
Maligaon, July 6 (MExN): The Women’s Table Tennis team of Northeast Frontier Railway comprising of Takeme Sarkar, Sagarika Mukharjee, Anushka Dutta, Sukanya Bose and Tanaya Dutta became champion in the 65th All India Railway Table Tennis Championship being held at Raebareli (UP) from July 3. The NF Railway’s Women team won all the matches played during the team championship of the tournament. They beat South Eastern Railway (Kolkata) 3-0, Metro Railway (Kolkata) 3-1, Western Railway (Mumbai) 3-0, Central Railway (Mumbai) 3-0 and Eastern Railway (Kolkata) 3-0 to become overall winner of the team championship. In addition to this, in the recently concluded All India Railway Power lifting Championship which was held at Bilaspur from July 1, Amit Kumar of NF Railway won the silver medal in the 93 kg weight category. Nikhil Dihingia also from NF Railway won the Bronze medal in the same category. In the women’s category, Arannyni Gogoi won Bronze medal in the 63 kg and M Rajeswari also from NF Railway won Bronze medal in the 47 kg category.