing 33 times in the last ten years, according to a survey.

Sarabjit's sister urges Pak to probe case again Posted: 02 Jul 2011 06:14 PM PDT The sister of Sarabjit Singh, an Indian on death row here following his conviction for alleged involvement in bomb attacks, has appealed the Pakistan government to send a special team to India to re-investigate his case.

Faithful friends to booze buddies Posted: 02 Jul 2011 03:06 PM PDT Trisha, Heer, Lucy, Danny, Angel and Chelsy have a ball every now when they get to sip on chilled beer. So what's so great about it, you may ask. There are so many fond of having chilled beer to beat the heat or just to enjoy.

Judge harasses officer, loses job Posted: 02 Jul 2011 03:03 PM PDT The Punjab and Haryana high court has terminated the services of a judge, Ashwani Kumar Shori, for harassing and pressurizing Sanjeev Verma under the influence of the then deputy commissioner of Kaithal, Rajinder Kataria.

Wooing deras: Badal spends night at Rampur Khera Posted: 02 Jul 2011 03:01 PM PDT With elections drawing nearer, political leaders are in a race to woo various deras in the state, but Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal seems to be giving an extra push in this direction.

SAD-BJP's own man quits over injustice to poor Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:53 PM PDT The claims of Punjab's ruling Shiromani Akali Dal-Bharatiya Janata Party alliance of supporting below poverty line families took a blow on Friday when its own vice-chairman of Patiala Block Samiti Balwant Singh submitted his resignation on Friday evening to protest against the injustice meted out to 138 poor families.

For him, blood donation is also celebration Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:52 PM PDT He was unaware about the importance of blood donation till 1984 when he first donated blood for a terrorism victim, but that donation changed the life of Inder Kumar of Patiala.

Pilots may stick neck out to land Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:50 PM PDT Imagine this - You're flying into Ludhiana and are about to land when the pilot cranes his neck to look below for verifying whether it is actually the runway he is touching down on or not.

Vehicle-lifter nabbed after 10 days of release Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:48 PM PDT When he came out from Amritsar jail on June 18 his relatives thought he might have mended his ways and would never commit any further vehicle theft.

Immigration agent dupes 80, extracts Rs 1 lakh each Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:46 PM PDT A major fraud came to light in the city, on Saturday, in which around 80 residents alleged one immigration agent Gurbachan Singh Manku from Shimlapuri for fraudulently extracting Rs 1 lakh from each of them.

Beas destroys crops in Punjab Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:45 PM PDT Hundreds of acres of crops including maize, paddy, sugarcane, chilli, etc, have been destroyed due to overflowing of Beas river in Khadoor Sahib tehsil of Tarn Taran district in the recent rains.

Yamuna, Tangri in spate Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:43 PM PDT As the irrigation department failed to plug the breach in the Dadupur Nalwi canal in Yamunanagar and Markanda river of Kurukshetra, a water sheet has spread over 1,500 acres of land, affecting nearly 700 familes.

Amid Saraswati revival, colonizers encroach river Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:42 PM PDT While engineers and research scholars in the state are working round the clock on a project to revive the epic Saraswati river, a couple of colonizers have illegally raised a bridge over the dried-up river, after encroaching the land, courtesy lax authorities in Kurukshetra.

Girl gangraped at Haridwar Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:38 PM PDT A teenage girl who ran away from her home at Sonpat district of Haryana, was allegedly gangraped in Haridwar town, police said on Saturday.

Men on bike shoot at milk shop owner Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:37 PM PDT A milk shop owner was injured as two unidentified motorcyclists fired gun shots after barging into his shop in Gogran market of the city on Friday evening.

Health dept to enforce smoking ban Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:36 PM PDT Charity begins at home! This is perhaps the message the district health department wants to send to smoke-happy babus working in various departments.

'Rajasthan leads in cotton shift’ Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:34 PM PDT With an increase of 75.16% area under cotton cultivation this season, upper Rajasthan, mainly the Sriganganagar circle, has made a record of sorts in changing the agriculture profile of the region, by shifting from traditional crops to "white gold'' this year.

Cooks paid less than wagers Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:32 PM PDT For Maya Rani, an employee of government school, Rampura Phul, Punjab government's claims of employee welfare mean nothing. Her burn injuries, caused by fire while cooking mid-day meal for school children in Rampur Phul, have not yet healed and government indifference to her ordeal, and many others like her, has only added salt to the wounds.

Diarrohea outbreak in Ropar, 46 cases Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:29 PM PDT Five persons, including two foreigners, were admitted in Ropar Civil Hospital on Saturday in what is turning out to be a diarrhea outbreak in the city. In all, 46 cases of diarrhoea have been reported from the city in the past one week.

‘Hail on natural disaster list’ Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:27 PM PDT Himachal Pradesh has asked Centre to include the losses to the fruit and vegetable crops in the state due to weather in the list of natural disasters, an official said here on Saturday.

Deserted women demand land Posted: 02 Jul 2011 02:23 PM PDT Willing to shun freebies, deserted, widowed and divorced single woman have asked government to provide them land for starting a commune farm that could help them to find selfemployment and live a life of dignity.

Scalpel helps teen fight flab Posted: 02 Jul 2011 01:46 PM PDT Docs warn obese people from rushing into operation to shed fat.

Hackers hit NSG website Posted: 02 Jul 2011 01:43 PM PDT In a major security breach, the website of the National Security Guards (NSG) was hacked on Friday by anonymous programmers.

Karat attacks Cong of reversing stand on PM under Lokpal Posted: 02 Jul 2011 01:39 PM PDT CPM general secretary Prakash Karat on Saturday accused the Congress of adopting double standards on the issue of bringing the office of Prime Minister under the purview of Lokpal.

HRD says no to move for limited 'for-profit' higher education institutions Posted: 02 Jul 2011 01:37 PM PDT The HRD ministry has rejected a Planning Commission proposal advocating "for-profit" higher education though limited to vocational and professional institutions.

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