{"id":219042,"date":"2023-06-24T01:49:23","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T20:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=219042"},"modified":"2023-06-24T10:06:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T04:36:40","slug":"pasang-wangchuk-sona-state-level-memorial-hockey-cship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/24\/pasang-wangchuk-sona-state-level-memorial-hockey-cship\/","title":{"rendered":"Pasang Wangchuk Sona State Level Memorial Hockey C&#8217;ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Papum Pare, Kurung Kumey emerge winners<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CHIMPU, 23 Jun:<\/strong> Papum Pare and Kurung Kumey emerged the winners of the first Pasang Wangchuk Sona State Level Memorial Hockey Championship in the men&#8217;s and the women&#8217;s category, respectively, at the Sangay Lhaden Sports Complex here on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Organised by Hockey Arunachal, the championship&#8217;s closing ceremony was attended by, among others, Deputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein and Taliha MLA Nyato Dukam.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The duo gave away the prizes to the winners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Addressing the gathering, the DCM highlighted &#8220;the tremendous potential for hockey in the state,&#8221; and urged everyone to &#8220;take responsibility for popularising hockey and other sports.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DCM also paid tribute to late Pasang Wangchuk Sona, after whom the tournament is named.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dukam in his address underscored the significance of sports in shaping the careers of youths.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Legislative Assembly Speaker PD Sona, who is also the chief patron of the championship, said that &#8220;the championship is not only a memorial event but an important initiative that would significantly boost the growth of hockey in the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He urged all to support Hockey Arunachal in its mission to popularise hockey across the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Among others, MLA Hayeng Mangfi, Sports Authority of Arunachal Vice Chairman Sanjeev Tana Tara, and Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Secretary Abu Tayeng were present on the occasion. (Speaker&#8217;s PR Cell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Papum Pare, Kurung Kumey emerge winners CHIMPU, 23 Jun: Papum Pare and Kurung Kumey emerged the winners of the first Pasang Wangchuk Sona State Level Memorial Hockey Championship in the men&#8217;s and the women&#8217;s category, respectively, at the Sangay Lhaden Sports Complex here on Friday. Organised by Hockey Arunachal, the championship&#8217;s closing ceremony was attended [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-219042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}