Mangaluru: Bearys Cup badminton tournament inaugurated
Mangaluru, November 4: The Bearys Cup badminton tournament organised by the Bearys Sports Promoters was inaugurated at the US Mallya indoor stadium at Lalbagh in the city on Sunday.
Sridevi Education Trust and DKDBA president Sadananda Shetty inaugurated the tournament.
Inaugurating the event, Sadananda Shetty said that the tournament would bind the Bearys community together. Nowadays, the caste based organisations were important for the organisation of a community. Right from admitting the child to the school to joining the job and in all activities, the caste was important. Bearys Sports Promoters should be strengthened and organise more of such events in future, he said.
Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry president P B Abdul Hameed said that the badminton tournament would bring together the community people. In future, people from all communities should be invited for the tournament. Playing badminton would be beneficial instead of sweating out in gyms, he said.
City Corporation Commissioner Mohammad Nazeer said that it would provide a platform to the budding talents. Not only badminton, the Bearys Sports Promoters should also organise other sports, he said.
BEADS Dean A R Mohammad Nisar said that the players practiced in the Bearys Sports Promoters have made achievements in state, national and international level. Let this achievement reach its peak, he added.
Presiding over the programme, Bearys Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Haji SM Rasheed said that it was the third tournament being conducted by the Bearys Sports Promoters. First year tournament was conducted for the community players. But in the second year, players from all communities participated. This tournament was organised just for Bearys community. In coming years, players from all communities would be invited. The players from the Bearys Sports Promoters have participated in a badminton tournament held in Dubai recently and got various places, he said.
Bearys Sports Promoters president Noor Mohammad, Mangala Association president CS Bhandary, Mangaluru Sports Promoters Ivan Pinto and others were present.
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Another North Goa nightclub sealed; Kejriwal says corruption led to fire tragedy
Panaji (PTI): As part of a crackdown against tourist establishments violating laws and safety norms in the aftermath of the Arpora fire tragedy, Goa authorities on Saturday sealed a renowned club at Vagator and revoked the fire department NOC of another club.
Cafe CO2 Goa, located on a cliff overlooking the Arabian Sea at Vagator beach in North Goa, was sealed. The move came two days after Goya Club, also in Vagator, was shut down for alleged violations of rules.
Elsewhere, campaigning for local body polls, AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal said the fire incident at Birch by Romeo Lane nightclub at Arpora, which claimed 25 lives on December 6, happened because the BJP government in the state was corrupt.
An inspection of Cafe CO2 Goa by a state government-appointed team revealed that the establishment, with a seating capacity of 250, did not possess a no-objection certificate (NOC) of the Fire and Emergency Services Department. The club, which sits atop Ozrant Cliff, also did not have structural stability, the team found.
The Fire and Emergency Services on Saturday also revoked the NOC issued to Diaz Pool Club and Bar at Anjuna as the fire extinguishers installed in the establishment were found to be inadequate, said divisional fire officer Shripad Gawas.
A notice was issued to Nitin Wadhwa, the partner of the club, he said in the order.
Campaigning at Chimbel village near Panaji in support of his party's Zilla Panchayat election candidate, Aam Aadmi Party leader Kejriwal said the nightclub fire at Arpora happened because of the "corruption of the Pramod Sawant-led state government."
"Why this fire incident happened? I read in the newspapers that the nightclub had no occupancy certificate, no building licence, no excise licence, no construction licence or trade licence. The entire club was illegal but still it was going on," he said.
"How could it go on? Couldn't Pramod Sawant or anyone else see it? I was told that hafta (bribe) was being paid," the former Delhi chief minister said.
A person can not work without bribing officials in the coastal state, Kejriwal said, alleging that officers, MLAs and even ministers are accepting bribes.
