1. Byju’s named the official sponsor of Fifa World Cup 2022 in Qatar
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Indian education technology firm Byju’s has been named an official sponsor of the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar. Byju has become the first Indian company to be a sponsor of the FIFA men’s football world cup.
The Bengaluru-based firm is also a sponsor for the Indian cricket team
The FIFA Men’s World Cup is scheduled to kick off from November 21 this year in Qatar. The final match of the global tournament will be played on December 18. It is the most prestigious tournament in football, organised every four years, and is one of the biggest sporting events and the biggest single-sport event in the world.
About FIFA-
FIFA is a non-profit organization that describes itself as an international governing body of association football, futsal, and beach soccer. It is the highest governing body of association football.
FIFA was founded in 1904 at Paris, France.
Headquarters - Zurich, Switzerland
President - Gianni Infantino
United States, Mexico, and Canada will host FIFA World Cup 2026
Russia hosted FIFA World Cup 2018
2. Ravindra Jadeja replaces MS Dhoni as the new CSK Skipper
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Ravindra Jadeja will replace Mahendra Singh Dhoni as the Captain of the Chennai Superking(CSK) in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 season. M.S Dhoni who has captained CSK team since the start of IPL in 2008 has voluntarily stepped down as the captain of CSK.
Under Dhoni the CSK team has emerged as one of the the most successful teams in the IPL winning four titles in the nine finals they have reached.
Mumbai Indian has won five IPL titles.
About Chennai Super Kings-
Home Ground - M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai
Coach - Stephen Fleming (Former Captain of New Zealand Cricket Team)
They are the current defending Champion having won the title of IPL 2021 Season
In January 2022, CSK became India's first unicorn sports enterprise
The Super Kings have won the IPL title four times (in 2010, 2011, 2018, and 2021).
In addition, they have also won the Champions League Twenty20 in 2010 and 2014.
The team served a two-year suspension from the IPL(2015-2017)
3. Shimla to get India’s first National Centre for Mountain Terrain Biking
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The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports in collaboration with the Youth Services and Sports department of the Government of Himachal Pradesh is set to build India’s first-ever Sports Authority of India (SAI) National Centre of Excellence(NCOE) to train athletes in Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross in Shimla.
There are 18 Olympic Medals for Mountain Terrain Biking and Bicycle Motocross.
The NCOE, which will have the capacity to train around 200 cyclists for Olympic-level preparations.
Important Notes for Exam-
Anurag Thakur is the current Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports
About Himachal Pradesh-
Governor - Rajendra Arlekar
Chief Minister - Jai Ram Thakur
Capital -
Shimla (Summer)
Dharamshala (Winter
List of all SAI-NCOE disciplines-
Focused sports discipline : Archery, Athletics, Badminton, Boxing, Cycling, Fencing, Hockey, Judo, Rowing, Swimming, Shooting, Table Tennis, Wrestling, and Weightlifting
Other Disciplines : Football, Gymnastics, Basketball, Handball, Kabaddi, Kho-Kho, Kayaking & Canoeing, Para Sports, Taekwondo, Volleyball, Wushu
4. World No 1 Ashleigh Barty announces retirement
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World No 1, Australian tennis player, Ashleigh Barty stunned the tennis world on Wednesday by retiring from the sport aged just 25 citing fatigue, lack of motivation as the reasons behind her decision.
Her decision came weeks after becoming the first home Australian Open champion in 44 years
About Ashleigh Barty-
Barty is a 3 times Grand Slam Women’s Singles Winner (Australian Open (2022) French Open (2019) and Wimbledon (2021))
Barty is just the fifth woman in WTA history to finish three straight years at World No. 1 (Evert, Navratilova, Graf, and Serena)
She’s one of six women in the Open Era to win their first three Slam finals.
Barty is among nine women who have at least one singles Slam title on every surface in the Open Era.
Additional Information-
The Grand Slam in tennis is the achievement of winning all four major championships.
If in the same calendar year, it is referred to as "Calendar Slam".
If not in the same calendar year, it is referred to as “Non-Calendar Year Grand Slam”
If in any time during the course of a career, it is referred to as “Career Grand Slam”
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of tennis in the world.
The four Grand Slam tournaments are the following-
Australian Open | Nicknamed ‘the happy slam’, it is held annually over the last fortnight of January at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia. It was first held in 1905. It is played on hard court. |
French Open | Officially known as Roland-Garros, it is a major tennis tournament held over two weeks at the Stade Roland-Garros in Paris, France, beginning in late May each year. The tournament and venue are named after the French aviator Roland Garros. The French Open is the premier clay court championship in the world |
Wimbledon | Also known as The Championships, it is the oldest tennis tournament in the world and is widely regarded as the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, in late June to early July, since 1877 and is played on outdoor grass courts |
US Open | This is a hardcourt tennis tournament. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day |
5. Pankaj Advani wins the 19th Asian Billiards Championship 2022
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Pankaj Advani of India has won the 19th Asian Billiards Championship 2022 by defeating Dhruv Sitwala of India.
It was his eight Asian titles.
The Asian Billiards championship 2022 was held at Doha Qatar.
6. FIDE bans Russian Chess Grandmaster Sergey Karjakin for supporting Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
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The World Chess governing body FIDE has suspended the Russian chess player Sergey Karjakin for 6 months for his support of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
Karjakin who was the runner up in the 2016 World Chess championship to Magnus Carlssen of Norway.
He also held the record of being the youngest chess Grandmaster at the age of 12 years and seven months, which was broken by American Abhimanyu Mishra, who became Grandmaster at the age of 12 years 4 months and 25 days.
FIDE
The International Chess Federation or World Chess Federation, commonly referred to by its French acronym FIDE (Fédération Internationale des Échecs), is the governing body of International chess competition.
FIDE was founded on July 20, 1924.
- Headquarters : Lausanne , Switzerland
7. Asia Cup Cricket 2022 will be held in Sri Lanka
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At the annual Asian Cricket Council meeting held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 19 March 2022, decided that the Asia Cup 2022 (T20 Format) will be held in Sri Lanka from August 27-September 11 2022.
All five Test teams - hosts Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Bangladesh - will take part in the tournament while one more Asian side will be decided after a qualifying tournament which will be held from 20 August 2022.
The Asia Cup, which usually alternates between ODI and T20I formats, was last played in 2018 and won by India.
The next edition in 2020 was postponed due to covid -19 and it will finally be held in 2022 in Sri Lanka.
Pakistan is scheduled to host the Asian Championship in 2023.
Defending champions India are the most successful team in Asia Cup, winning it seven times including the lone T20I edition in 2016 while Sri Lanka have won the competition five times.
8. Jay Shah term as ACC president extended by One year
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Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) secretary Jay Shah's tenure as president of the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) was extended by one more year till 2024 ,at the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) meeting held in Colombo on 19 March 2022.
Shah had taken over as the president of the ACC in January last year from Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) president Nazmul Hassan, making him the youngest administrator to be re-appointed as ACC president.
Asian Cricket Council(ACC)
It was set up in 1983 to promote cricket in Asia.
All the test playing nations of Asia are its members namely. India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Bangladesh.
Headquarters : Colombo, Sri Lanka
BCCI
President: Sourav Ganguly
Headquarters: Mumbai
Founded:1928
9. Lakshya Sen settles for silver in the All England Badminton open
Lakshya Sen lost the final of the All England Badminton championship 2022 to Viktor Axelsen of Denmark on 20 March 2022. The tournament was held in the English city of Birmingham .The All England is one of the most prestigious badminton tournaments in the world.
So far only two Indians have won the tournament , Prakash Padukone in 1983 and Pullela Gopichand in 2000.
Other Results
Female singles title
Akane Yamguchi of Japan won the gold medal by defeating An Seyoung of South Korea in the finals.
Women's Doubles
Nami Matsuyama and Chiharu Shida (both are Japanese ) defeated Zhang shu xian and Zheng Yu (both are Chinese ) in the final and won the Gold Medal .
The Bronze medal was won by the Indian pair of Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand Pullela by defeating the South Korean pair of Jeong Na Eun and Kim Hye Jeong .
Mens Double titles
The Indonesian pair of Muhammad Shohib Fikri and Bagas Mualana defeated the Indonesian pair of Mohamad Ahsan and Hendra Satiwan to win the gold medal .
Mixed Doubles
The Japanese pair of Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higasano defeated the Chinese pair of Wang Yi Lyu and Huang Dong Ping to win the gold medal .
All England Badminton Championship
It is the world’s oldest badminton championship which was started in 1889 in England .
It was considered unofficially as the world badminton title until 1977 . After that the International Badminton Federation started its own world championship in 1978.
No Indian female player has ever won the women's single title at the All England championships .
10. India Win 39 Medals at Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships 2022
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Indian junior and youth boxers won a total 39 medals at the recently held ASBC Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships 2022 in Amman, capital of Jordan. The championships ended on 16 March 2022.
The tournament saw the participation of both boys and girls in the youth and junior category. Total 352 boxers from 21 countries participated in the event.
The Indian boxers won 15 gold, 10 silver, and 14 bronze at the event .
Junior section
In the junior section the Indian team won 21 medals including eight gold, seven silver and six bronze.
India came second after Uzbekistan which won 23 medals
Medal winner for India
Girls: (Gold) Vini (50kg), Yakshika (52kg), Nikita Chand (60kg), Vidhi (57kg), Shrushti Sathe (63kg), Rudrika (75kg); (Silver) Mahi Siwach (46kg), Palak Zambre (48kg), Supriya Devi Thokchom (54kg), Khushi Pooniya (80kg) and Nirjhara Bana (+80kg); (Bronze) Krisha Verma (70kg)
Boys: (Gold) Krrish Pal (46kg), Yashwardhan Singh (60kg); (Silver) Ravi Saini (48kg) and Rishabh Singh Shikharwar (80kg); (Bronze) Jayant Dagar (54kg), Chetan (57kg), Jackson Singh Laishram (70kg), Dev Pratap Singh (75kg), Gaurav Mhaske (+80kg)
Youth Section
In the youth section the Indian team won 18 medals including seven gold, three silver and eight bronze medals and came third behind Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Women: (Gold) Nivedita Karki (48kg), Tamanna (50kg), Shaheen Gill (60kg), Ravina (63kg), Muskan (75kg); (Silver) Priyanka (66kg) and Kirti (+81); (Bronze) Renu (52kg), Tanisha Lamba (54kg), Prachi (57kg), Pranjal Yadav (70kg) and Sneha (81kg).
Men: (Gold) Vishwanath Suresh (48kg) and Vanshaj (63.5kg); (Silver) Aman Singh Bisht (+92kg); (Bronze) Raman (51kg), Anand Yadav (54kg) and Deepak (75kg).
The ASBC Asian Youth and Junior Boxing Championships 2021 was held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
