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Cong sweeps MCC Mayoral poll
SAD-BJP alliance, CVM’s calculations go awry
Chandigarh, January 1
Ms Lalit Joshi, Mr Surinder Singh and Mr Balraj Singh of the Congress were comfortably elected Mayor, Senior Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor, respectively here today in the first one-year term of the second Municipal Corporation House.

SIDELIGHTS The new Mayor, Ms Lalit Joshi, being garlanded by her husband, Dr Rai Bahadur, in Chandigarh, on Tuesday. Also seen in the picture are Senior Deputy Mayor Surinder Singh and Deputy Mayor Balraj Singh. — Photo Manoj Mahajan

MC posts additional staff despite financial crunch
SAS Nagar, January 1
Despite the financial crunch being faced by the Municipal Council here following the statewide abolition of octroi, the Local Government Department has been posting additional staff at the civic body.

Online greetings hit florists Chandigarh, January 1 City denizens prefer doing things in style, and well fast. Even wishing near and dear ones. That was precisely what made flowers take a back seat as it were hi-tech communication modes that residents chose to express their wishes for the New Year. Flowers await customers on New Year Day. — Photo Pankaj Sharma

New Year brings sunshine
Chandigarh, January 1
The New Year was ushered in with bright sunshine in the northwest region, bringing respite to the people from a week-long cold wave, but temperatures in most places hovered below normal.

New Year resolutions or fashion statements?
Chandigarh, January 1
With their feet on the ground, they have reached for the stars, have climbed the ladder of success rung by rung, not just through hard work and dedication, but sometimes also with the help of New Year resolutions like “studying harder the next year”, “spending less time with friends, even with girls” and “exercising harder for shedding those extra kilos, along with sweat”.

UT to ask for more power
Chandigarh, January 1
Keeping in view the rise in demand of power, the Chandigarh Administration will ask the Northern Region Electricity Board tomorrow to enhance the quota of power for the city.

AHSSC to file reply to court notice
Chandigarh, January 1
Anandgarh Hatao Sanjhi Sangharsh Committee activists have decided to file reply to the notice of the Supreme Court on the special leave petition of the Punjab Government against the scrapping of the Anandgarh project.

COMMUNITY

Additional phone exchange for Sec 4
Chandigarh, January 1
By the experience when thousands of telephones in the Punjab and Haryana civil secretariat, the UT Administration Secretariat and several VIP sectors in the north of the city remained dead on two occasions during the last fortnight, the BSNL has decided to install on a priority basis an additional telephone exchange in Sector 4 to serve the area.

Staff gherao zoo Director
Chhat Bir, January 1
The employees of Mahendra Chaudhary Zoological Park raised slogans against the zoo management and gheraoed the director on the zoo premises for not releasing the salaries of staffers and deducting the salaries of some other workers here today.

YOUNG VOICE
‘I want to become a known face’
THE coming year holds a lot of challenges for this young macho man who has recently entered the modelling scenario. Raman Dhody who has become a familiar face in the local ramp shows and beauty contests wants to excel in the line he has chosen for himself.

Army Medical Corps function
Chandigarh, January 1
The 238th anniversary of the Army Medical Corps was observed by AMC personnel in the Western Command Hospital, Chandi Mandir today. It was on this day in 1764 when the Bengal Medical Service was formally organised to provide medical cover to the troops of the East India Company, and over the years, this organisation was amalgamated into the Indian Medical Service.

Best aircraft BRD trophy Chandigarh, January 1 The IAF’s trophy for the best aircraft base repair Depot has been bagged by 3 Base Repair Depot. The depot has also been awarded the Rajbhasa Bronze Shield. According to a statement issued here today, the awards were received by the Air Officer Commanding, 3 BRD, Air Cmde S.B. Prashar, by the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Maintenance Command, Air Marshal S S Gupta during the annual IAF Maintenance Field Commanders’ conference held at Nagpur in December.

The Air Officer Commanding, 3 BRD, Air Cmde S B Prashar (right), receives the best aircraft base repair depot trophy from Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Maintenance Command,  Air Marshal S.S. Gupta

Markfed calendar released
Chandigarh, January 1
Mr D.S. Bains, Managing Director, Markfed, today released the 2002 calendar based on religious paintings of famous painter Sobha Singh. This year the nation is celebrating the hundredth birth anniversary of the great painter and visionary. “Sobha Singh has given different directions of our thoughts and ideas about the Sikh Gurus. When we contemplate on the Gurus in our mind, it is his paintings which come floating in our thoughts.”

Police to send monthly reports on fake currency
Chandigarh, January 1
The Chandigarh police will send monthly reports on detection of fake currency notes being circulated in the city to the intelligence wing of the Ministry of Finance.

CRIME

Waiter dies of asphyxiation
Chandigarh, January 1
A waiter working with a private catering firm reportedly died of asphyxiation in the wee hours of today. The deceased, Govind, a resident of Khejeri village, finished work at about 1.30 am and proceeded to spend the night in the firm’s godown in Batela village near Sector 41.

Maloya resident murdered
Chandigarh, January 1
A resident of Maloya, Jaipal, was allegedly murdered by two persons in the Sector 25 Janata Colony this evening. The police has arrested one of the accused, Vicky (18), a resident of the same colony. The other accused, Dilbagh, alias Kala , a resident of Ropar, has absconded.

• Scooterist killed

‘Reduce power tariff for SSIs’
Chandigarh, January 1
The Federation of Small Scale Industries has requested the UT Administrator Lieut-Gen JFR Jacob (retd), to look into the hardships being faced by the industry here.

EDUCATION

PCCTU to organise rallies
Chandigarh, January 1
The Punjab and Chandigarh College Teachers’ Union along with federations of principals and managements of non-government aided colleges will organise rallies in various districts of Punjab.

IT programme for teachers concludes
Chandigarh, January 1
The in-service training programme on information technology for school teachers, being organised at Chandi Mandir for teachers of Army schools and Army public schools, concluded today.

Khatana visits integration camp
Chandigarh, January 1
The OSD to the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India, Mr Begraj Khatana, inspected the residential arrangement at the on-going national integration camp at MCM DAV College here today.

CULTURE

Safri Boyz doing well but yet to leave impression
Chandigarh, January 1
Does the name Safri Boyz conjure up an image of torn jeans and earring clad rock band? If the answer is yes, that could not be further from the truth. Because even though coated with a heavy dose of modern western music, this UK-based music group is very much Punjabi in character which owes it’s origin to a small band floated by Balwinder Safri in his home town of Kapurthala.

Wadali brothers at their usual best Chandigarh, January 1 It was an evening to remember for hundreds of people gathered at Rai Farms for the New Year Eve celebrations as the Wadali Bandhu enthralled them with their soulful, pure and true music. Both Puran Chand and Pyare Lal Wadali were in their element and mesmerised the audience with their fusion of contemporary music-traditional lyrics sung in Sufiana style.

A blend of colours Chandigarh, January 1 Sanjeev Kumar’s series of “Impressionists and Post-Impressionists” is an attempt to capture a particular style of painting the world has seen through a window initiated by famous artists like Van Gogh and Saurets. One of the paintings exhibited by Sanjeev Kumar at the IndusInd Art Gallery in Sector 8, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph

HEALTH

Health check-up camp for slum children Chandigarh, January 1 The Community Medicine Department of the PGI, today organised a health check-up camp at Ashiana School in Sector 24 for slum children. Dr J.S. Thakur, Assistant Professor at the Community Medicine Department, said at the camp slum children were told about the personal hygiene measures and benefit of cleanliness.
Dr J.S. Thakur, Assistant Professor, Department of Community Medicine, PGI, examines students of Ashiana School in Sector 24, Chandigarh, on Tuesday. — A Tribune photograph