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Youth Champions League winners yet to receive prize money By Armstrong Vaz Margao : The Youth Champions League was dubbed as ‘India’s biggest youth tournament’ but it turned out to be contrary. Instead the badly organized show lowered the image of Goan and Indian football in the eyes of the public. That’s not the end. It has now emerged that some of the schools and clubs teams which took part in the tournament are yet to receive the prize money, almost a year passed after the tournament ended at the Nehru Stadium on October 28. Fr. Agnel Ashram Higher Secondary School Verna, is one team which participated and won the top honours, who are yet to receive the winner’s purse of Rs.50,000 which is due to them. “We are yet to receive the prize money. We paid Rs.12,000 as entry fee and we were promised Rs 50,000- as winners which was mentioned in the entry form which was given to us, but sadly we are yet to receive it,” informed Ivan D’Sa Physical Education teacher at th...

Home for the Aged at Nagao Verna to be renovated Verna, Salcete Goa India : The Home for the Aged belonging to the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny at Nagao Verna is all set to get a new look, thanks to the renovation plans. The home for the elderly, which has been functioning since 1962, was long due for up gradation. The Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny are now planning to increase the intake capacity of the inmates from the existing 25 to 66. “At present we have 25 inmates and we want to extend our service to our needy senior brothers and sisters. We plan to build single, double and dormitory accommodation for 66 inmates,” said Sister Nanette Temudo, Sister Superior, Home for the Aged, Nagao Verna. “The present facilities available here are inadequate to serve better. In order to provide more comfortable stay with peace and joy there is an urgent need to demolish and reconstruct the Old Aged Home,” she disclosed. The land where the Home for the Aged is based ...