SPORT

Amarjit, Tejinder best athletes
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 28 — Amarjit Singh in the boys' and Tejinder Kaur in the girls' sections were adjudged the best athletes at the end of the 45th annual athletic meet of the Government College of Education, Sector 20, here today.

In all, 100 athletes took part in 30 events at this two-day meet. Mr Surinder Tangri, Principal of the college, gave away the prizes to the athletes, while Dr K. Sood read out the annual sport-achievements report.

Results: Girls (50 m) — Sukhpal 1, Tejinder 2, Aman 3; 100 m — Tejinder 1, Dimple 2, Sukhpal 3; 200 m — Tejinder 1, Dimple 2, Anitpal 3; 400 m — Tejinder 1, Dimple 2, Aman 3; high jump — Gurdeep 1, Tejinder 2, Anitpal Kaur 3; long jump — Gurdeep 1, Anitpal Kaur 2, Sukhpal 3; discus throw — Kamalpreet Kaur 1, Anitpal Kaur 2, Sukhpal Kaur 3; shot put — Vandana Sood 1, Tejinder Kaur 2, Dimple 3; javelin throw — Anitpal Kaur 1, Anoopreet Kaur 2, Sukhpal 3; slow cycling — Manjeet 1, Monika 2.

Boys: 200 m — Amarjeet Singh 1, Jaswinder 2, Sukhwinder 3; 400 m — Amarjeet Singh 1, Sukhwinder Singh 2, Jaswinder Singh 3; 800 m — Amarjeet Singh 1, Sukhwinder Singh 2, Lakhbir 3; 1500 m — Sukhwinder Singh 1, Amarjeet 2, Kulwant Singh 3; 3,000 m — Sukhwinder Singh 1, Kulwant Singh 2, Amit Sood 3; high jump — Amarjeet Singh 1, Sanjeev Sharma 2, Suraj 3; long jump — Amarjeet 1, Ashok 2, Sanjeev Sharma 3; discus throw — Sukhpal Singh 1, Hardyal Singh 2, Lhakpa Tsering 3; shot put — Sukhpal Singh 1, Hardyal Singh 2, Lhakpa Tsering 3.

Javelin throw — Hardyal Singh 1, Sukhpal Singh 2, Namgyal 3; 4 x 200 m relay race — Ashok, Suraj, Tejinder and Gurdeep 1; Vinod, Dimple, Aman and Lakhbir 2; Kulwant, Navdeep, Monika and Sanjeev 3; Class IV men race — Gopal Hira 1, Jai Ram 2, Jagan Nath 3; staff (slow cycling) — Harjinder Singh 1, Daljeet Singh.

Judo tourney: The Chandigarh State Judo Championship for men and women will be organised by the Amateur Judo Association of Chandigarh on February 5 at PML SD Public School, Sector 32. This was stated in a press note by Mr L.V. Sehgal, President of the association. The weighing-in will be done on February 4 at 4 p.m. on the school premises.

Entries close with Mr Arunesh Kumar at SD Public School on February 4.

Adventure festival begins today
By Our Sports Reporter

CHANDIGARH, Jan 28 — More than 100 participants have already arrived in the city to take part in the sixth National Adventure Festival which will begin here tomorrow at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium.

Nearly 500 boys and girls in the age group 17 to 26, drawn from various parts of thecountry, will participate in different adventure activities organised by the National Adventure Club (India).

According to the organisers, the participants have been divided into six broad groups and each group will head for different destinations.

Activities like trekking, rock climbing, common obstacle, scuba diving at Churdhar Nahan will have 100 participants. Trekking, rock climbing, rappelling, rafting from Shiv Puri to Rishikesh in Ganges, parasailing at Jolly Grant airstrip near Rishikesh, will have 100 participants who will head for Dak Pathar-Nag Tiba from here. Participants, 100 in all, will head towards Pong Dam for kayaking, canoeing, water skiing, water surfing, trekking from Dalhousie to Khajjiar and rock climbing. Participants, 60 in all, will also head for Narkanda for skiing (in Narkanda) and river rafting in Ganges. Snow skiing and trekking activities in Solan Nala-Manali will have 60 participants.

Roller skating from Narkanda to Chandigarh will have 60 participants. Parasailing opportunity is open to all participants at the Civil Aviation Club, Pinjore.

Those who are participating in trekking, climbing, snow skiing, kayaking, water skiing and river rafting events will leave for respective destinations on January 30 and will return on February 5. Roller skaters will leave the city on February 2, begin from Narkanda (near Shimla) on February 3 and after halts at Theog, Shimla and Solan on the nights of February 3, 4 and 5, will again skate down on February 6 from Solan to reach the city and join the closing ceremony at the Sector 16 Cricket Stadium.

The Servo Marathon will also be held on February 6 here. This will include full, half and mini marathons, involving a prize money running into several lakhs of rupees

CULTURE

Colourful dances mark Tibet Day
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 28 — A colourful festival depicting the tradition, religion and culture of Tibet was held today at Sector 17 on the occasion of Tibet Day, organised by the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress and the Tibetan Freedom Movement, Chandigarh.

The festival had on display resplendent Tibetan dresses, herbal medicines, books and photos. The food stall, selling popular Tibetan food like momos was one of the major attractions.

A lively and entertaining programme was put up in the afternoon, in which Tibetan students presented many vibrant dances.

Colour and gaiety was spread around by a mask dance called ‘Tashi Shoelpa’, a dance that is supposed to bring good luck, from which the first Tibetan opera has also originated. This was followed by ‘Ba-Shey’, a Tibetan dance.

With 10 male dancers enthusiastically beating drums and dancing around, the next dance called the ‘Dho’ was also a boisterous number. Next was the ‘Yak’ dance, based on the Tibetan nomadic way of life.

Earlier in the day, Lama Yeshi Phuntsok, President of the National Democratic Party of Tibet, and Mr Karma Choephell, Member Parliament of Tibetan Parliament in exile of the Assembly of Tibetan People’s Deputees, spoke on the occasion.

On the issue of Karmapa, Mr Choephell said he was saddened by the fact that some comments had been made from the Government’s side that asylum would not be granted to Karmapa. Lama Phuntsok said that Karmapa should be given full support here.

Display of latest winter wear
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 28 — A fashion show organised by Dubloon here today proved to be a lacklustre affair. Only six female and six male models appeared for the performance.

The ramp failed to give a distinct identity to the models. It was right in between two rows of spectators sitting around tables. The visitors and the restaurant staff took their seats well before the show.

One of the biggest drawbacks at the show was faulty audio arrangement. Some persons objected to the announcer sitting on a table near the audio system with her back towards the audience. The sound level was rather low in the begining. At times, it was raised excessively.

Unsuitable music only worsened the effect of the show. Music stopped during the rounds at times and went on even when there were no models on the ramp many times.

In another scene, the show had to be stopped midway because the chief guest was to leave. The organisers paused to present him a bouquet.

The female models included Ruhi Barua, Kritika, Lilian, Malika and Anamika. The males models were Rohit, Rupinder, A. Verma, Vikram Bhatia, Rohit Dheer and Rana.

The dresses however were a decent display of latest fashionwear. There was more stress on the winter wear. Y2K, Fusion 2000 and Far-Fetched were some rounds at the show among others.

Art from wood, silk
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 28 — An exhibition of some 60 graphics by one artist in media ranging from wood-cuts to silk screens, has seldom been seen in the city before. Nirmal Parkash opened his exhibition at the gallery of Government College of Art, Sector 10, yesterday.

The technical virtuosity of Nirmal Parkash, who is a teacher at the college, is discernable and what is remarkable is the kind of work that he has built up over 12 years, which this exhibition depicts.

The Dog, a work done in silk screen, has the animal figure in black and white with red eyes, a relief print titled Force has images floating in black, grey and red with a white background.

Another relief print titled Shiv, is also conspicuous with the kind of drifting images that merge around a shivling and the use of some interesting colours like orange, brown and black make this work quite picturesque.

Nirmal exhibits images of fleeting contours and curves in some of his works, like Composition-A in mixed media and Under-Water, an etching print.

The exhibition will be on view till February 6.

GMCH-32 wins western dance contest
Tribune News Service

CHANDIGARH, Jan 28 — The second day of Euphoria-2000 was marked by a variety of events at the Sarai building and the CSIO auditorium today. However, the response to most of the events was lukewarm with very few entries in each.

A highlight of the evening was the western dances competition, both solo and group. The first and second prizes in this contest were won by the teams of GMCH-32. While Manish and his troupe danced on the number Crab, Sweta and her troupe danced on the number Larger than life. The team of CMC, Ludhiana, which danced on the number The Way You Make Me Feel won the third prize. In the solo dances, Neeraj of SGRD, Amritsar, won the first prize, while Gunjan of GMC, Amritsar, won the second prize.

Of the 16 participating teams, only five participated in the instrumental music competition. Vinay Gaekwad of CMC, Ludhiana, who played the violin, won the first prize. The second prize was shared by Minal of GMCH-32 who was on the Casio and Benedict of CMC, Ludhiana, who played the guitar. The other two participants were Viresh of GMCH-32 on the guitar and Abhiruchi of GMC, Patiala.

Nishant of GMCH-32 and Diksha of GMC, Patiala, were the first and second winners of the Ek Minute contest held earlier in the day. In it, students were asked to perform various activities like folding the newspaper and drinking water within a minute.

Five teams will compete in the quiz and Antakshri finals to be held on January 30. In all, 35 teams, comprising 3 members each, participated in the preliminaries of the quiz held today. Also, 30 teams of two members each took part in the preliminaries of Antakshri.

About 15 teams of various colleges had participated in the Ad Fad contest held yesterday in which they had to advertise a product within a given time. While the team of GMC, Patiala, won the first prize, that of GMCH-32 won the second prize.

Nearly 400 students of 16 dental and medical colleges in north India are participating in these cultural, sports and literary events being organised by the staff and students of GMCH-32.

Meanwhile, the quarterfinals of the North Zone Medicricket generated immense enthusiasm. In the first quarterfinal between IGMC Shimla and DIRDS Faridkot, the Shimla team beat Faridkot by 93 runs, due to a brillaint performance by Vishawajeet. In reply to IGMC's 174 for 8 in 22 overs, DIRDS Faridkot was all out for only 77. In the second quarterfinal, in reply to GMC Jammu's 194 for 6, GMC Patiala was bundled out for 99.

In another match, GMC, Chandigarh, beat CMC, Ludhiana, by 4 wickets. CMC, Ludhiana, scored 124 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. GMC, Chandigarh, scored 127 runs in 24.2 overs. Nishant was declared the man of the match for his brilliant 58 runs. GMC, Amritsar, beat GMC, Faridkot, by 13 runs in the fourth quarterfinal. While GMC, Amritsar, were 177 all out in 25 overs, GMC, Faridkot, made 164 for 8 in 25 overs.

The semi-finals will be played tomorrow between GMC, Chandigarh, and IGMC, Shimla; GMC, Jammu, and GMC, Amritsar.

Babu Mann, a popular Punjabi folk singer known for his hit Nindra Nahin Aandiyan will perform at the open air theatre of the Sarai building, GMC-32 tomorrow. The other highlights of the day will be the Made for Each Other Contest and the Mediquiz.