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Tribune staff seek new wage
board
Chandigarh, May 1
The Tribune Employees Union demanded immediate setting up of a wage board for the newspaper employees. Speakers said that a new wage board had fallen due in view of the rising cost of living and the increased profits of the newspaper houses. The demand was made at a rally organised in connection with May Day to pay homage to the Chicago martyrs.
Gate rallies, demonstrations
on May Day
 Chandigarh, May 1
Lack of enthusiasm, archaic jargons and a lurking fear of adjusting to a competitive,
privatised, globalised market and a changing paradigm of ‘hire the productive one and fire the unproductive’ loomed large over the May Day functions in the city today.
Members of the Joint Platform of Mass Organisations organise a rally to mark the May Day in Sector 17, Chandigarh, on Thursday.
— A Tribune Photograph
Post office queues
disappoint residents
SAS Nagar, May 1
“I came to withdraw money from the post office in Phase I under the monthly income scheme but went back after seeing a long queue. I came again the next day but went back disappointed as the position was no better.
‘Cops trying to bail out accused’
Chopra’s family writes to CM
SAS Nagar, May 1
A few days before the SAS Nagar police is to file a challan in the Kharar court against the five men accused of killing the UT Executive Engineer
V.K. Chopra, his family has written to the Chief Minister that a move is on within the crime branch of the Punjab police to get two of the three main accused out on bail.
Tankers supply water to
colonies
Chandigarh, May 1
Residents of Colony Number 5 and adjoining areas have been facing drinking water shortage forcing the municipal corporation to supply water through tankers. The shortage was caused after supply lines developed cracks following construction of a road a week ago.
Death of 8 stray cows confirmed
Chandigarh, May 1
Amidst a hue and cry over the recent deaths of stray cows in the Sector 45 gaushala and initial denial terming them as routine deaths, the authorities have confirmed deaths of eight of them in the past seven days.
Capt Tomar
cremated
Panchkula, May 1
Heart-rending scenes were witnessed at the Manimajra cremation ground where the mortal remains of pilot Kishan
Tomar, who was killed in a copter crash near Manali, was consigned to the flames this morning.
Stamp in honour
of journalist
Chandigarh, May 1
A commemorative postage stamp is being released tomorrow by the Department of Posts in honour of well known journalist Durga Dass (1900-1974). In Chandigarh, it will be released at Philatelic Bureau, GPO, Chandigarh.
From pillar to post in search of wife
Chandigarh, May 1
A resident of Vikas Nagar in Mauli Jagroan, Ashwani Kumar, is running from pillar to post to trace his missing wife, Kulwinder.
The complainant, who runs a small business in Mani Majra, in
his complaint at the Mani Majra police station, alleged that his in laws had kept his wife at their house in Nagal
Ambia, Shahkot (Jalandhar).
ULTA PULTA
The SARS
threat
The other day I saw a man wearing a mask, passing in front of my house. The sight of the mask troubled me and I nervously asked him: “Bhai sahib, is there a SARS victim in our mohalla?” He replied: “No! but around the corner there’s a heap of garbage with mosquitoes breeding and dogs somersaulting on it.
Aeronautical Society meeting today
Chandigarh, May 1
The National Executive Council of the Aeronautical Society of India will hold its meeting here tomorrow.
LPG supply to
resume today
Chandigarh, May 1
Even as the LPG Distributors Association observed a day-long strike today, the oil industry assured the distributors that their issue of the allotment of godown sites would be sorted out at the earliest.
Dairy owners’ issue: BJP
team meets Jacob
Chandigarh, May 1
The BJP, which had been training its guns at the Congress-ruled Municipal Corporation for the rehabilitation of dairy owners, here yesterday met the UT Administrator Lt-Gen J.F.R. Jacob (retd) to demand the allotment of an alternative site for dairy owners.
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