Chandigarh, March 3
The Chandigarh Golf Club greens sparkled under flashlights as the first flood-lit Swig and Swing Tournament attracted more than 125 golfers for a night golf tournament tonight.

Those 125 golfers included about 20 women. Swig and Swing as the name suggests needed the golfers to have a swig and then swing after every alternative hole.

But this year the club had cut down on the swig part of it restricting it to 30 ml instead if the 60 ml of hard drink after every alternative hole.

It was not just hard drinks even the quantity of milk (for non-drinkers) was reduced to smaller bottles for every alternative hole.

This was the first night tournament conducted by the Chandigarh Golf Club.

The Chandigarh Golf Club is the only other club after the Delhi Golf Club to have a flood-lit tournament.

The Bangalore Golf Club is also flood-lit, but because of objections from the Air Force authorities there is a bar on putting on the floodlights because of its proximity to the runway.

The flood-lit greens will be a major attraction once the club opens its doors to the tourism world.

With the results of over 125 golfers yet to be compiled, the final results were expected not before midnight. 

Chandigarh, March 3
Mayank (2005) and Harpreet (2006) secured first and second positions, respectively, in the finals of 800 m race (boys) in the 14th annual athletic meet of Government Medical College Hospital concluded at the Sports Complex, Sector 46, here today.

Lakshya Rathore of the 2004 batch was declared the best male athlete, while Kamlesh Kumari of the 2003 batch was declared the best female athlete. The best march past trophy was bagged by the 2003 batch. The best team trophy was won by the 2005 batch.

Chief guest Kamaljit Kaur Kooner, Asian Games (1970) gold medallist, Padamshree and Arjuna Awardee, laid stressed on the need for physical fitness through sports.

The other results:

(Finals) 800 m Race (boys): Mayank (2005) 1, Harpreet (2006) 2, Lakshya (2006) 3; 4x100 m relay (girls): 2005 batch 1, 2004 batch 2, 2006 batch 3;

4x400 m relay (boys): 2006 batch 1, 2005 batch 2, 2003 batch 3; Javelin throw (girls): Kamlesh (2003) 1, Priyanka (2005) 2, Parminder (2004) 3; Discus throw (staff): Baljit Singh 1, Sanjay Singh 2, Raj Kumar 3;

Triple jump (boys): Lakshya (2006) 1, Vikas Gupta (2003) 2, Dinesh (2004) 3;

200 m race (boys): Lakshya (2006) 1, Mayank (2005) 2, Vikas Gupta (2003) 3;

Javelin throw (staff): Baljit Singh 1, Deshmukh 2, Kulwinder Singh 3;

100 m race (class IV): Pardeep 1, Manohar Lal 2, Rakesh 3; 100 m race (staff): Sanjeev Massey 1, Deshmukh 2, Ajay 3;

100 m race (faculty): Dr Vipin 1, Dr G.P. Thami 2, Dr Ravi Gupta 3;

4x100 m relay (boys): 2006 batch 1, 2005 batch 2, 2005 batch 3;

100 m race (boys): Lakshya (2006) 1, Mayank (2005) 2, Vikas Gupta (2003) 3; 100 m race (girls): Nidhi (2005)1, Kamlesh (2003) 2, Parminder (2004) 3;

Chatti race (women): Dr Shashi Arya 1, Dr Pratibha Sood 2, Dr Ravinder Kaur 3.

Chandigarh, March 3
Nirmaljeet Singh Kalsi, Managing Director, Punjab Infotech and Secretary, Information Technology, government of Punjab, has been given Dataquest e-Governance award as “e-Gov Champion 2007” at the Northern Region Summit aimed at creating strategies for NextGen Government. The award was conferred by Kiran Karnik president NASSCOM and Pradeep Gupta, CMD, Cyber Media On-line, at a function held in New Delhi on Thursday.

“Dataquest”, an IT fortnightly affiliated to DATAQUEST of the USA, had launched the ‘Dataquest e-Gov Champion Awards’ in January 2006. — TNS