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FOOTBALL
Garhwal Heroes stun Youngmen
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, August 13
Garhwal Heroes scored a facile 3-1 victory against Youngmen Club in a Group C preliminary league match and qualified for the Super Six of the Delhi Soccer Association-SAIL A Division Football League Championship at the Ambedkar Stadium on Wednesday. Youngmen will now clash against Uttarakhand to decide the second position from Group C for the Super Six League.

Garhwal Heroes scored all the goals in the first half to lead 3-0.

Heroes, combining well through their medios Ravi Rana and Biren Meetai, began the game on a fast note to put tremendous pressure on the rival goal. Garhwal Heroes forged ahead in the fifth minute through inside-left Ashok Chauhan whose lob from the top of the box sailed in past a wall of defenders. The second goal materialised in the 25th minute when Ravi Rana’s long-ranger zoomed into net.

Minutes before half time, medio Biren Meetai completed the tally for Heroes. In the second half, Youngmen pulled one back through Vivek Sharma.

Earlier, Nav Jyoti Nepal came from behind to beat Cosmos 3-2 in a play-off match. Albert put Cosmos in the lead in the 19th minute while Surjit equalised for NJN in the 23rd minute while Bahul Bahadur put them in the lead in the 36th minute. Gaurav Puri shot home the equaliser for Cosmos two minute later while Nitin slotted in the match-winner for the Nav Jyoti in the 54th minute. Thursday’s fixtures: Youngsters vs Nav Jyoti Nepal (3 pm); Uttarakhand vs Youngmen (4.30 pm)—Ambedkar Stadium.

Manav Sthali annex double crown
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, August 13
Manav Sthali School, Rajinder Nagar annexed a double crown when they won the boys and girls team titles in the Inter-Club Table Tennis Tournament, organised by the Delhi Table Tennis Association, at the Talkatora indoor stadium on Wednesday.

In the boys finals, Manav Sthali, assisted by Vishal Aggarwal, Nishank Bajaj and Aman Ahuja defeated Sachdeva Public School (Varun Jindal, Kunal Puri and Harjit Singh) 3-2.

In the girls section, Manav Sthali got the better of Hans Raj Model School, Punjabi Bagh 3-1.

Food Corporation of India (FCI) lifted the Inter-Club title, defeating Delhi Audit 3-0. Mr Vivek Kohli of Stag International gave away the prizes.

Results: Manav Sthali b Sachdeva School 3-2: Vishal Aggarwal lost to Varun Jindal 11-6, 6-11, 15-13, 6-11, 6-11; Nishank Bajaj b Kunal Puri 11-5, 11-9, 11-9; Aman Ahuja b Harjit Singh 14-12, 11-7, 11-7; Nishank Bajaj lost to Varun Jindal 11-5, 9-11, 8-11, 4-11; Vishal Aggarwal b Kunal Puri 11-4, 11-5, 11-13, 12-10.

Manav Sthali b Hans Raj Model School 3-1: Esha Monga b Apna Bhalla 11-5, 11-4, 7-11; Neha Aggarwal b Sanya Sehgal 11-9, 11-2, 11-6; Geetika Popli lost to Aanchal Batra 9-11, 11-9, 3—11, 7-11; Neha Aggarwal b Apna Bhalla 11-1, 11-4, 11-2.

FCI b Delhi Audit 3-0: Nitin Mahajan b Sunal Jain 11-13, 11-6, 9-11, 19-17, 11-8; Harsh Chopra b Joginder Singh Bisht 11-7, 13-11, 11-8; Ajay Jha b Vijay Vir Singh 11-6, 11-9, 7-11, 11-9.

Ganga School enter basketball final
Our Sports Reporter

New Delhi, August 13
Ganga School beat Saviour Convent School, Meera Bagh 39-25 and entered the final of the Zonal Men’s Basketball Tournament at the St. Martin School court.

Samuel with 16 points top-scored for Ganga while Zed Ram and Sunil Malik netted 13 and ten points respectively.

Ganga will take on Vishal Bharti School in the title clash.

Ganga School also entered the final of the senior boys football tournament when they beat GBSS Amalwas, Paschim Vihar by six goals to nil at the St. Marks School ground. K. C. Lal scored three goals while Thotho netted a brace and Gaurav accounted for the other goal.

Ganga beat BGSS, Ambika Vihar 7-0 and entered the quarter-final of the sub-junior football tournament.

Puspender scored three goals while Ramlesh and Rockey struck a brace each.

Amritinder jumps into lead

New Delhi
Amritinder Singh grabbed an early lead on the opening day of the Rs 8.5 lakh Cotton City Open, the second leg of the Hero Hoda Indian Golf Tour, at the Coimbatore Golf Club course on Wednesday. The Chandigarh pro submitted a card of three-under 69 to take a one-stroke lead over the second-placed Feroz Ali. Veteran Shiv Prakash and Delhi pro Pappan occupied the joint second position, with a level-par 72 while nine pros shared the fifth position. Defending champion Mukesh Kumar shot a five-over par 77.

Jindal Basketball

New Delhi: Oxford will clash against St. Xavier’s, St. Columba’s meet Delhi Public School, Mathura Road, DPS meet Modern School and Apeejay will take on Father Agnel in the quarter-final matches of the Jindal

Basketball Tournament at the Prithvi Nath basketball courts in Karol Bagh. OSR

ADMINISTRATION

Lower stamp duty to be valid till March 31
Tribune News Service

New Delhi, August 13
The Municipal Commissioner, Mr Rakesh Mehta, said that the reduced stamp duty would be valid only up to March 31 next year. It would then revert to the original five per cent. The transfer duty on immovable property was recently reduced from 5 to 3 per cent.

The total transfer duty taken by the property owners was 13 per cent of the total price of the immovable property in which the Delhi Government’s share was eight per cent while the MCD’s share was five per cent.

The commissioner said that the Minister of Finance, Delhi Government, Mr Mahinder Singh Sathi, had proposed a reduction of stamp duty on legal instruments relating to the sale of immovable property from eight to five per cent.

He said that the MCD would also reduce the transfer duty so that the overall total charge would become 8 per cent of transaction instead of 13 per cent at present. The MCD had announced the reduction of transfer duty following a notification issued on June 2, 2003 and after approval of the corporation, the stamp duty was reduced by two per cent.

The commissioner said that now the Lt-Governor, Mr Vijay Kapoor, had decided that the reduction in the rate of transfer duty should be applicable to all the instruments of conveyance, exchange, mortgage, gift, lease, power of attorney for consideration, reconveyance, transfer of lease and trust. Further, it has also been decided that the reduced rates would be valid only up to 31March, 2004.