Friday, January 14, 2000, Chandigarh, India

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China finds new ‘Living Buddha’
Karmapa’s kin offers to mediate
BEIJING, Jan 13 — The Communist Party’s control over spiritual reincarnations again came to the fore with the announcement yesterday of the discovery of a reincarnated “Living Buddha,” who in the 1930s played a key role in administering Tibet and the discovery of the incarnation of the present Dalai Lama.

Give asylum: Tibetan ‘MP in exile’

SGPC Secy restrained
Setback to Bibi Jagir Kaur
AMRITSAR, Jan 13 — The Sikh Gurdwara Judicial Commission today restrained Dr Gurbachan Singh Bachan, the newly appointed Secretary of the SGPC, from functioning. Dr Bachan is a close confidant of the SGPC Chief, Bibi Jagir Kaur.

Senior Congress leaders from the national level and Haryana are all smiles as they hold hands in a show of unity at a rally held at the New Grain Market in Ambala city on Thursday. They are (from left): V. Narayan Swamy, B.S. Hooda, Kumari Selja, Bhajan Lal, S.S. Surjewala, Motilal Vora and Birender Singh.
— Tribune photo by Gautam Singh

Cong leaders present show of unity
AMBALA, Jan 13 — Senior leaders of the Haryana Congress appeared at one platform here today. A Congress rally was organised in pursuance of a decision taken by the campaign committee of the party recently that such rallies would be held at all the four divisional headquarters.

Pak diplomat gives fake note
NEW DELHI, Jan 13 — The police today registered a case against a Pakistan High Commission official for allegedly giving a counterfeit currency note of Rs 500 while paying the school fee of his son in a school here.

G.S. Sohal is new PSEB Chairman
CHANDIGARH, Jan 13 — After dithering for about two months, the government has reconstituted the Punjab State Electricity Board by appointing its new chairman and three technical members.