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Focus debate on ‘development’
Chandigarh, June 30
While delivering his keynote address at a symposium on “Indian Legislatures — Vision for 21st Century” in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha today, the Speaker of Lok Sabha, Mr G.M.C. Balayogi, urged the legislators to rise above narrow considerations and cultivate broader outlook to transform the legislature as a forum to debate issues of development of the society, the economy, the polity with a wider vision.
Senior citizens seek higher interest rates
Panchkula, June 30
The lowering of interest rates in the Budget presented in February was criticised by the Senior Citizens’ Federation, North Zone, in a letter to the Union Finance Minister.
Claiming that great damage had come to senior citizens on account of reduction of interest rates on small savings like national savings certificates, kisan vikas
patras, monthly interest savings and PPF from 13 to 9.5 per cent.
Front condemns Chohan’s return
Ludhiana, June 30
The state chief of the All-India Anti-Terrorist Front, Mr Jagmeet Singh Bawa, and the General Secretary of the body, Mr Yogesh Dewan, have reacted strongly to the return of Khalistan ideologue Jagjit Singh Chohan to India.
Focus on immigration issues
Chandigarh, June 30
The 55th annual conference on immigration law was held in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, from June 20 to 24. The largest annual conference organised by the American Immigration Lawyers Association
was attended by more than 3,300 American immigration lawyers and about 100 lawyers from foreign jurisdictions, including Canada, Australia, EEC member states and select South Asia countries.
BSP to hold dharna in front of
Parliament
Chandigarh, June 30
 The Bahujan Samaj Party will hold a dharna in front of Parliament in New Delhi on July 23 to pressurise the government to end bonded labour in Punjab, announced the BSP supremo, Mr Kanshi Ram, while addressing a rally at Matka Chowk here on the last day of the dharna today.
BSP supremo Kanshi Ram addresses party workers on the last day of their dharna in Chandigarh on Saturday.
— A Tribune photograph
Devoted to simplicity
Two rivers run through Hollywood. One has the turbulence of mediocrity. In the other silently moves all that is sublime and sensible about the world of make-believe. “Finding Forrester”
(Kiran) is part of this flow of sensitivity.
Star who retains
middle-class values
 Chandigarh, June 30
Supermodel Nethra Raghuraman may have made it big in the glamour industry, but when it comes to real life she has retained all the values and morality of a middle-class small-town girl. One cannot but get drawn to her effervescent charm as Nethra talks about her modeling career — the good times and the fiascos.
Nethra Raghuraman at the National Institute of Fashion Design in Chandigarh on Saturday.
— A Tribune photograph
OFFBEAT PROFESSIONS
Song & music to your taste
Chandigarh
DJs have stormed the city scene but when it comes to having a quite evening with soft music, nothing beats a live band of musicians, ready to perform at your request. They lend their voices to express your feelings, themselves remaining in the background all the time.
REMINISCENCES
The day Emergency was imposed
Chandigarh, June 30
Sitting in the study of her Sector 15 house, former Head of the English Department, Dr Pushpinder Syal, flips through the worn-out pages of a scrapbook, thinking of the day the Emergency was announced over the radio.
ROADSIDE ENTREPRENEUR
Selling tea on pavements
Chandigarh
There are hundreds of roadside tea-sellers in the city. They are mainly migrants from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. But these
cha-walas have so adjusted themselves to the local culture that it is difficult to tell them from the local community. Conducting business on the roadside has so exposed them to the local milieu that they speak the Punjabi language as if they were born and brought up in Punjab.
‘Bofors gun has proved its worth’
Chandigarh, June 30
The falling agricultural and industrial production, growing unemployment and all pervasive corruption in the State Administration were criticised by senior leaders of the Punja Pradesh Congress Committee at a state-level convention of ex-servicemen held at Punjab Congress Bhavan here today.
Shivalikview not to be privatised
Chandigarh, June 30
The idea to privatise Shivalikview Hotel in Sector 17 has been dropped for all practical purposes, well-placed sources said.
On the other hand, CITCO is going in for renovation of the hotel which has earned a profit of about Rs 1.40 crore in the past financial year.
FENG SHUI TIPS
Taking care of your car-II
IN yesterday’s article you read about car and how you can relate different areas of your car to different things. Today I will tell you how to take care of your
car. The centre of the car being related to health should always be kept clean. Managing a “Mayan ball” from reel ribbon on the reversing mirror will protect the vehicle from accidents, car thefts and any general negative energy.
Screening of vulgar movie
alleged
Chandigarh, June 30
Mr Vijay Pal Singh “Dimpy”, a former general secretary of the Chandigarh Territorial Congress Committee, today alleged that Mr Santosh was showing a vulgar English movie on cable in Sector 40. He claimed that he immediately went to the residences of the Inspector-General of Police, SSP and DSP, South, of Chandigarh. He claimed that he also spoke to the SHO of the Sector 39 police station, who deputed a police party led by a sub inspector.
Tribune employee
retires
Chandigarh, June 30
Mr Mool Chand, Rotary Shift-in-Charge of The Tribune Trust Publications retired today after putting in 32 years of service. He joined the institution on December 1, 1969.
Uniformity sought in
disability relief
Chandigarh, June 30
The All India Ex-Servicemen Welfare Association alleged today that disabled personnel of three forces had been discriminated against vis-a-vis commissioned and non-commissioned officers.
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