Category: SPORTS

JAMMU: Sh Danish Manzoor, Indian Taekwondo Team Athlete and Fit India Movement Ambassador called on Lieutenant Governor Shri Manoj Sinha at Raj Bhavan here today.

Sh Danish Manzoor accompanied by his coach Sh Atul Pangotra expressed gratitude to the Lt Governor for the unprecedented support and assistance being provided to the sportspersons of Jammu Kashmir. Later, Sh Abhishek Jamwal, International Wushu Player also met the Lt Governor.

UDHAMPUR: Two day District Level open Kabaddi Championship for men and women was today organized by Kabaddi Association District Udhampur under the aegis of J&K Sports Council here at Indoor Complex Subhash Stadium.

Deputy Commissioner, Krittika Jyotsna was the chief guest while Additional Deputy Commissioner, Mohammad Syed Khan and Additional Sp Anwal –Ul-Haq were the special guests on the occasion.

At the outset, President District Kabaddi Association, Sheikh Tanveer Ahmed welcomed the chief guest and briefed about the championship.

Around 300 men and women from across District Udhampur are participating in the championship.

While speaking on the occasion, the DC extended her best wishes to the participants for their best performance in the championship. The chief guest complimented the organizers and added that holding of such championships was a step forward to promote budding players of the District and to encourage the sports culture for a healthy society. The DC lauded the initiative taken by organizers to build up morale and inculcate the spirit of sports in the participants. After declaring the championship open, the DC also interacted  with the participants  and urged  the youth  to actively participate  in  the sports  activities  for their all round  development.

Among others, Naveen Sharma, Manager, Sports Council Subash Stadium Udhampur, Vikram Singh Slathia, Councillor ward number-6  and other representatives and officials of Sports department were present.

J&K transitioned into new era of prosperity, J&K players making nation proud: MoS J&K tops medal tally, bagging 26 Gold, 25 Silver, 25 Bronze medals

GULMARG: Five days National Event of 3rd edition of Khelo India concluded today at Gulmarg with a grand function attended by over two thousand participants including players, tourists and officials of different departments.

Union Minister of State for Home Affairs and Youth Affairs & Sports, Nisith Pramanik, was the chief guest on the occasion of the concluding ceremony.

Joint Secretary, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports, Prem Kumar Jha; Secretary Youth Services & Sports and Tourism, Sarmad Hafeez; Secretary J&K Sports Council Nuzhat Gul; CEO, Gulmarg Development Authority besides Major General RK Sing and President Winter Games Rouf Trumboo, Officers of line departments, players and tourists were present on the occasion

Speaking on the occasion, the Nisith Pramanik remarked that the 3rd Khelo India Winter Games held at Gulmarg was a major event compared to the previous events. He said that the next event would be even bigger event which would be compared with other international events.

He expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Minister Anurag Thakur and Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha for the developing sports infrastructure in J&K which helps youth to excel in different sports.

Union Minister said that players such as Sarfaraz Ahmad and Arif Khan who played in the winter Olympics made our nation proud.

“In the last two years the government developed Indoor Stadium in every district of Jammu and Kashmir besides play grounds in every panchayat’, he said and underlined that J&K has transitioned into a new era of prosperity.

While distributing medals among the winners of Junior Girls Snow Shoe sport and Sprint boys, Nisith Pramanik expressed pleasure over the exemplary performance of J&K players who bagged gold in these competitions.

He thanked officials of various departments associated with Khelo India winter games including J&K Sports Council, Tourism department, Gulmarg Development Authority, Gulmarg Cable Car Corporation, hoteliers and Winter Games Association for smooth and successful organisation of the entire event.

Sarmad Hafeez while speaking on the occasion thanked GoI for awarding the 3rd Khelo India winter games and termed the five days programme as a snow festival in wonder land of Gulmarg and said that Gulmarg is a capital of winter sports of the country.

While presenting vote of thanks, Nuzhat Gul expressed gratitude to Union Minister Anurag Thakur and Lieutenant Governor for their support in organising the huge event and also thanked Chief Guest of the function besides officers of line departments for their cooperation in organising the national event and concluding it successfully.

J&K topped the medal tally, bagging 26 Gold medals, 25 silver medals, 25 Bronze medals followed by Maharashtra with 13 gold, 8 silver and 6 bronze medals. The third position was achieved by Himachal Pradesh 10 Gold, 14 Silver and 7 Bronze while Army scored 10 gold, 10 silver and 9 bronze medals.

The medals received by Haryana are 8,10,13, Ladakh 7,3,7, Uttrakhand 6,6,4, Tamil Nadu 6,5,3, Karnataka 5,2,7, Gujarat 4,1,1, Delhi 3,3,6, ITBP 2,2,3, Telangana 2,1,3, HAWS 2,1,1, AIPSCB 1,0,0 and Kerala 1,0,0.

GULMARG: Continuing with its successful initiatives of organising sports events & to channelise youth energy, North Kashmir Range Police today launched Skiing Course  at Gulmarg Baramulla.

 SSP Baramulla Shri Amod Ashok Nagpure-IPS who was the chief guest inaugurated the skiing course. The course is organized by North Kashmir Range Police under its Civic Action Programme in which children mostly wards of Police Martyrs are participating.

 SSP Baramulla thanked Range Police Hqrs Baramulla for organizing this event and said that it has always been the effort of J&K police to provide better platform to the youth interested in sports. He said that under this initiative, a number of events have been organized successfully.

SSP Baramulla said youth have great energy and potential to shape a better world and added that our youth is contributing to J&K’s peace mission by participating in different positive activities. He said that we have to continue our peace efforts so that long-lasting peace is achieved in Jammu and Kashmir.

SSP Baramulla Shri Amod Ashok Nagpure-IPS  thanked the invitees, SO to DIG NKR Baramulla, other police officers, personnel, participants and the people for making the inauguration successful.

Budgam: Winter Youth and Sports festival which was organised by police in Budgam under J&K Police Civic Action Programme culminated today at District Police Lines ground Budgam. Earlier SSP Budgam organised the Taekwondo Championship, Open Badminton Tournament, and Open Painting Competitions. These events attracted hundreds of sportsmen and local people with colourful performances by youth and artists.

The Budgam Winter Volleyball tournament’s final was played between the Young Spikers Nasrullahpora and Kashmir Elite Club Budgam at District Police Lines ground Budgam. Kashmir elite won the match 2:1. Sixteen (16) teams from across the district participated in the tournament.

On the occasion, SSP Budgam Shri Tahir Gilani-JKPS distributed the trophies and mementoes among the participants. The event was also attended by DySP DAR DPL Shri Owaise Rashid-JKPS, DySP (P) Shri Faisal Arif Rishu-JKPS and other senior officers of Budgam Police.

Kulgam: Police in Kulgam inaugurated ‘Martyr Shri Aman Kumar Thakur Memorial Cricket Tournament-2023’ in a cheerful and mesmerizing ambience at Mini Stadium Kulgam.

During the inaugural ceremony of the tournament, Martyr memorial parade was also held to commemorate the 4th anniversary of martyrdom of DySP Shri Aman Kumar Thakur at DPL Kulgam.

On the occasion, SSP Kulgam while highlighting the contribution of martyr in the line of duty towards the nation said that martyr DySP Aman Kumar Thakur was a brave officer who on the fateful day was personally leading his team from the front in coordination with the Army’s RR unit. While evacuating the injured sepoy Baldev who was hit by terrorist fire and was bleeding profusely. Without caring of his personal life and well-being, he evacuated Sepoy Baldev Ram to a safer location. However, in doing so, he was hit by the terrorist’ firing from concealed location and subsequently closed in on the terrorist and eliminated him in a fierce gunfight.

While inaugurating cricket tournament, SSP Kulgam exhorted that J&K Police will continue its efforts to promote peace and brotherhood in country and will eradicate the terrorists and terrorism from its roots from the soil of the country.

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SRINAGAR: Moved by increased incidents of drug abuse in the community, a nature lover takes to adventure to spread the message for humanity. With a slogan scripted clear on his T-Shirt against drug menace, adventurist goes on solo bicycle ride to and fro from Srinagar to Kargil.

Mir Itrat Hyderi, 27 year old young man from Bagwanpora area of Srinagar is an ardent nature lover and adven-turist. A business man by profession, Hyderi often slips into mountains for trekking and do bicycle riding at high altitude places. Though the adventure is a routine in his life, the young boy has recently shot to fame for his coura-geous and brilliant solo bicycle ride from Srinagar to Kargil and back. Completed in about 5 days from May 4 to May 8, the solo display of biking techniques and stamina from a young lad was overwhelmed by a beautiful message- ‘Save Humanity, Avoid Drugs’. Hyderi did not only carried his bicycle and biking techniques all along, But he car-ried the more important message regarding the drug abuse in the society.

“The main purpose of my solo ride was to spread a message against drug abuse in society. It is painful to watch the disgusting condition of some youth who are addicted to these drugs. The menace has devastated many lives and has put the honour of many families at stake. Through this ride, I wanted to reach the masses enroute to spread the message against the drug abuse in our society ”, says Hyderi, while explaining the main reason behind his long dis-tance bicycle ride. I want to tell the people especially youth that the world is full of beauty and worth to live. To-day’s youth can engage him or herself in constructive activities like sports, games, mountaineering and other nature enthusiastic activities. These activities are helpful in many ways. Apart from maintaining discipline in our life, these activities help in maintain physical as wel as mental fitness of an individual.

The main aim of my solo ride is to encourage youth to participate in activities which are a source of physical , mental an aesthetic development, Hyderi adds while elaborating upon the motive behind the bicycle ride.

Driven by his passion for adventure and unflinching regard for the youth of the society, A young businessman says that it took him about 35 hours and 30 minutes of actual paddling to ride to and fro from Srinagar to Kargil and back. Though few of my friends asked me get a new bicycle for this high attitude long distance ride, I intentionally rode on this very bicycle to show the youth that one does not need a high cost equipment for the purpose, But a will-power to achieve the goal. These days our youth ask for high cost sports and games equipment. But if there is a will, the goals can be pursued with meager resources too, the young adventurist Hyderi says.

Divulging details about his experience from the trip, Hyderi says that he has been overwhelmed by the positive response from the general public back at home as wel as enroute. While crossing the Zojilla pass, I was warmly greeted and treated by a group of food stall owners at Zero point. These people did not only offered me free food but also valued my endeavour of spreading the message for the common good.

“You have taken on to such a great task for the welfare of the humanity. How can we charge you for a tea or few loaves of bread? Please consider this a small contribution to humanity from our part” , said Showkat Ahmad, a stall owner and these words still echoes around me to my solace.

Recalling one more incident along the track, Hyderi says, that on reaching a village Chanigund near the Kargil town, I was greeted by whole village. Almost every one women, children and men from the village greeted me , hon-oured and respected me. I had printed the slogan ’Save Humanity, Avoid Drugs’ on five T-Shirts. And they took selfies and photos with all of them. The praise and warm regard I got from the village for this humane act is self mo-tivating and an inspiration for me in the future.

Hyderi says that in order to inspire the youth and inculcate a culture of nature enthusiasm in them, He is going to do more such adventures with the greater message for humanity in near future.

SRINAGAR: The Rolling football trophy organized by S. P. College under the banner of Higher Education Depart-ment started at Synthetic Football Turf, here today.

The event was inaugurated by Vice Chancellor Cluster University Srinagar, Dr. Sheikh Javid Ahmad.

Registrar Cluster University Srinagar, Prof. Abdul Hamid, Principal S. P. College Prof. Khurshid Ahmad Khan, Heads of the various Departments were present on the occasion.

The inaugural match was played between G.D.C. Pattan and G.D.C. Pulwama and was won by G.D.C. Pattan by 9:1 goals.

The second match was played between G.D.C. Bandipora and G.D.C. Anantnag. Both the teams scored one goal each in the stipulated time. Later the match was decided by a tie-breaker in which G.D.C. Anantnag defeated G.D.C. Ban-dipora by 6:5 goals.

The third match of the day was played between G.D.C. Bijbehara and A.A.A. Memorial College Bemina which was won by A.A.A. Memorial College Bemina by 3:1 goals.