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National Sports Awards 2024: Full List of Winners

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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WWF: WildLife In Danger

Living Planet Report (“Report”) is a report which is published by the World Wildlife Foundation (“WWF”) every two years. Experts from all over the world use the Living Planet index to monitor the health of the Earth and the animals. It tracks the population sizes of vertebrates like mammals, birds, reptiles and fish. It also checks if the population of animals is increasing or decreasing, and tries to understand the reasons behind the same, along with giving solutions. The Living Planet Index 2024 has covered the period from 1970 to 2020 and included data on 34,836 populations of 5,495 vertebrate species.

Finding Of The Latest Report 

  • Average wildlife populations have fallen by 73% in 50 years!
  • 85% drop has been reported for the population sizes of freshwater species.
  • Animal species in Latin America and the Caribbean have seen even more extreme average declines of 95% since 1970.
  • North America and Europe are responsible for nature loss in other countries because they import livestock that is grown in areas that were once wild.
  • The biggest threat to wildlife is loss of habitats. Other threats include invasive species, disease, climate change, and pollution.

The Warning!

The Report has warned that due to the rate of decline of animal species, deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, and melting of the polar ice caps in Antarctica, the Earth is fast approaching a tipping point. This could impact food security and livelihoods across the world and even loss of healthy ecosystems across the world. The WWF has called the figures a “wake-up call” and warns in the report that “what happens in the next five years will determine the future of life on Earth”.

Word Check

Tipping points are points which, if reached, there’s no way of getting things back to the way they were.

Did You Know?

The Amazon rainforest is a very important habitat, as it is home to 10% of wildlife species on Earth. The Amazon rainforest converts carbon dioxide into oxygen and is therefore sometimes called the Earth’s Lungs. With respect to the Amazon rainforest, a tipping point could be reached if just 20–25% of the Amazon rainforest were destroyed! It is estimated 14–17% has already been deforested.

What Can Be Done?

The Report has given the following three important suggestions regarding what countries around the world need to do now: 

  1. Transform food production – Currently, the food production INDIAMART system of the world uses 40% of the Earth’s habitable land. This is causing habitat loss, as forests and grasslands are being converted into farmland. The countries need to find more nature-friendly methods of farming nutritious food for the world to eat
  1. Transform finance – The Report has recommended that less money should be invested in environmentally-harmful activities and more into things that help restore nature.
  1. Moving to clean energy – We need to stop greenhouse emissions by stopping the use of fossil fuels. The countries need to use more renewable forms of energy like solar and wind.

The Living Planet Report On India

The Report states that keeping in mind the global demand for food production by 2050, India’s food consumption pattern is the most climate-friendly among G20 nations. The Report has highlighted that India’s diet is the least harmful to the environment. If all countries adopted India’s consumption patterns, the world would require less than one Earth to support food production by 2050, making it a model for sustainability. On the other hand, the Report has also stated that countries like Argentina, Australia, and the US have the least sustainable pattern, with respect to their diet and food choices. 

The Report has recommended that people should eat a more sustainable diet, which would reduce the amount of land needed to produce food. The researchers have said that achieving a healthy and nutritious diet will be heavily influenced by local cultural traditions, individual choice, and available food. The Report has praised India’s National Millet Campaign for promoting climate-resilient grains, such as millets, “In some countries, promoting traditional foods will be an important lever to shift diets. For example, the National Millett Campaign in India is designed to increase national consumption of this ancient grain, which is good for health and highly resilient in the face of climate change”.

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G20 is a club of countries who meet every year to discuss plans for the world economy. G20 is made up of 19 of the world’s largest economies plus a representative from the European Union.

Could The Tasmanian Tiger Come Back From Extinction?

An American company called Colossal (who are also trying to bring back the Woolly mammoth and Dodo from extinction) have teamed up with Australian scientists from the University of Melbourne to try to find a way to bring the Tasmanian tiger back. Their goal is to develop an animal that is as close to the Tasmanian tiger as possible, by using DNA and gene-editing techniques. In a thrilling discovery, the scientists had found part of a Tasmanian tiger, which had been preserved for around 108 years, in a museum. From this they were able to take a very high-quality sample of the animal’s DNA and RNA molecules. 

These samples are only missing around 45 pieces of information, out of around three billion pieces in total – giving them a far more complete ‘blueprint’ to help make the Tasmanian Tiger. The scientists will then use gene-editing techniques, to take the cells of animals that exist today who have very similar DNA to the Tasmanian tiger, to fill in the missing information gaps. They say the process could take around three to five years. They also know that the new creature would not be 100% a Tasmanian tiger, but would be “more than 99.9% accurate”.

What was the Tasmanian Tiger?

Tasmanian Tiger or Thylacine was a wolf-like carnivorous marsupi al. It was about the size of a large dog, who once used to roam the forests of Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania. The last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart zoo in 1936, with the rest of the species hunted to extinction.

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Paris 2024 Paralympic Games: List of Indian Athletes Participating

In a groundbreaking moment for Indian sports, the country has announced its largest-ever contingent for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, scheduled to take place from August 28 to September 8. A staggering 84 athletes will represent India, surpassing the previous record of 54 athletes sent to the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.

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List of the Indian athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games:

Number Athlete Sport Event Category
1 Harvinder Singh Para Archery Men’s individual recurve open, Mixed team recurve open ST
2 Rakesh Kumar Para Archery Men’s individual compound open, Mixed team compound open W2
3 Shyam Sundar Swami Para Archery Men’s individual compound open, Mixed team compound open ST
4 Pooja Para Archery Women’s individual recurve open, Mixed team recurve open ST
5 Sarita Para Archery Women’s individual compound open, Mixed team compound open W2
6 Sheetal Devi Para Archery Women’s individual compound open, Mixed team compound open ST
7 Deepthi Jeevanji Para Athletics Women’s 400m T20
8 Sumit Antil Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F64
9 Sandeep Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F64
10 Ajeet Singh Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F46
11 Rinku Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F46
12 Navdeep Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F41
13 Yogesh Kathuniya Para Athletics Men’s discus throw F56
14 Dharambir Para Athletics Men’s club throw F51
15 Nishad Kumar Para Athletics Men’s high jump T47
16 Mariyappan Thangavelu Para Athletics Men’s high jump T63
17 Sachin Sarjerao Khilari Para Athletics Men’s shot put F46
18 Preethi Pal Para Athletics Women’s 100m, 200m T35
19 Bhagyashri Jadhav Para Athletics Women’s shot put F34
20 Manu Para Athletics Men’s shot put F37
21 Parveen Kumar Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F57
22 Ram Pal Para Athletics Men’s high jump T47
23 Ravi Rongali Para Athletics Men’s shot put F40
24 Sandip Sargar Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F64
25 Sundar Singh Gurjar Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F46
26 Shailesh Kumar Para Athletics Men’s high jump T63
27 Sharad Kumar Para Athletics Men’s high jump T63
28 Mohd. Yasser Para Athletics Men’s shot put F46
29 Rohit Kumar Para Athletics Men’s shot put F46
30 Pranav Soorma Para Athletics Men’s club throw F51
31 Amit Kumar Para Athletics Men’s club throw F51
32 Arvind Para Athletics Men’s shot put F35
33 Dipesh Kumar Para Athletics Men’s javelin throw F54
34 Praveen Kumar Para Athletics Men’s high jump T64
35 Dilip Gavit Para Athletics Men’s 400m T47
36 Soman Rana Para Athletics Men’s shot put F57
37 Hokato Sema Para Athletics Men’s shot put F57
38 Sakshi Kasana Para Athletics Women’s discus throw F55
39 Karam Jyoti Para Athletics Women’s discus throw F55
40 Rakshitha Raju Para Athletics Women’s 1500m T11
41 Amisha Rawat Para Athletics Women’s shot put F46
42 Bhavanaben Chaudhary Para Athletics Women’s javelin throw F46
43 Simran Para Athletics Women’s 100m, 200m T12
44 Kanchan Lakhani Para Athletics Women’s discus throw F53
45 Manoj Sarkar Para Badminton Men’s singles SL3
46 Nitesh Kumar Para Badminton Men’s singles, Mixed doubles SL3
47 Krishna Nagar Para Badminton Men’s singles SH6
48 Sivarajan Solaimalai Para Badminton Men’s singles, Mixed doubles SH6
49 Suhas Yathiraj Para Badminton Men’s singles, Mixed doubles SL4
50 Sukant Kadam Para Badminton Men’s singles SL4
51 Tarun Para Badminton Men’s singles SL4
52 Manasi Joshi Para Badminton Women’s singles SL3
53 Mandeep Kaur Para Badminton Women’s singles SL3
54 Palak Kohli Para Badminton Women’s singles, Mixed doubles SL4
55 Manisha Ramadass Para Badminton Women’s singles SU5
56 Thulasimathi Murugesan Para Badminton Women’s singles, Mixed doubles SU5
57 Nithya Sre Sivan Para Badminton Women’s singles, Mixed doubles SH6
58 Prachi Yadav Para Canoe Women’s Va’a single 200m VL2
59 Yash Kumar Para Canoe Men’s Kayak Single 200m KL1
60 Pooja Ojha Para Canoe Women’s Kayak Single 200m KL1
61 Arshad Shaik Para Cycling Men’s C2 Road Time Trial, C1-3 Road Race, C1-3 1000m Track Time Trial, C2 3000m Track Pursuit C2
62 Jyoti Gaderiya Para Cycling Women’s C1-3 Road Time Trial, C1-3 Road Race, C1-3 500m Track Time Trial, C1-3 3000m Track Pursuit C2
63 Kapil Parmar Blind Judo Men’s 60kg J1
64 Kokila Blind Judo Women’s 48kg J2
65 Parmjeet Kumar Para Powerlifting Men’s up to 49kg
66 Ashok Para Powerlifting Men’s up to 65kg
67 Sakina Khatun Para Powerlifting Women’s up to 45kg
68 Kasthuri Rajamani Para Powerlifting Women’s up to 67kg
69 Anita Para Rowing Mixed double sculls PR3
70 Narayana K Para Rowing Mixed double sculls PR3
71 Amir Ahmad Bhat Para Shooting P3 – Mixed 25m pistol SH1
72 Avani Lekhara Para Shooting R2 – Women’s 10m air rifle standing, R3 – Mixed 10m air rifle prone, R8 – Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1
73 Mona Agarwal Para Shooting R2 – Women’s 10m air rifle standing, R6 – Mixed 50m rifle prone, R8 – Women’s 50m rifle 3 positions SH1
74 Nihal Singh Para Shooting P3 – Mixed 25m pistol, P4 – Mixed 50m pistol SH1
75 Manish Narwal Para Shooting P1 – Men’s 10m air pistol SH1
76 Rudransh Khandelwal Para Shooting P1 – Men’s 10m air pistol, P4 – Mixed 50m pistol SH1
77 Sidhartha Babu Para Shooting R3 – Mixed 10m air rifle prone, R6 – Mixed 50m rifle prone SH1
78 Sriharsha Ramakrishna Para Shooting R4 – Mixed 10m air rifle standing, R5 – Mixed 10m air rifle prone SH2
79 Mahavir Unhalkar Para Shooting R1 – Men’s 10m air rifle standing SH1
80 Rubina Francis Para Shooting P2 – Women’s 10m air pistol SH1
81 Suyash Jadhav Para Swimming Men’s 50m butterfly S7
82 Sonalben Patel Para Table Tennis Women’s singles – WS3, Women’s doubles – WD10 3
83 Bhavinaben Patel Para Table Tennis Women’s singles – WS4, Women’s doubles – WD10 4
84 Aruna Para Taekwondo Women 47kg K44

The Indian Paralympic contingent’s historic size and scope are a promising sign for the country’s growing presence in the international sports arena. As these talented athletes prepare to take the stage in Paris, we can’t help but feel a sense of pride and excitement for what’s to come.

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Understanding The Significance of the Olympic Symbol

The Olympic symbol is commonly known throughout the world as the Olympic rings. In 1913, Pierre de Coubertin, the inventor of the modern day Olympics, designed the Olympic symbol – the Olympic rings.

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“These five rings represent the five parts of the world now won over to the cause of olympism and ready to accept its fecund rivalries. What is more, the six colours thus combined reproduce those of all nations without exception” – Pierre de Coubertin, Founder of the Olympic Movement and the designer of the symbol.

The five interlocking rings coloured blue, red, black, green, and yellow on a white background represent the five continents united by the Olympics. Each colour represents the colours present in every nation’s flag. No ring colour represents a particular continent. Additionally, the five interlaced rings must be of equal dimensions, representing the idea that all continents are equal at the Games.

The Olympic rings have been used in every summer and winter Games since 1920 and have remained relatively unchanged since. 

The Olympic flag was created for the Olympic Jubilee Congress in 1914 in Paris, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Olympic celebration.

International Olympic Day is celebrated on June 23 and celebrates the spirit of athleticism and promotes the Olympic values of friendship, respect, and excellence. 

This day also commemorates the birth of the modern Olympic Games and encourages people worldwide to embrace the joy of sports and physical activity.

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