Indian men's hockey player PR Sreejesh has won the World Games Athlete of the Year award for 2021. He is the second Indian after Rani Rampal to win this award.
India won the right to host the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Session 2023 in Mumbai during the 139th IOC session that was held in Beijing, China, on the sidelines of the Winter Olympics.
Veteran Nobel-winning virologist Luc Montagnier died in Paris recently. He won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2008 for the discovery of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus that causes AIDS, along with his colleague Francoise Barr-Sinoussi.