NEW DELHI: The National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) announced Friday that the 18th Kumar Surendra Singh Memorial Championship will be shifted to the capital in the wake of the Nipah virus threat in Kerala, PTI reports.
New Delhi’s Dr Karni Singh Shooting Range will host the event in the second week of June and not as per the original dates of May 31 to June 18. The national trials for rifle and pistol shooters was to be held.
“Delhi will host the event now and it will start around June 10,” a top NRAI official told PTI.