Sundargarh vs Sports Hostel in Chandan Cup semis
Bhubaneswar: Sundargarh would meet Sports Hostel of Bhubaneswar in the semifinal of the 2nd All India Chandan Cup Women Football Tournament at Baramunda Ground here on Friday, being organised by Odisha Veer Mahasangha (OVM). In the quarterfinal match on Thursday, Payri Xaxa and Sukumati laguri netted two goals each and powered the Sundargarh to beat Jharkhand by 6-0 goals. Pyari draw the first blood in the second minute of the match and she scored another goal in the 18th minute. Similarly, Sukumati scored double goals in the 20th and 36th minutes respectively. Manisha Tirkey and Kapura Bashera netted a goal each in the sixth and 44th minutes respectively. Payri of the winning team received the women of the match award. Bishnupriya Das, Sudipta Das, Chitrambada Patra and Dibyani Sukla were officiated the match as referees. BJP leader Pruthibraj Harichandan, actress Manisha Mishra, Ananya Mishra, OVM president Prakash Srichandan, Bhubaneswar District Athletic Association secretary SR Parija, Arabinda Mitra and Ashok Mohanty were present as guests.
Himanshu maintain lead in Open Chess
Bhubaneswar: Top rated IM Himanshu Sharma maintained his supremacy and scored four points by the end of fourth rounds and placed in the top along with GM laxman RR, Rajesh Nayak, Srinath Rao SV and FM Ramakrishna J in the 3rd Bhubaneswar All India Open Fide Rating Chess Championship here on Thursday, being organised by Khurda District Chess Association. Odia boy Utkal Ranjan Sahoo and FM Rakesh Kumar Jena scored 3.5 points each and sheared the second place with five others. WGM Kiran Manisha Mohanty registered one defeat, two win and a draw by the end of four round and scored only 2.5 points. In the third round Odia boy Rajesh Nayak (2013) caused upset by defeating Himal Gusain (2343) of Chandigarh.
PC Inaugurates VV Karate School
Bhubaneswar: Under the stewardship of the International fame Karate Queen, Valena Valentina, a new Karate school ,with branding of VV Karate ,was opened and inaugurated by twin city Police Commissinor Dr. Rajendra Prasad Sharma, at Pandav Nagar,Tankapani Road, here on Thursday. Speaking on the occasion the chief guest, Dr. Sharma said that the need of hour for training of self-defence, especially to children and women, this will empower with proper training furthermore ,he assured all needed help to from the Commissionerate of Police for this nobel effort. Valena Valentina addresses the gathering of guest and student with the objective of establishing the school and also demonstrates some tricks of self-defence. She added in addition of the self-defence training ,objective is also to produce players to participate in National and International arena .The school has well equipped facility for proper Karate training. In the forthcoming State Karate Championship the school inmates would participate. Among others, Judo coach Gitanjali Panda, former corporater Abani Patsani and Ashok Pattnaik were present.
ICAR-CIFA Annual sports meet held
Bhubaneswar: The three-day-long annual sports 2014-15 of ICAR- Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture was concluded at playground of the institute on Thursday. Annual event was organized every year by the staff welfare club of CIFA to encourage all the staff members to participate in the sports. In this event around 300 staff members, scientists, students participated in the both indoor and outdoor games. The games like cricket, volley ball, badminton, table tennis, chess, carom, track and field etc are played with much enthusiasm and vigour among the members. The programme was inaugurated on March 24 by Naba Ranjan Pattnaik, Joint Secretary, Athletic Association, Bhubaneswar. During his inaugural address he expressed his happiness in seeing large number of the staff members participated in the events. He expressed concerns many organizations are not giving adequate attention to sports which is essentially an important step in keeping people healthy and more productive in the work. His offered all types of support in terms of the coaching to the staff members in improving their sports acumen. Dr. P. Jayasankar, Director and chairman of the occasion has expressed satisfaction over the arrangements in making the programme successful. He assured the staff of the all the necessary support in encouraging people to participate in the sports events in future. The chairman of the sports committee Dr. P. Das, principal scientist also briefed the gathering about the event. The programme was coordinated by N. K. Barik, General Secretary staff Welfare Club of CIFA and in his speech he appraised the gathering about the activities of the club and importance given by the club for developing sports in CIFA. Mr. D. Tarai, sports secretary proposed vote of thanks. D. P. Rath, Captain of CIFA staff Cricket team, J. R. Biswal, Sisir Mohanty, SVN Murthy, Dr. S. S. Giri were present among others.