Assam & NE Current Affairs & GK – August 10-12, 2022
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India’s medal winners at Commonwealth Games 2022
Commonwealth Games 2022 took place in Birmingham, the United Kingdom from 28 July to 8 August 2022. India is participating for the 18th time in the Commonwealth Games.
India ranked 4th in the Commonwealth Games 2022 Medal Tally with 61 medals. India won 22 gold, 16 silver and 23 bronze medals.
Australia topped the tally with 178 medals (67 gold, 57 silver, 54 bronze) followed by England who collected 173 medals (56 gold, 64 silver, 53 bronze). Canada finished third with 26 gold, 32 silver and 34 bronze for a total of 92 medals.
Gold medal winners for India in Commonwealth Games 2022
- Mirabai Chanu-Weightlifter-Women’s 49 kg
- Jeremy Lalrinnunga-Weightlifter-Men’s 67 kg
- Anchita Sheuli-Weightlifter-Men’s 37 kg
- Indian Women Lawn Bowls Team-Lawn Bowls-Women’s Fours Team
- Men’s Table Tennis team-Table Tennis-Men’s Team
- Sudhir-Para Powerlifting-Men’s heavyweight
- Sakshi Malik-Wrestling-Women’s 62 Kg
- Deepak Punia-Wrestling-men’s freestyle 86 kg
- Vinesh Phogat-Wrestling-women’s 53 kg
- Naveen-Wrestling- men’s freestyle 74 kg
- Bhavina Patel- Table Tennis-women’s singles class
- Ravi Kumar Dahiya-Wrestling-Men’s 57 kg freestyle
- Nitu Ghanghas-Boxing-women’s 48 kg
- Amit Panghal-Boxing-men’s 51 kg
- Eldhose Paul-Athletics-men’s triple jump
- Nikhat Zareen-Boxing- women’s 50 kg
- Table Tennis Mixed Team-Table Tennis-Table Tennis Mixed Doubles
- PV Sindhu- Badminton-Women’s Singles
- Bajrang Punia-Wrestling-Men’s 65 Kg
- Lakshya Sen-Badminton-Men’s Singles event
- Sharath Kamal- Table Tennis- Men’s Singles
22.Satwik Sairaj Rankireddi and Chirag Shetty -Badminton-Men’s Double
List of Indian Silver Medal Winners in Commonwealth Games 2022
- Bindyarani Devi-Weightlifting-women’s 55 kg
- Sanket Mahadev Sargar-Weightlifting-men’s 55kg
- Judoka Sushila-Judo- Women’s 48 kg
- Vikas Thakur-Weightlifting- men’s 96kg
- Badminton Mixed Team-badminton-Mixed team event
- Tulika Mann-Judo-Women’s 78 kg
- Murali Sreeshankar-Athletics-Men’s long jump
- Anshu Malik-Wrestling-women’s 57 kg final
- Priyanka Goswami-Race Walk-10,000m event
- Avinash Sable-Athletics-men’s 3000m steeplechase
- Indian Men Lawn Bowls team-Lawn Bowls- men’s fours team
- Abdulla Aboobacker-Athletics-Men’s Triple Jump
- Sharath-Sathiyan-Table Tennis- men’s doubles
- Women’s Cricket Team-Cricket-women’s cricket final
- Sagar Ahlawat-Boxing- men’s 92+ kg category
- Indian Men’s Hockey Team-Hockey-Men’s Hockey
List of Indian Bronze Medal Winners in Commonwealth Games 2022
- Gururaja Poojary-Weightlifting-Men’s 61 kg weight category
- Vijay Kumar Yadav-Judo-Men’s 60-kg class
- Harjinder Kaur-Weightlifting-women’s 71 kg
- Lovepreet Singh-Weightlifting- men’s 109 kg category
- Saurav Ghosal-Squash-Men’s Singles
- Gurdeep Singh-Weightlifting-Men’s 109 kg category
- Tejaswin Shankar-Athletics-men’s high jump
- Divya Kakran-Wrestling-Women’s 68 kg
- Mohit Grewal-Wrestling-Men’s freestyle 125 kg
- Deepak Nehra-Wrestling-Men’s 97 kg category
- Pooja Gehlot-Wrestling-Women’s Freestyle 50 kg category
- Pooja Sihag-Wrestling-Women’s 76 kg category
- Mohammed Hussamuddin-Boxing-Men’s 57kg featherweight category
- Rohit Tokas-Boxing-Men’s 67kg Welterweight
- Sonalben Manubhai Patel-Table Tennis-women’s singles class 3-5 16.
- Jaismine Lamboria-Boxing- women’s lightweight (60 kg)
- Indian Women Hockey Team-Hockey-Women’s Hockey
- Sandeep Kumar-Athletics- Men’s 10,000 m racewalk
- Annu Rani-Javelin-women’s Javelin Throw event
- Tressa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand-Badminton-Young Women’s Doubles pair
- Saurav Ghosal and Dipika Pallikal-Squash- Squash Mixed Doubles-
- G. Sathiyan-Table Tennis-Men’s Singles
- Kidambi Srikanth-badminton-Men’s Singles
Indo-US Joint Special Forces Exercise ‘Vajra Prahar 2022
The 13th Edition of the Indo-US Joint Special Forces exercise “Ex Vajra Prahar 2022” began at the Special Forces Training School (SFTS), Bakloh Himachal Pradesh.
The Vajra Prahar series of joint exercises aims to share best practices and experiences in areas such as joint mission planning and operational tactics as also to improve interoperability between the Special Forces of both the Nations.
Key Points
- The Vajra Prahar series of joint exercises hosted alternatively between India and the United States.
- During the course of next 21 days, teams of both armies would jointly train, plan and execute a series of Special Operations, Counter Terrorist Operations, Air Borne operations in simulated conventional and unconventional scenarios in mountainous terrain.
- This joint exercise is a significant step in strengthening the traditional bond of friendship between the special forces of both Nations as well as improving bilateral defence cooperation between India and the USA.
- The 12th edition was conducted at Joint Base Lewis Mcchord, Washington (USA) in October 2021.
World Lion Day observed globally
World Lion Day is observed globally on 10th August. The objective is to spread awareness and educate people about lions and their conservation.
Lions supposedly wandered amiably through Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East some three million years ago.
Key Points
- The population of Asiatic lions has steadily increased in Gujarat’s Gir forest and the larger Saurashtra protected area after experiencing a long period of decline.
- Between 2015 and 2020, their population increased from 523 to 674. The much larger African lions are a distant relative of the Asiatic lions of India.
- In 2013, the first World Lion Day was observed. Dereck and Beverly Joubert, from the Big Cat Initiative and National Geographic, founded it.
World Elephant Day observed globally
World Elephant Day is observed globally on 12th August. The day tries to highlight why these animals should be protected and what laws and measures can be enacted to ensure their survival.
The main objective of World Elephant Day is to create awareness of elephant conservation and to share knowledge and positive solutions for the better protection and management of wild and captive elephants.
World Elephant Day was started as an initiative by two Canadian filmmakers, Patricia Sims and Michael Clark of Canazwest pictures, and the Secretary General of Thailand’s Elephant Re-introduction Foundation – Sivaporn Dardaraanda.
The first World Elephant Day was observed on August 12, 2012.
Sunil Chhetri, Manisha Kalyan named men’s and women’s Footballer of the Year
Sunil Chhetri was named the 2021-22 All India Football Federation (AIFF) men’s footballer of the Year for the seventh time while Manisha Kalyan was picked for her maiden honour in the women’s category for the 2021-22 session.
Key Points
- Sunil Chhetri is currently third after Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in the list of highest goal scorers in international football among active players and sixth on the all-time leaderboard.
- This was Sunil Chhetri’s record seventh AIFF Men’s Footballer of the Year award, having won it previously in 2007, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018–19.
- Manisha Kalyan, who won the 2021-22 AIFF Women’s Footballer of the Year, was the recipient of the Women’s Emerging Footballer of the Year from last season.
- Martina Thokchom was named the 2021-22 Women’s Emerging Footballer of the Year, and Vikram Partap Singh was picked as the 2021-22 Men’s Emerging Footballer of the Year.
Aarya Walvekar crowned Miss India USA 2022
Indian American from Virginia, Aarya Walvekar has been crowned Miss India USA in 2022 in New Jersey.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the pageant which is the longest-running Indian pageant outside of India. It was started by New York-based Indian- Americans Dharmatma and Neelam Saran under the banner of Worldwide Pageants.
Saumya Sharma, a second-year premedical student at the University of Virginia, was declared the first runner up and Sanjana Chekuri of New Jersey was the second runner-up.
Akshi Jain from Washington has crowned Mrs India USA and Tanvi Grover from New York was crowned Miss Teen India USA.