‘In the tender age we face reality of life’
Bhubaneswar: My name is Banya (the meaning in English is flood) I meet with earthquake in Nepal on Saturday, which was terrible and devastating. I never thought that I will reach my home safe. On my tender age never expected to face such reality of life, said Odia U-14 footballer Banya Kabiraj on her arrival here on Monday from Kathmandu. In my wildest dream never thought of spending a day thought light, food and water. The most shocking factor is when you were surrounded by thousands of people who were struggling for life. The sleepless night of Saturday at Kathmandu was the nightmare because the horrified people searching their near and dear in street like mad, added Banya. Four of the five Odia footballers, who were part of India’s Under-14 girls’ football team were stranded in quake-hit Nepal, returned to the Stateon Monday.
The players are Janaki Murmu, Iva Panna, Banya Kabiraj and Shanti Murmu arrived at Biju Patnaik International airport here this afternoon. Shraddhanjali Samantray, who assisted the team as deputy coach during its Kathmandu trip to participate in the Asian Football Confederation’s Regional hampionship for the South and Central Zone, stayed back in Delhi and will return later, sources said. The 19-member squad was airlifted from Kathmandu to Delhi in a special aircraft on Sunday. Though the evacuation of the team was delayed due to fresh tremors in Nepal, the footballers and team officials reached in Delhi airport at around 4.55 pm. At the time of earthquake, fortunately we all were present in the stadium for our match. At first, we didn’t know what was happening soon we could see buildings far off crumbling, stadium roofs falling and people jumping to save their lives. Sradhanjali Madam told us to came out of the dressing room and we all reached middle of the ground, said Shanti Murmu. Around night 7.30 we reached the hotel and there was no light, we stayed in the lobby with a expectation that when we will reach our country, Iva Panna.
Gangpur eves thrash Assam
Bhubaneswar : Hockey Gangpur Odisha women started their winning campaign on a positive note on the opening day of the 5th Junior National Hockey Championship 2015 (Women) ‘’B’’ Division played at Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh on Sunday. In a one sided match between Hockey Gangpur Odisha and Assam Hockey the former was dominant and registered a convincing win over the later. The team started their goal scoring spree in the 17th minute as Janhabi Pradhan converted through a penalty corner. Janhabi was seen into action again in the 20th minute as her field effort bore results again and taking her teams score to 2-0. leading the game, Hockey Gangpur Odisha continued the same form in the second half as they struck their third goal in the 35th minute and this time it was Premita Bara who did the needful. 45th minute and the team bagged a penalty corner opportunity and which was stuck on the mark by Jiwan Kishori Toppo and taking the score to 4-0. Before the game ended Hockey Ganagpur Odisha added two more to the tally and took a comfortable win of 6-0.
Pool C Hockey Gangpur Odisha 6 Janhabi Pradhan (17 min-FG, 20 min-FG, 53 min-FG), Premita Bara (35 min-FG, 58 min-FG), Jiwan Kishori Pradhan (45 min-PC) vs Assam Hockey 0
Utkal +3 results: Girls outperform boys
Bhubaneswar: Girls performed better than boys in the Utkal University Plus-III examinations, results of which were declared on Monday. At a Press briefing at the university campus, Vice-Chancellor Ashok Kumar Das said the pass rate in Arts stood at 87 per cent while it was 85 per cent and 90 per cent in Science and Commerce, respectively. Expressing happiness over the overall performance, Das said girls performed better than boys if the results in all the three streams are taken together. Of 15,036 candidates in Arts, 13,066 students got through while 2,334 students out of 2,747 students cleared the exams in Science, he said. The Commerce stream, which saw good passing percentages year after year, keeps the record intact this year too with 1,487 students out of 1,646 turning out successful, Das added.
BCC to host Sumit Bose U-16 Cricket from today
Bhubaneswar: Biswabharati Cricket Club (BCC) is all set to host Sumit Bose Junior level (Under-16) Cricket Tournament at SCB Medical College Ground in Cuttack from April 28 to May 10. Altogether 12 teams from Cuttack and Bhubaneswar including one team from Kolkatta would participate in the meet. Teams have been divided in two groups. The champions will receive a cash award of Rs 15,000 and the runner up to be richer by Rs 10,000. In the inaugural match on Tuesday, Prasant Cricket Academy would meet Pramount Club. Group-A: Biswabharati Cricket Club, Pragati Sporting Club, Mukteswar Club, Tapan Cricket Club (Kolkata), Uniuon Sporting, Saheed Sporting. Group-B: Prasant Cricket Academy, Rameswar Sporting, Jagruti Cricket Club, Paramount Cricket Club, Juvenile Cricket Club, Rising Student.