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LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti inaugurated Lahore School Sports 2019, the biggest school sports event of Lahore’s history, at a grand colourful opening ceremony at Punjab Stadium on Monday night. Vice-Chairman Sports Board Punjab Rao Zahid Qayyum, Secretary Sports Punjab Nadeem Mehboob, Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh, Director Admin Javed ...

Australian tennis superstar Ash Barty has made history in beating defending champion Elina Svitolina at the $14 million WTA Finals. It wasn’t an easy victory, as Barty was tested further in the second set, but ran out the eventual winner 6-4, 6-3. Barty had won two of her round robin matches before the final, so she pocketed a cool $6.4 ...

LAHORE (Nov 1, 2019): Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh said that top level fitness and right techniques played key role in producing positive results in every sport. Director General Sports Punjab Adnan Arshad Aulakh, in a statement on Friday, stressed upon Punjab’s coaches and trainers to focus on fitness and sports techniques of players on the eve of ...

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti, on Friday said that the upcoming Lahore School Sports event could prove to be a game changer for school-going young players. “It’s ideal platform for young male and female players to show their talent and I would like to request all parents to send their children for ...

Students from all over Karachi are participating in 10 events in U-17 and U-19 categories. On day 3 of our Sports Festival we had 3 games (Futsal, Counter-Strike & Cricket) in both the categories happening at two of our campuses of Alpha College and Alpha Core and IBA Cricket Ground. Following are the results of Day 3: Day 3 Results. ...

Rafael Nadal pulled out of the Paris Masters with an abdominal injury just minutes before the scheduled start of his semi-final against Denis Shapovalov on Saturday, and admitted his participation at the ATP Tour Finals was in doubt. Canadian youngster Shapovalov will face Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s final in the French capital. Second seed Nadal could have secured the year-end ...

South Africa broke English hearts with a ruthless display of power rugby to seize their third Rugby World Cup in devastating fashion. Twenty two points from the boot of nerveless fly-half Handre Pollard and second-half tries from wingers Makazole Mapimpi and Cheslin Kolbe ground England into the Yokohama dirt on a horrible night for Eddie Jones’s men. England had trailed ...

SHENZHEN, China: An indefatigable Elina Svitolina came from behind to outlast a hobbled Belinda Bencic in a gruelling semi-final on Saturday, continuing her dogged quest to defend her WTA Finals title. The world number eight worked over an ailing Bencic with a comeback 5-7, 6-3, 4-1 victory in one hour and 50 minutes at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Centre. The ...

LAHORE (Oct 29, 2019): Punjab’s different male and female teams, on the instructions of Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti, have accelerated their preparations for 33rd edition of National Games being staged at Peshawar in November 2019. Director Sports Hafeez Bhatti, Deputy Director Shahid Nizami, Assistant Director Raees ur Rehman and other officials visited above-mentioned ...

LAHORE: Punjab Minister for Sports, Youth Affairs and Tourism Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti visited the mess of Punjab athletes and checked the standard of food at National Hockey Stadium on Monday night. Punjab Minister for Sports Rai Taimoor Khan Bhatti enquired the players, who are staying at National Hockey Stadium in connection with 33rd National Games camps, about the quality of ...