Chandigarh, April 29
Indian women boxing team bagged the third position in the 20 th International Ahmet Comert Boxing Championship held at Istanbul (Turkey), according to Mr C.K. Jerath, manager-cum-chief delegate at the meet.

The event was held from April 20 to 25 in which 16 teams from Turkey, Italy, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Vietnam, France, India and Kazakisthan participated.

Mr Jerath, who is also the Secretary, Chandigarh Amateur Boxing Association, said on his return here that India fielded eight-member boxing team under 13 different weight categories. Jyotsna of Haryana and P. Boro of Assam won the silver medals while Seema (Haryana), A Misra (Jharkhand), Lekha (Kulu) came back home with a bronze medal each.

The Indian team was accompanied by a woman coach Neelam Punia from Haryana. “The air fare and other expenses were borne by the Department of Sports and Youth Affairs, Government of India,” Mr Jerath said.

Chandigarh, April 29
Shishu Niketan Club-22 and Jawahar Navodya-25 reached in the last four (girls) in the Junior Kho-Kho State Championship being held at St Joseph School, Sector 44, here today.

Among boys St Soldier School-28, Shishu Niketan School-22, Jawahar Navodya (A team) and Jawahar Navodya ( B team) found berth in the last eight.

The event was inaugurated by Mr Sukhdeep Singh Grewal, Director, St. Joseph’s Senior Secondary School. The final match of the championship will be played tomorrow at 4 pm.

Mohali, April 29
Chandigarh district was all out at 238 in 89.5 overs against Patiala district in the final of under-15 Sushil Bali Inter-district Cricket Tournament at Punjab Cricket Association grounds, here today.

Patiala won the toss and put Chandigarh to bat. Chandigarh faced a jolt when their opener Manan Vohra was out at 20 runs.

However, the contribution of captain Shivam Khurana (47) and Avinash (39) enabled the team to reach at 238. Robin Dhillon and Mohit Mohindra of Patiala took three wickets each.

Brief scores: Chandigarh (1st innings ) 238 all out in 89.5 overs (Ayush Rai 36, Shivam 47, Avinash 39, Robin Dhillon 3 for 40, Mohit Mohindra 3 for 29); Patiala ( 1st innings ) 17 for no loss in 5 overs.

Chandigarh, April 29
The All-India CAT Bar Association has announced to extend its strike till May 4. The decision was taken following ‘failure’ on the part of the UPA government to address the concerns of the bar which has been on strike against the move to amend the Tribunals Act, 1985, which would empower the government to abolish the tribunal and its parallel outfits in the states. Members of the Chandigarh chapter of the CAT Bar Association said the decision to continue the strike was conveyed last evening.

The association has been demanding the scrapping of the draft legislation which would pave the way for amending the Tribunal Act. Members of the association said the move was aimed at depriving the employees from seeking justice in service-related matters.

Chandigarh, April 29
The Deputy Commissioner, Mr Arun Kumar, said that in light of the Apartment Rules notified in 2001 the apprehension that these rules may change the skyline of the city was unfounded as the Apartment Rules did not allow any relaxation in terms of height or covered area.

The Estate Officer said that the objective of the Apartment Rules was to create independent legal owners and not to raise revenue or disrupt the skyline of the city.

He said that the Apartment Rules were notified to facilitate the legal partition of property and vest individual units with a legal identity and rights. The procedure involved in this was very simple. The rates for conversion are Rs 10 per sq feet of the built up area in case of residential and institutional buildings while for sub-division of commercial buildings the prescribed fee is Rs 20 per sq feet payable on the maximum allowed built space in each case.

However, the normal partition of a property did not cost any conversion charges.