Category: Geography Current Affairs

Phuket Island: Flash floods recently inundated several areas of the island of Phuket in Thailand, one of the country’s major tourist destinations. Phuket Island is Thailand’s largest island and sits on the Andaman Sea, a marginal sea of the northeastern Indian Ocean. Located in southern Thailand, it lies off the country’s western coast. It is […]

Cyclone Arnab: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a Red Alert for Andhra Pradesh and Odisha as cyclonic storm ‘Arnab’ intensified into a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS) over the west-central Bay of Bengal.It is a mature, intense tropical cyclone classified by the IMD as a Very Severe Cyclonic Storm (VSCS)—characterized by a low-pressure core, […]

Saidongar-1 Pumped Storage Project: Environmental activists and opposition parties recently came out against the “rampant” cutting of hundreds of trees for Torrent Power’s Saidongar-1 Pumped Storage Project in Raigad district of Maharashtra. The Saidongar 1 (Karjat) Off-Stream Open Loop Pumped Storage project (PSP) is a major hydro-energy initiative located in Karjat taluka, Raigad district of […]

Bonin Islands: A magnitude 6.5 earthquake recently struck the Bonin Islands region of Japan. The Bonin Islands, also known as the Ogasawara Islands, are volcanic islands and islets in the central Pacific Ocean in the southeast of Japan. The islands command a strategic position astride the Pacific approaches to East Asia. The largest and principal […]

Lake Untersee: Glacial flood caused Lake Untersee to rise by two metres after a neighbouring lake released 17.5 million cubic metres of water. Lake Untersee, meaning “lower lake” in German, is a uniquely isolated freshwater lake in Antarctica. It is one of Antarctica’s largest and deepest surface lakes. Despite being a surface lake, it remains […]

Azerbaijan: A year after ties between India and Azerbaijan soured over Baku’s alignment with Pakistan during Operation Sindoor, India’s External Affairs Minister (EAM) met with Azerbaijan’s top leadership in an attempt to reset bilateral relations. Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is located at the junction of Eastern Europe and Western Asia along the southern […]

Zuqar Island: Yemen’s Houthi rebels recently claimed they are attempting to rescue a boat carrying 14 Indian nationals near Zuqar Island in the Red Sea, alleging that it was targeted by Saudi Arabia. Zuqar Island is a Yemeni island in the southern Red Sea, forming part of the Hanish Islands archipelago. It lies between the […]

Zavodovski Island: According to research by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the number of breeding chinstrap penguins on the Zavodovski Island declined nearly 63% in 14 years. Zavodovski Island is an uninhabited volcanic island situated in the Traversay Islands subgroup of the South Sandwich Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. Zavodovski Island hosts the world’s […]