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World Cup Kabaddi 2011: Players held under dope test

Kabaddi World Cup 2011 World Cup Kabaddi 2011: Players held under dope testKabbadi is the fanfare game. But question is that what’s the necessity to dope in kabaddi? In Punjab, Kabaddi World Cup was ended with dozens caught in the dope net.

In the tournament, 14 countries taking part and took off in grand fashion on November 1, with Bollywood Badshah Shah Rukh Khan performing in the opening ceremony. The champions were rewarded by Rs1 crore as prize money.

However, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan, each country — including India — had at least one player failing the test for banned substances.

Under testing, 200 samples were collected and sent to the National Dope Test Laboratory (NDTL) and returned positive for anabolic steroids.

The Pargat Singh, The World Cup’s organizing secretary, is hardly surprised and says, “It’s a common practice,” “Kabaddi is huge in Punjab. There is a tournament almost every weekend and thousands of people turn up for it,” he adds. Read more

Grand opening of ‘Virasat-e-Khalsa’ at Anandpur Sahib

Anandpur Sahib: On Friday, the `Virasat-e-Khalsa` an antic piece of Sikhism was held a religious ceremony in such holy city.

In this Sikhism city, the heritage complex has to socialize the holible message of the Sikh gurus. This complex has been showing the history and culture, religious facts related to Sikhism and Punjab’s rich heritage of the `Khalsa`,

The Parkash Singh Badal who is the Punjab Chief Minister was paased out a project around 300 crore. However, at that time Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Nitin Gadkari, Art of Living founder Ravi Shankar and others were also there.

During such ceremony, Badal was also invited Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to inaugurate the landmark monument “Khalsa Heritage Complex (KHC)”. But there was a controversy. The Congress Party Leaders told and prohibiting to inaugurate the Prime Minister because he had already been came in 2006 and thats why he should not come again in monument. Read more

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