{"id":13791,"date":"2023-08-06T05:42:23","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T00:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13791"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:20:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T01:50:20","slug":"durand-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/durand-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Durand Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Durand Cup:<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is Asia\u2019s oldest and the world\u2019s third oldest football tournament, in which top Indian football clubs from across the country participate.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The inaugural edition took place in Shimla in 1888, when it started off as an Army Cup, open only to the British Indian Army troops in India.<\/li>\n<li>The tournament is named after its founder Sir Henry Mortimer Durand.<\/li>\n<li>It was begun as a football tournament for different departments and regiments of the Armed forces of India and the princely states.<\/li>\n<li>Since independence, the army\u2019s presence is maintained by the participation of several clubs of different regiments of the Indian Armed Forces as guest invitees.<\/li>\n<li>The Durand Cup tournament is unique where in the winning team walks away with three trophies,\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>The Durand Cup (a rolling trophy and the original prize).<\/li>\n<li>The Shimla Trophy (also a rolling trophy and first given by the residents of Shimla in 1904).<\/li>\n<li>The President&#8217;s Cup (for permanent keep and first presented by Dr. Rajendra Prasad, India\u2019s first President, in 1956).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are armed forces?<\/h3>\n<p>Armed forces refer to the military organizations of a country or nation that are responsible for the defense and protection of its citizens and territorial integrity. These forces are usually composed of three main branches: the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force, each specializing in different types of operations and missions<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1946021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh inaugurates 132nd Durand Cup in Kokrajhar, Assam<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Durand Cup is Asia\u2019s oldest and the world\u2019s third oldest football tournament, in which top Indian football clubs from across the country participate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","7":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}