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Sunil Chhetri Announces Retirement

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Captain Fantastic To Hang His Boots!

Indian football icon Sunil Chhetri recently announced that he will retire from international football. He will play his last international match on June 6 in the FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Kuwait in Kolkata. Sunil Chhetri, who made his debut in 2005, has scored 94 goals for India. He will leave the scene as India’s all-time top scorer and most-capped player. At the moment, he is the third highest scorer of international goals among active footballers, after Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.

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Everything You Need To Know About Sunil Chhetri

Sunil Chhetri is the all-time top scorer for the Indian football team and has been the Indian captain for the better part of a decade.

  • Position : Forward
  • India Caps : 150 (Captain in 87 Matches)
  • International Goals : 94
  • Fourth Highest International Goal Scorer.
  • Third Most Goals Among Active International Players.
  • First Indian to score 50 international goals.
  • Only Indian to score a hat-trick in the final of an international tournament – AFC Challenge Cup in New Delhi (2008).
  • AIFF Player of the Year award seven times.

Awards of Indian Football Legend Sunil Chhetri :

Arjuna Award in 2011.

Khel Ratno in 2021 First and only Indian footballer to win India’s highest sporting honour.

Padma Shri in 2019.

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In 2018, the continental governing body of football in Asia, the Asian Football Federation awarded the title “Arian icon” to Sunil Chhetri.

Guess What? 

Sunil Chhetri’s mother, Sushila Chhetri, was a talented footballer who represented the Nepal women’s national team.

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Kolkata Knight Riders Crowned IPL Champions For The Third Time

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Kolkata Knight Riders (“KKR”) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (“SRH”) by 8 wickets to win their third IPL title, at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai on May 26. KKR dismissed SRH for just 113 runs, the lowest-ever total in an IPL final. Only Chennai Super Kings (“CSK”) and Mumbai Indians have won more IPL titles than KKR.

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The Following Were Recognised For Their Exceptional Performance

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Some Interesting And Fun Dino Facts

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1. Dinosaurs lived on Earth around 165 million years ago. They became extinct around 65 million years ago. Scientists believe that dinosaurs became extinct after an asteroid that hit the Earth. The impact of the asteroid would have significantly changed the Earth’s climate and vegetation. Unfortunately, the dinosaurs couldn’t adapt to the changes so they became extinct. However, this isn’t confirmed and some scientists still class it as a mystery!

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2. Dinosaur fossils have been found on all continents on Earth, including Antarctica! We know that dinosaurs lived on all continents because of this.

3. It was only 200 years ago that the first time a dinosaur fossil was unearthed by humans and officially named.

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4. The first dinosaur was named by an English naturalist named William Buckland in 1824. It was called Megalosaurus. Even though it was the first time a dinosaur had been officially recognised, they were not known as dinosaurs until the 1840s.

5. The word ‘dinosaur comes from two Greek words: ‘dienos’ meaning terrible and ‘sauros’ meaning reptile. In 1842, British palaeontologist Richard Owen came up with the word.

6. The present day birds have evolved from the dinosaurs that lived millions of years ago!

7. There were more than 700 species of dinosaurs. Some of the dinosaurs were herbivores, while others were carnivores.

8. One of the biggest dinosaurs ever was the Argentinosaurus. Whereas, Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the most ferocious dinosaurs ever.

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Wounded Orangutan Seen Using Plant As Medicine

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Scientists in Indonesia, recently spotted a Sumatran orangutan, named Rakus, using natural medicine to heal a large wound on his cheek. This has led to new discussions about the intelligence of the great apes. According to the researchers in Indonesia’s Gunung Leuser National Park, Bakus was hurt in a fight, leaving him with a nasty wound.

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The researchers observed that he chewed a plant called Akar Kuning, to create a paste to apply to his wounded cheek. This plant is used by local people to help treat malaria and diabetes. The researchers then observed that within a week the wound had closed.

The scientists believe Rakus knew he was applying medicine because orangutans rarely eat this plant, and because of how long he spent tending to his injury. This is the first time ever a creature in the wild has been recorded treating an injury with a medicinal plant. They think Raku’s human-like behaviour could come from an ancestor we share with apes. However scientists have in the past already observed great apes using medicine plants to stay in good health and cure illness and infections.

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How Nature Conservation Is Making a Difference

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According to a recent study published in the journal Science, conservation efforts are reducing global biodiversity loss. This is the first study of its kind. For over a decade, international researchers have reviewed 665 trials of conservation measures in different countries, oceans, and across species, some dating back as far back as 1890.

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They found that the conservation measures had a positive effect in two out of every three cases. Their findings show a “ray of light” for those working to protect threatened animals and plants.

Co-author Dr Penny Langhammer, executive vice-president of environment charity Re:wild, told BBC News: “If you read the headlines about extinction these days, it would be easy to get the impression that we are failing biodiversity but that’s not really looking at the whole picture. This study provides the strongest evidence to date that not only does conservation improve the state of biodiversity and slow its decline, but when it works, it really works”.

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The study has highlighted that one positive outcome of conservation measures is that the deforestation rates falling 74% in the Congo Basin. However, a fifth of projects negatively impacted the targeted species. Even though some provided an accidental boost for other species.

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