Indian
Universities Red Team
clinches
Hockey Championship
Excelsior Sports
Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 19: The Indian
Universities Hockey team (Red) prevailed
over Indian Universities Blue Team by 3-1
goals in the final to clinch the 1st
South Asia Universities Hockey (men)
Championship held at Guru Nanak Dev
University (GNDU), Amritsar.
Teams from
Bangladesh, Pakistan, Srilanka and two
Indian Universities (Red and Blue)
participated in the tournament played on
league basis.
Padamdev
Singh, Hockey coach of Jammu University
imparted coaching to Indian Universities
Red Team.
He was
appointed by the Association of Indian
Universities (AIU).
State
Hockey Champ-ionship from Mar 27
The State
Hockey Championship will be held from
March 27 to 31 at K K Hakku Stadium.
About 12
teams are likely to participate in the
said tournament to be organised by the
J&K Hockey Association.
The
tournament will be played on knock out
basis.
National
level Youth Festival KU bags 6 awards
Excelsior
Correspondent
SRINAGR, Mar 19: A contingent of 20
students comprising of the members of
Cultural / Literary Club, represented the
University of Kashmir at National Level
Youth Festival Jhankaaar 2008, held in
Punjab University Campus, Chandigarh from
March 3 to 6.
The team
Cultural Officer, Shahid Ali Khan won a
total of six awards in the categories of
art, culture, theatre and literary
activities.
Vice
chancellor Kashmir University Prof Riyaz
Punjabi has expressed happiness over the
performance and said "We are
providing all the facilities and
encouragement to our students to excel in
extra curricular activities ".
Tauseef
Yousuf of S.P College Srinagar won 2nd
prize in Debate, Rayees Mohidin of S.S.M
College Parharaspora, Patan won 3rd prize
in Mimicry and best actor award in skit
while as Shehla Arif of Department
Psychology KU won 3rd prize in clay
modeling, Feroz Ahamadn of Instt. of
Music and Fine Arts and Zehr-u-Nissa of
V.B College Sgr. won 3rd prize in light
vocal Indian (Ghazal) and Indian Filmy
Song respectively.
State
Football Championship
Vijay Club wins
cliffhanger to enter semis
Excelsior Sports
Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 19: Vijay Club
registered a thrilling 6-5 win over
Maharaja Sports, Srinagar in a nerve
wrecker tie breaker to secure a berth in
the semifinals of the ongoing State
Football Championship being played at
Jammu University Football Field.
The match
went right down to the wire with both
teams played their heart out to gain
early lead. Despite an absorbing display,
both teams failed to score in the
allotted time.
The match
was finally decided in a tiebreaker in
which Vijay Club held their nerves to win
a cliffhanger.
The goal
scorers were Sonu, Vinay, Gorav, Ravi,
Pankaj and Raman while Clint
Mattoo’s kick went off the target.
For
Maharaja Sports, Srinagar, Sultan,
Irshad, Jahangir, Munir and Nasir scored
goals while Altaf, Shafi and Nasir missed
their shots.
In another
quarterfinal, J&K Bank got the better
of J&K Forests by 2-0 to enter into
the semis.
Both the
goals were scored by Showkat Sultan in
the 40th and 63rd minutes respectively.
However,
one yellow card was also shown to Ibrahim
of J&K Bank in the 17th minute
followed by two yellow cards to Ashiq
Mushtaq (J&K Forest) and Shahnaz
(J&K Bank).
Santosh
trophy would be a mega success: Haji
Nissar
Excelsior
Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 19: Government
has given final shape to arrangements for
making Santosh trophy a grand success.
Sports Minister Haji Nissar said here the
other day. The mega Soccer event is
scheduled to be held in the State for the
first time in May-June this year.
A meeting
regarding the final arrangements for this
event was held here which among others
was attended by Principal Secretary
Planning M.I. Khanday, Principal
Secretary Technical Educaion Pramod Jain,
Commissioner Secretary Finance B. B. Vyas
and other officers of the department.
The
meeting also gave final shape to the
arrangements for transportation and
accommodation of the visiting players. In
another meeting held under the
chairmanship of the Minister it was
decided that about 3000 new posts having
been created already would be filled up.
GCW
celebrates Annual Day
Services of academicians,
intellectuals
imperative
to reform education system: Charak
Excelsior
Correspondent
UDHAMPUR, Mar 19: Minister
for Higher Education, Gulchain Singh
Charak has asserted that the next
academic session would find a new policy
of Higher Education in its ideal pursuit
besides working out a comprehensive plan
for supplementing the education system
after consulting the senior academicians
and intellectuals including former
Principals of the State.
The
Minister was addressing a Prize
distribution-cum- Annual Day function of
Government College for Women, Udhampur
today.
MLA
Udhampur, Balwant Singh Mankotia presided
over the function while Principal PG
College Boys, Udhampur, Dr. A. S.Rishi,
Principal of the host institution, Prof.
Kiran Bakshi, former and retired
Principals of the host college, prominent
citizens, parents and students in large
number were present on the occasion.
"Much
more efforts are needed to revamp and
strengthen the existing academic set up
in colleges", the Minister said and
added that the services of the
intellectuals, academicians including
retired college Principal would be sought
to chalk out the modalities for upgrading
the educational standard in the State.
On the
occasion, a colorful cultural bonanza was
also presented by the students of the
college. The Minister also distributed
prizes among the outstanding students of
the College.
Earlier,
the Minister also released a News Letter
of the college entitled " Campus
News" containing details of
different activities conducted by the
College.
Woolmer
remembered by Pakistanis
KARACHI, Mar 19:
Pakistan’s
former coach Bob Woolmer must have been
remembered by many former and current
players with fond words on his first
death anniversary but his predecessor
Javed Miandad preferred to remind that
the South African made little
contribution to the country’s
cricket.
Miandad, who was replaced by
Woolmer after a home series defeat to
India in mid 2004, said while one always
must try to remember a departed soul with
good words, the facts must also not be
hidden.
"Woolmer might have
been a good human being and I have no
doubt about that. But when you talk about
his contribution to Pakistan cricket than
the bottom line is he didn’t leave a
very big imprint behind," Miandad
told.
"If you look at his
tenure he didn’t achieve much with
our players and the way we went out of
the World Cup it was very disappointing.
It was sad the way he died. But the fact
is his contribution as a coach to
Pakistan were not much," he said.
Miandad said it was strange
that other local players had done more
for Pakistan cricket but the board did
not acknowledge their contribution while
talking about how much woolmer had done
for the game in the country.
Woolmer died under
mysterious circumstances in a hotel room
in Jamaica, just a few hours after the
Pakistan team’s unexpected
elimination at the hands of Ireland in
the World Cup.
Another former captain
Rashid Latif said Woolmer’s death
had come as a shock to him.
"I knew him little but
he appeared to be a good man. But
unfortunately he couldn’t translate
his reputation as a super coach into good
results for the team."
Pakistani players Danish
Kaneria, Shahid Afridi and Mohammad Asif,
who worked with Woolmer remembered him
with fond words.
Kaneria said he still could
not get over the nightmare of the time
when Pakistan crashed out of the World
Cup and next day Woolmer died.
"It was horrible even
now when I think about those days I gives
me the shivers. We were already depressed
by our exit and when we learnt about
Bob’s death it left us numb. It was
a tragedy of the highest order. Worse
followed when we were treated murder
suspects," said Kaneria, who was a
member of the World Cup squad.
Afridi said he admired
Woolmer for his cricketing mind.
"He was always working
with you on your game. He was a good
coach and got along well with the
players."
Asif said Woolmer had
supported him a lot after his
disappointing test debut in early 2005 in
Australia.
"He was a good backer
of good players and understood cricket
and players psyche. Unfortunately, he
could not go out on a happy note."
(PTI)
Hashim
Amla’s brother to captain SA
emerging squad
DURBAN, Mar 19: Ahmed Amla, the
younger brother of South African opening
batsman Hashim Amla, has been appointed
captain of the country’s emerging
squad to play a series of matches against
Australia, India and New Zealand in
Australia in July.
The 28-year-old Amla, who is
currently the captain of the
Kwazulu-Natal provincial team is one of
three players of Indian origin selected
for the emerging squad.
Yusuf Abdullah and Imraan
Khan also of Kwazulu-Natal are the other
two players of Indian origin in the team
that will try to defend the title South
Africa has won twice in a row.
Calling the annual SA
emerging squad tour to Australia as one
of the most important events on South
Africa’s calendar cricket SA CEO,
Gerald Majola, said the tour was a good
training ground for future national
players.
"We have won the last
two tournaments and players such as Johan
Botha, Vernon Philander and JP Duminy
have come out of this experience and done
well in the national team" Majola
said.
"The SA emerging squad
forms an important part of CSA’s
high performance programme which helps us
prepare players for international
cricket," he added. (AGENCIES)
In-form
Federer flies into fourth round
INDIAN WELLS
(California), Mar 19: World number one
Roger Federer looked like his old
dominant self Tuesday as he swept aside
France’s Nicolas Mahut to reach the
fourth round of the ATT WTA Pacific Life
Open.
Federer, whose
uncharacteristic slow start to the season
has led to suggestions his position atop
the world rankings could be in jeopardy,
showed any such prediction was premature
as he crushed Mahut 6-1, 6-1 in just 53
minutes.
"I don’t know if I
can be better than that," Federer
said. Added Mahut: "I had the
feeling I was a junior and he was a pro.
It was the kind of match that at the end
you feel like you want to ask him how
much for the lesson."
Mahut won only four points
against Federer’s serve and his only
point against the Swiss’ serve in
the first set was a Federer double fault.
Perhaps more impressive was
Federer’s return game, which
surprised both Mahut and the Swiss
himself.
Federer, who has yet to win
a title in 2008, bowed out of the
Australian Open in the semi-finals and
lost in the first round at Dubai.
He has pinned much of his
early-season sluggishness to the effects
of mononucleosis, which disrupted his
usual training and practice. (AGENCIES)
SSP,
Jeev spearhead Indian challenge in WGC-CA
C’ship
DORAL (USA), Mar
19: Country’s latest
golfing sensation SSP Chowrasia and
seasoned campaigner Jeev Milkha Singh
will spearhead the Indian challenge in
the elite WGC-CA championship, which gets
underway here tomorrow.
Chowrasia has been paired
with Korean Jj Choi and Henrik Stenson of
Sweden while Jeev will have Retief Goosen
and Sean O’Hair for company in the
first two rounds.
Last month’s Indian
masters triumph catapulted Chowrasia to
the top 10 of the European Tour Order Of
Merit, also earning him a berth for the
prestigious event and the son of a former
greenkeeper at the Royal Calcutta Golf
Club will find himself in an elite
league, headlined by the peerless Tiger
Woods.
On the other hand, Jeev has
twice seen the silverware slip through
his fingers this season, including the
play-off defeat at the Ballantine’s
championship in Korea last weekend.
Jeev, who finished tied 28th
last season, however, believes his game
was good enough to challenge the best in
the business.
"I’m looking
forward to Doral now because I’m
playing well," he said at the
weekend.
"So maybe, there’s
something better waiting for me
there," Jeev said. (AGENCIES)
Khade
sign up as ‘Speedo’ brand
ambassador
NEW DELHI, Mar
19: National champion and the
youngest swimmer to qualify for the
Beijing Olympics, Virdhawal Khade has
been signed up as brand ambassador by the
world’s top-selling swimwear brand
Speedo.
With an eye on the Indian
market, Speedo, which has a marketting
tie-up with retail chain Planet Sports in
India has selected the much talked about
swimmer to endorse its brand.
"Virdhawal Khade is a
best choice to represent the Speedo brand
in India which timely engages best brand
endorsers to maintain itself as a most
preferred swimwear brand around the
globe," said R D Singh, CEO of
Planet Sports.
The 17-year-old swimmer, who
is already the fastest swimmer in the
country in the 50, 100 and 200 metres
free style events, is being hailed as the
new hope in the Indian swimming arena.
A national record-holder,
Khade became the first Indian to cover
100 metres in less then 52 seconds during
the world swimming championship at
Melbourne in March 2007.
He won six gold medals in
the freestyle and butterfly events
notching five national games records and
one national record in the 200 metres
freestyle event at the 34th National
Games, Guwahati,in 2007. (PTI)
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