ऐतिहासिक जीत दिलाने वाले विराट और शास्त्री के हीरो अचानक हुए गायब, चयनकर्ताओं ने मोड़ा मुंह, टेस्ट करियर खत्म!

भारत के लिए ऑस्ट्रेलिया 2020-21 के दौरे पर हनुमा विहारी, वाशिंगटन सुंदर, टी नटराजन और शार्दुल ठाकुर जैसे खिलाड़ियों ने यादगार प्रदर्शन किया. इस दौरे पर शुभमन गिल, मोहम्मद सिराज, टी नटराजन, वाशिंगटन सुंदर ने टेस्ट डेब्यू किया था.

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China's Ruling Communist Party Claims "Decisive Victory" Over COVID-19

China's ruling Communist Party has claimed to have scored a "decisive victory" over the coronavirus pandemic by minimising the casualties and staunchly defended its much-criticised zero-COVID policy, saying that it has succeeded in preventing the widespread prevalence of variants.

Since December last year, millions of people in China contracted the Omicron virus and unofficial reports said thousands of people, especially those above 60 years old, fell victim to it.

More than 200 million people were treated and nearly 800,000 patients in severe conditions received effective treatment, according to an official press release issued after the party's political bureau meeting held on Thursday.

With a strong sense of responsibility and strategic resolve, China has optimised and adjusted the COVID-19 prevention and control measures in light of the evolving situation, and effectively balanced pandemic containment with economic and social development, it said.

"As a result, we have succeeded in preventing the widespread prevalence of variants that are more virulent and fatal, effectively protecting people's safety and health, and buying us precious time for winning the battle against the pandemic", it said.

"We have scored a decisive victory in our response to COVID-19. China, a country with a large population of 1.4 billion, has created a remarkable feat in the history of human civilisation by successfully walking out of the pandemic," the party claimed.

Since November 2022, the focus was on optimising response measures to safeguard the health and prevent severe cases and secure a smooth transition within a short period of time, it said.

China's mortality rate of COVID-19 has been kept at the lowest level globally, it said without providing any data on the death count during the recent Omicron spread in the country.

Last month Chinese health officials reported 59,938 new coronavirus deaths in hospitals across the country over the last 30 days, amid criticism from the WHO that Beijing was heavily under-reporting the magnitude of the pandemic.

China was the rare country where its vaccination campaign focused more on people below 60 years to keep the working-age population safe.

The country's zero covid policy was effective to halt the Delta variant but fell flat to containing the Omicron variant of COVID.

Periodic lockdowns of top cities including Shanghai and arbitrary sealing of residential buildings resulted in rare public protests in December last year, prompting the government to lift the restrictions suddenly. It resulted in the massive spread of Covid in the country.

China reopened its borders to international travellers on January 8 after nearly three years.

The coronavirus initially broke out in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019 before it spread to other countries and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organisation.

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10868 रन बनाने वाली महिला क्रिकेटर 40 की उम्र में भी है सिंगल! आखिर क्यों नहीं की शादी? वजह बेहद ही दिलचस्प

भारतीय महिला टीम की पूर्व कप्तान मिताली राज (Mithali Raj) 40 साल की हो गई है. मिताली ने साल 1999 में टीम इंडिया के लिए डेब्यू किया था. उन्होंने अपने करियर पर साल 2022 में विराम लगाया. हैरान करने वाली बात यह है कि उन्होंने अभी तक शादी नहीं की है. हर कोई इसका कारण जानना चाहता है. मिताली राज ने एक इंटरव्यू में खुलासा किया था कि उन्होंने शादी क्यों नहीं की. उन्होंने इसका हैरान करने वाला जवाब दिया.

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Can India Reintroduce Asian Cheetah? South Africa's Expert Explains

It would be impossible for India to reintroduce the Asiatic cheetahs because there are only a few left and that is why it had to choose South African cheetahs, according to a leading expert here.

Vincent van der Merwe, a veterinarian who is closely involved in the project which will see 12 South African cheetahs land at Gwalior Air Force base on Saturday morning, explained that there were only about 30 to 40 Asian cheetahs left in the Asia region, all of them in Iran.

"So, it would be impossible for India to take cheetahs from Asia for this reintroduction because there are a few left. Maybe one day we might be able to save the Asiatic cheetah. It's a very different-looking cheetah, but this is a species that is essentially at the end of the run," he said.

Van der Merwe said the Asian cheetah had once been endemic to all of Asia but had been rendered extinct through centuries of agricultural growth encroaching on their territory.

Speaking at a briefing in rural Limpopo province on Thursday night ahead of an event where the cheetahs were being prepared for the flight from O R Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg on Friday evening to be sent to India, van der Merwe said they were aware that India has a lot of predators that the local cheetah would never have come across before.

"So, we have selected our very best cheetah for relocation. These are animals that know what to do when they encounter lions. These animals are out there to get them and they are vigilant to the presence of these predators. They immediately know that they must move in the opposite direction. The cheetah that we are sending to India will know what to do," he said.

Being the fastest land animal on earth, no predator has a chance of catching a running cheetah.

"We want wild and functional cheetahs introduced into India. They must know what to do when they see lions or leopards, because these are the predators that they are going to encounter in India, alongside sloth bears, wolves for the first time, and Indian wild dogs," said Van der Merwe.

Adrian Tordiffe, Associate Professor and Veterinary Wildlife Specialist at the University of Pretoria, who has also been deeply involved in the project, explained the cheetahs were sedated and brought in from their holding fenced areas to receive vaccination and other medication before being revived in the crates in which they would be transported to India.

"When we are translocating animals, we want to make sure that we are not reintroducing any disease into the wildlife population in India and at the same time we want to make sure that whatever they are going to be exposed to in India is not going to detrimentally affect them," Tordiffe said.

Tordiffe was also very complimentary of the Indian team that he and his team had worked with.

"There so many lessons that we can learn from them in terms of how they deal with human-wildlife conflict and the way they manage their open system parks, which we are very scared of doing (in South Africa)," he said.

Tordiffe was referring to the fact that India's reserves are mainly open, where animals can roam free, often with human settlements adjacent to them. South Africa's reserves are all fenced in.

"It has been absolutely wonderful working with what I consider some of the best carnivore conservationists in the world. My colleagues in India have done a marvellous job at the conservation of the tiger. Their tiger population has also doubled in the last ten years," Tordiffe said.

Dr Amit Mallick, Inspector-General of the National Tiger Conservation Authority, shared his optimism about the South African cheetah adapting to the Indian condition.

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17 साल की उम्र में चल बसी थी मां, पिता ने की वॉचमैन की नौकरी, अब करोड़ों का मालिक है भारतीय दिग्गज

Ravindra Jadeja Struggle Story: टीम इंडिया में कई क्रिकेटर ऐसे आए जिन्हें बचपन के दिनों में काफी परेशानियां झेलनी पड़ी. उन्होंने काफी मेहनत कर टीम इंडिया में अपना स्थान पक्का किया. भारत के दिग्गज ऑलराउंडर्स की लिस्ट में शुमार रवींद्र जडेजा की कहानी भी कुछ ऐसी ही है जिन्होंने अब विरोधी टीम के नाक में दम कर रखा है.

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