CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chandigarh, India, April 14, 2021: Balbir Singh Junior, who was a member of India’s silver medal-winning hockey team at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, passed away last Sunday, April 11. He was 88.

Detailed explanation-2: -Balbir Singh Senior, a three-time Olympic gold medallist, still stands as one of India’s most revered hockey legends and probably the only player whose name is uttered in the same breath as Dhyan Chand’s in the Indian hockey folklore.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though Balbir Singh Junior would join the Army as an emergency commissioned officer in 1962 and later retire as major from the Army Ordinance Corps before settling in Chandigarh in 1984, he was instrumental in guiding Indian Railways to a hat-trick of national titles in 1957, 1958 and 1959.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dhyan Chand, (born August 29, 1905, Allahabad, India-died December 3, 1979, Delhi), Indian field hockey player who was considered to be one of the greatest players of all time.

Detailed explanation-5: -Born in Punjab to Karam Kaur and Dalip Singh Dosanjh, a freedom fighter, much of Balbir Singh’s early years were spent without his father, who travelled constantly and was frequently jailed.