HEALTH

Govt shy of fighting quackery: DMA

New Delhi
Holding the Delhi government responsible for not bringing in the anti-quackery bill during the current session, the Delhi Medical Association (DMA) yesterday strongly condemned the Sheila Dikshit government’s stand on the issue and said that the quacks posed a serious danger to poor patients.

Even though Mrs Dikshit had expressed fears about quacks at the annual conference of DMA, the government seemed to be shy of taking on the quacks, said the DMA president, Dr Anil Bansal. Deaths from heart attack and paralysis can be avoided only if treatment is started within 60-90 days. Can a quack diagnose the same, Dr Bansal demanded. Likewise, diseases like asthma and meningitis need to be studied in depth, and the quacks can never understand and treat such diseases. TNS

SPORTS

Malhotra re-elected GANSF president
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, June 16
Prof. Vijay Kumar Malhotra, president of the All India Council of Sports, was unanimously re-elected president of the General Association of National Sports Federations (GANSF) at the Annual General Meeting held at the conference hall of the Dhyan Chand National Stadium in New Delhi.

Representatives of more than 50 national sports federations attended the meeting. The GANSF is the national body of national sports federations, including Olympic and non-Olympic disciplines.

Former Indian Olympic Association president B Sivanthi Adityan, former member of the International Olympic

Committee Ashwani Kumar and Delhi Olympic Association president Raj Chopra were among those who attended the meeting.

After his re-election, Prof. Malhotra said the National Games of non-Olympic disciplines, including indigenous games and martial arts, will be held in the near future. He said the secretary-general of the Atya Patya Association has offered to host the Games in Karnataka. He said a committee will be constituted to finalise the dates, venue, disciplines and the format of the games.

Prof Malhotra assured the general assembly that he would take up the issue of withdrawal of concessions to the president and secretary of the National Sports Federations with the Railway Ministry. He said he would also take up the withdrawal of concession to the All India Council of Sports for the Deaf with the Railways.

Doordarshan would also be requested to restore royalty for telecasting events and also to provide financial assistance to National Sports Federations.

Prof. Malhotra was also requested to take up the matter of streamlining the inter-State transfer of sportspersons with the IOA, Union Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, AICS and GANSF, to formulate guidelines, which would be acceptable to all.

AIIMS move into soccer semi-final
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New Delhi, June 16
All-India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) defeated Indraprastha Generation Power Company Ltd (IGPCL) 2-1 in a Group B match of A Division to enter the semi-final of the Delhi Soccer Association Institutional Football League Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Monday.

Manoj Singh and Rajan Rao scored the goals in the 10th and 23rd minutes respectively. AIIMS garnered 12 points from five matches while IGPCL earned just three points from five matches.

Earlier, Delhi Administration got a walkover from Railway Board in a Group B match of A Division to top the group with 15 points.

Delhi Transport Corporation will take on Delhi Development Authority to decide the Group A semi-finalists.

DTC are on six points while DDA have seven. Reserve Bank of India have already made the semi-final grade.

Food Corporation of India (North Zone) will meet Zakir Hussain College in the last match of Group A league in the

Senior Division. Both the teams have nine points each. The semi-finals will be played on June 19.

Inter-team golf in Malaysia
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New Delhi, June 16
Tourism Malaysia will organise the Amateur Inter-Team Golf Championship in Malaysia from June to September, with the grand finals scheduled to be held in October. The event is open to all amateur golfers, with men having a handicap of 18 and women with handicaps of 24.

The championship will be a stroke play event, held over 54 holes whereby 18 holes would be played over three consecutive days. Each team would consist of four golfers, either men or women, or a combination.

There would be five qualifying rounds, which would be held in selected resort courses like Putrajaya, Langkawi, Pahang, Sabah and Johor. In each round, the top six teams—top three gross and top three nett—will qualify for the grand finals. The finals will be held either in Selangor or Sarawak.

Team Swaroski win in Christel Golf
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New Delhi, June 16
Team Swaroski, comprising Sanjay Sharma and Werner Plonner, won on count back in the Delhi leg of the Christel House Open One-Day Worldwide Charity Golf Tournament, which was played in 19 premium golf courses across ten countries.

The tournament kick-started from India and was played at the Classic Golf Resort, Gurgaon and the Karnataka Golf

Association course, Bangalore. Around 3,000 golfers from around the world came together to create a very special 

DAV School lift Summer Cricket trophy
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New Delhi, June 16
DAV School, Shalimar Bagh defeated Cambridge Foundation by five wickets to annex the Summer Cricket Tournament trophy, organised by the Cambridge Foundation, Rajouri Garden.

Scores: Cambridge Foundation: 219 all out in 40 overs (Jitesh 34, 3x4; Saurabh Sehgal 50, 2x4, 1x6; Ayush Gulati 50 n. o., 5x4; Umesh Pandit 28, 2x4; Hani Garg 3 for 34, Abhishek 3 for 36).

DAV School: 220 for 5 in 37.2 overs (Manas Malhotra 88 n.o., 5x4, 2x6; Hani Garg 69, 6x4, 3x6; Saurabh Jain 40, Herman Gill 2 for 49). 

Shakti Rose help VPS dominate opening encounter
A. Gulati

Rohtak, June 16
A solid knock of 76 runs by Shakti Rose and 4 wicket haul by Anil Sharma helped Vaish Public School Cricket Academy register an impressive 122 runs victory over Jind Coaching Centre in the opening match of the three-match series being played here at V. P. S. cricket ground today.

Vaish Public School Cricket Academy scored 206 runs in 41.4 overs. Besides the 76 runs by Shakti Rose, Sumit Budhwar (27), Deepak Garg (19), Ankur Jain (16) and Sandeep (12) were the other contributors in the innings.

Munish took 3 wickets for 33 runs whereas Vicky Sharma and Rakesh Chahal captured 2 wickets each for 33 and 58 runs respectively.

Chasing the victory target of 207 runs in the stipulated 45 overs, Jind Coaching Centre were bundled out for 84 runs after facing only 21.3 overs. Munish emerged the top scorer with 25 runs. Unfortunately, no one else could reach the two-figure mark. Anil Sharma dismissed four batsmen for 19 runs in 7 overs.

Rahul and Kashish Sharma took one wicket each. Anil Sharma and Shakti Rose were declared joint winners of the man of the match award.