Mangaluru: Yenepoya PU College wins "INFERN 2022" football tournament at Bearys Arena Ground
Mangaluru: An Intercollegiate PU level football tournament “INFERN 2022” was held on 30th & 31st Dec 2022 at Bearys Arena Ground here in the city.
A total of 22 teams participated in the tournament that was inaugurated by Chief Guest Dr. Gerald Santhosh D’Souza, Dean of Physical Education & Chairman, Mangalore University along with Principals of BIT, BIT Polytechnic, Architecture school and Emerging Sciences and Various heads of Departments Staff and Students of Bearys Group of Institutions.
Dr. Gerald spoke about the importance of true Sportsmanship and how the energy in the players and spectators triggered his memory of his college days.
The tournament was held on a League cum Knockout match basis. A total of 14 matches were played during league stages on the first day. From the league matches, 4 teams were selected – Pandyaraj Ballal PU College, Al- Furqan PU College Moodbidre, GHSS PU College Kumble, and Yenepoya PU College Jeppinamogaru.
Two Semi-final rounds and a final round having 8 matches were conducted on the second day to decide the winning team.
The final match was played between Yenepoya PU College Jeppinamogaru and GHSS PU College Kumble.
The tournament astonished the whole crowd with the vigor and spirit of the players throughout the game. In the finals, Yenepoya PU College emerged as the champions by scoring 5-0 goals against GHSS PU College.
After the match, a Valedictory Ceremony of the tournament was held at Bearys Arena Ground Dr. Aziz Musthafa, Principal of Bearys Institute of Emerging Sciences was the Chief Guest. He congratulated the winners as well as the runners for trying till the last minute and not giving up.
Winners were later felicitated along with runners as well as the individual award winners. The event was coordinated by Safwan, Physical Education Director, BIT along with Prof Minhajuddeen and Prof Dileep as faculty coordinators.
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Malian defence minister killed in attack that saw jihadis and rebels seize towns, military bases
Dakar (AP): Malian Minister of Defence Gen. Sadio Camara was killed in an attack as jihadi and rebel forces seized towns and military bases across the country, according to a military officer and two other sources on Sunday.
There was no immediate comment from the Malian government.
“Unfortunately, the Ministry of Defence, Gen. Sadio Camara, has been killed during the attack which targeted his house yesterday,” said a military official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not have permission to speak to the media.
Two other people, a civil society leader and a security member, confirmed the information.
Separatist fighters on Saturday joined Islamic militants in launching one of the biggest coordinated attacks on the Malian army in the capital and several other cities that left at least 16 wounded.
The separatists have been fighting for years to create an independent state in northern Mali, while al-Qaida and Islamic State group-aligned militants have been fighting the government for over a decade.
Malian troops and Russian mercenaries withdrew from the northern city of Kidal after the attacks, the rebels said Sunday.
A spokesperson for the Tuareg-led Azawad Liberation Front, or FLA, a separatist group, said the Russian Africa Corps troops and the Malian military withdrew from the city after an agreement was reached for their peaceful exit.
“Kidal is declared free,” said FLA spokesperson Mohamed El Maouloud Ramadan.
The Malian army did not respond to requests for comment but in an earlier statement said they were “tracking down terrorist armed groups in Kidal.”
The separatists have been fighting for years to create an independent state in northern Mali. Kidal had long served as a stronghold of the rebellion before being taken by Malian government forces and Russian mercenaries in 2023. Its capture marked a significant symbolic victory for the junta and its Russian allies.
It was the first time the separatists worked alongside the al-Qaida-linked militant group JNIM, which also claimed responsibility for Saturday's attacks on Bamako's international airport and four other cities, including Kidal, in central and northern Mali.
“This operation is being carried out in partnership with the JNIM, which is also committed to defending the people against the military regime in Bamako,” Ramadan said.
Wassim Nasr, a Sahel specialist and senior research fellow at the Soufan Center security think tank, said that the coordination between the two groups, as well as the explicit call for the Russian military to leave, is new.
“The coordination, conducting attacks all over the country at the same time, real coordination on the military level but also on the political level because both claims of both groups they acknowledged that they worked together, this is a first,” said Nasr.
Mali government spokesperson Gen. Issa Ousmane Coulibaly said on state television late Saturday that 16 people were wounded, including civilians and military personnel, and that several militants were killed. He did not provide a death toll.
The governor of Bamako's district, Abdoulaye Coulibaly, announced a three-day overnight curfew, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.
The Economic Community of West African States has condemned the attacks and called on “all states, security forces, regional mechanisms and populations of West Africa to unite and mobilize in a coordinated effort to combat this scourge.”
The separatists called on Russia to “reconsider its support for the military junta in Bamako, whose actions have contributed to the suffering of the civilian population.”
Following military coups, the juntas in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso turned from Western allies to Russia for help in combating Islamic militants. But the security situation has worsened in recent times, with a record number of attacks by militants. Government forces have also been accused of killing civilians they suspect of collaborating with militants.
In 2024, an al-Qaida-linked group claimed an attack on Bamako's airport and a military training camp in the capital, killing scores of people.
Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, said that while the attacks were a major blow to the credibility of Mali's Russian partners, JNIM is unlikely to take control of Bamako in the near term due to opposition from the local population.
“The attacks are a major blow to Russia as the mercenaries had no intelligence about the attacks and were unable to protect major cities. They have unnecessarily worsened the conflict by not distinguishing between civilians and combatants,” Laessing said.
