Sports

Kunwar Arun Singh Yadav (2016), a B.A. Political Science student of Jamia, recently climbed the Stok Kangri mountain peak which has an elevation of 6,153 meters (20,182 feet). The Stok Kangri peak is considered to be the highest mountain peak in the Stok Range of the Himalayas in the Ladakh region of northwest India. Besides scaling one of the highest ...

There is a famous saying: Achievers are those who dare to dream. This saying seems fit for mountaineer Faisal Latif, a 19-year-old graduate student in the Department of Tourism, Jamia Millia Islamia. In the month of June this year, Faisal along with his friend Anirudh Sharma and six others in his team set out on a mountain climbing expedition to ...

Institute of Advanced Studies (IASE), Faculty of Education organized its Annual Athletic Meet from 5th March to 22nd March 2014, at the TTI Hockey Ground. Athletics meet is part of the teachers training program with individual sports events and Inter-House competitions. All the students of B.Ed. and ETE are divided into eight houses that are named after social and educational ...

[Following is a press release from Jamia’s Go-kart Team — ‘KARTastrophe’] Indian Society of New Era Engineers (ISNEE) conducted the nationwide event, National Go-Kart Championship (NGKC) this year in Kolhapur, Maharashtra. The event saw participation from engineering colleges from all over India, with a pre-final round that shortlisted a total of 47 teams that qualified for the final round. The ...

The Faculty of Education organized its Annual Athletic Meet from 4th to 21st March 2013, at the Teachers Training Institute (TTI) ground, JMI. The Meet involved Inter-House and individual sports events, which is part of the teachers’ training program. Students of B. Ed and ETE courses under the faculty of Education are divided into Houses, named after prominent social and ...

On Thursday, March 14th, Jamia Millia Islamia won the S.A. Rahim Inter-Varsity Football Tournament at the Jamia Sports Complex (Bhopal Ground) by scoring four goals against the opposing team, ASC, Bihar in the final match. About 30 teams are alleged to have participated in the tournament. Jamia’s stricker Ajay Bartwal scored the first two goals in the first-half, and then ...

On Thursday, March 7th, Northern Stars (Jamia Millia Islamia) beat Western Wizards (Jiwaji University, Gwalior) by 10 wickets in the semi-final UCC match.  Jamia needed all of 51 balls to race to an emphatic victory after Jiwaji were all out for 61 runs in 18.1 overs. This was the lowest team score of the championship. A team that has always ...

Jamia’s Northern Stars beat Mumbai University’s Western Wolves with 5 wickets and won their first match in the University Cricket Championship (UCC) played at the Brabourne Stadium, Mumbai on Feb. 23rd. The final score was: Mumbai Univ: 172/8 (20.0); Jamia: 176/5 (19.5) Parveen Yadav (Captain Northern Stars) was declared Man of the Match. Next Match: Jamia will play their next match against Madras ...

To encourage cricket at the university level, NDTV and the Ministry of HRD have joined hands to  launch the Toyota University Cricket Championship (TUCC) starting 23rd February 2013. According to TUCC website, the tournament has been designed in a Twenty20 format, TUCC will reach more than 200 Universities and 20 lakh students across India. This initiative is backed by the Association ...

[Following is a Jamia press release dated Oct 15, 2012]  Jamia’s Preetesh Monu, a final year student of Bachelor of Dental Studies at Faculty of Dentistry has secured the 1st Position in Chess at the recently concluded 38th Annual South Asian Socio-Cultural Literary and Sports Meet, Pulse 2012 at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi. ‘Pulse’ is ...