FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 (PAGE 14) DAILY EXCELSIOR, JAMMU J&K's Sumitpal enters Sania-Tecau pair sails into Saina, Sindhu advance; National Tennis QFs Kashyap out of Syed Modi semis, Paes-Hantuchova ousted , Jan 23: Later in the day, 11th seed B Excelsior Sports Correspondent nals. MELBOURNE, Jan 23: In another mixed doubles Earlier, in the first round, Sai Praneeth rallied after losing JAMMU, Jan 23: Defeating quarterfinals, Leander Paes Established badminton stars Sumitpal got better of Dheeraj The possibility of two the first game to get the better of Badola Mritunjay of Uttrakhand and his Slovakian partner Saina Nehwal and P V Sindhu Guru Sai Dutt 15-21 21-9 21-16 to KS in an easy contest by (6-1, Indians clashing for the mixed in a tough contest, the Jammu and Daniela Hantuchova lost 3-6 marched into the women's quarter- advance to the quarterfinals. 6-0), while in the in the second doubles title at the Australian Kashmir tennis star, Sumitpal 3-6 to Kristina Mladenovic finals but all the top four seeds, He will now face Thailand round, he prevailed over Anuj Open ended today as Sania from France and Canada's including defending champion P Singh entered the quarterfinals of Mirza advanced to the semifi- Grand Prix Gold champion and the VITS All Lawn Tennis Malik of Haryana by (6-2, 6-2). Daniel Nestor. sixth seed K Srikanth in In doubles event, Sumitpal nals but Leander Paes crashed Sania and Tecau got three National Series at PBR out, here. the quarterfinals. Srikanth Vishvodaya Institute of alongwith his partner Badola opportunities to break their had to save four match reached the semifinal by Sania Mirza and her opponents in the opening set, Technology and Science, Nellore, Romanian partner Horia points in the second game defeating the duo of Sankineni out of which they converted Kavali in Andhra Pradesh. Tecau, seeded sixth, prevailed and then went on to waste Sumitpal outplayed his rival Durgaand and Gunupati Anchal being felicitated by dignitaries during 26th All India one, which was enough for the four in the decider before National Karate-Do Championship at Tata Nagar in over the unseeded pair of Indo-Romanian pair to pocket in the third round by (6-2, 2-6, 7- Gaurav of Andhra Pradesh by Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and getting the better of 14th 6) to seal berth in the quarterfi- (6-2, 6-3) in the quarterfinals. Jamshedpur. the set in 28 minutes. seed Arvind Bhat 19-21 Julia Georges 6-3 6-4 in their In the next set, Sania and quarterfinal clash which lasted 23-21 24-22 in an hour Anchal wins silver in Tecau broke their opponents in and 11 minutes. MIET Literary Club inaugurated just 63 minutes. the ninth game to serve out the The Indo-Romanian duo In the women's sec- Excelsior Correspondent MIET and former Registrar, set in 35 minutes and book a National Karate C’ship will now clash against tion, top seed Saina con- University of Jammu. place in the last four stage. tinued her march towards JAMMU, Jan 23: The Excelsior Sports Correspondent Championship. Australia's Jarmila Gajdosova Saina Nehwal in action at Syed On this occasion, several lit- India's challenge has the season's first title with Literary Club of the Model The Championship was and Matthew Ebden, who had Modi International India Grand Prix in erary events including poetry JAMMU, Jan 23: Anchal already ended in the men's sin- Lucknow. a 21-5 21-10 victory over Institute of Engineering and organized by All India Karate- stunned second seeds Katarina writing, painting, debating, Kumar Sharma won silver gles, women's doubles and Russia's Natalia Technology was today formally Do Federation () and Srebotnik and Rohan Bopanna. Kashyap, crashed out of the men's quizzing and short-story writing medal in the 26th All India men's doubles. (PTI) Perminova in just 28 minutes to inaugurated at its Kot Bhalwal hosted by Uttrakhand Karate event in the Syed Modi were organized in which over National Karate-Do set up a quarterfinal clash against Campus. Prof Lalit Magotra, International India Grand Prix 100 students participated. Championship held at Tata Association. NCC cadet gets ‘Raksha fifth seed Ballaetrix Manuputty of former Dean and Professor, here today. Prof SK Sharma, Principal Nagar in Jamshedpur. The participants from Indonesia. University of Jammu and liter- The USD 120,000 tournament MIET presented welcome Apart from Anchal, Rohit Jammu and Kashmir were led Joining her in the last eight ary luminary was the chief guest by Sanjeev Dewan, Governing Mantri Padak’ sprang to life when 16h seed on the occasion, while Dr Arun address. Kumar and Rewati Nandan also Excelsior Sports Correspondent in Pahalgam in March, 2013. were, second seed P V Sindhu and Body Member of AIKF. Shubhakar Dey packed off second Arundhati Pantawane. Sindhu K Gupta, Chairman MIER Dr Arun K Gupta described played superbly in the The cadet alongwith Lt seed Ajay Jayaram 21-19 21-17 defeated Sabrina Jaquet of Group was the guest of honour. Literature as a great source of JAMMU, Jan 23: NCC Farooq Ahmad, Associate NCC Directorate of Jammu and and then 12th seed Zulfadli Switzerland 21-19 21-5 in the pre- The Literary Club which is insights into the finer aspects of Officer were the first to join Fire Churchill beat Bagan 2-1 to Kashmir brought laurels to the Zulkiffli of Malaysia accounted quarterfinals while Arundhati got the first of its kind in the region culture and humanity. and Emergency Department to State as its cadet Sheikh Aamir for top seed Kashyap 21-16 21-12. the better of Thailand's Natcha has been setup through a student Chief guest, Prof Lalit overcome the disaster and save from Army Goodwill Public While the top two seeds strug- Saengchote 21-13 21-11. (PTI) initiative with an ambitious Magotra encouraged the stu- precious lives. enter Federation Cup final School Pahalgam was awarded gled, third seed RMV Guru Sai vision of promoting creativity dents to develop interest for lit- For outstanding leadership, ‘Raksha Mantri Padak’ with a Dutt and fourth seed Anand Pawar GGM Science College and imagination among the stu- erature, art and culture. KOCHI, Jan 23: already 2-0 up. Lt Farooq Ahmad was also did put up a fight but suffered a dents leading to holistic devel- The trend continued for the cash award of Rs 10,000 in students sparkle in Prof Ankur Gupta presented A dominant Churchill awarded Commendation Card similar fate. opment. Other dignitaries pres- first 20 minutes as most of the function at Delhi. the roadmap of the Club. Brothers beat Mohun Bagan 2- from Director General NCC Pawar saved three game points ent on the occasion were Prof play restricted to Bagan's half. Mr Aamir was chosen for the Youth Seminar The student conveners of the 1 to advance to the final of the Delhi and Commendation Card in the first game but could not stop Ankur Gupta, Joint Director, Whenever Bagan tried to award for his outstanding contri- Literary Club, Bushra Hasan, 35th Federation Cup football bution in rescue and rehabilita- from Corps Commander 15 the march of Malaysia's Iskandar Excelsior Sports Correspondent MIER Group, Prof S K Sharma, Deepika Pandita and Rishabh attacked, everything was Corps. 30 other cadets were also Zulkarnain Zainuddin as he lost tournament here today. mostly directed towards Odafa tion of victims of devastating JAMMU, Jan 23: The stu- Principal, MIET and Prof GS Magotra were felicitated on the felicitated on the occasion. 22-20 21-11. Churchill, who has been Okolie, making it all the easi- fire, engulfing village ‘Frislan’ dents of Government Gandhi Sambyal, Senior Professor occasion. impressive in the tournament er for their rivals. Memorial (GGM) Science by winning all their three Odafa was not allowed to Symposium on Narcotic Control held College blossomed in the 2-day Haryana, UP sail into semis group matches, scored through turn and when he did for the Youth Seminar, organized by PATNA, Jan 23: The semi-finals and finals Balwant Singh (4th minute) Excelsior Correspondent the aegis of Narcotics Control Kumar, Lecturer. first time in the 30th minute, Bureau, Ministry of Home Chief guest while address- The Energy and Resources for both the men's and women's and Anthony Wolfe (14th) he set up Ram Malik in the JAMMU, Jan 23: A function Institute (TERI) in collabora- Haryana and section would be played tomor- while Odafa Okolie (33rd) Affairs (Govt. of India). ing the students laid stress on entered the semifinals of the clear. But as Ram was that on 'Narcotics Control MLA East Ashok Khajuria mot to use narcotics as it leads tion with J&K Entrepreneurship row. (PTI) reduced the margin for Mohun split second late in pulling the Campaign' was organized today Development Institute (JKEDI) senior men's Kabaddi Bagan in the semifinal match graced the occasion as chief mental as well as social degra- Championship played at the trigger, Ravanan Dharamraj guest and dation. He impressed upon the and Department of Social KKR name Raman as at the Jawaharlal Nehru recovered to thwart the dan- Welfare, here. Patliputra Sports Complex here Stadium. Director youth to carry forward the mes- today. ger. School sage of Narcotics Control The Seminar was on the batting coach The Bagan defence It was in the 32nd minute topic “New Ideas for New Haryana trounced nine-time watched as an unmarked Education Campaign. KOLKATA, Jan 23: that Bagan had their first crack Tomorrow-Promoting champion Railways in a keenly Balwant headed in Thangjam Tushar A symposium on the topic contested match to make it to at the Churchill goal. But Yusa KantiUse of narcotic drugs was Innovation and Youth The Kolkata Knight Riders Singh's corner past Bagan cus- Katsumi's shot was palmed Participation”. the semis while UP beat have appointed W V Raman as todian Shilton Paul to take the Sharma was organized on the occasion in Karnataka 18-14 in another away by Lalit Thapa. the guest of which 10 students participated. In the essay competition cat- the batting coach. lead early into the match. However, Odafa reduced egory of the Seminar, the first quarters. Commenting on the The second goal came 10 honour. Proceedings of the programme Haryana and Railway were the margin for Bagan the very Principal were conducted by Deepak three positions were bagged by announcement, KKR CEO minutes later with Balwant next minute. The Nigerian the students of GGM Science locked at 16-16 when the match Venky Mysore said ' We are receiving the ball on the edge of the school Kumar, Sr. Lecturer Physics and ended in the scheduled time. In chested Denson's through pass Shashi same was organized by Aseem College, Jammu. Jonathan John delighted to have Raman join our of the 18-yard box where he and placed it past Thapa. bagged the first position, while five raids later, Haryana out- coaching staff. He joins a strong was brought down by Prabha pre- Gupta. smarted Railways 7-4 with two In the second half, sented wel- The vote of thanks was pre- the second and third position core group of Trevor Bayliss, Aiborlang Khongjee. Churchill survived a scare in was claimed by Sahil Joshi and bonus points. Wasim Akram and Vijay Dahiya. Anthony Wolfe made no MLA Ashok Khajuria felicitating Annie Vaid comesented by C.D Sharma. In the women's category, the 54th minute. Christopher during symposium. address. Prominent among others Mithlesh Gurtoo respectively. His experience with the Bengal mistake to convert from the Chiboza trapped Odafa's pass These three students have beat Delhi by 18- team and at the Eden Gardens spot. It was barely 15 minutes A slide present on the occasion were 13 while Haryana eves got the but his left-footer agonisingly in the premises of Govt. Girls show highlighting various Rajesh Gupta, Subash Gupta, qualified for the participation in will be really useful going into into the game and Churchill, hit the post after beating a div- Higher Secondary School Yuva Meet to be held in Delhi better of Punjab 22-18 to enter the new season.' (UNI) with all in control, were aspects of the narcotic control Kuldeep Kandhari, Raj Singh the semis. ing Thapa. (PTI) Mubarak Mandi Jammu under campaign was presented by Luv and R.S Sharma. in the month of February, 2014.

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