MBS to host mini Marathon on Mother’s Day
Bhubaneswar: On the occasion of Mothers-Day for the third year city-based Mothers Business School (MBS) is all set to oraganise a Mini Marathon on May 12, informed Principal Dr Sheshadev Mohapatra in a Press Meet here on Thursday. Altogether 1200 boys and girls in between the age group of 16-19 will participate in the marathon which will start from the school and the students will touch Sisubhavan chakka, Maushi Maa Temple, Municipality office, Kalpana Chakka, Rajmahal overbridge,SBI main branch and to end at the school campus. The champion of both the boys and girls categories will receive a cash prize of Rs 5,000 each and the runners-up both events will get Rs 3,000 each. However the third finishers will get Rs 2000 each.
AFC Grass root football festival on May 15
Bhubaneswar: Former national women football team captain Sradhanjali Samantray, the lone footballer from the State has been undergone the grass root course is all set to conduct a Football Festival (for Under – 12, both for boys and girls) at Kalinga Stadium on May 15. To create awareness and interest for soccer among the young star “Asian Football Confederation Grass Root Day” is observed throughout the country by All India Football Federation on May 15 by way of organizing Under-12 football festival, informed Sradhanjali Samantary.
The festival which covers’s competition (5-A-Side) and workshop (Skill) simultaneously will have all total 12 teams (boy’s and girl’s).
Bhubaneswar-A beat Rourkela in Super league
Bhubaneswar: A five-wicket haul by Sourav Das of Bhubaneswar-A helped the team to beat Rourkela by huge 75 runs in the 40 overs super-league round match of the OCA Inter-District U-14 Cricket Tournament at Nimpur Ground in Cuttack on Thursday.
Batting first, Raghunath Malla smashed 65 runs and Bhubaneswar-A gathered 154 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 40 overs. In reply, Sourav scalped five wickets and restricted Rourkela for 79 runs in 32 overs. In other matches of the day, Cuttack-A, Balasore and Jharsuguda defeated Bhadrak, Bhubaneswar-B and Sambalpur by 35 runs, three and seven wickets respectively.