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A youth from Kulgam has secured the second rank in the Indian Economic Service (IES) 2020. He has become the first resident of Jammu Kashmir to achieve this feat. Tanveer Ahmed Khan, 22, from the Naginpora Kund in the Kulgam district, has achieved this position in his first attempt. Tanveer received basic education from Government School and then went to Government Degree College in Anantnag to complete his graduation. After this he did his post graduation in the field of economics from Kashmir University. He recently completed his M.Phil degree in Development Studies in Kolkata. Tanveer Khan said, "It was during my M.Phil that I came to know about this exam and I started preparing for it and today I have achieved this feat." Tanveer says that coming from a joint family of grandparen...

The Former South Africa legendary opener Herschelle Gibbs has taken to Twitter and alleged the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has threatened him by denying him all cricketing activities in India in the futre if he participates in the upcoming Kashmir Premier League. The Kashmir Premier league is set to commence on Friday, August 6 in Muzaffarabad Pakistan. Herschelle Gibbs, along with former Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne Dilshan and former England spinner Monty Panesar is among the six participating teams in the tournament. The former Protea batsman took to Twitter and accused the BCCI of “trying to prevent me playing” in the inaugural edition of the league, which will run from August 6th to 16th. “Completely unnecessary of the @BCCI to bring their political agen...

Pakistan skipper Babar Azam on Sunday added another feather to his highly illustrious cap as he became the fastest batsman to reach 2,000 runs in T20I format. Babar achieved the feat in the third and final T20I against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club. The Pakistan skipper has taken 52 innings to score 2000 T20I runs, four less than India's Virat Kohli who had taken 56 innings to reach the landmark. Australian skipper Aaron Finch (62 innings) and former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum (66 innings) are at third and fourth place respectively. While Kohli is still leading the charts of most runs in T20I cricket, Babar is at 11th spot having scored 2035 runs in the shortest format of the game. The Indian skipper has scored 3,159 T20I runs at an average of 52.65. Earlier this...

South African cricketer Bjorn Fortuin has embraced Islam along with his wife, Mieshke Aysen, in the holy month of Ramadan. His new name is Imaad. He confirmed his conversion on Instagram. Fortuin’s teammate Tabraiz Shamsi’s wife shared a photo of Fortuin with his wife, which Fortuin’s reshared. Shamsi’s wife was congratulating the couple for accepting Islam in the holy month of Ramadan. There it was said: “Last night Bjorn took his Shahada. Alhamdulillah, and during the month of Ramadan. He chose the name Imaad. So proud of you.” His wife’s name is Mieshke Aysen who reshared the same picture on Instagram. Fortuin is the second South African cricketer who has accepted Islam as a religion. Earlier, pacer Wayne Parnell accepted Islam back in 2011. Fortuin is a handy all-rounder from ...

Irshad Hussain Taekwondo athletes from different areas of kashmir are worried about their future, as the local administration has failed to post here National Institute of sports coaches (NIS), leaving many athletes worried. Non availability of professional coaches for Taekwondo sports in kashmir has shattered the dreams of kashmiri Taekwondo sportsmen including Syed taha who is representing kashmir on national level, and has won 12 times state gold medals and 14 times district gold medals. While speaking to The Kashmiriyat Taha said that he wants to be professional coach in Taekwondo but due to lack of infrastructure, he is not able to be. Hailing from Narbal area of district Budgam, he said that he has been playing it from last twenty years. "My coach was Syed Ashaq Hussain w...

Waris Shah The Cosco tournament- Achabal Premier League organized at Achabal Anantnag concluded on Sunday, with the home team Club Sports defeating Ishfaq 11 to lift the title trophy. In the final match held on Sunday, the toss was won by Ishfaq 11 who elected to bat first. Batting first Ishfaq-11 lost important wickets early up and set a low target of 61 runs to the opponent.buy Premarin generic noprescriptionrxbuyonline.com over the counter In reply, club Sports who batted amazingly chased the target easily and won the match by 7 Wickets. Mudasir Ahmed Wani of Club sports was awarded as Man of the Tournament for his all-around performance in the tournament for his team. Man of the Match award went to Ishfaq Abbas for scoring 35 runs in a highly-charged contest. Journal...

Suhail Dar Kashmir has a large number of athletes especially cricket athletes. It is obvious that male athletes are playing at the national level and get good reverence at state-level sports. But our female cricketers although playing at the national level are discriminated against at the state level which has degraded the status of Women athletes. Mehak Sofi who hails from Mattan Akoora of Anantnag District has played at the National level and participated in different tournaments at Himachal Pradesh in 2016. Mehak 20, a young and energetic athlete has  played at Rajkot Gujarat and Goa under-19 and also in the under 23 tourney in Bangalore. She has been rewarded as the best wicket-keeper at Nagpur for KPL. "Men do get get benefits while women cricketers are facing discrimin...

After huge public outcry over the issuance of eviction notices to tribal population and traditional forest dwellers and the axing of apple trees by forest department officials, the J&K Government on Monday started rolling out the Forest Rights Act 2006 (FRA) in Jammu  Kashmir. According to Kashmir News Service (KNS), a training schedule has been prepared by the Forest Department wherein training will be imparted to Govt officers for implementing the Forest Rights Act in J&K in the coming months. "Government has prepared a roster for a training programme on the Forest Rights Act so that this law could be implemented in J&K at different levels. Under the level-1, the official members of District Level Committees (DLCs) will be provided the training which includes Deputy Com...