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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 ...

Goa to host Beach hockey tournament in November Six foreign teams and eight Indian teams to take part By Armstrong Vaz Margao: India is all set to join a select list of countries which have hosted the fast growing popular form of sport – Beach Hockey. Colva beach, five kilometers from here, will be hosting a four-day tournament from November 7 to 10, informed Andrea Thumshirn, founder of the Hockey Village India project in Rajasthan and one of the organizers of the tournament. “Beach Hockey is a fast, fun and furious. Beach Hockey is an international fast growing beach sport. There are Beach Hockey Tournament played in The Netherlands, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Italy, New Zealand, Argentina and Brasil. In 2014 the first Beach Hockey World Cup will be played in The Netherlands,” informed Andrea, who has been a first division club player in German before shifting her base to Garh Himmat Singh Hockey Village, some 120 kilometres away from Jaipur, the capital city of Rajas...

  National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Cuncolim the need of the hour By Armstrong Vaz The National Institute of Technology (NIT) has had been in the news for all the wrong reasons in Cuncolim village in Goa. A section of the villagers headed by Dr Jorson Fernandes are up in arms against the project. Is the opposition to the project a justified one? The protestors had first raised the bogey of reservation of seats for Cuncolim residents. Then came the demands for job reservation for locals. And, now they are harping on the ‘bio-diversity’ aspect of the proposed site. First things first, the protestors should come with a white paper as to why they are opposing the project. Hopefully reservation and bio-diversity are not the only issues which are troubling them at the moment. They have other issues which have forced them to go vocal. They say the government is not transparent enough about the project details. I agree with them...