Bidanasi, Independent win in FAO league
Bhubaneswar: Bidanasi Club and Independent Club defeated Rising Star Club and Sports Hostel 2-0 and 1-0 goals respectively in the FAO 1st Division Football league at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Saturday. Bijaya Behera of Bidanasi netted a goal each in the 35th and 37th minutes and the team scripted 2-0 win. In the second match, Philip scored the all important goal in the 30th minute and Independent Club won the match by 1-0. SAI-STC and Sunrise Club would meet Odisha Police and Jay Durga Club respectively in the super league round match on Sunday.
AICF felicitate Saina Salonika
Bhubaneswar: Odia girl Saina Salonika was felicitated by All India Chess Federation (AICF) on Saturday at Russian Center of Science and Culture in Delhi for winning the bronze medal in the World Youth Chess Championship in the U-12 girl category held at Halkidiki, Greece from October 24 to November 6. She was received a memento, Shawl and cash award of Rs 30,000.
Saina is the only girl of Odisha won three medals in the World Youth Chess Championships. Earlier she also bagged gold medal in the U-10 Girl category at All Ain U.A.E in 2013 and bronze medal in U-8 girl category at Caldas Novas , Brazil in the year 2011.
By winning the bronze at Greece, Saina got selected to represent India in the U-14 girl category in the World Youth Chess Championship 2016 to be held in Russia.
The felicitation programme was attended by Omkar Kedia Joint Secretary to Government of India , Ministry of Sports and Youth Services , DV Sundar Vice President FIDE, Bharat Singh Chouhan CEO ,All India Chess Federation, A Venkatraja, President AICF, V.Hariharan honrary secretary AICF and Sekhar Sahu, Vice President AICF.
Gomes solo leader in Women Fide Rating Chess
Bhubaneswar: Second seeded West Bengal WGM Mary Ann Gomes defeated overnight joint leader top seeded Air India WGM Kulkarni Bhakati, with four points Gomes become the solo leader by the end of fourth round in the 5th Bhubaneswar All India Open Fide Rating Chess Tournament for the girls at Infosys here on Saturday. Third seeded IM Nisha Mohota of Petroleum Sports Promotion Board and tenth seeded Y Saranya of Tamil Nadu gathered 3.5 each and jointly shared the second place. Seven players with 3 points placed in third. Eight Odia players won, eleven lost and four players drew in their respective fourth round matches. On Sunday in fifth round sole leader Gomes with black will play against third seeded IM Nisha Mohota .
State Dragonboat team announced
Bhubaneswar: A12- Member State Dragonboat team has been announced on Saturday, to participate in the National Dragonboat Racing Championship to be held at Guwahati in Assam from December 17 to 19.
Akhaya Kumar lenka will accompany the team as manager. Team will leave from here on Monday morning to participate in the national meet. As many as 22 State will participate in the meet. Odisha will participate in the 200 and 500 meter race.
Bhubaneswar North MlA Priyadarshi Mishra wished good luck to the team in presence of Secretary Upendra Kumar Mohanty and vice president Rajib Sahu. Odisha team: Jagan Kumar Jena (Captain), Tapan Kumar Sahu, Basudeb Ojha, Sidhartha Sahoo, Jyoti Sangram Mohanty, Subrat Pattnaik, Biswajit Das, Ramesha Chandra Behera, Nutan Kumar Sahoo, Manoranjan Behera, Debendra Kumar Sahu, Biranchi Kumar Sahoo, Akhya Kumar lanka (Manager).
Sgt Institute to meet Magicians in Callaghan Cup final
Bhubaneswar: Sgt Institute will meet Mumbai Magicians in the final of the Calalghan Cup Div-II Rugby Tournament at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. In the semifinals, Sgt Institute and Magicians defeated CRPF and Delhi lions 21-3, 21-0 respectively. CRPF will meet Delhi lions on Sunday for the third and fourth place. Similarly, Tamil Nadu and KISS will meet Delhi Rebels and Jammu and Kashmir for the 5th, 6th and 7th and 8th place respectively.
Sainik School Athletic meet concludes
Bhubaneswar: Abhisekh Kumar and Jagdish Jena awarded as the champion athlete among seniors and juniors respectively in the 54th Annual Athletic Meet of Sainik School held at Gandhi Stadium of the campus here on Saturday. The noted Olympian Annuradha Biswal graced the occasion as chief guest. Overall the Gomati House received shield as the winners-up followed by Ganga and Cauvery houses jointly as runner up among seniors. Similarly, Godavari House stood first and received trophy followed by Yamuna House among juniors. In the closing ceremony more than 600 cadets of eleven hostels presented a spectacular show of displays like Karate, Mass PT, Pyramid, Yoga, Aerobic, Band, fan fare and Beating the Retreat. Capt (IN) Kanchan Mukherjee, Principal extended a warm welcome in his words of appreciation to the star athlete. In her address the chief guest highly appreciated the performance of the Cadets and appealed them to excel further in sports and bring pride to our own institution, State and Nation. The meet was conducted under the guidance of lt Col Shreyas Mehta, Vice-Principal and lt Col Ajay Gupta, Admin Officer made all necessary arrangements. The event was co-ordinated by Sr. Master Ashis Rath, Sports Secretary AK Mukherjee, CHM Puskar Kapri. Eventually, lt Col Shreyas Mehta proposed vote of thanks.