Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, June 2: As part of Annual Calendar of Activities by the Department of Youth Services and Sports, the Divisional Level Inter-District Kabaddi Under-14 and Under-17 years girls competitions got underway at Youth Hostel Nagrota, here today.
About 250 players drawn from all 10 districts of Jammu division are participating in the tournament with an aim to win the top honours and get selectors nod to be picked to represent Jammu division team for Inter-Division competitions.
All the players displayed skill, class and motor-ability and gave their hundred percent despite hot and humid climatic conditions.
The tournament is being held under the overall supervision of SS Bali, Deputy Director Youth Services and Sports, Jammu.
Meanwhile, in kabaddi Under-14 girls, Rajouri trounced Doda by 5 points (11-6), Samba thrashed Poonch by 21 points (27-6), Reasi beat Udhampur by 3 points (24-21), Jammu drubbed Kathua by 20 points (25-20), Poonch got better of Doda by 4 points (8-4), Kathua crushed Ramban by 22 points (28-6) and Jammu clinched 11 point win over Udhampur (21-10).
In Pool-A of Under-17 girls, Rajouri outplayed Poonch by 10 points (18-8), Doda scripted narrow win over Samba by 4 points (21-17), Kishtwar outclassed Doda by 3 points (31-28), Samba prevailed upon Poonch by 12 points (17-5) and Rajouri defeated Doda by 6 points (13-7).
In Pool-B of Under-17 girls, Reasi got 4-point win over Udhampur (18-14), Jammu trounced Kathua by 15 points (22-7), Kathua drubbed Ramban by 12 points (14-2), Jammu beat Udhampur by 4 points (9-5), Reasi thrashed Ramban by 17 points (20-3) and Jammu scripted a thrilling win over Reasi by 2 points (13-11).

3rd Prof Pran Nath Malhotra Memorial Cricket
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JAMMU, June 2: The formidable side of GGM Science College XI, Jammu thrashed International Cricket Club (ICC) in a one-sided contest by 9 wickets to move into the next round of the ongoing 3rd Pran Nath Memorial One-Day Cricket Tournament, being organised by the Jammu wing of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association at GGM Science College Hostel ground, here.
Earlier, the young bowling trio of Deepak Singh Manhas, Bandeep Singh and Mayank Goutam plotted collapse of the ICC team by bundling them out for a paltry total of 81 runs in 26.5 overs. Right-arm wrist spinner Deepak apart from being most successful bowler was the most economical of all, who scalped 3 wickets by conceding just 9 runs in his 4 overs, while slow bowler Bandeep and speedster Mayank claimed 2 wickets each by giving away 14 runs each in their equal of 6 overs. Rohit and Varun Choudhary also claimed one wicket each for the team. Sahil (21), Aman (11) and Manzoor (8) were the main contributors for ICC.
Science College, in reply sailed on a superb opening wicket partnership of 75 runs between Sahil Bhalwal and Avinash to chase the target in just 9.4 overs, losing the wickets of Avinash only, thus won the match by 9 wickets. Sahil contributed 36 runs off 27 balls with the help of 6 boundaries and one massive six, Avinash made 35 runs in 29 balls, which included 7 fours. For ICC, Imran was the only successful, who claimed the wicket of Avinash.
The match was officiated by Sadiq Hussain Malik and Mohan Lal as umpire, while Raghav Verma was the scorer.
Meanwhile, JKCA Blues would lock horns with JK Public School in the semifinals of Under-14 Cricket Tournament at the same venue tomorrow.

Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, June 2: In an ugly scene, some prominent cricketers of Jammu including a few first class players namely Aditya Pratap Singh, Ram Dayal, Bandeep Singh, Sahil Bhalwal, Deepak Singh Manhas and Gokul Baru represented the GGM Science College cricket team in the ongoing 3rd Prof Pran Nath Malhotra Memorial Cricket Tournament, being organized by the Jammu wing of Jammu and Kashmir Cricket Association (JKCA) at Science College Hostel ground, here.
In a statement issued here, the aggrieved students of GGM Science College have said that the administrators of the College cricket team have made mockery of the tournament and have termed the incident a ‘Shame’ in the name of the game.
“We the aggrieved students of Science College want to inform you that induction of the outsiders in the college team have debarred the real members from the opportunity. They belong to registered clubs and there is no way that they can play for the college team, but it has been manipulated by cricket administrators of the college,” the statement added.
However, when contacted Dr Vinod Bakshi said that it was a club cricket tournament and an not an Inter-Collegiate one, hence not mandatory to put all bona-fide students in the team, adding that having first class cricketers in the team provided an opportunity for the other players to watch them and hone their skill. He further added that it was the way out to fine-tune the raw players.

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JAMMU, June 2: Neena Parihar of class 12th bagged first place in debate competition, organized by Jammu Asha Kiran Welfare Society at Activity Public Higher Secondary School Janipur, here today.
Muskan Sawhney of Class 8th clinched the second place, while Sahil Koul of 12th class bagged the third place in the competition. These winners were presented mementoes by Manohar Lal Gupta, Managing Director of the School.
The debate competition was held on social evils like Dowry System, Tobacco Use, Female Foeticide and Child Marriage etc.
Speaking on the occasion, Dr JP Gupta, Chairman of the Society highlighted the aims and objectives of the Society. About 30 teachers and 300 students participated in the competitions.
Chairperson Manohar Lal Gupta, School Principal Rishi Gupta, Vinod Arora and Kamal Netar also spoke on the occasion.
Prominent among others present on the occasion were Ved Parkash, Hari Chand, Jaswant Manhas, Raj Kumar, Harbans Sharma, ML Sultan and Kamal Shan.

IPOH (Malaysia), June 2:
India’s slender hopes of a berth in the final were dashed with results of the last league matches not going their way but the team can still return home with a medal when they take on Great Britain in the bronze medal play-off in the Azlan Shah Cup, here tomorrow.
India’s nine points from six matches gave them the fourth position, which was finalised after the last round of league matches ended today.
India will also be hoping to reverse the 2-3 loss of their league encounter to Great Britain, who finished third in the league standings with 11 points form six outings.
New Zealand’s 12 points from six matches secured their first entry into the final of the Azlan Shah Cup, where they will meet Argentina, who also finished on 12 points in six games after today’s 1-0 victory over hosts Malaysia.
New Zealand finished on top since they had a superior goal difference.
After being assured of a spot in the final, New Zealand showed no urgency in their last match against South Korea, who clinched a 1-0 victory through a penalty corner conversion by Jang Jong-Hyun two minutes from the hooter.
Argentina needed to win the last match against Malaysia since Great Britain had overtaken them by claiming full three points in their 2-1 win over last year’s finalists Pakistan.
Argentina faced some anxious moments as Malaysia played an attacking game, but Pedro Ibarra’s penalty corner conversion in the 40th minute secured their passage into the final. Argentina had won the Azlan Shah Cup in 2008 by defeating India in the final. (PTI)

shillong June 2:
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) today expressed concern over the delayed submission of utilisation certificates of funds by cricket boards of states in the north-east region.
“Except for Meghalaya, individual states in the north east, who are the associate members of the BCCI, have not sent us their accounts and project reports,” BCCI Vice President, Chitrak Mitra told PTI on the sidelines of the official inauguration of the Shillong Cricket Academy.
Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim are currently associate members. The BCCI had given Rs 50 lakh assistance for promotion of the game in these states.
In the north east, Assam and Tripura are the only permanent members of the BCCI.
Inaugurating the Academy here, Mitra said, Meghalaya has been awarded the second installment of another Rs 50 lakhs for their prompt submission of utilisation certificates to the BCCI.
He said these states should submit their accounts and project report “in time” if they are to avail the second installment of another Rs 50 lakh.
Lauding the Meghalaya Cricket Association, the BCCI Vice President said the association was the only one which was awarded Rs One crore in all so far.
Meghalaya was the runners up in the U-19 and U-22 championship for the associate members held recently. However, the U-16 did not fare well. (UNI)

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SRINAGAR, June 2: The grand finale of School Stamp Show-2012 came to an end today with the awards function held at DPS School Srinagar. The show was organized by the Jammu and Kashmir Postal Circle in various schools of Srinagar.
John Samuel, Chief Post Master General, Jammu and Kashmir Circle gave away the awards. In the Inter School Quiz Awards programme, Government Boys Higher Secondary School Batmaloo was the winner followed by Burn Hall School with second position while as the third position was bagged by St. Paul’s School and Army Public School jointly.
As a part of School Stamps Show, letter-writing competition was organized in 12 schools under the topic “Letter to my Teacher”. More than 10,000 students from 12 schools participated in the letter writing competition. Vijay Dhar, Chairman D P Dhar Memorial Trust appreciated the school children who were involved in letter writing. He said the letter writing and philately exhibition should become an annual event in the schools.
Inter school debate was also arranged on the topic “Is the Post Office relevant in the modern era”. In this category the gold medal was bagged by the Salman Shah of DPS Athwajan and Reya Samyal of Army Public School.
Speaking on this occasion Samuel said the theme based philately exhibition on films will be organized during the Ladakh International Film Festival between June 14 and 17. He said the exhibition will showcase more than 25000 stamps on film personalities and films brought out by India and other countries.

Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, June 2: Jammu District Invitational Kufukan Shito-Ryu Karate Championship concluded at Satya Public School, Channi Himmat, here.
The championship was organised by Jammu District Kufukan Shito-Ryu Karate School, under the supervision of Manoj Mehra, Umesh Rekhi, Pavitra Nand and Rohit Thakyal.
Senior journalist Surinder Sharma was the chief guest on the valedictory function, while Congress leader Surinder Gupta was the guest of honour. The chief guest and the guest of honour presented medals to the winners on the occasion.
The officiated panel included Amit Kumar, Ashwani Kumar, Victor, Deepa Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Ajay Gill, Yograj, Vikas and Nilam.
The medals winners included Suransh Kochar, Anhad Jain, Tanish Rishi, Amrinder Singh, Ramit Gupta, Rasik Jamwal, Akarsh Sharma, Harsh Shram, Siddharth Gupta, Faizal Farooq, Haroon Rashid, Panini Sharma, Mohd Sami-ul-Haque, Lakshay Goutam, Sanshray Kashyap, Ritik Sharma, Aniket Aryan, Amit, Akram, Satnammy Singh, Kamal Singh, Sonu Singh and Akhil Makhnotra (all boys), Pragati, Gazanfar Malik, Twinkle, Anita, Tarannum Kazmi, Aditi, Samridi, Giya, Trimanpreet, Divyakshi, Rinita Khurana, Sonakshi, Kashvi Jain, Arushi Sharma, Hargun Kour, Tabia Khushi and Sampada Gupta (all girls).

LONDON, June 2: The World Anti-Doping Agency WADA has issued a revised draft code inserting a proposed Olympic ban for serious doping offenders from January 2015.
The revision, if left in the final draft to be approved at a world conference on doping in sport in Johannesburg in November 2013, would mean athletes whose suspension ends before a Winter or Summer Games could be banned for one Olympic cycle.
The draft will have a third consultation phase between Dec. 1 this year and March 1, 2013. The second phase ended yesterday.
Article 10.15 of the draft code, published on the WADA website (www.Wada-ama.Org), is in line with an International Olympic Committee rule which was outlawed after a Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) hearing last year. (Agencies)