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SPORTS - July 2018

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Sep 27, 2018

Korea Open Badminton

Saina Nehwal emerged as the lone Indian survivor at the USD 600,000 Korea Open after reaching the pre-quarter finals with a straight-game win over Korea's Kim Hyo Min at the BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament.

The fifth seeded Indian will face a local qualifier Kim Ga Eun next.

Modi Conferred UN's Highest Environmental Honour

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been awarded with the UN's highest environmental honour, bestowed upon five other individuals and organisations, for his leadership of the International Solar Alliance and pledge to eliminate single use plastic in India by 2022.

Six of the world's most outstanding environmental change makers have been recognised with the Champions of the Earth Award.

Sep 26, 2018

National Sports Awards Given Away

President Ram Nath Kovind presented the National sports and adventure awards.

The following is the list of awards and awardees:

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna: Mirabhai Chanu and Virat Kohli.

Arjuna award: Neeraj Chopra, Jinson Johnson and others.

Dronacharya award: Sukhdev Singh Pannu,Chenanda Achaiah Kuttappa and others.

Dhyan Chand award: Satyadev Prasad, Bobby Aloysius and others.

Tenzing Norgay Adventure award: Dr. Anshu Jamesenpa, Late Ravi Kumar and others.

Rashtriya Khel Protsahan Puraskar: Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Ltd., JSW Sports, Isha Outreach.

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad trophy: Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar.

Sep 23, 2018

Winners of 12th Edition of PII-ICRC Awards

The winners of the 12th edition of the PII-ICRC annual awards for best article and photograph on a humanitarian subject, jointly organised by the Press Institute of India and the International Committee of the Red Cross New Delhi Regional Delegation, were announced. This year, the awards focused on the theme 'Changing lives through innovation in health and sanitation'.

Rakhi Ghosh won the first prize for her article, 'Kanas villagers make water safe through simple interventions', Sarita Santoshini bagged the second prize for her article, 'Text messages save lives in State with highest maternal deaths' and Maitri Porecha was awarded the third prize for her article, 'Mobile phones hand-hold mothers through pregnancy'.

Neeraj Gautam, senior photojournalist with the Rajasthan Patrika , won the first prize in the best photograph category. Special awards were also presented in the best article category to Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed from Frontline, Tabassum Barnagarwala from the Indian Express, Mumbai, and Rakhee Roy Talukdar from Grassroots, Jaipur. Indranil Mukherjee from Agence France-Presse got a special award for photography.

India's First Visually Impaired Player at World Chess Olympiad

Blind chess player Vaishali Narendra Salavkar will become the first Indian female to be part of the International Braille Chess Association (IBCA) team at the world chess Olympiad, at Batumi in Georgia.

Vaishali from Maharashtra has been playing chess for the past 20-25 years. She is an eight-time national champion.

Sep 20, 2018

World Junior Wrestling

Sajan Bhanwal became the first Indian to win back-to-back medals at the Junior World Wrestling Championship after he secured a silver in the 77kg Greco Roman category in Trnava, Slovakia.

Sajan had won the gold at Junior Asia Championship in July, had defeated Dmytro Gardubei from Ukraine in the semifinals.

Sep 18, 2018

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award

Cricketer Virat Kohli and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu have been recommended for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award.

If awarded, Kohli will become the third cricketer after Sachin Tendulkar (1997) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007) to receive the honour.

Chanu was recommended for the prestigious award following her gold medal in the 48kg category at the World Championships last year. She also bagged the gold medal in this year's Commonwealth Games.

Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award is the highest sporting honour in India.

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