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.
Did You Know?
The first edition of the Asian Men’s Hockey Champions Trophy was played in 2011.
According to a new study by the University of Leeds, India is the world’s biggest contributor to plastic pollution. Generating nearly 20% of the world’s total plastic waste, India is producing 9.3 million tons of plastic waste annually. This is double that of populous countries like China, Nigeria, and Indonesia. India became a major contributor due to its large population’s waste, and lack of proper waste management. A significant portion of the waste still remains uncollected. It indicates that India lacks a strong waste management system.
Lego has announced that by 2032 it will be able to remove fossil fuels from its bricks by using renewable or recycled plastic instead. Presently, Lego bricks are made from ABS, an oil-based material which is not biodegradable.
This means that the lego bricks cannot easily be recycled. At the moment, 22% of the plastic used in its bricks in the first half of 2024 came from renewable and recycled sources. That’s up from 12% in 2023.
The Labour Party has won the 2024 general election. The Conservative Party has lost power in the UK for the first time in 14 years. The leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer is the new prime minister of the UK. Sir Keir Starmer is 64-years-old and before joining politics he was a human rights lawyer. The new prime minister has to solve various issues related to job loss, strikes by junior doctors regarding their pay rise, water pollution, etc.
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There are a record 26 Indian origin MPs elected in the new House of Commons, UK.
Sixteen-year-old Kaamya Karthikeyan has become the youngest Indian mountaineer to scale Mt. Everest from the Nepal side. She also became the second youngest girl in the world to achieve this great feat.
Kaamya Karthikeyan is a class 12 student at Navy Children School, Mumbai. On May 20, she successfully summited Mt. Everest, along with her father S. Karthikeyan who is in the Indian Navy. She has completed six milestones in her mission to summit the highest peak of all seven continents. Kaamya Karthikeyan is now aiming to climb Mt. Vinson Massif in Antarctica this December to become the youngest girl to accomplish the ‘7 summits challenge’.
Did You Know?
In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to climb Mt. Everest.
