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Goalpokhor’s Sensei Avijit Pal Becomes Indian Karate Team’s Coach

Posted on May 6, 2017 by tni

By Dipankar Dey (TNI Islampur) | TNI Editing Siliguri Webdesk, TNI Goalpokhor, 6th May, 2017: It’s a pride of Islampur because it’s for the first time in history the assistant coach of Indian National Karate team is selected from Islampur’s Subdivision. It’s Sensei Avijit Pal from Goalphokor, who is selected as an assistant coach for the Indian National Karate Team. Mr. Pal is from Sahapur of Goalpokhor and is an advocate by profession. He is…

SOUMYAJIT RECEIVED THE ARJUNA AWARD AT RASTRAPATI BHAWAN TODAY

Posted on August 29, 2016 by tni

By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) | TNI Editing Siliguri Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 29th August, 2016: The news was already in the air. However, it took a momentum when finally Siliguri’s paddler received the Arjuna Award from the Honorable President of India Mr. Pranab Mukherjee. Moments after receiving the award the family members of Arjuna Soumyajit Ghosh distributed sweets from their family sweet shop at Collegepara. Soumyajit became the third sportsperson and paddler from Siliguri after…

GOVERNMENT DECIDES TO RENAME WEST BENGAL TO “BONGO”

Posted on August 2, 2016 by tni

By Swarnali Goswami (TNI Kolkata) | TNI Editing Kolkata Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 02nd August, 2016: The Cabinet of West Bengal today decided to rename the state of West Bengal to Bengal in English and Bongo/Bangla in Bengali. This was today informed to the press by the Education minister of West Bengal Dr. Partha Chatterjee. He also further said that a special assembly session for passing the motion. Some officials in the government said that the…

ANOTHER INDIAN EXPLORATION TOWARDS ANTARCTICA BY IBEX

Posted on March 2, 2016 by tni

TNI News Service (TNS) Webdesk, TNI New Delhi, 02nd March, 2016: Ibex Expeditions launches its journey to the 7th continent led by Mandip Singh Soin, assisted by team Ibex Expeditions. The journey began on the 22nd of February 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, flying in a chartered flight to Ushuaia to board the ship belonging to Quark, a leader in Antarctica journeys who Ibex has selected and is now associated with. This journey of 10…

DALMIYA, THE DOYEN OF INDIAN CRIC ADMIN PASSED AWAY

Posted on September 20, 2015 by tni

By Swarnali Goswami (TNI Kolkata) ~ Edited By R. Subrata (TNI Siliguri) Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 20th September, 2015: In a nation shocking incident today the BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya (75) passed away in Kolkata. He was admitted to BM Birla Hospital, Kolkata. He had been admitted with chest pain at BM Birla Hospital, Kolkata last week and had undergone a surgery. However, hospital sources yesterday said that he is in a stable condition and is responding to…

THE SWEET HEXA-TROPHY FOR EAST BENGALIANS AFTER 40 YEARS

Posted on September 7, 2015 by tni

TNI News Service (TNS) Webdesk, TNI Kolkata, 7th September, 2015: East Bengal Football Club has touched its own record of winning 6 Calcutta Football League trophies in a tournament after 40 odd years winning it by as many times in a row as they did in the year 1975. With the team led by Gurwinder Singh and managed by East Bengal veteran Biswajit Bhattacharya, they managed to pass 4 goals past their Arch Rivals Mohun Bagan when…

VINOD KAMBLI BEATS MAID SERVANT AT HIS HOUSE

Posted on August 30, 2015 by tni

TNI News Service (TNS) Webdesk, TNI Mumbai, 30th August, 2015: Former Indian Cricketer Vinod Kambli has been accused of beating his domestic help in Mumbai when she asked to clear all her dues of salary. An FIR has been filed against the former India cricketer and his wife, Andrea by their domestic help. The domestic help told the police that when she asked for her salary, she was beaten up mercilessly and confined in a room for…

MOHAMMEDAN SPORTING GO PAST UNITED AT SILIGURI I LEAGUE

Posted on March 30, 2015 by tni

By Kushal Dasgupta (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 30th Mar, 2015: After the first match in the I League second division held at Siliguri, Mohammedan Sporting Club showed confidence of winning the tournament. One of the club officials of Mohammedan Sporting said that “We are in a very good form and so we are very much confident to win all the matches in the rest of the tournament”….

SILIGURI KARATE PLAYERS WON MEDALS AT NEW DELHI

Posted on August 24, 2014 by tni

By Rita Das (TNI Siliguri) ~ Edited By D. Prasun (TNI Siliguri) Webdesk, TNI Siliguri, 24th August, 2015: 5 young Karate Players of Siliguri won medals at 11th Independence Cup Karate Championship organized at Talkatora Indoor Stadium yesterday. The Karate Championship was held on last Saturday and Sunday i.e. 22nd and 23rd August. A total of 3000 participants throughout the country took part in the championship. All the 6 players were from a Karate school named Kenryu…