HEALTH

Health mela from October 18
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, October 16
Aimed at creating awareness on good health, the need for regular check-ups, health education among the general public, a 10-day-long health mela is being organised in the Capital from October 18.

The mela will focus on lifestyle interventions and preventive health care, highlighting the need for regular check-ups and much-needed education for the benefit for the public, the Medical Health Officer, NDMC, Dr G. S. Thind told reporters here today.

He added that most diseases had their root in the stresses and strains of modern day living and just by practising some techniques at home itself one could relieve oneself from stresses and strains.

Apart from preventive health care, different systems of medicine like allopathy, homoeopathy, Unani and ayurveda would organise OPD consultations where check-up would be done and medicines would be distributed for free, he said.

The Department of Science and Technology would spread information on how to de-stress oneself as it could lead to several high intensity diseases, Dr Madhu Phull from the department said.

Being jointly organised by the MTNL, the Department of Science and Technology, the Government of India, the New Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC) in collaboration with various government and non-governmental organisations this mela will be inaugurated by the Chief Minister, Ms Sheila Dikshit.

The mela will also focus on the rising incidence of HIV and AIDS and provide sex education.

Among the other features of this health fare are a campaign on rational use of drugs, hepatitis C screening, check up for commercial drivers, awareness about processed food, typhoid vaccination and special screening to find out the incidence of hyper fasting insulinemia.

SPORTS

Collegians edge past Nay Joyti 
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, October 16
Collegians Club edged past Nay Jyoti Nepal (NJN) by a solitary goal in the last preliminary league play-off match of A Division in the Delhi Soccer Association (DSA)-SAIL Open Clubs Football League Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Wednesday.

Collegians and Nay Jyoti were at par on 14 points before this match. The victory enabled Collegians to move into the Super League. Aftab Ashraf slotted in the match-winner for Collegians in the 18th minute of first half. He dodged

past rival defenders Jaman Thapa and Deepak before despatching an angular left-footer, which hit the cross piece before going into the box.

The A and B Division Super League matches will begin at the Ambedkar Stadium and the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (East) on October 18.

Raisina Club, Youngmen (Group-I), Indian Air Force (Palam), Hans (Group II) and Shastri, Collegians (Group III) have qualified for the Super League from Group A.

Panchkuian and Paschim Heroes (Group I), Bangadarshan and New Friends (Group II) and Rohi and Goodwill (Group III) have qualified for the B Division Super League. Indian Air Force will take on Hans in the opening match of Group A Super League at the Ambedkar Stadium on October 18 at 1.30 p m. Shastri meet Youngmen in the second match at 3 p.m. In B Division, Bangadarshan will clash against Paschim Heroes while Panchkuian will meet Goodwill.

Vinay Singh to lead Delhi Santosh Trophy team
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New Delhi, October 16
Goalkeeper Vinay Singh of Mughals Club will lead the 20-member Delhi State football team for the 58th Senior National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy to be held in Imphal (Manipur) from October 17. Mohd. Mobin will be the vice-captain. The team were selected after a 20-day trial-cum-coaching camp, which concluded at the Ambedkar Stadium on Tuesday.

The team: Goalkeepers: Vinay Singh (captain), Biswajit Halder and Anil Dhiya. Defenders: Mohd. Mobin (vice-captain), Pushpender Kundu, Joginder Rawat, Pardeep Simon Peter, Mohd. Shakir and Manjeev Kumar.

Mid-fielders: Rishi Kapoor, Subhash Negi, Amit Sharma, Naresh Mann, Devesh Kaushik and Nilesh Kumar. Forwards: Osman John Ekka, H S Rawat, Kabul Tyagi, Rajesh Arya and Avneet. Stand-byes: Manish Kumar, R S Saini, R S Bola, S Das and Ranjit.

Officials: Hakikat Singh (manager-cum-technical director), Biren Meetei (coach) and Jasmer Singh (coach). Simon Peter and H S Rawat did not accompany the team, which left for Imphal on Tuesday, without assigning any reason.

Delhi will play their first match against Orissa on October 19, followed by matches against Nagaland on October 21 and Andaman Nicobar on October 23.

Arjun Balu in MRF team for China rally
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New Delhi, October 16
Arjun Balu, a regular in Team MRF, who had won the China round of the Asian Zone Rally Championship (AZRC) last year, will drive for Team MRF in the Rally of China, the fifth round of the APRC Asia Pacific Rally Championship, scheduled to be held in the industrial city of Shaoguan, from October 19 to 21.

Arjun's co-driver will be D Ram, Naren Kumar's navigator. Arjun will replace V Naren Kumar, who did not finish the three APRC rounds he participated this year in Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

Arjun, who participated in the Australian round of the APRC, could not finish the rally as his navigator R Kumar took ill.

Arjun is expected to perform better in China as he has adjusted well to the 280 bhp Mitsubishi Lancer EVO VII.

Stuart Warren of New Zealand, his co-driver Daryll Judd, Arjun Balu and D Ram will form the MRF team. Stuart, who knows the Chinese terrain, was confident on the eve of his departure.

With two consecutive wins in New Zealand and Japan, Stuart is hopeful, other things remaining the same.

The total distance of the Rally of China will be 974.31km, of which the competitive stages of dirt roads will cover 270.42km.

Stuart will rely heavily on MRF's 205/70 R15 tyres, which he used for the first time in Japan last month, and helped him win the treacherous terrain of the rally of Hokkaido, Japan. A Rodricks, MRF's team manager, confirmed that "only minor corrective modifications have been made to the tyres that have been despatched to Shaoguan. Although we have sent both soft and medium compound tyres, due to the warm temperature in Shaoguan, we may only use the latter".

Meanwhile, Naren Kumar drove to victory in the Rally Royal Orchid Park Plaza De Bangalore, which concluded at the Park Plaza Hotel on Sunday, maintaining his unbeaten run over four rounds. Naren Kumar and co-driver D Ram Kumar finished the 11 special stages, comprising 120.6kms in 1:43.46 minutes, a little over four minutes ahead of the second-placed Arjun Balu.

Special Olympic torch arrives in Rohtak 
A. Gulati

Rohtak, October 16
The Special Olympic torch run (Haryana chapter) was accorded a warm welcome on its arrival here today. It was received at the local Tilyar Lake by member of Parliament Captain Inder Singh.

The chairman of Special Olympics (Haryana chapter) and the Deputy Commissioner, Rohtak, Mr Ashok Yadav, along with several prominent personalities of the town were present on the occasion. On entering the municipal limits, the torch was received at gate no. 1 of M.D.University and after covering various routes, it was handed over by the Deputy Commissioner, Mr Ashok Yadav, to an athlete of Arpan, an institute dedicated to the cause of the mentally retarded children.

It may be recalled that the torch run for Special Olympics began on September 17 from Delhi. It reached Rohtak via Raipur, Bhopal, Pondicherry, Chennai, Kerala, Kocchi, Manglore, Goa, Bangalore, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Patiala, Ludhiana, Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur. It will again reach Delhi after touching Sonepat and Lucknow on October 18. 

Manav Sharma slams century for Gyan Bharti
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New Delhi, October 16
Manav Sharma scored a brilliant 157 to help Gyan Bharti School, Saket beat Ramjas School, R K Puram by ten wickets in the sixth Inter-School Under-17 Cricket Tournament at the Gyan Bharti ground. Scores: Gyan Bharti (first innings): 338 for 6 in 60 overs (Manav Sharma 157, Ankur Julka 86, Rahul Bakshi 2 for 47, Rohit Saddi 2 for 59). Second innings: 42 for no loss in 7.2 overs (Prateek Pawar 21 n o).

Ramjas School (first innings): 174 all out in 39.2 overs (Rahul Bakshi 39, Mohit Saijwal 30, PCA Jayant 3 for 19, Ankur Julka 2 for 25). Second innings:202 all out in 37.2 overs (Mohit Jaiswal 62, Kshitij Kumar 53, Manav Sharma 4 for 66, Manik Vadhwa 4 for 34, Bhanu Sahani 2 for 32).

Jindal Steel beat Taragarh in polo: Jindal Steel and Power beat Taragarh by seven goals to six and half goals in the opening match of the AMB-AMRO Bank Bhopal Pataudi Cup (eight goals) Polo Tournament at the Jaipur polo ground.

Eighteen teams are participating in the tournament. Jindal Steel and Power scored four goals in the first chukker through Samir Suhag (two goals), Simran Shergill and Aman Suhag. In the second chukker, Dhrupal Godara and Manvendra Singh scored a goal each for Taragarh, who started with a half-goal handicap. Simran Shergill struck one goal for Jindal. Dhrupal scored two goals and Simran one goal in the third chukker while in the last chukker, Dhrupal and Manvendra scored a goal each to put Taragarh in the lead but in the dying minutes, Samir Suhag slotted in a 40-yard shot to give Jindal victory.

Dr Ashwani's team win bridge trophy: Dr Ashwani Mehta's team won the Delhi State Bridge Championship Trophy, played in the Capital. The winning team consisted of captain Ashwani Mehta, Sunil Bhatia, Ashok Bedi, Puneet Gangal, Vinod Sharma and Sangram Guha.

Faridabad
KVDAV School win:  K V DAV School of Chandigarh won the overall trophy in the recently concluded `Second CBSE National Roller Skating (Speed) Championship' at DAV school grounds in Sector-14 here. The host school managed the second place in the tournament. The former director of the CBI, Mr Joginder Singh, gave away the prizes to the winners. 

Birsa Munda record big victory
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New Delhi, October 16
Birsa Munda Vidyapitha, Rourkela (Orissa) swamped MKP Inter-College, Dehradun (Uttaranchal) 5-0 to qualify for the semi-final of the ninth Nehru Girls Hockey Tournament at the Shivaji Stadium on Wednesday. In another match, Karamat Hussain Muslim Inter-College, Lucknow defeated NCC, Bangalore 6-3 to complete the last four line-up.

Binita Xess, Pravasini Bage, Mukta Prava Barla (two) and Sangita Minz were the goal-scorers of Orissa.

Gunja Sonker struck four goals (no hattrick) for Lucknow, Shradha Verma and Lata Chaudhary were the other scorers. M C Pavitra and Nithila N C (two) scored the goals for the Bangalore team.

Thursday's fixtures (semi-finals): Karamat Hussain vs Sanjay Gandhi Vidyapith, Gujarat (2 p.m); Birsa Munda vs SGNP Girls School, Shahabad (Haryana) (3.30 p.m)—Shivaji Stadium.