Rajinikanth solo leads in Bhubaneswar Open Chess
Bhubaneswar: G Rajinikanth scored five points by the end of fifth rounds and solo lead in the 6th BBSR All India Fide Rating (below-1600) Tournament here on Tuesday. Raijinikanth defeated Manoranjan Rath and Diya Chowdhury in the fourth and fifth round respectively. Shreyash Subham Patnaik, Aditya Anurakta Mohanty, Subhankar Das, Satvik V, Jha Kishor, Aryabann Sain, Binu Sebastian and Almas Khan gathered 4.5 points each and placed in the second place. 25 others scored four points each and shared the third place. As many as 276 players from across 12 States are participating in the eight round meet to be concluded on Wednesday. The meet is featuring total cash prizes of Rs 2 lakhs to be distributed among 80 winners including 30 merit holders, 18 winners in rating categories, 10 unrated winners , best women player, best veteran and 20 age group winners. .
Soumya bags bronze in Civil Services Chess
Bhubaneswar: Odisha's first Fide Master Soumya Ranjan Mishra won the bronze medal in All India Civil Services Chess Tournament concluded on Tuesday at Silvasa (Dadra Nagar Haveli).
Soumya gathered 7.5 points by registering seven win, one draw and a defeat in the nine round tournaments. P Maheswaran of Tamilnadu won the gold medal. As many as 163 players including 91 international Rated player were participated in the meet. Soumya will get one increment as per the civil services norm. Now soumya is working at Chief Post Master General office here.
ECoR enter Bhagyadhar Football Semis
Bhubaneswar: East Coast Railway will take on Yazdani Club-73 in the semifinal of the 2nd Bhagyadhar Trophy Football Tournament at Indira Maidan here on March 25. The quarterfinal match between ECoR and Odisha Police of Cuttack ended in goalless draw in the stipulated time on Tuesday. ECoR entered semifinal by defeating Police by 3-1 via through tie-breaker.in the last quarterfinal match on Wednesday, Accountant General of Odisha will take on Sports Authority of India (SAI) of Cuttack center. Malkanagiri MlA Manas Madkami, former DGP Sanjeev Marik, Naba Ranjan Patnaik, Gobinda Mohanty and Nikhila Balabantaray were present.
Grassroots leaders course from April 1
Bhubaneswar: As per the guideline of All India Football Federation the Football Association of Odisha will be conducting a Grassroots leaders Course at Cuttack from April 1 to 3. AFC-B license coach Akshya Das will conduct the camp as coach. The players who want to participate in this course may contact the office of Football Association of Odisha (Contact Number-0671-2301459).