CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Veteran athletics coach Purushotham Rai died due to a cardiac arrest on Friday, tragically a day before he was to be conferred with the prestigious Dronacharya Award . He was 79.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dronacharya Award 2022 Winners: President Draupadi Murmu honored Raj Singh, Jeevanjot Singh Teja Mohammad Ali Qamar, Suma Siddharth Shirur, Sujit Mann, Dinesh Jawahar Lad, Bimal Prafulla Ghosh with the Dronacharya Award at the National Sports Awards 2022.

Detailed explanation-3: -In India, the Dronacharya Award is given to coaches as recognition for their contribution to a particular sport or for their role in an athlete’s rise to the top. It is also given to motivate coaches to dedicate themselves to raising the performance of their athletes to international standards.

Detailed explanation-4: -Raghunandan Gokhale (1986) Raghunandan Gokhale received the Dronacharya award for Chess at the young age of 32.

Detailed explanation-5: -The correct answer is Bishweshwar Nandi. The 2016 Dronacharya Award will be conferred on 6 coaches viz. Dipa Karmakar’s coach, Bishweshwar Nandi (Gymnastics), India Test team captain Virat Kohli’s mentor Raj Kumar Sharma (Cricket), Nagapuri Ramesh (Athletics), Sagar Mal Dhayal (Boxing), S.