AMRITSAR: The men’s boxing team of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) finished third in the All-India Inter-University Boxing Championship, which was held at Bilaspur University in Bilaspur recently. Putting up a good show for the university, Gurbinder Singh won a gold medal, Sanampal Singh won a silver Gurpreet Singh a ...

AMRITSAR: The three-day 43rd Annual Inter-College Athletics (Men and Women) Meet of Guru Nanak Dev University was inaugurated on the University campus on Wednesday. About 400 men and women athletes from difference colleges are participating in the meet, which will conclude on January 4. Prof Ajaib Singh Brar, vice-chancellor of the university, ...

AMRITSAR: A two-day state-level kabaddi tournament will be held at Fatehgarh Sahib on December 25 and 26 on the occasion of the martyrdom day of Baba Zorawar Singh and Baba Fateh Singh, the two younger sons of Guru Gobind Singh. The tournament is being organized by the SGPC. SGPC secretary ...

GURDASPUR: Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal said here on Monday that the Punjab government had retained power in the state owing to its welfare policies. Sukhbir, who was here to attend a league match of the kabaddi world cup at the government college stadium, said every district in Punjab would ...

AMRITSAR: Luvdale Senior School, Loharka Road, celebrated ‘Udaan’, a sports cum cultural fiesta-2012, at the school campus. Brig GS Sandhu, director of the school, was the chief guest; while Nimmi Sandhu, deputy director, and Brig Harcharan Singh, VSM, Arjuna awardee, were guests of honour. The programme started with a march ...

AMRITSAR: With the World Cup Kabaddi Tournament all set to kick off in Punjab, authorities in Amritsar are busy making arrangements and giving a facelift to the local Guru Nanak Stadium. The stadium is scheduled to host three kabaddi matches on December 4. As the match dates are approaching, one ...

AMRITSAR: The Tenth ONGC All India Maharaja Ranjit Singh Junior Gold Cup Hockey Tournament will be held at the Astroturf of the local Guru Nanak Dev University from December 5 to 10. The tournament will see both men as well as women teams fighting it out for the trophy. Farmer ...

Amritsar: Khalsa College has won the Inter-College Boxing Championship for the 4th year running. The Championship concluded at the Guru Nanak Dev University campus on Wednesday. Principal Dr Daljit Singh congratulated the boxers – Jaswinder Singh, Jatinder Singh, Madip Masih, Mandip Singh, Arjun Singh, Jaswinder Singh, Captain Singh, Gurpreet Singh, ...

BATHINDA: With heavy security to counter any miscreant raid on the second edition of World Cup Kabaddi, stage is set for a "high-voltage" opening of the event on Tuesday evening at Sports Stadium in Bathinda. More than 3,000 policemen have secured the city and taken over traffic management. Coming to the ...

AMRITSAR: The kho- kho team of BBK DAV College for women has bagged the first runners –up position in the GNDU Inter-College Championships held in the university recently. SOURCE-HT

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana sports and youth affairs department has decided to organise yoga classes filamentary level girl students in government schools for three months, starting from September 1, 2011, according to Sukhbeer Kataria, state minister for sports and youth affairs. Stating that the yoga classes would be organized in five government ...

LUDHIANA: Addressing a meeting of deputy commissioners, secretaries and senior officials of the department of sports on Wednesday, Punjab deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal announced that the Kabaddi World Cup would be held from November 1 to 19. The opening ceremony of the event will be held in Bathinda and ...

AMRITSAR: Guru Nanak Dev University(GNDU), which has achieved a benchmark in sports by lifting the coveted Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) trophy 21 times, is presently facing an acute shortage of coaches. It has to depend on its affiliated colleges for training its sports persons for the inter­ university competitions. Although the university ...