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Vasavan Kunnappata served VFI for 36 yrs, yet retired empty-handed due to unpaid salary for 23 months. He wrote to SAI, VFI & Sports Ministry, but no response. He spent own money for VFI activities & travelled for team selection, but no allowance. He's now bankrupt & in debt.

Despite India’s impressive early run in the recent Asian Games in Hangzhou, where its men stunned former three-time champion South Korea and a higher-ranked Chinese Taipei before finishing sixth, volleyball will not be in the National Games which begin in Goa on October 26.

Guinness owner Diageo announced a 12% wholesale price increase that will kick in from February 1. It comes after rivals Heineken already upped the price on all its draught kegs in December.

Publicans will now have to pay an extra 12c for a pint of Guinness and, given the rapidly increasing costs of running a pub, will "most likely" have to pass on the price increase to their customers.

'The exclusion of 1,500 pubs simply because they heat their pubs using kerosene and LPG gas is discriminatory'

Tipperary publican TJ McInerney, who appealed on TV in 2020 for Taosieach Micheal Martin to reopen pubs, yesterday vowed “doom and gloom can’t win”.

It found 42% of Irish adults plan to reduce trips to the pub and other hospitality venues between now and New Year’s Eve.

'Reduced footfall, coupled with an unprecedented rise in energy costs after 22 months of Covid lockdown closures and restrictions, means we are almost certainly looking at the permanent closure of many more pubs'

Lobbyists also demanded subsidies for the industry to help publicans keep their doors open