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The 2018 FIFA World Cup or the 21st FIFA World Cup will be held in the host country Russia from 14 June 2018 to 15 July 2018. FIFA World Cup 2018 will involve 32 countries national teams, which include 31 teams determined through qualifying competitions and the host country. Here we list out the names of the countries that will be part of the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Asian Football Confederation – AFC (5)

Australia
Iran
Japan
Saudi Arabia
South Korea

Confederation of African Football – CAF (5)

Egypt
Morocco
Nigeria
Senegal
Tunisia

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football – CONCACAF (3)

Costa Rica
Mexico
Panama

South American Football Confederation – CONMEBOL (5)

Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Peru
Uruguay

Oceania Football Confederation – OFC (0)

None qualified

Union of European Football Associations – UEFA (14)

Belgium
Croatia
Denmark
England
France
Germany
Iceland
Poland
Portugal
Russia (hosts)
Serbia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland

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India had a sensational eight-wicket victory over Australia in the final match of the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup 2018. This makes India the only side in history to lift the coveted title for a record fourth time.

Here are the names of the members of Under 19 Indian cricket team which won the 2018 World cup in New Zealand.

Captain and Opening Batsman

Prithvi Shaw

Vice-Captain and Middle-order batsman

Shubman Gill

Middle-order batsman

Manjot Kalra
Himanshu Rana
Riyan Parag

All Rounders

Anukul Roy
Shivam Mavi

Wicket Keepers

Harvik Desai
Arjun Juyal

Bowlers

Ishan Porel
Kamlesh Nagarkoti
Shiva Singh
Abhishek Sharma
Arshdeep Singh
Pankaj Yadav

Tags: U 19 team members, Under 19 Indian cricket team

Awards are one of the highest civilian Awards of India. Awards are given in three categories, namely, Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan and Padma Shri. The Awarded are from various disciplines and fields that is art, sports, civil services, social work, public affairs, trade and industry, science and engineering, medicine, literature and education.

Padma Vibhushan is the most prominent awarded for exceptional and distinguished service; Padma Bhushan for distinguished service of high order and Padma Shri for distinguished service in any field.

Padma Vibhushan Awardees 2018

Illaiyaraja

Ghulam Mustafa Khan

P. Parameswaran

Padma Bhushan Awardees 2018

Pankaj Advani

Philipose Mar Chrysostom

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Alexander Kadakin (Foreigner/ Posthumous)

R. Nagaswamy

Ved Prakash Nanda (Overseas Citizen of India)

Laxman Pai

Arvind Parikh

Sharda Sinha

Padma Shri Awardees 2018

Abhay and Rani Bang

Damodar Ganesh Bapat

Prafulla Govinda Baruah

Mohan Swaroop Bhatia

Sudhanshu Biswas

Saikhom Mirabai Chanu

Pandit Shyamlal Chaturvedi

Jose Ma Joey Concepcion III (Foreigner)

Langpoklakpam Subadani Devi

Somdev Devvarman

Yeshi Dhoden

Arup Kumar Dutta

Doddarange Gowda

Arvind Gupta

Digamber Hansda

Ramli Bin Ibrahim (Foreigner)

Anwar Jalalpuri (Posthumous)

Piyong Temjen Jamir

Sitavva Joddati

Malti Joshi

Manoj Joshi

Rameshwarlal Kabra

Pran Kishore Kaul

Bounlap Keokangna (Foreigner)

Vijay Kichlu

Tommy Koh (Foreigner)

Lakshmikutty

Joyshree Goswami Mahanta

Narayan Das Maharaj

Pravakara Maharana

Hun Many (Foreigner)

Nouf Marwaai (Foreigner)

Zaverilal Mehta

Krishna Bihari Mishra

Sisir Purushottam Mishra

Subhasini Mistry

Tomio Mizokami (Foreigner)

Somdet Phra Maha Muniwong (Foreigner)

Keshav Rao Musalgaonkar

Thant Myint – U (Foreigner)

V Nanammal

Sulagitti Narasamma

Vijayalakshmi Navaneethakrishnan

I Nyoman Nuarta (Foreigner)

Malai Haji Abdullah Bin Malai Haji Othman (Foreigner)

Gobaradhan Panika

Bhabani Charan Pattanaik

Murlikant Petkar

Habibullo Rajabov (Foreigner)

M R Rajagopal

Sampat Ramteke (Posthumous)

Chandra Sekhar Rath

S S Rathore

Amitava Roy

Sanduk Ruit (Foreigner)

R Sathyanarayana

Pankaj M Shah

Bhajju Shyam

Maharao Raghuveer Singh

Kidambi Srikanth

Ibrahim Sutar

Siddeshwara Swamiji

Lentina Ao Thakkar

Vikram Chandra Thakur

Rudrapatnam Narayanaswamy Tharanathan

Nguyen Tien Thien

Bhagirath Prasad Tripathi

Rajagopalan Vasudevan

Manas Bihari Verma

Panatawane Gangadhar Vithobaji

Romulus Whitaker

Baba Yogendra

A Zakia

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