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 ...

AMRITSAR: Sudhakar Kumar Paswan, an archer of Khalsa College, has been selected for participation in the World University Games to be held at Shanzen (China) from August 12 to 23. Principal Daljit Singh has lauded the hard work put in by the player. SOURCE-HT

AMRITSAR: Hitting the bull's eye, six archers of Guru Nanak Dev University (GNDU) have made it to the Association of Indian University (AIU) team bound for the World University Games to be held in China from August 12. As many as 40 archers, representing various universities of the country, had arrived ...

ATTARI: Pakistan cricket board chairman Ijaz Bun said 0 Thursday that changes would be made in the team if needed in wake of the country's semifinal defeat in the World Cup. "I think the Indian team played better cricket and they won," he said. "Although the Pakistani team has also done ...

After loosing the Cricket World cup 2011 semi-final from India, Pakistan team has been in trouble now. Javed Miandad the former cricketer of Pakistan appealed to peoples to support the Pakistan team. Cricket is a "by chance" game. So take it as  a game. "I think we need to support our ...

ATTARI: About 200 cricket fans from Pakistan entered India through the Attari border on Tuesday, including former external affairs minister Khurshid Kasuri, former culture and sports minister Mushahid Hussain and the famous 'Chacha'. Some of them called Wednesday's India-Pakistan semifinal a bonhomie match, while others felt it could go a long ...

ATTARI: As Pakistan take on India in the semifinals of the cricket World Cup in Mohali on Wednesday, Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi's younger brother, Mushtaq Afridi, had to wait for almost five hours at the immigration here before the Indian authorities allowed him on his onward journey to Mohali in ...

TARN-TARAN: A four- day sports festival concluded at Khadoor Sahib on Sunday. Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, minister for cooperatives, and Rattan Singh Ajnala, member of Parliament, distributed prizes among the winners. In volleyball, Takkar Club, Jalandhar, defeated Guru Angad Dev Club, Khadoor Shaib. In kabaddi, Khadoor Sahib beat Mahal Sports Club, Patiala. Punjab ...

KURUKSHETRA: The Sports Authority of India (SAI) invited applications for the registration in sporting events. The registration of hostel and boarding facility will be held at Dronacharaya Stadium from February 23 to 25. SOURCE-HT