The cover design depicts Late. Sri Bandu Patil of Belgaum with the then PM of India Late Sri.Lalbahadur Shastri. Late Sri Bandu Patil represented the Indian Hockey team, which won Silver medal & Gold medal during 1960 & 1964 Olympics. The cover also […]
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Olympians from Belagavi
The Rio Olympics is currently in Progress and lets go into history to see who all represented from Belgaum (now Belagavi) in the Olympics. This is not an exhaustive list. All the below matter has been verified with the Olympics website for authenticity. There were a couple of Olympians who studied in St.Pauls and then later represented Kenya […]
Shooting of Supreme movie enters Asia book of records
The Climax Shooting at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium of Kannada Film “Supreme” was witnessed by 25,000 spectators (Childrens) which is a record number of spectators present for a shooting of a film in Kannada. The Film “SUPREME’’ directed by Sanjeev Reddy & produced by Gandasi Sadanandswamy is a movie based on sports Hockey under the production […]
Supreme movie shooting in Belgaum
Kannada film producer Gandsi Sadanandaswamy wants to do a similar movie ‘chak de’. He is coming out with a movie on hockey called ‘Supreme’. As part of the movie, he will conduct U-14 hockey tournaments across the state; the final will be held in Belgaum at Nehru Stadium on November 23 and 24. 11 children […]
Dhananjay Mahadik India hockeys dragflicker from Belgaum
Dragflicker Dhananjay Mahadik feels short corners will be India’s strong point in the forthcoming hockey World Cup starting on Sunday. Dhananjay was born in Shriwal district of Satara. After facing hardship at the age of 16 after his father, personnel in the Bombay Fire Brigade department expired Dhananjay shifted to Belgaum after passing class 7th […]