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Local leagues, trials, athletes on the national stage, and the artists and makers doing Jammu proud.
President Droupadi Murmu honoured veteran Kashmiri theatre actor Makhan Lal Saraf with the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award 2025 — recognition for six decades spent keeping Kashmiri drama alive on stage, radio and screen.
Jammu's Shreya Gupta has won gold at the Senior Commonwealth Fencing Championship in Lagos, with Vishal Thapar taking team silver. Both learned the sport in Jammu.
The government has paid out for 2023-24 and 2024-25. The useful part is the machinery behind it: what a medal is worth, who qualifies, and where a Jammu athlete files.
A trainee of the J&K Sports Council's gymnastics academy in Jammu reached the final of the Asian Aerobic Gymnastics Championship on his first outing as a junior.
SPO Vishal Manyal brought home two gold medals and a silver from the 18th WEKAF World Arnis Championship in Delhi, and Jammu's Railway Division gave him a hero's welcome.
Jammu hosts the national U-17 championship from September 28 — and because we're hosting, J&K gets three slots per category instead of two. The trials are on August 17.
Six Jammu wushu athletes won 16 medals at an international meet in Batumi. Their association's next ask is a basic one: a proper hall to train in.
The J&K pacer who won the Ranji Trophy has been called into India's Test squad for Sri Lanka, replacing Jasprit Bumrah. If he plays, no J&K cricketer has done it before.
School and college athletes can enter seven disciplines at JP World School from August 10–12, with selection for the PEFI J&K State Championship at stake.
Born in 2011 or 2012 and quick with a ball? J&K's Sports Council ran open trials this week — starting on Jammu's Parade Ground turf — to build its junior national football squad.
At the 2nd UTT J&K Ranking Championships in Jammu, the senior titles went to Maanay Mansotra and Nitya Arora - but the story is the pre-teens sweeping the age-group golds.
The Yonex-Sunrise All-J&K Ranking-cum-Selection Badminton Tournament runs Aug 9-11 at Police Lines Hall - and it is the trial that picks J&K's North Zone team.
A 14.5K, 25K and 50K route through Jammu’s hills is set for 16 August. Here is the practical race-day guide before you register.
Samba staged the Union Territory's first Deaf Games, with 20 deaf athletes competing in badminton, athletics, volleyball and judo — a quiet milestone for inclusive sport.
More than 250 students turned out across three Jammu venues as the Youth Services and Sports department held inter-school trials in Gatka, Soft Tennis, Rugby and Girls' Cricket.
J&K's Majid Ah Magray captains India's Mixed Disability Cricket team for a seven-match series in England — with two more J&K players alongside him.
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After trials and a coaching camp on Jammu's K.K. Hakku turf, J&K's junior men's team is off to the 16th Hockey India Junior Men National Championship in Coimbatore (July 28–Aug 8).
The five-day UT shooting championship has drawn over 200 shooters to Jammu's ranges. Here's what's on, who's leading and how young Jammuites can pick up the sport.
Stephens International Public School is hosting the CBSE Kabaddi Cluster-XVIII tournament, bringing around 500 young players from 20 schools onto the mat in Jammu.
Free elite coaching in nine sports has begun at Khel Gaon, Nagrota, with football legend Arun Malhotra mentoring — and the gates are open to talent from every district.
MA Stadium's long-awaited all-weather pool went operational just in time to host J&K's sub-junior and junior swimming trials this weekend — the squads now head to Jaipur and Bhubaneswar in August.
A three-day Hockey India coaching and officiating workshop at MA Stadium is training Jammu's next set of coaches and match officials. Here's what it means.
Competing against skaters from 14 states and UTs, a group of Jammu students brought home four golds and a bronze — a bright spot for the city's grassroots skating scene.
Over 230 paddlers, three days of play in Jammu, and two new UT champions — Maanay Mansotra and Nitya Arora — as a wave of young talent lit up the ranking championship.
J&K Swimming Association holds selection trials at MA Stadium's pool on July 18–19, choosing sub-junior and junior swimmers for two national championships this August.
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The J&K Sports Council's open trials for the U-14 Sub-Junior Girls football team ran at Jammu's Parade Ground this week, opening a clear pathway to a national championship squad.
Sabre fencers Shreya Gupta and Vishal Thapar have earned places in the Indian team and are training at the national camp ahead of the World Fencing Championships — a proud lift for J&K sport.
One bad match will no longer end a young player's shot at selection. J&K's Youth Services and Sports department has directed districts to run trials on a league-cum-knockout basis.
Asian Para Taekwondo gold medallist Chandeep Singh drove out of Gangyal on July 6 on a 7,000-km Jammu-to-Kanyakumari record bid for accessible mobility.
Four young players from the Khelo India Soft Tennis Centre at MA Stadium clinched bronze at the North Zone Nationals in Srinagar — proof of a grassroots sports engine finally paying off.
An international FIDE-rated tournament near Jammu has 157 players from six states battling over the board — and local teenagers are right at the top of the leaderboard.
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Four players trained at MA Stadium's Khelo India centre just won North Zone bronze in Srinagar — and one is already India-bound. Inside Jammu's quiet soft-tennis rise.
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J&K has cleared 223 sportspersons for government posts under the sports quota. For young players in Jammu, it turns a medal into a real, salaried career path.
A basketball thriller at the University of Jammu, a city-wide 5KM run and the J&K swimming team’s departure for the Senior Nationals have made this a stacked summer for Jammu sport — all under the Fit India banner.
Cricket and football leagues built around Jammu’s own grounds are giving local players a stage — and giving the city a reason to come out under the lights.
Cricket and football super leagues bring organised, professionally run competition to Jammu’s grounds — and a real stage for local talent to be seen.
With a fresh sports calendar under review and the MA Stadium still the heart of the action, young athletes in Jammu have more to play for this season. A quick look at the field.
New football and cricket leagues, a growing marathon, and a packed sports calendar are giving Jammu’s young athletes something to play for. A preview of the season taking shape across the city’s grounds.
Football and cricket super leagues are bringing competitive, floodlit sport to Jammu’s grounds this season, with young players from across the region in the spotlight.
Two new YSS-JKSC leagues are set to bring professional-level football and cricket back to Jammu, with a deliberate spotlight on local talent. A preview of the sporting season ahead.