Current Affairs April 2020 - Resignations

1 - IWF Chief Tamas Ajan resigned on account of allegations of corruption

International Weightlifting Federation President Tamas Ajan stepped down from his role after 43 years of service in the organization. Tamas served at the IWF since 1976, as General Secretary for 24 years and as President for 20 years. He resigned on account of allegations of corruption and doping violations.

Allegations include financial irregularities, corruption, doping control distribution, doping sample manipulation, doping payment irregularities etc. Tamas is replaced by American Ursula Papandrea. Ursula will lead the federation as Acting President.

2 - Former Pakistan Captain Sana Mir announced retirement

Sana Mir, the former Pakistan captain and world No.1, has announced her decision to retire from international cricket. Mir, 34, has represented Pakistan in 226 internationals since her debut in 2005, and was captain in 137 of them.

Sana is Pakistan's leading ODI wicket-taker with 151 wickets in 120 ODIs at an average of 24.27. She took 89 women's T20I wickets from 106 matches. Mir is also Pakistan's third-highest run-scorer in ODIs (1,630). She was the No.1 on the MRF Tyres ICC Women's ODI Rankings for bowlers back in October 2018.

3 - PCB banned Umar Akmal for three years

The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has banned its batsman Umar Akmal for three years. The ban was imposed by the Disciplinary Panel Chairman Justice (retired) Fazal-e-Miran Chauhan.

The PCB Anti-Corruption officials had charged Umar with two separate cases of not reporting an approach made to him to spot fix matches in the Pakistan Super League (PSL) 5. He was provisionally suspended on Feb 20 and barred from playing in PSL for his franchise Quetta Gladiators.

4 - Middle-distance runner Jhuma Khatun banned for four years by AIU

Middle-distance runner Jhuma Khatun has been banned for four years by the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) of World Athletics for testing positive for dehydrochloromethyl testosterone. Jhuma’s sample showed no adverse analytical finding (AAF), when it was tested at New Delhi’s National Dope Testing Laboratory (NDTL). However, when retested in World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) accredited laboratory in Montreal, Canada, it showed presence of the prohibitive substance.

Khatun had won a bronze medal each in 1,500m and 5,000m at the Championships in Guwahati. She was also a part of the 2011 Asian Championships 4x400m relay race silver-winning quartet.