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| Senior State A Chess Tournament | | Sumit continues winning spree to remain at top | |
Sports Reporter
JAMMU, Feb 9: Winning all the three rounds played today, Sumit Grover maintained his top position securing highest 10.5 points off 11 rounds in the Senior State A Chess Tournament, organised by All Jammu and Kashmir Chess Association at Hotel Nek, here.
Sumit was closely followed by young Meenal Gupta, who could win two of the three games scheduled for today to remain at second place with nine points in her account.
With two rounds to spare tomorrow, Rohit Bhardwaj (seven points) has occupied the fourth position while Maxim Singh secured 7.5 points to finish fifth on the points chart.
Among others who witnessed today's matches were general secretary of the Association, Ashiq Ahmed Kolu. The competition was supervised by chief arbiter, Ajit Singh
The Results: Round 11th: Sumit Grover beat Javaid; Arvindu beat Shahid Mushtaq; Mohd.Sharief beat Maxim Singh; Rohit Bhardwaj beat Meenal Gupta; Faisal Farooq beat Amir Yousaf Bhat; Soham Kamotra beat Mohd. Rafiq and Pranav drew Najmus Sakib.
Attends semi-final of 3rd Ravi Singh Charak T-20 cricket tourney
Sardar Gursagar Singh Isher distributes prizes among players of winning team
Sports Reporter
Jammu, Feb 9: Socialistic Democratic Party (SDP) Parliamentary Candidate for Jammu-Poonch constituency Sardar Gursagar Singh today gifted-away prizes among the players of team qualified for finals of the 3rd Ravi Singh Charak Memorial T-20 cricket tournament at Satwari Middle School ground, here.
On the occasion Sardar Gursagar Singh Isher met and congratulated both the semi-finalist teams. Later on Sardar Gursagar Singh Isher also distributed prizes among the players of winning team and also appreciated efforts of the opponent team. Congratulating the players for their participation,Sardar Gursagar Singh Isher said losing or winning of a game is irrelevant but participating as a worthy sportsperson, performing to once best capacity and maintaining quality of conduct while playing is counted a lot at the end of the day.
He said, "Our boys and girls are not less than anyone, only they need proper opportunities, coaching and exposure to prove their mettle," Gursagar Singh added that for this purpose creation of sports temperament and encouragement to the players is essential. He said the tournament like Ravi Singh Charak Memorial would provide opportunities to the players to excel. He said it should be the moral obligation of every individual to promote sports, as it keeps youth in proper shape and importantly away them from immoral things.
Exhorting upon parents to impart sportsmanship among their children, Sardar Gursagar Singh Isher said, "Parents must make a balance between sports and studies. Sports are as important for personality development of a children as studies are," he said. He further appealed to youth, especially girls to participate in games. He also extended support of any kind, if needed for the promotion of sports in the state.
"SDP endeavours to promote every that thing which is in the favour of strong and prosperous nation. Our party is ready to support games in the state,"Sardar Gursagar Singh Isher said, adding in near future SDP would probably organize tournaments to knit sportsperson from various districts of the state at common platform.
Sardar Gursagar Singh Isher also congratulated Vikramjeet Singh (King) and Vijay Choudharyfor organizing this tournament.
Legends Dance Studio enthralls Jammuites with magical performance
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Jammu, Feb 9: Legends Dance Studio (LDS) held a first of its kind international level mega dancing event Master-X Tashan 2014, in Jammu today in which local dancing talent enthralled Jammuites with their magical performances while India's No 1 Dance Crew Boy Zone showcased some of their best sequences at General Zorawar Singh Auditorium in Jammu University with Jammu kids stealing the show by getting thunderous applause and standing ovation by the audience.
This jampacked grand show organized by Legends Dance Studio in association with MCJS was inaugurated by Chief Guest Raman Bhalla, Minister for Housing, Horticulture and Culture while IGP Jammu Zone Rajesh Kumar was the Guest of Honour where tributes were paid to late Bansi Lal Bogra, a renowned Choreographer of the state. S.Joginder Singh, father of Master-X presented bouquets to the dignitaries and sponsors.
The show dedicated to Lucky, late brother of Master-X, was the first event of the series of mega events planned by LDS in Jammu in which top notch Bollywood stars are likely to participate in the months to come to treat Jammuites with a variety of international standard events at their door steps.
The students of LDS presented a series of dance sequences choreographed by Master-X, Akshay Sharma and Amit Sharma Assistant Choreographers.
Indias's No 1 dance crew Boy Zone had flown in specially from Kolkata for the show and left the audience spell bound by their splendid performances.
It was a rare treat to watch local kids performing at a stage where India's no 1 dance crew Boy Zone was performing in competition but the local kids managed to steal the show with their stupendous performances.
LDS is the brain child of Ajit Singh Chibber popularly known as Master-X who returned to his native land after 17 years from Dubai (UAE) and opened the Legends Dance Studio Complex, at Talab Tillo, Jammu to chisel the local talent and groom them into mega stars without having to venture out of Jammu.
It was in September 2013 when Master-X had promised a series of international level events in Jammu itself to bring Bollywood to Jammu where numerous Bollywood stars would not only grace the occasions but also conduct workshops for the local youth being trained at LDS.
According to Master-X it was his desire to see Jammu talent shining at national and international foras' which brought him back from Dubai to nurture the local talent and make Jammu an international event destination.
However, Master-X has a regret that local corporate sector was not forth coming in sponsoring such mega events adding in other states corporate sector sponsors such programmes whole heartedly to pay back to society and nurture its youth to compete at the national and international foras' further adding the response in Jammu was lack luster as if the local business community has only one right to earn and not to repay the society.
Master-X said that he came back from Dubai to repay his own city what he got from it but did not find the corporate sector here as responsive as it should have been.
He said that local talent cannot grow without the help of the local business community and added his dream was to bring Bollywood to Jammu so that Jammu too can boast of having given big superstars to Bollywood adding LDS was committed to realize its dream very soon. Disclosing the future programmes for the 2014 he said that LDS was going to organize another mega event Rass Mithas competition very soon in which various schools and colleges will participate and the winners will get a chance to act in LDS's future Movie project as leading stars.
He said that a workshop was being organized for the LDS students in which famous TV star Ritwik Danjani will hold special classes of the LDS students to polish them for Bollywood choreography, Acting, Anchoring and hosting in mega events.
The 3rd mega event of the LDS will be a huge event with top grade TV superstars in Jammu to bring the local talent face to face with the national and international talent of the silver screen and TV.
Master-X also thanked M Jackson Society for its cooperation adding in future both the companies will work together to groom local talent.
Prominent among those who were present on stage include senior journalist and social activist King Bharati, JR Sharma (Jackson), Surinder Kour, Shabnam Kour, Admins LDS, Assistant Choreographer Akshay Sharma, Hardeep Singh, Rajinder Sumbli, Vivek DSP, Anita Chopra, Inspector J&K Police, Taranjit Singh Saini, Amit Sharma, Shivam Jeweller and DJ Gourav Arora.
India lose first Test by 40 runs, New Zealand lead series 1-0
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Auckland, Feb 9: India conjured up hopes of a record runchase before a lower middle-order collapse saw the visitors slump to a 40-run defeat against New Zealand in the thrilling first cricket test and hand over a 1-0 lead to the hosts in the two-match series today.
Chasing 407 to win, India resumed their second innings at 87 for one and the visitors were on course with Shikhar Dhawan (115) and Virat Kohli (67) sharing 126 runs for the third wicket but pacer Neil Wagner took four crucial wickets in the post-lunch session to derail India`s chase at Eden Park here.
After a series of low scores, Dhawan returned to form today as he cracked a patient century and anchored the Indian innings along with Kohli, who too looked in good touch. But Wagner`s double blow left India tottering at 270-5 at tea and it was left to skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Ravindra Jadeja, who launched a counterattack to leave the Kiwis dazed but once they departed India failed to overhaul the target.
Wagner took the wickets of Dhawan, Kohli, Zaheer Khan (17) and Dhoni (39) to return with a eight-wicket haul from the match, while Tim Southee added three wickets to his three-wicket haul of the first innings. Earlier, India started the day still in need of 320 runs and Dhawan and Pujara looked to provide them a solid start. In the very first over of the day, Dhawan reached his half-century, getting the milestone ticked off early, facing 75 balls and hitting five fours.
Dhawan had a shaky start as he survived a couple of LBW shots, even through they seemed to be sailing over the stumps. The Kiwis were bowling a nagging line and length, especially Tim Southee and he was soon rewarded for it. In the fifth over of the morning, he bowled a near-perfect delivery to Pujara who could do nothing but play at it and edged it the keeper. Pujara was out for 23 runs (71 balls, 1 fours, 1 six), leaving a mountain to be climbed for the rest of the batsmen.
Kohli then came out to bat and patiently saw off Southee`s super spell of 6-3-4-1. At the other end, Dhawan too continued to bat cautiously as the 100-run mark came for the chase in the 32nd over. They tempered their batting according to the situation, mixing aggression with defence. |
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