Local briefs

Shooting C’ship

KATHMANDU: Nepal Shooting Association is organising the National Shooting Championship from June 23-25 at the Satdobato shooting range. Shooters for the 10th South Asian Games and Asian Games will be selected from the championship. — HNS

Spikers depart

KATHMANDU: A 13-member volleyball team left for Dhaka to play friendly matches with the Bangla-deshi national team from May 25 to June 4. Bharat Bahadur Shah is the captain while other members are Bal Bahadur Shrestha, Saroj Shrestha, Kailash Datta Bhatta, Ramananda Singh Tharu, Deep Khadka, Keshav Pandey, Ram Chandra Kumal, Pashupati Chaudhary, Jitendra Chand, Bishnu Panta, Gyan Bahadur Malla and Krishna Sherchan. — HNS