KISS Rugby team representing India leaves for london
Bhubaneswar: KISS U-13 boys rugby team, representing India, left for london on Monday to play in “Touraid U-13 International Boys Rugby Tournament-2015” scheduled to be held from September 30 to October 10.
Ten countries include India, laos, Kenya, Botswana, Uganda, Swaziland, Africa, Colombia, England and Hong Kong would participate in the tournament. Students participating in India team from KISS are Makaranda Pradhan (Captain), Ajoy Sing, Gajendra Baskey, Priyaranjan Mallick, Jitendra Naik, Saral Hansda, Prakash Dharua, Hasrat Majhi, Pabitra majhi, and Tapan Kumar Bhoi. Rajkishore Murmu is the Coach, while Rudrakesh Jena is Manager of the team.
Expressing his satisfaction, Dr. Achyuta Samanta, Founder, KIIT and KISS congratulated the team and hoped for its success in this international tournament. Earlier, KISS Rugby team representing India three times in various categories played International tournament at london and won the World Champion title. KISS U-13 boys team representing India will participate this international tournament for the first time.
XIMB Hosts corporate sports meet
Bhubaneswar: XIMB hosted the two day long corporate sports meet “Colosseum 2015”, which concluded here on Sunday, the first of its kind sports event including the corporate houses of the city.
The event was a celebration of the enduring relationship XIMB shares with the corporate houses and marks the beginning of “Athlos2015”, the annual inter B-School Sports Meet of XIMB, to be held this October. Infosys limited and Tech Mahindra participated in this coveted event which was organised by the Sports Committee of XIMB.
Colosseum’2015 saw the team’s battle out in various sports like cricket, table tennis, badminton, basket ball, football and tennis. The enthusiasm shown by the corporate houses was worth watching. Infosys bagged the champions trophy for cricket, football and basketball while Tech Mahindra won the lawn tennis tournament. XIMB was declared the winner of table tennis and badminton.
The event concluded with, Dr Biswa Swarup Mishra, Dean Academics XIMB, handing over the trophies to the winners and the sports committee coordinator, Surajit Sar’spromising to make Colosseum bigger and better in the years to come. He also thanked all the participants for truly representing the spirit of Colosseum and for the zeal and involvement they brought into the game.
United Brothers win in Gati Krushna Football
Bhubaneswar: Sanjeev Patsani of United Brothers netted hattrick and guided the team beat Silicon Institute of Technology by 3-1 goals in the 12th Gati Krushna Memorial Div-2 Football league at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Monday, being organized by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association. In the group-A league match, Sanjeev draw the first blood in the fifth minute. Sidhanth Mohanty of the Silicon Institute scored the equalizer in the 30th minute. After the change of sides, Sanjeev netted another two goals in the 51st and 68th minutes respectively.
Pradeep Kumar Nayak, Susanta Mishra, Sekhjawat Khan and Manoj Soren were conducted the match as referees. Ekamra Sporting Club would meet Regional Football Club in the league round match on Tuesday.
Shriyanka bags bronze in Asian Airgun Shooting
Bhubaneswar: Ace Odia shooter Shriyanka Sadangi has won an individual bronze medal in the 10 m Air rifle Junior Women event on Monday at the ongoing 8th Asian Airgun Shooting Championship 2015 in New Delhi. The gold and the silver medals were won by shooters from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Championship kicked-off in New Delhi, where the competition is held from the 25th of September through the 1st of October. Asian athletes will compete in Air Rifle and Air Pistol events, in three different categorises, Youth, Junior, and Senior, in men's and women's events.
The competition is conducted according to the International Shooting Sport (ISSF) and Asian Shooting Confederation (ASC) rules and regulations, and includes team events.
The event takes place at the Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Ranges in New Delhi, India, a facility equipped with 80 10-metre firing points, Sius-Ascor electronic targets and scoring equipment, and a separate Finals range. Shriyanka has recently graduated from St Stephen's College, New Delhi and is now pursuing her Masters from Delhi University.
SOA to develop sports drink
Bhubaneswar: The SOA University will work on development of a sports drink for nourishment of athletes to be named after ace sprinter Dutee Chand. “The drink will be a combination of vitamins and nutrients based fully on natural resources. Researchers in the University–run Institute of Medical Sciences and Sum Hospital and the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences will work on this,” Vice-Chancellor of the university Prof Amit Banerjee announced while felicitating the sprinter at the university on Monday. Prof Banerjee presented Dutee a cheque of Rs 50,000 and a memento.