Shepherds Academy students excel in National-level Karate Championship in Udupi
Mangaluru: Students of the Shepherds International Academy in Attavar participated in the Kumite Category of the 1st Invitational National-level Karate Championship on Sunday, November 6.
The event was organized at Thunder’s Golden Bay, Subhas Nagara, Kurkal, Udupi by Ken-e-Mabuni-Shito-Ryu Karate School of India.
As many as 11 students from the Academy won trophies and certificates at various positions. One student was winner in a contest, while three were runners-up and seven students were at third position.
The students have all qualified for the upcoming international competition in the Kumite category, to be held in a couple of months.
The management of the Shepherds International Academy congratulated the students who won at various positions. It also thanked the principal, faculty members, parents and trainers of the students for their combined efforts and contributions to the prize-winning performance of the Academy students.
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8 dead, dozens wounded in Russian strike on Ukraine's Odesa port
Kyiv (AP): Eight people were killed and 27 wounded in a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, late on Friday, Ukraine's Emergency Service said on Saturday morning.
Some of the wounded were on a bus at the epicentre of the overnight strike, the service said in a Telegram post. Trucks caught fire in the parking lot, and cars were also damaged.
The port was struck with ballistic missiles, said Oleh Kiper, the head of the Odesa region.
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Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces hit a Russian warship and other facilities with drones, Ukraine's General Staff said in a statement on Saturday.
The nighttime attack on Friday hit the Russian warship “Okhotnik,” according to the statement posted to the Telegram messaging app.
The ship was patrolling in the Caspian Sea near an oil and gas production platform. The extent of the damage is still being clarified, the statement added.
A drilling platform at the Filanovsky oil and gas field in the Caspian Sea was also hit. The facility is operated by Russian oil giant Lukoil. Ukrainian drones also struck a radar system in the Krasnosilske area of Crimea, which Russia illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014.
