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        touches to challan against Badals Chandigarh, November 16
 Aided by outside experts, senior functionaries of the Chief Ministers’
        Secretariat and the Punjab Vigilance Bureau have been working late in
        the night to give the finishing touches to the challan in the
        disproportionate assets case registered against former Chief Minister
        Parkash Singh Badal and members of his family, besides others, in June
        this year.
 
 
  Punjab
        page: Money exchanged hands in police
        transfers: Badal Mulayam
        govt defends second CBI charge sheetNew Delhi, November 16
 In a surprise move, the Mulayam Singh Yadav government in Uttar Pradesh
        has filed an affidavit in the Supreme Court, defending the filing of
        supplementary charge sheet by the CBI in the Ayodhya case, dropping the
        conspiracy charge against top BJP leaders.
 Snow
        and rain break dry spellChandigarh, November 16
 Renewed spells of snow in forward areas of Jammu and Kashmir and
        far-flung areas of Himachal Pradesh during the past 48 hours, besides
        drizzles and light rain, ended an almost two-month-long dry spell in the
        north-west region, besides causing a sharp fall in the mercury.
 
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
        Scribes decry Tamil Nadu incident on Press DayShimla, November 16
 Mediapersons called for a proper codification of privileges of
        legislators and an honest introspection by journalists to prevent
        re-enactment of the unsavoury incident, currently taking place in Tamil
        Nadu, during a seminar on “Legislature, executive and the role of
        media in democracy”, organised to mark Press Day here today.
 
 
  Haryana
        page: Press Day observed 
 
 
            
                | Sentence
        over, yet languishingin Pakistan jails
 Chandigarh, November 16
 The parents of 36 Punjab youths, who landed in Pakistani jails after
        their attempts to sneak into Europe through illegitimate means failed,
        have demanded the Union Government’s intervention for the release of
        their wards. These youths, who were convicted for entering Pakistan without proper travel documents, have already completed their
          sentences.
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