Hockey hero Sunil Acharya feted at Temple

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March 10, 2012

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Mangalore, March 10: The Kalikamba Vinayaka Temple Trust which is celebrating its 'Yugadi Mahotsava' felicitated a sports hero of the nation.

The recipient of this honour was Sunil Acharya, member of the Indian National Hockey team.

He was felicitated with a shawl, citation and fruits in the presence of Shree Kalahasthendra Saraswathi Mahaswamiji and Aremadanahalli Shiva Sujnana Murthy Swami and Sadananda Shetty, the president of the Shree Devi Education Trust.

Responding to the honour he said: “I am really moved by the warmth shown by all the people here. I have worked really hard and without the encouragement of my elders it was not possible to reach this level. I am excited about playing for the nation at the Olympic Games and will surely try to win gold for India. I hope all of you pray that I become successful in my venture”

Sunil Kumar, a local lad who is representing India at the forthcoming Olympics, has made his mark in sports, in a very hard way. He hails from a small village where there was no option of playing hockey. Thus he used to use branches from coconut trees and use it as a hockey stick to practice the game.

Eventually he moved to Belgaum and got selected for the Army regiment and became the part of the junior hockey team of India. This is where he was trained well and began shaping up as a hockey player. He is in the Indian team since five years and has been showing consistent performance.

In 2007 he won the Asian cup gold, in 2009 he won the gold medal at Malaysia, In 2010 he won the gold at the India-Canada hockey tournament and in 2011 he won the gold medal at the India-South Africa invitation cup.

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Bengaluru, Mar 15: The civic body in Bengaluru has said that gathering at marriage functions should not exceed 100 people in order to curb the spread of coronavirus.

A circular issued by Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) dated March 15 said, "All marriage functions pre booked in marriage halls, hotels, Party places, etc. prior to the issue of circular dated March 13, shall be allowed to be conducted subject to the condition that the gathering in the function not exceeding 100 persons."

"The above relaxation is an exception in consideration of the difficulties in rescheduling and cancelling the Marriage event immediately," the circular said.

It said, "The Owners/Management of such locations where Marriages are to be solemnized due to pre booking shall maintain high standards of sanitation and hygiene by periodically cleaning by 10 per cent Sodium Hydrochlorite Solution or any other effective disinfectant the surfaces, floors and exposed areas likely to be touched by the attendants."

"Any person attending the function having any such symptoms like Cough, Cold, and Fever etc. shall be requested for immediately leaving the Programmes," it said.

The civic body further said in the circular, "No fresh bookings of any place for Marriage programme are permitted till further orders. Any bookings on future dates by any organizer, event manager, owner of such property or any other person will be at his own risk and action will be taken against the property or any other person for any kind of bookings before an Order allowing such bookings is issued by a Competent Authority."

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