{"id":73749,"date":"2019-07-28T02:35:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=73749"},"modified":"2019-07-28T02:35:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-27T21:05:57","slug":"memorial-badminton-championship-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/07\/28\/memorial-badminton-championship-gets-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial badminton championship gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>SEPPA, Jul 27:<\/strong> The first edition of the Taachi Pordung Memorial District Level Inter-Club Badminton Championship got underway at the officers&#8217; badminton club here in East Kameng district on Friday.<br \/>\nOrganized by the East Kameng Badminton Association (EKBA) in collaboration with the Arunachal State Badminton Association, the three-day tournament is sponsored by Bameng legislator Goruk Pordung, in memory of his late mother.<br \/>\nNinety shuttlers representing five different badminton clubs of the district are participating in the championship, which will see its finals being held on Sunday.<br \/>\nChayangtajo MLA Hayeng Mangfi in his inaugural address said, &#8220;Seppa will soon turn into a sports hub as many infrastructures of several sporting disciplines are being built in and around the township.&#8221;<br \/>\nEncouraging youngsters to participate in such competitions, Mangfi said one can not only gain physical and mental fitness through sports but can also make it a profession.<br \/>\nPordung said the championship would be converted into a state level tournament in the future.<br \/>\n&#8220;This year the tournament is named after my mother, and so will it be for the next two years; however, after that, the championship will be named after my father,&#8221; Pordung said.<br \/>\nExecutive members of the EKBA also spoke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEPPA, Jul 27: The first edition of the Taachi Pordung Memorial District Level Inter-Club Badminton Championship got underway at the officers&#8217; badminton club here in East Kameng district on Friday. Organized by the East Kameng Badminton Association (EKBA) in collaboration with the Arunachal State Badminton Association, the three-day tournament is sponsored by Bameng legislator Goruk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-73749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73749","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=73749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}