UAIl conducts badminton tourney
Bhubaneswar: Utkal Alumina International limited (UAIl), a Unit of Aditya Birla Group has recently organised a Badminton Tournament in its Township premises in Tikiri in the district of Rayagada. As a part of the company’s efforts to strengthen oneness and togetherness among Utkal Alumina fraternity, including that of outsourcing companies, contractors and thereby to enrich their quality of life, the company has organised the five-day long tournament in which more than 170 participants took part. It was inaugurated by N Nagesh, the Joint President of UAIl. On the closing day Vijay Sapra, the Unit Head, Raghunath Pratihari, VP-HR of UAIl and Bhaskar Bhattacharya from Corporate HR graced the occasion and distributed the prizes to the winners. On this occasion, one Sports quiz competition was also held amongst the employees of UAIl, students of Aditya Birla Public School and the contractors.
Odisha to meet Maharashtra in Gateball final
Bhubaneswar: Odisha women team will meet Maharashtra in the final of the 2nd All India Open Gateball Champion Trophy at Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday. In the semifinal matches, Defending champion Odisha eves pipped West Bengal 17-7, similarly, Maharashtra thrashed Bhubaneswar 13-8. Both the winning team entered the final. In the league round matches, Odisha defeated Vidarbha and Saurashtra 19-7 and 17-12 respectively. Odisha suffered a defeat in league match against Bhubaneswar 11-14.
While, Maharashtra were won the entire three league round matches. Maharashtra beat West Bengal, Gujarat and Venketeswar English Medium School 14-6, 17-8 and 13-7 respectively.
Semifinalists finalised in Biju Patnaik Gold Cup
Bhubaneswar: Defending champion United Football Club of Cuttack and Sundargarh Sports Hostel and Bolangir Sports Hostel respectively in the semifinals of the 9th Biju Pattnaik Gold Cup Football Tournament at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Monday.
In the quarterfinal matches on Saturday, Phulbani Sports Hostel and Sundargarh Sports Hostel defeated Keonjhar and Balosre respectively 2-0 goals each. Kisu Hemram of Phulbani netted two goals in the 29th and 31st minutes respectively and bagged the man of the match award. Similarly, Prasant Oram and Dilip lakra of Sundargarh scored a goal each in the 42nd and 50th minutes respectively. Prasant of the winning team received the man of the match award.
Odisha to meet Gujarat in Blind Cricket semis
Bhubaneswar: Odisha entered the semifinals by a comprehensive victory in the last league match against Rajasthan by nine wickets in the 22nd National Cricket Tournament for the Blind at Civil Service play ground in Delhi on Saturday. Being invited to bat first, Rajasthan scored 102 for 10 in 19.5 overs. Nakula Badnayak and Ramachandra Hansda of Odisha scalped three and two wickets respectively and bundle out Rajasthan. In reply, Sukharam majhi and Nakul Badnayak contributed 42 and 29 respectively and Odisha reached the target only in 12.2 overs by lossing only one wicket. Odisha and Haryana will take on Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh in the semifinals on Sunday. .
Brief Score: Rajasthan 102/10 in 19.5 overs (Nakula Badnayak 3/8, Ramachandra Hansda 2/19) lost to Odisha 103/1 in 12.2 overs (Sukharam Majhi 42, Nakula Badnayak 29) by nine wickets.