Sports

In what was said to be the first in 20-years, Jamia’s hockey team made history on Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2011 by beating the Guru Nanak Dev University hockey team from Amritsar, 2-nil, in the final match for the All India Inter Varsity Hockey Tournament Championship 2011-12, held at Jamia. The two goals for Jamia were scored by Manish Rana and ...

[Following is a Jamia press release.] Jamia continued its impressive form in the semi final of the All India Inter Varsity Hockey Tournament by registering their fourth consecutive win. Jamia today defeated Panjab University, Chandigarh by 5-0 at Faculty of Education hockey ground to enter the final of the tournament. So far, Jamia has scored 27 goals in four matches ...

According to an article titled “Virender Sehwag’s statue to be put up in Jamia Millia Islamia,” dated Dec. 23, 2011, published in India Today: Virender Sehwag, a Jamia alumnus and a cricket player for the Indian national team, will be honored by Jamia by having a brass statue of him installed on Jamia campus. The statue is reported to cost ...

The Faculty of Engineering and Technology organized a three-day long intra-faculty football tournament which was held in the sports complex from Sept. 9 to 11, 2011. It saw 20 teams from the faculty, from different departments, playing with one another on a knockout basis. On the First Day Professor Masood Alam spoke to the players before the commencement of the ...

To mark the official handover of Jamia’s sports complex by the government to the university, Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung, formally inaugurated the facility on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2010. Jamia Millia Islamia Sports Complex was built back in the month of June for the purpose of Common Wealth Games 2010 at a cost of 42 crore rupees. Scenes from the Event ...