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Indian football legend Sunil Chhetri announces his retirement

• Indian football legend Sunil Chhetri has announced his retirement after a distinguished career with the national team. Chhetri revealed that the upcoming match against Kuwait at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on June 6 this year will be his last appearance at the national level.
• Chhetri, the current caption of the Indian National Team, made his debut on June 12, 2005 against Pakistan. He leaves an extraordinary legacy as India’s all-time top scorer with 94 goals in 150 international matched. Apart from this, he has scored 252 goals in a total of 515 matches.
• He is also the third highest active international goalscorer behind Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo and Argentina’s Lionel Messi. Sunil Chhetri is currently fourth in the all-time list of international goalscorers.
• He was made the caption of the Blue Tigers in 2012 and will retire as the caption of the Indian team in his final match against Kuwait. Sunil Chhetri’s 150th international match was played against Afghanistan on 26 March 2024 at the Indira Gandhi Athletic Stadium in Guwahati, Assam.
• Chhetri’s journey began in the country’s capital 19 years ago, when he served as the representative of city Club Delhi from 2001 to 2002. Chhetri was selected by former star striker Bhaichung Bhuts to captain the Indian football team.
• Apart from the 2011, 2015,2021 and 2023 SAFF Championship titles, Chhetri helped India win the 2007, 2009 and 2012 Nehru Cups. Additionally, he led India to victory in the 2008 AFC Challenge Cup, securing them a berth in the AFC Asian Cup for the first time in 27 years. (Top News Analysis, Current Affairs 2024)

List of Awards (Top News Analysis, Current Affairs 2024)

1. Arjuna Award in 2011, Padma Shri Award in 2019, Khel Ratna Award in 2021, First footballer to receive Khel Ratna Award.
2. AIFF Player of the year in 2007. 2011. 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018-19.
3. FPAI Indian Player of the year in 2009, 2018 and 2019.
4. SAFF Championship Player of the Tournament in 2011. 2015 and 2021
5. SAFF Championship Top Scorer title in 2011,2021 and 2023.
6. Hero of the Intercontinental Cup in 2018.

List of extraordinary records: (Top News Analysis, Current Affairs 2024)

1. First Indian athlete to compete on three continents
2. Played most matches for India (150).
3. Most International goals by an Indian (94).
4. Most Hat-tricks for India (4).
5. Most goals for India in AFC competitions (19).
6. All-time top goal scorer in the SAFF Championship (23).
7. Most matches (40) played by an Indian in the AFC Cup.
8. Most goals by an Indian in the AFC Cups (19).
9. Most goals By an Indian in the first-class Indian Football League (147).
10. First Indian player to score a hat-trick in the Indian Super League.
11. Most hat-tricks by an Indian in the Indian Super League (2).
12. Top Indian goal scorer in the Indian Super League (60).
13. Top Indian goal scorer in the I-League (94).
14. All-time top goal scorer in the Super Cup (9).

United Nations releases World Wildlife Crime Report-2015-21

• The third edition of the UN’s World Wildlife Crime Report states that with all-out efforts and monitoring, ivory and rhino horn trafficking has seen a decline globally, however, there has been no apparent reduction in wildlife trafficking.
• According to this report released in Vienna, Austria, efforts like closing Chinese markets and cracking down on organized crime groups have helped. In terms of mass markets, rhinoceros, pangolins and elephants were the top three traded wildlife species.
• Among the plants, cedar, rosewood and agarwood were in high demand. For example, in the case of some plants and animals such as orchids, the rarity of the species is a driving force behind trade.
• The report recorded the seizure of wild animal species in 162 countries during the period 2015-2021. These included 4,000 plant and animal species and 3,250 of them were protected under CITES.
• It is an important part of achieving the CITES Strategic Vision, the Kunming-Montreal global Biodiversity Framework and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
• CITES, the International Consortium on Combating Wildlife Crime or ICCWC, Interpol, the World Customs Organization and the World Bank Group, as well as UNODC, have worked together. (Top News Analysis, Current Affairs 2024)

NASA announced to build the first railway system ‘FLOAT’ on the Moon

• NASA has unveiled its ambitious plans to build the first lunar railway system, known as FLOAT (Flexible Levitation on Track), designed to revolutionize payload transportation on the Moon.
• Development by engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California, FLOAT uses magnetic levitation technology similar to that used in high-speed rail systems.
• The system consists of flat, magnetic panels, or “robots,” that fly over a track with no moving parts. Powered by electromagnetic energy, these robots can efficiently and reliably carry payloads to the lunar surface.
• NASA said in a statement that the transportation system aims to provide the reliable, autonomous and efficient transportation needed for daily operations of a permanent lunar base while aligning with mission concepts such as NASA’s Moon to Mars initiative and Robotic Lunar Surface Operations 2 (RLSO2).
• The FLOAT transportation system is projected to move at a speed of approximately 1.61 kilometers per hour, with the capacity to carry up to 100 tons of material per day to and from NASA’s future lunar base.
• FLOAT will primarily serve as a transportation service to areas where astronauts are active, carrying lunar soil and other materials to the lunar surface. Additionally, it will facilitate the transportation of large amounts of materials and equipment between spacecraft landing sites and base locations.
• FLOAT is set to play a key role in NASA”s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972. NASA wants to send humans to the moon again by 2026 through Artemis mission. (Top News Analysis, Current Affairs 2024)

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