Sharjah, Feb 16: It was a wonderful and memorable day-long outing at Wanderers Club sports club, Sharjah.'Karaval Milan' an association of 19 Coastal Line parishes of Mangalore Diocese is commended by one and all for its numerous services to the society since its inception. To mark it 8th anniversary Karaval Milan organized Karnataka state-level volleyball and throwball tournament on Friday February 15.

Friday being a day when the people of Sharjah mostly spend the morning sleeping away, the teams and the spectators began to gather at 7.30 am. Such was the response the tournament recieved.

At sharp 9 am the programme kicked-off with a prayer song by Karaval Milan members. After a brief welcome from Karaval Milan president Rony Byndoor games were declared open by well-known personality of UAE, successful business woman and accomplished sportsperson in her hey days Shobha Mendonca. The colourful line-ups from participating teams during the inaugural ceremony was akin to that of any international sports meet.

Shobha Mendonca declared open the throwball tournament in a grand way by releasing colourful red balloons signifying the message of Valentine's Day. She cut the ribbon of the ball which was tied to the playing net and passed some volleys with teams playing in the first round.

Another successful businessman of UAE Alfred D Souza, MD of CAB Real Estate flagged-off the volleyball tournament in a similar fashion by releasing white balloons as a symbol of peace and harmony. He too passed some volleys with the teams playing first.

Twelve volleyball teams for volleyball and six throwball teams gave a very tough and challenging time to their opponents. All the games were played very professionally with each team sweating it out to emerge winners.

After a very tough competition during the first half , Ace Spikers v/s Young Stars Nakre in volley ball and Jashan v/s Bunts Dubai made it to the finals. Ultimately in a nail biting finish Young Stars Nakre emerged winners of volleyball with 27-25 , 26-24 margin and Jashan Dubai in throwball with 15-2 , 15-10 margin.

Both the finals will definitely be remembered as two of the classic games were ever witnessed in UAE. But the match that UAE will never forget is the throwball semi-final clash between Bunts Dubai and KCO Abu Dhabi. The houseful crowd enjoyed this game which had the all the ingredients of a nerve-wrecking match, played for nearly two hours.

In the evening a gala closing ceremony was held. Karaval Milan vice-president Nanu Marol Thottam welcomed the gathering. President Rony Byndoor honoured the guests with floral bouquets. Shailesh of Chavadi restaurant presented the runner-up trophy and indivisual trophies to Bunts Dubai while Alfred D Souza of CAB Real Estate honoured the winners Jashan Dubai with a cash award.

In volleyball section Oliver D'Mello of Al Munasib Building Materials felicitated the runners-up Ace Spikers and Ashok Shetty of Mubarak Gen Trading gave away the winner's trophy, indivisual medals and cash prize to winners Young Stars Nakre.

In Indivisual category Shailesh of Chavadi Restaurant has distributed the Prizes to Nalini of Jashan Dubai as best smasher , Latha Bhandari of Bunts Dubai as best defender , Supriya of Jashan Dubai as Best allrounder and in Volley Ball Lesly Mendonca of young stars Nakre as Best All Rounder , Jayaraj Bangera of Ace Spikers as best smasher and Sarfraz Sr of Young stars Nakre as best lifter.

Best Displined team in Volley Ball went to Concept Creation B and in Throw ball surprise winners are United Friends Dubai.

Karaval Milan President Rony Byndoor has proposed vote of thanks.This ever memorable one programme was compered by Karaval Milan Secretary Janet Sequeira.

Gilbert Aranha & Noel D'almeida were the main co-ordinator of the event and Commentator.

Dubai, Feb 14: " Karaval Milan” unified voice of 19 Coastal Line parishes of Mangalore Diocese is commended by one and all for its numerous services to the society since it’s inception.  Believing in Service through Unity, Karaval Milan has provided quality entertainment to the people of both in UAE and in native for the last 6 years. To continue this tradition this year Karaval Milan has organized a Day long Volley Ball and Throw Ball Tournament.

Come this Friday ( 15.02.2008 ) to Wanderers Club Sharjah where you can watch highest level of competition from the participating teams which are having renowned list of players who brought glory to the game in their respective games.
 
" Karaval Milan " President Rony Byndoor in a press release , informed  that this day long programme scheduled to start at 8 AM with a colourful opening ceremony. Since this Tournament will be different than all the tournaments held before , he is expecting a full house stadium through out the day. All the necessary arrangements have been placed in order to make this event ever memorable one.
 
Karaval Milan once again welcomes all the Kannadiga sports lovers in UAE to come and enjoy the game.

Kundapur, Feb 13: Mohandas Shenoy and Nagaraja Kanchan were unanimously elected as president and vice-president respectively of Kundapur Town Municipality. Monday February 11.

Arun Prabha, tahsildar, presided over the ceremony as electoral officer and declared both BJP candidates  as unanimously elected president and vice-president.

The newly constituted Kundapur Town Municipality has a total strength of 23 out of which 15 are BJP members, 4 Congress members, 2 communist members and one JPS and an independent member.

The chief officer Rayappa congratulated the elected town municipal councillors.

Kundapur, Feb 12: Under the joint auspices of Udupi district administration and the district forest office, boating, a new pastime for the kids was inaugurated by Kodi banks on Monday February 11.

Several private elementary school children of the Udupi district took part in the event. They  enjoyed the enchanting backwaters with mangroves forests of Kodi near Vittalwadi in the neighbourhood of municipality.

Among the officials present during the event were forest officer Hemalatha, Abhijit Dasgupta, chief secretary, forest, environment, flora and fauna department, M H A Sheikh and Anil Kumar Varma, chief conservators of forests, Raja Kumar Srivatsav, assistant conservator and Kishor Kumar, regional forest ranger.

However, it was observed at the end that the local schools were not invited and the media people were also kept in the dark. The whole programme looked pre-arranged and stage-managed.

Kundapur, Feb 8: Today our country is heading towards economic and industrial progress, even as unprecedented huge opportunities are presenting themselves and are in fact knocking at the doors of meritorious students, said air marshal (retd) K R Karnik.

Inaugurating a one-day seminar for the benefit of BBM students of Bhandarkar’s College, he informed that the students especially those belonging to the department of commerce should become skillful in the art of interaction. This skill, in his opinion, will prevent them from any possible failure and enable them to seize all those opportunities coming their way in hundreds and thousands.

Prof Jayama Shetty and Dr Sudhir Raj of Justice KS Hegde Institute of Management, Nitte were present as resource persons in the seminar. Harsha, one of the trainees spoke about his experience at the workshop, which was held as a part of the seminar. Prof Dhomachandra Shekher welcomed the gathering. Roshni proposed the vote of thanks.