South China Sea: A Vietnamese cargo ship carrying 62 sank during stormy weather in the contested South China Sea. South China Sea is an arm of the western Pacific Ocean that borders the Southeast Asian mainland. It is bordered by China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and Vietnam. It is connected by the Taiwan […]
Category: Geography Current Affairs
Bab el-Mandeb Strait : In News
Bab el-Mandeb Strait: In News The Bab el-Mandeb Strait has returned to the geopolitical spotlight after Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement announced a maritime blockade against Saudi Arabia. It is also known as the “Gate of Tears” in Arabic, referring to the large number of shipwrecks that have occurred in this region It lies at the […]
Mahanadi River
Mahanadi River: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) spudded the first deepwater appraisal well in the Mahanadi offshore basin recently Mahanadi River is one of the major east-flowing peninsular rivers located in the states of Chhattisgarh and Odisha. It is the third-largest peninsular river after the Godavari and Krishna. It originates from the Sihawa […]
Sone River : In News
Sone River : In News Bihar and Jharkhand are set to sign an agreement formalising the sharing of Sone river waters. The Sone River, also called Son, is a principal southern tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River after the Yamuna River. It is a perennial river that originates in the Amarkantak hills of the Maikal […]
Salal Dam
Salal Dam: Authorities recently opened all gates of the Salal Dam in Jammu and Kashmir’s Reasi district after heavy rainfall triggered a sharp rise in water inflow into the Chenab River and the dam reservoir. The Salal Dam, also known as Salal Hydroelectric Power Station, is a 690 MW run-of-the-river power project on the Chenab […]
Hidden Giant Exoplanet
Hidden Giant Exoplanet: Astronomers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered a hidden giant exoplanet, Beta Pictoris d, in the well-studied Beta Pictoris star system, located 63 light-years from Earth in the Milky Way. Beta Pictoris is a young planetary system, around 23 million years old, providing insights into planetary formation and interactions between […]
Okinotori Island
Okinotori Island: A Chinese navy destroyer, alongside Russian vessels, recently conducted live-fire drills near Japan’s Okinotori Island, marking the first such disclosure by Japan. Okinotori, also known as Parece Vela, is a tiny, uninhabited island that belongs to Japan. It’s located far out in the Philippine Sea, which is part of the big Pacific Ocean. […]
Moldova
Moldova: The President of India recently reached Moldova, marking the first visit by an Indian President to Moldova. Moldova, officially the Republic of Moldova, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is situated in the east of the Carpathian Mountains between the Prut and Dniester Rivers. It is bordered by Romania to the west […]
Aral Sea
Aral Sea: Drying of the Aral Sea has released more than 200 teragrams of carbon from exposed lake-bed sediments, turning a once-stable carbon reservoir into an active source of greenhouse gases, according to a new study. Aral Sea is a saline lake in Central Asia straddling the boundary between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to the south […]
Mexico : In News
Mexico : In News A powerful magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck off the coast of southern Mexico triggering a tsunami warning for parts of the Pacific. Mexico is located in the southern part of North America. It shares its land border with the United States of America to the north and with Guatemala and Belize to […]
