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National Sports Awards 2024: Full List of Winners

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Olympic medallists Manu Bhaker, Harmanpreet Singh, chess world champion Gukesh D and para-athlete Praveen Kumar have been named recipients of the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna. The Khel Ratna is India’s highest sporting honour in the National Sports Awards given annually by India’s Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. Nominated sportspersons will receive their awards from the President of India at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on January 17.

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National Sports Awards 2024 winners list:

Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award 2024 winners

  • Gukesh D – Chess
  • Harmanpreet Singh – Hockey
  • Praveen Kumar – Para-Athletics
  • Manu Bhaker – Shooting

Arjuna Award 2024 winners

  • Jyothi Yarraji – Athletics
  • Annu Rani – Athletics
  • Nitu Ghanghas – Boxing
  • Saweety Boora – Boxing
  • Vantika Agrawal – Chess
  • Salima Tete – Hockey
  • Abhishek – Hockey
  • Sanjay – Hockey
  • Jarmanpreet Singh – Hockey
  • Sukhjeet Singh – Hockey
  • Rakesh Kumar – Para-Archery
  • Preeti Pal – Para-Athletics
  • Jeevanji Deepthi – Para-Athletics
  • Ajeet Singh – Para-Athletics
  • Sachin Sarjerao Khilari – Para-Athletics
  • Dharambir – Para-Athletics
  • Pranav Soorma – Para-Athletics
  • Hokato Hotozhe Sema – Para-Athletics
  • Simran Sharma – Para-Athletics
  • Navdeep Singh – Para-Athletics
  • Nitesh Kumar – Para-Badminton
  • Thulasimathi Murugesan – Para-Badminton
  • Nithya Sre Sivan – Para-Badminton
  • Manisha Ramadass – Para-Badminton
  • Kapil Parmar – Para-Judo
  • Mona Agarwal – Para-Shooting
  • Rubina Francis – Para-Shooting
  • Swapnil Kusale – Shooting
  • Sarabjot Singh – Shooting
  • Abhay Singh – Squash
  • Sajan Prakash – Swimming
  • Aman Sehrawat – Wrestling

Arjuna Awards (Lifetime) 2024 winners

  • Sucha Singh – Athletics
  • Murlikant Petkar – Para-Swimming

Dronacharya Award 2024 winners

Regular Category

  • Subhash Rana – Para-Shooting
  • Deepali Deshpande – Shooting
  • Sandeep Sangwan – Hockey

Lifetime Category

  • S Muralidharan – Badminton
  • Armando Colaco – Football

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar 2024 winner

  • Physical Education Foundation of India

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (MAKA) Trophy 2024 winners

  • Chandigarh University – Overall winner University
  • Lovely Professional University, (PB) – 1st runner up University
  • Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar – 2nd runner up University

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Animal Life Discovered Under Seafloor

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Scientists have for the first time ever discovered animal life beneath the seafloor at a depth of 2,500m. Scientists used to believe that the dark under seafloor environment was unfit for life to thrive, until they discovered tiny microbes thriving there. But this new study found there were even larger creatures like tube worms and snails living under the Earth’s crust within hydrothermal vents. 

This discovery shows that underground habitats have a big population of undiscovered species. It is believed that these organisms live on nutrients produced when the seawater mixes with magma (hot liquid rock). This discovery was made by the researchers from the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research with the help of a remotely controlled robot, while they examined rock samples on the seafloor in the Pacific Ocean.

What are hydrothermal vents?

According to National Geographic, hydrothermal vents are openings in the seafloor where the Earth’s tectonic plates meet, and seawater mixes with magma from below the Earth’s crust.

Did You Know?

Only 26% of the Earth’s seabed has been explored and mapped.

India in Top 10 Climate Performers

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India has ranked 10th in the Climate Change Performance Index (“CCPI 2025”), a global assessment of over 60 countries’ efforts to combat climate change. One of the main reasons for India’s high ranking was because it had the lowest emission per person when compared to the major economies. 

CCPI 2025 has left the first three places empty, as no country performed well enough across all index categories to achieve an overall “very high” rating. Only 22 of the 64 surveyed countries, including the European Union, were on track with the 2015 Paris Agreement goal of keeping global temperature rise within 2°C and making efforts to contain it to 1.5°C. Denmark leads the rankings at fourth place, followed by the Netherlands and the UK. China and the US ranked 55th and 57th respectively, remaining among the poorest performers.

What is the CCPI 2025?

The CCPI 2025 is a climate performance index published by well known think tanks. It helps people see which countries are doing a good job at taking care of the planet and which ones need to do better. It’s like a report card for countries based on their efforts to fight climate change. The experts look at countries’ performance and give them scores on the following four main areas: greenhouse gas emissions, renewable energy, climate policy, and energy use. 

Team India Wins Fifth Hero Asian Hockey Championship

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The Indian team won their fifth Hero Asian Champions Trophy by defeating China 1-0 in the final. The tournament was hosted by China and the following countries participated: India, Pakistan, China, Japan, South Korea, and Malaysia. With five titles, India have won most Asian Men’s Hockey Champions Trophy. Pakistan are at the second spot with three titles, including one shared with India.

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The first edition of the Asian Men’s Hockey Champions Trophy was played in 2011.

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