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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2015 (PAGE 16) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Daleep Singh, popularly known as Great Khali, World's renowned WWE International Wrestler attended the Closing Ceremony of the Jammu District Wrestling Championship as a special guest at Bajrangi Akhara, Shalamar, here today. Mr Khali was accompanied by his close associate Dusyant Sharma, president J&K Wrestling Association and former president Wrestling Association of India on the occasion of Mahavir Jayanti. The Championship was organized by J&K Wrestling Association, under the aegis of J&K State Sports Council and J&K Olympic Association. About 100 wrestlers from dif- ferent Centres, Akharas and Schools participated in the Championship. The Championship was organized under the chairman- ship of Pardeep Sharma, presi- dent Bajrangi Akhara. The bouts were officiated by Sahil Sharma and Jai Bharat. Prominent among those pres- ent on the occasion were Ajay Vaid, Dr. Ashutosh Sharma, Vikas Gupta, Raju Sharma, Krishan Pahalwan, Satish Abrol, Vijay Pahalwan, Dheeraj Kumar, Mohd Sadiq and Ravinder Sharma. Earlier, in 50 kgs category, Joginder won gold, Ravinder Singh bagged silver and Abhishek Singh claimed bronze, while in 57 kg, Amit Manhas bagged gold, while Rustam Choudhary and Sunil Singh claimed silver and bronze medals respectively. In 61 kg, Irshad, Zulfikar and Talib Hussain bagged gold, sil- ver and bronze medals respec- tively, while in 65 kg, Munir, Bachan and Raman won gold, silver and bronze respectively. Pankaj won gold in 74 kg, while Surinder Singh and Rahul claimed silver and bronze medals respectively, while in 84 kg, Haqat Ali bagged gold, Shakti Singh won silver and Bhadur clinched bronze. In 97 kg,Pankaj Kumar won gold, Javed clinched silver and Baljit claimed bronze, while in 120 kg, Sunny, Ishaq and Dhanuk claimed gold, silver and bronze medals respectively. Huge gathering welcomes WWE W restling st ar Great Khali attends Closing Ceremony of Jammu District Wrestling C'ship MUMBAI, Nov 8: Sweeping reforms to revive its battered image, including the appointment of an ombudsman, and former chief N Srinivasan's future as ICC Chairman will dominate the agenda when the BCCI holds its 86th Annual General Meeting here tomorrow. Appointment of the Ombudsman, or Ethics Officer, is one of the key changes that have been proposed in the BCCI's Memorandum of Rules and Regulations to be taken up at the AGM. With the soon-to-be-deliv- ered recommendations over gov- ernance reforms by the Supreme Court-appointed Justice Lodha Committee hanging over them, the Board members are all set to clear the way for this pathbreak- ing move which was announced by Shashank Manohar after being re-elected as the BCCI president last month. The Ombudsman will be appointed "to deal with the com- plaints of Conflict of Interest and any act of indiscipline or mis- conduct or violation of any of the Rules and Regulations of the Board by an administrator," as per the wordings of the clause that has been proposed to be taken up at the AGM. The AGM, which was post- poned by more than a month from its normal late September date, is expected to put in place strict compliance protocols to the Conflict of Interest regula- tions in the wake of the Supreme Court's cracking of the whip on this matter. But Manohar will need all his negotiating skills as a practis- ing lawyer to get it passed with- out diluting the reach and scope of the Conflict of Interest Clause. It will be interesting to see whether the BCCI general body will decide to retain its former president and Tamil Nadu strongman N Srinivasan as its representative on the International Cricket Council as the chairman. There have been news reports recently that BCCI would change its nomination vis-a-vis ICC and name Manohar as the new chairman till the next Annual Conference of the world governing body in June when the Indian board- nominated person's term comes to an end. Srinivasan is not scheduled to attend the AGM and Tamil Nadu CA is to be represented by VP P S Raman. If the BCCI decides to change his name in favour of Manohar to be for- warded to the ICC, it will mark a complete end to Srinivasan's hold in the Board. Another important change in the proposed clauses is about the BCCI president approving every team picked by the national selection panel. The existing clause says that the president "shall approve the composition of the team selected by the Selection Committee", while the proposed clause reads,"The President, along with the Office Bearers, shall approve the composition of a team select- ed by the National Selection Committee from time to time." The AGM is also set to elect new senior, junior and women's selection panels and the pro- posed stricter adherence to con- flict of interest clause could lead to the removal of South Zone representative in the Sandeep Patil-led seniors panel - Roger Binny - as his son Stuart is an active player. The general body is also set to constitute a new IPL Governing Council, an impor- tant sub committee, and provide a roadmap for the induction of two new teams in place of the suspended Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals for sea- sons 9 and 10 of the T20 League. (PTI) BCCI AGM to discuss image make-over, Srinivasan's future Bali Bhagat distributes prizes Wrestling Competition organized Excelsior Sports Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Minister for Social Welfare, Forests, Ecology and Environment, Bali Bhagat has said that develop- ment of art and sports activities is the prime focus of the Government and various meas- ures are being taken in this regard. This was stated by the Minister after inaugurating a Wrestling Competition organ- ized by the Baba Kalkh Nath Dangal Committee at Raipur, Thather, here today. Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sukhnandan Kumar Choudhary and Member Parliament Shamsher Singh Manhas were also present on the occasion. Wrestlers from Punjab, Delhi, Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir participated competi- tion. In all, 60 bouts marked the wrestling competition in which the wrestlers showed their talent. Speaking on the occasion, Bali Bhagat said that various reformative steps are being taken by the Government for making available all necessary sports facilities to the players of the State. Wrestler Yesha Bhatti of Amritsar defeated Wrestler Beniya of J&K Police in the main bout and lifted Final Dangal Title. The winner of main bout was awarded the cash prize of Rs.60,000 while runner up was given cash prize of Rs.40,000. Mr. Bhagat while appreciat- ing the organizers for conducting the competition said that such type of events should be organ- ized frequently especially in rural areas as it would help in nurturing the sports talent of rural youth. The Minister said besides construction of playfields at block and panchayat levels the Government has also taken up various mega projects to devel- op modern sports infrastructure to facilitate the youth. He described sports as best medi- cines to channelize energies of youth in a right direction. The Dangal Committee also presented mementoes and shawls to the chief guest and other dignitaries on the occa- sion. Excelsior Correspondent DODA, Nov 8: The NSS unit of Government Degree col- lege Doda organized a Quiz and a Painting competition on the theme" Neat and Clean Environment, the Need of hour" in the college complex. Principal GDC Doda Dr. R.K Raina was the chief guest besides HoD Zoology, Dr Ajaz A. Wani, Professor Zoology, Dr Wahied Balwan, HoD Physics Bashir Ahmed,Prof. Falak and Prof. Ashwani Kumar were present on the occasion. While speaking on the occa- sion Dr R.K Raina elaborated the aim of Swachh Bharat Mission and appealed to all the participants to educate the mass- es about the importance of maintaining the neat and clean environment. In painting competition, Haris Aftab student of BSc Part 2nd was adjudged first whereas the second and third positions went to Irshad Ahmed of BSc. Part -1st Semester and Zubair Ahmed of BSc Part 2nd respec- tively. The programme was organ- ized under the supervision of NSS Programme officer Prof. Ashwani Kumar. Jharkhand take control of game against J&K JAMSHEDPUR, Nov 8: Ishank Jaggi (93) and Kaushal Singh (81) scored half- centuries as Jharkhand contin- ued their splendid batting show to post a mammoth 551 for eight declared against Jammu and Kashmir in their Ranji Trophy Group C match, here today. The hosts resumed from overnight 304 for three and the batsmen carried forward the good work done on the opening day. J&K skipper Parvez Rasool took three wickets (3/127) and paceman Ramdayal two. Jharkhand then removed J&K opener Shubham Khajuria (6) and with his wicket, stumps were drawn for the day. Adil Reshi (7) was at the crease for the visitors. Brief Scores: Jharkhand 1st innings: 551 for 8 declared in 171.2 overs. (I Kishan 109, A Singh 124, I Jaggi 93, K Singh 81; P Rasool 3/127) Jammu & Kashmir 1st innings: 17 for 1 in 7.3 overs. (PTI) Great Khali being welcomed by a huge gathering in Jammu on Sunday. Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Vying for the top honours, cueists showed serenity and promise while lock- ing horns against each other as Abhishek, Vidit, Nikhil and Akshay entered the pre-quarterfi- nals of the Senior Snooker District Championship, which is as part of the ongoing 23rd Jammu District Junior and Senior Billiards and Snooker Championship, being organized by J&K Billiards and Snooker Association at MA Stadium, here. Earlier, Jaswinder Singh top- pled Kashif Ahmad Ganie(3- 1)by(41-56, 41-38, 53-19, 61- 30), while Aman Sahrma got better of Mohit Mahajan (3-1)by (72-40, 29-62, 60-31, 69-40), Satyajeet outplayed Mandeep Singh(3-0)by (62-33,85-25, 62- 30), Nikhil Verma prevailed over Sheetal Gandotra(3-1)by (37-69, 55-28, 56-48, 64- 54),Vidit Gowri beat Karan Singh (3-0)by(70-19, 51-39, 53- 41), Furkan Wani drubbed Harsh Vardhan(3-1)by (53-22, 52-13, 33-47, 64-33), Abhishek Pathania trounced Jatin Basin(3- 0)by (50-32, 56-22, 58-21), Arjun Sharma beat Ishuk Chowdhary(3-2)by (14-56, 33- 24, 29-54, 45-44, 60-52),Vidit Gawri defeated Ishan Chowdhary (3-1) by (74-39, 62-75, 55-13, 58-54), Abhi Gupta blanked Vishal Abrol (3-0)by 54-26, 57- 27, 46-36) and Akshay Kumar got walkover against Vinay. Abhishek, Vidit, Nikhil, Akshay enter pre-quarters Cueists Vidit and Furkan aiming shots during a match of Senior Snooker District Championship at MA Stadium in Jammu on Sunday. —Excelsior/Rakesh Minister for Social Welfare, forests Ecology and Environment, Bali Bhagat felicitating wrestlers during wrestling Competition on Sunday. Students of Tender Toes Play Way School , Last Morh Sarwal, New Plot, Jammu, who brought accolades and trophies in fancy dress competition organized to promote and develop skills. Also seen in the picture are School Principal and staff members. Athletes of Nav Vidyalaya Dhalote, who were declared over- all winners of District Samba SDSD Athletic Meet, organized by Sports Development Society Dhalote and sponsored by Nav Vidyalaya Dhalote. The School won 6 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze medals in the Championship. Student's of Heaven's Kingdom High School, Janki Vihar, Janipur, who excelled in painting competition under National Campaign on Energy Conservation 2015. Mahika Koul won con- solation prize, while the other students who got appreciation cer- tificates included Harash Kumar, Dolby and Vanshika. School Principal, Renu Sachdeva lauded the efforts of the students for this achievement. Lawyers Annual Sport s Meet 2015 Guru Partap's brilliance helps Paradise XI to win cricket title via super-over *Pranav, Parvesh, Guru bag special prizes Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Veteran of many battles and former Ranji Trophy Player, Guru Partap Singh made his willow to talk to help formidable Paradise XI register a thrilling win over Legal Star XI via super-over in the final match of the cricket tournament to lift the title of the Lawyers Annual Sports Meet 2015, here today. Earlier, winning the toss and batting first, Paradise XI scored a decent total of 161 runs in the stipulated 20 overs. Guru Partap Singh was the top scorer with 63 runs, while Ravi Dogra and Ravi Abrol contributed 29 and 18 runs to the total respectively. For Legal Star, AP Singh, Pranav Kohli, Sami and Irfan Khan took 1 wicket each. In reply, Legal Star managed to equal the target, thus the match ended in a tie and the decision of the match came via super over. Pranav was the highest scorer with 63 runs, while Gourav Jamwal contributed 41 runs and Sanjay scored 23 runs. Ishaan, Tareeq, Ravi Abrol and Guru Pratap Singh claimed 1 wicket each for Paradise XI. In the super-over, Legal Star could manage to score 7 runs, which were comprehensively scored by Paradise XI, including superb six from Guru Partap Singh. The best batsman of the tour- nament award was bagged by Pranav Kohli, while the best bowler of the Tournament award went to Parvesh Singh Salaria. The man of the final and the man of series awards were bagged by Guru Partap Singh. Prize distribution ceremony was attended by Senior Lawyers which included UK Jalali (Sr. Advocate), SC Gupta, Babu Ram Sharma, KK Pangotra, SS Ahmed, Abhinav Sharma (presi- dent, JKHCBAJ), Rupinder Singh, DS Chauhan, Rajesh Thappa, Rajinder Jamwal, Ajay Bakshi and Pardeep Majotra. 7th Pawan Memorial T20 Cricket T ournament FCC Jourian registers emphatic victory over Singh Bataira Club Excelsior Sports Correspondent AKHNOOR, Nov 8: FCC Jourian defeated Singh Bataira Cricket Club by 36 runs in the ongoing 7th Pawan Memorial T20 Cricket Tournament, being organized by Singh Cricket Club, Akhnoor at Govt Higher Secondary School ground, here today. Earlier, winning the toss and batting first, FCC Jourian scored a decent total of 152 runs in 19.2 overs. Ravinder Singh (31), Randeep Singh (27) and Arvind (23) were the main scor- ers. For Singh Bataira CC, Rahul took 3 wickets, Lovely and Ankur bagged 2 each and Sunil and Sonu claimed one each. In reply, Singh Bataira got bundled out for 116 runs and lost the match by 36 runs. Anil was the top scorer with 25 runs, while Rahul and Lovely claimed 23 and 11 runs to the total respectively. For FCC Jourian, Rocky and Sagar scalped 3 wicekts each, while Arvind claimed one. Sagar was declared at man of the match for his brilliant bowling display. The match was officiated by Sham Singh Langeh and Rajinder Singh as umpires, while Lucky was the scorer. CAREER ABACUS organizes State Level Competition Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Career Abacus, a leading Abacus Teaching Institute today organ- ized State Level Competition for the students of Abacus in the Auditorium of M.N.K.G. Montessori School, Gandhi Nagar, Jammu in which children from the age group of 5 to 13 years participated. The function started with the lighting of lamp by the Champion of Champions 2014, Shivansh Gautam of Army School, Kaluchak and Suhani Gupta of Presentation Convent. It was fol- lowed by the singing of National Anthem. Arvind Sharma, Director of Career Abacus informed that the aim of this competition is to pro- mote the learning of Abacus and Mental Arithmetic. He said that children are given a chance to compete among them- selves and win prizes. Children were given 200 questions which were to be completed within a time frame of 8 minutes. The competition was con- ducted in different levels and age groups. At the end of the exam, a small but impressive speech was given and refreshment was distributed among the students. Divya, Coordinator of the Institute explained the benefits of abacus to the audience and stressed upon the need to teach this skill to all the students in the age group of 5 to 13 years., while Akanksha informed that abacus not only helps in improv- ing the arithmatical skills but it improves the memory, listening skills, imagination, creativity , self reliance and above all self confidence of the students. Atul Mahajan, Sheetal, Monika Suri, Sheetal Gupta, Rahul, Bhushan, Taniya, Gaurav, Garima, Arti Bedi, Amanpreet, Nalin, Kuljeet Kour, Amit Pal Singh, Raman deep, Jatinder Kour and Vikram helped in smooth conduct of the exam. Arvind Sharma, Director of the Institute presented vote of thanks. Prominent among others present on the occasion were S Rabinder Singh, Chief Engineer (Retd.), Chairman MNKG Montessori School, Gurdeep Kour, retired Principal. Excelsior Correspondent KATHUA, Nov 8: Spring Dales English School, Kathua celebrated the Alumni Meet in which around 70 students from batches 1991-2013 seized the opportunity to meet their old friends, teachers and go down the memory lane. The Meet started with a lighting of the traditional lamp followed by introductory speech of Director, Prof RK Gupta. In his speech, he congratu- lated the Alumnus for becom- ing a source of pride for the School and living up the motto of the school which is "Eminence through Excellence". He shared the National level achievements of some of the outstanding stu- dents of the School including that of Gorav Sharma of Class 8th who was selected as one of the 5 national winners in Fox History Channel's "My City My History Contest" for which a documentary was also made and screened by the Channel. The School premises was filled with fun and frolic, with various cultural programmes, games and fun filled activities being presented by the students. IG BSF honours choreographer Aakash Dogra Excelsior Correspondent JAMMU, Nov 8: Rakesh Sharma, IG BSF Jammu Frontier honored choreogra- pher Akash Dogra for his out- standing performances at National Level Cultural Dance Competition. A three day National level festival was organized by BSF at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in which all the frontiers of BSF including Punjab, South and North Bengal, Tripura, Jammu, Mizoram, Indore, Bangalore, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Shillong and Kashmir partici- pated. Aakash Dogra had prepared Jammu Frontier to perform in the cultural programmes. Head Quarters Jammu Frontier team was adjudged first among all the participating frontier teams of BSF Infact it was show stopper performance of Jammu Frontier team for which chore- ographer Aakash Dogra was awarded with the cash prize of Rs 10,000. He thanked IG Jammu Frontier, Rakesh Sharma, First Lady BSF Pratibha Sharma and Principal Dr SK Shukla. Speaking on the occasion, IG BSF said that Aakash is a dedicated and sincere teacher and his contribution in the cul- tural programmes of School as well as Jammu Frontier is highly appreciable. BSF Jammu Frontier honouring choreographer Aakash Dogra. Prathamansh Sharma, stu- dent of Class 4th of Delhi Public School Jammu, who won 1st prize with a cash award of Rs 20,000 in the State Level Painting Competition, organized by NHPC at Brig Rajinder Singh Auditorium, University of Jammu, recently. Shippu Mahajan, D/o Parveen Gupta and Ramesh Chander, R/o Talab Tillo, who qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in Library and Information Science, the result of which was declared by CBSE-NET recently. Satbir Singh, S/o Harbans Singh, R/o Simbal Camp, RS Pura, Jammu, who has been declared qual- ified for the award of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Biotechnology by the University of Jammu. He worked on the topic, "Process Optimisation for Production of Thermo-alkalistable Bacterial Protease and Its Characterization," under the supervision of Dr B K Bajaj. Spring Dales School Kathua celebrates Alumni Meet Students during State Level Competition organized by Career Abacus in Jammu. GDC Doda organizes Quiz, Painting Competition
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2015 (PAGE 16) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: DaleepSingh, popularly known as GreatKhali, World's renowned WWEInternational Wrestler attendedthe Closing Ceremony of theJammu District WrestlingChampionship as a special guestat Bajrangi Akhara, Shalamar,here today.
Mr Khali was accompaniedby his close associate DusyantSharma, president J&K WrestlingAssociation and former presidentWrestling Association of India onthe occasion of Mahavir Jayanti.
The Championship wasorganized by J&K WrestlingAssociation, under the aegis ofJ&K State Sports Council and
J&K Olympic Association. About 100 wrestlers from dif-
ferent Centres, Akharas andSchools participated in theChampionship.
The Championship wasorganized under the chairman-ship of Pardeep Sharma, presi-dent Bajrangi Akhara.
The bouts were officiated bySahil Sharma and Jai Bharat.
Prominent among those pres-ent on the occasion were AjayVaid, Dr. Ashutosh Sharma,Vikas Gupta, Raju Sharma,Krishan Pahalwan, Satish Abrol,Vijay Pahalwan, Dheeraj Kumar,Mohd Sadiq and RavinderSharma.
Earlier, in 50 kgs category,Joginder won gold, Ravinder
Singh bagged silver andAbhishek Singh claimed bronze,while in 57 kg, Amit Manhasbagged gold, while RustamChoudhary and Sunil Singhclaimed silver and bronzemedals respectively.
In 61 kg, Irshad, Zulfikar andTalib Hussain bagged gold, sil-ver and bronze medals respec-tively, while in 65 kg, Munir,Bachan and Raman won gold,silver and bronze respectively.
Pankaj won gold in 74 kg,while Surinder Singh and Rahulclaimed silver and bronzemedals respectively, while in 84kg, Haqat Ali bagged gold,Shakti Singh won silver andBhadur clinched bronze.
In 97 kg,Pankaj Kumar wongold, Javed clinched silver andBaljit claimed bronze, while in120 kg, Sunny, Ishaq andDhanuk claimed gold, silver andbronze medals respectively.
Huge gathering welcomes WWE Wrestling star
Great Khali attends Closing Ceremonyof Jammu District Wrestling C'ship
MUMBAI, Nov 8:
Sweeping reforms to reviveits battered image, including theappointment of an ombudsman,and former chief N Srinivasan'sfuture as ICC Chairman willdominate the agenda when theBCCI holds its 86th AnnualGeneral Meeting here tomorrow.
Appointment of theOmbudsman, or Ethics Officer,is one of the key changes thathave been proposed in theBCCI's Memorandum of Rulesand Regulations to be taken up atthe AGM.
With the soon-to-be-deliv-ered recommendations over gov-ernance reforms by the SupremeCourt-appointed Justice LodhaCommittee hanging over them,the Board members are all set toclear the way for this pathbreak-ing move which was announcedby Shashank Manohar afterbeing re-elected as the BCCIpresident last month.
The Ombudsman will beappointed "to deal with the com-plaints of Conflict of Interest andany act of indiscipline or mis-conduct or violation of any ofthe Rules and Regulations of theBoard by an administrator," asper the wordings of the clausethat has been proposed to betaken up at the AGM.
The AGM, which was post-
poned by more than a monthfrom its normal late Septemberdate, is expected to put in placestrict compliance protocols tothe Conflict of Interest regula-tions in the wake of the SupremeCourt's cracking of the whip onthis matter.
But Manohar will need allhis negotiating skills as a practis-ing lawyer to get it passed with-out diluting the reach and scopeof the Conflict of InterestClause.
It will be interesting to seewhether the BCCI general bodywill decide to retain its formerpresident and Tamil Nadustrongman N Srinivasan as itsrepresentative on theInternational Cricket Council asthe chairman.
There have been newsreports recently that BCCIwould change its nominationvis-a-vis ICC and nameManohar as the new chairmantill the next Annual Conferenceof the world governing body inJune when the Indian board-nominated person's term comesto an end.
Srinivasan is not scheduledto attend the AGM and TamilNadu CA is to be represented byVP P S Raman. If the BCCIdecides to change his name infavour of Manohar to be for-
warded to the ICC, it will mark acomplete end to Srinivasan'shold in the Board.
Another important change inthe proposed clauses is about theBCCI president approving everyteam picked by the nationalselection panel.
The existing clause says thatthe president "shall approve thecomposition of the team selectedby the Selection Committee",while the proposed clausereads,"The President, along withthe Office Bearers, shall approvethe composition of a team select-ed by the National SelectionCommittee from time to time."
The AGM is also set to electnew senior, junior and women'sselection panels and the pro-posed stricter adherence to con-flict of interest clause could leadto the removal of South Zonerepresentative in the SandeepPatil-led seniors panel - RogerBinny - as his son Stuart is anactive player.
The general body is also setto constitute a new IPLGoverning Council, an impor-tant sub committee, and providea roadmap for the induction oftwo new teams in place of thesuspended Chennai Super Kingsand Rajasthan Royals for sea-sons 9 and 10 of the T20 League.(PTI)
BCCI AGM to discuss imagemake-over, Srinivasan's future
Bali Bhagat distributes prizesWrestling Competition organized
Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: Ministerfor Social Welfare, Forests,Ecology and Environment, BaliBhagat has said that develop-ment of art and sports activitiesis the prime focus of theGovernment and various meas-ures are being taken in thisregard.
This was stated by theMinister after inaugurating aWrestling Competition organ-ized by the Baba Kalkh NathDangal Committee at Raipur,Thather, here today.
Minister for PHE, Irrigationand Flood Control, SukhnandanKumar Choudhary and MemberParliament Shamsher SinghManhas were also present onthe occasion.
Wrestlers from Punjab,Delhi, Haryana and Jammu andKashmir participated competi-tion. In all, 60 bouts marked thewrestling competition in whichthe wrestlers showed their talent.
Speaking on the occasion,Bali Bhagat said that variousreformative steps are beingtaken by the Government for
making available all necessarysports facilities to the players ofthe State.
Wrestler Yesha Bhatti ofAmritsar defeated WrestlerBeniya of J&K Police in the mainbout and lifted Final Dangal Title.The winner of main bout wasawarded the cash prize ofRs.60,000 while runner up wasgiven cash prize of Rs.40,000.
Mr. Bhagat while appreciat-ing the organizers for conductingthe competition said that suchtype of events should be organ-ized frequently especially in ruralareas as it would help in nurturingthe sports talent of rural youth.
The Minister said besidesconstruction of playfields atblock and panchayat levels theGovernment has also taken upvarious mega projects to devel-op modern sports infrastructureto facilitate the youth. Hedescribed sports as best medi-cines to channelize energies ofyouth in a right direction.
The Dangal Committee alsopresented mementoes andshawls to the chief guest andother dignitaries on the occa-sion.
Excelsior Correspondent
DODA, Nov 8: The NSSunit of Government Degree col-lege Doda organized a Quiz anda Painting competition on thetheme" Neat and CleanEnvironment, the Need of hour"in the college complex.
Principal GDC Doda Dr.R.K Raina was the chief guestbesides HoD Zoology, Dr AjazA. Wani, Professor Zoology, DrWahied Balwan, HoD PhysicsBashir Ahmed,Prof. Falak andProf. Ashwani Kumar werepresent on the occasion.
While speaking on the occa-sion Dr R.K Raina elaborated
the aim of Swachh BharatMission and appealed to all theparticipants to educate the mass-es about the importance ofmaintaining the neat and cleanenvironment.
In painting competition,Haris Aftab student of BSc Part2nd was adjudged first whereasthe second and third positionswent to Irshad Ahmed of BSc.Part -1st Semester and ZubairAhmed of BSc Part 2nd respec-tively.
The programme was organ-ized under the supervision ofNSS Programme officer Prof.Ashwani Kumar.
Jharkhand take control of game against J&K
JAMSHEDPUR, Nov 8:
Ishank Jaggi (93) andKaushal Singh (81) scored half-centuries as Jharkhand contin-ued their splendid batting showto post a mammoth 551 for eightdeclared against Jammu andKashmir in their Ranji TrophyGroup C match, here today.
The hosts resumed fromovernight 304 for three and thebatsmen carried forward the goodwork done on the opening day.
J&K skipper Parvez Rasooltook three wickets (3/127) and
paceman Ramdayal two.Jharkhand then removed
J&K opener Shubham Khajuria(6) and with his wicket, stumpswere drawn for the day.
Adil Reshi (7) was at thecrease for the visitors.Brief Scores:
Jharkhand 1st innings: 551 for8 declared in 171.2 overs. (IKishan 109, A Singh 124, I Jaggi93, K Singh 81; P Rasool 3/127)
Jammu & Kashmir 1stinnings: 17 for 1 in 7.3 overs.(PTI)
Great Khali being welcomed by a huge gathering in Jammu on Sunday.
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: Vying forthe top honours, cueists showedserenity and promise while lock-ing horns against each other asAbhishek, Vidit, Nikhil andAkshay entered the pre-quarterfi-nals of the Senior SnookerDistrict Championship, which isas part of the ongoing 23rdJammu District Junior and SeniorBilliards and Snooker
Championship, being organizedby J&K Billiards and SnookerAssociation at MA Stadium, here.
Earlier, Jaswinder Singh top-pled Kashif Ahmad Ganie(3-1)by(41-56, 41-38, 53-19, 61-30), while Aman Sahrma gotbetter of Mohit Mahajan (3-1)by(72-40, 29-62, 60-31, 69-40),Satyajeet outplayed MandeepSingh(3-0)by (62-33,85-25, 62-30), Nikhil Verma prevailedover Sheetal Gandotra(3-1)by(37-69, 55-28, 56-48, 64-54),Vidit Gowri beat Karan
Singh (3-0)by(70-19, 51-39, 53-41), Furkan Wani drubbedHarsh Vardhan(3-1)by (53-22,52-13, 33-47, 64-33), AbhishekPathania trounced Jatin Basin(3-0)by (50-32, 56-22, 58-21),Arjun Sharma beat IshukChowdhary(3-2)by (14-56, 33-24, 29-54, 45-44, 60-52),ViditGawri defeated Ishan Chowdhary(3-1) by (74-39, 62-75, 55-13,58-54), Abhi Gupta blankedVishal Abrol (3-0)by 54-26, 57-27, 46-36) and Akshay Kumargot walkover against Vinay.
Abhishek, Vidit, Nikhil, Akshay enter pre-quarters Cueists Vidit and Furkan aiming shots during a match of Senior Snooker District
Championship at MA Stadium in Jammu on Sunday. —Excelsior/Rakesh
Minister for Social Welfare, forests Ecology andEnvironment, Bali Bhagat felicitating wrestlers during wrestlingCompetition on Sunday.
Students of Tender Toes Play Way School , Last Morh Sarwal,New Plot, Jammu, who brought accolades and trophies in fancydress competition organized to promote and develop skills. Alsoseen in the picture are School Principal and staff members.
Athletes of Nav Vidyalaya Dhalote, who were declared over-all winners of District Samba SDSD Athletic Meet, organized bySports Development Society Dhalote and sponsored by NavVidyalaya Dhalote. The School won 6 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronzemedals in the Championship.
Student's of Heaven's Kingdom High School, Janki Vihar,Janipur, who excelled in painting competition under NationalCampaign on Energy Conservation 2015. Mahika Koul won con-solation prize, while the other students who got appreciation cer-tificates included Harash Kumar, Dolby and Vanshika. SchoolPrincipal, Renu Sachdeva lauded the efforts of the students forthis achievement.
Lawyers Annual Sports Meet 2015Guru Partap's brilliance helps Paradise
XI to win cricket title via super-over*Pranav, Parvesh, Guru bag special prizes Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: Veteran ofmany battles and former RanjiTrophy Player, Guru PartapSingh made his willow to talk tohelp formidable Paradise XIregister a thrilling win overLegal Star XI via super-over inthe final match of the crickettournament to lift the title of theLawyers Annual Sports Meet2015, here today.
Earlier, winning the toss andbatting first, Paradise XI scoreda decent total of 161 runs in thestipulated 20 overs. Guru PartapSingh was the top scorer with 63runs, while Ravi Dogra and RaviAbrol contributed 29 and 18runs to the total respectively. ForLegal Star, AP Singh, PranavKohli, Sami and Irfan Khan took1 wicket each.
In reply, Legal Star managedto equal the target, thus the matchended in a tie and the decision ofthe match came via super over.Pranav was the highest scorerwith 63 runs, while Gourav
Jamwal contributed 41 runs andSanjay scored 23 runs. Ishaan,Tareeq, Ravi Abrol and GuruPratap Singh claimed 1 wicketeach for Paradise XI.
In the super-over, Legal Starcould manage to score 7 runs,which were comprehensivelyscored by Paradise XI, includingsuperb six from Guru PartapSingh.
The best batsman of the tour-nament award was bagged byPranav Kohli, while the bestbowler of the Tournament awardwent to Parvesh Singh Salaria.The man of the final and theman of series awards werebagged by Guru Partap Singh.
Prize distribution ceremonywas attended by Senior Lawyerswhich included UK Jalali (Sr.Advocate), SC Gupta, BabuRam Sharma, KK Pangotra, SSAhmed, Abhinav Sharma (presi-dent, JKHCBAJ), RupinderSingh, DS Chauhan, RajeshThappa, Rajinder Jamwal, AjayBakshi and Pardeep Majotra.
7th Pawan Memorial T20 Cricket Tournament
FCC Jourian registers emphatic victory over Singh Bataira ClubExcelsior Sports Correspondent
AKHNOOR, Nov 8: FCCJourian defeated Singh BatairaCricket Club by 36 runs in theongoing 7th Pawan MemorialT20 Cricket Tournament, beingorganized by Singh CricketClub, Akhnoor at Govt HigherSecondary School ground, heretoday.
Earlier, winning the toss andbatting first, FCC Jourianscored a decent total of 152 runsin 19.2 overs. Ravinder Singh(31), Randeep Singh (27) andArvind (23) were the main scor-ers. For Singh Bataira CC,Rahul took 3 wickets, Lovelyand Ankur bagged 2 each andSunil and Sonu claimed oneeach.
In reply, Singh Bataira gotbundled out for 116 runs andlost the match by 36 runs. Anilwas the top scorer with 25 runs,while Rahul and Lovelyclaimed 23 and 11 runs to thetotal respectively. For FCCJourian, Rocky and Sagarscalped 3 wicekts each, whileArvind claimed one. Sagar wasdeclared at man of the match forhis brilliant bowling display.
The match was officiated bySham Singh Langeh andRajinder Singh as umpires,while Lucky was the scorer.
CAREER ABACUS organizesState Level Competition
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: CareerAbacus, a leading AbacusTeaching Institute today organ-ized State Level Competition
for the students of Abacus in theAuditorium of M.N.K.G.Montessori School, GandhiNagar, Jammu in which childrenfrom the age group of 5 to 13years participated.
The function started with thelighting of lamp by the Championof Champions 2014, ShivanshGautam of Army School,Kaluchak and Suhani Gupta ofPresentation Convent. It was fol-
lowed by the singing of NationalAnthem.
Arvind Sharma, Director ofCareer Abacus informed that theaim of this competition is to pro-mote the learning of Abacus and
Mental Arithmetic. He said that children are given
a chance to compete among them-selves and win prizes. Childrenwere given 200 questions whichwere to be completed within atime frame of 8 minutes.
The competition was con-ducted in different levels andage groups.
At the end of the exam, a smallbut impressive speech was givenand refreshment was distributedamong the students.
Divya, Coordinator of theInstitute explained the benefitsof abacus to the audience andstressed upon the need to teachthis skill to all the students in theage group of 5 to 13 years.,while Akanksha informed thatabacus not only helps in improv-ing the arithmatical skills but itimproves the memory, listeningskills, imagination, creativity ,self reliance and above all selfconfidence of the students.
Atul Mahajan, Sheetal,Monika Suri, Sheetal Gupta,Rahul, Bhushan, Taniya, Gaurav,Garima, Arti Bedi, Amanpreet,Nalin, Kuljeet Kour, Amit PalSingh, Raman deep, JatinderKour and Vikram helped insmooth conduct of the exam.
Arvind Sharma, Director ofthe Institute presented vote ofthanks.
Prominent among otherspresent on the occasion were SRabinder Singh, Chief Engineer(Retd.), Chairman MNKGMontessori School, GurdeepKour, retired Principal.
Excelsior Correspondent
KATHUA, Nov 8: SpringDales English School, Kathuacelebrated the Alumni Meet inwhich around 70 students frombatches 1991-2013 seized theopportunity to meet their oldfriends, teachers and go downthe memory lane.
The Meet started with alighting of the traditional lampfollowed by introductoryspeech of Director, Prof RKGupta.
In his speech, he congratu-lated the Alumnus for becom-ing a source of pride for theSchool and living up the mottoof the school which is"Eminence throughExcellence". He shared theNational level achievements ofsome of the outstanding stu-
dents of the School includingthat of Gorav Sharma of Class8th who was selected as one ofthe 5 national winners in FoxHistory Channel's "My City MyHistory Contest" for which adocumentary was also madeand screened by the Channel.
The School premises wasfilled with fun and frolic, withvarious cultural programmes,games and fun filled activitiesbeing presented by the students.
IG BSF honourschoreographer Aakash DograExcelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 8: RakeshSharma, IG BSF JammuFrontier honored choreogra-pher Akash Dogra for his out-standing performances atNational Level Cultural DanceCompetition.
A three day National levelfestival was organized by BSFat Jawaharlal Nehru Stadiumin which all the frontiers ofBSF including Punjab, Southand North Bengal, Tripura,Jammu, Mizoram, Indore,Bangalore, Rajasthan, Gujarat,Shillong and Kashmir partici-pated.
Aakash Dogra had preparedJammu Frontier to perform inthe cultural programmes. Head
Quarters Jammu Frontier teamwas adjudged first among allthe participating frontier teamsof BSF Infact it was showstopper performance of JammuFrontier team for which chore-ographer Aakash Dogra wasawarded with the cash prize ofRs 10,000. He thanked IGJammu Frontier, RakeshSharma, First Lady BSFPratibha Sharma and PrincipalDr SK Shukla.
Speaking on the occasion,IG BSF said that Aakash is adedicated and sincere teacherand his contribution in the cul-tural programmes of School aswell as Jammu Frontier ishighly appreciable.
BSF Jammu Frontier honouring choreographer AakashDogra.
Prathamansh Sharma, stu-dent of Class 4th ofDelhi PublicSchool Jammu,who won 1st prizewith a cash awardof Rs 20,000 in the
State Level PaintingCompetition, organized byNHPC at Brig Rajinder SinghAuditorium, University ofJammu, recently.
Shippu Mahajan, D/oParveen Gupta andRamesh Chander,R/o Talab Tillo,who qualifiedNational EligibilityTest (NET) in
Library and InformationScience, the result of whichwas declared by CBSE-NETrecently.
Satbir Singh, S/o HarbansSingh, R/o SimbalCamp, RS Pura,Jammu, who hasbeen declared qual-ified for the awardof the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) inBiotechnology by theUniversity of Jammu. Heworked on the topic, "ProcessOptimisation for Production ofThermo-alkalistable BacterialProtease and ItsCharacterization," under thesupervision of Dr B K Bajaj.
Spring Dales School Kathuacelebrates Alumni Meet
Students during State Level Competition organized by CareerAbacus in Jammu.
GDC Doda organizes Quiz,Painting Competition
