Category: Geography Current Affairs

National Rail Plan (NRP): The National Rail Plan envisages that the share of freight traffic by rail should go up from the current share of 27% to 45% by 2030 The Government had come up with the National Rail Plan last year. Objectives of the plan: To create capacity ahead of demand by 2030, which […]

Geminids Meteor Shower: In 2022, the Geminids will peak around December 13-14. Geminids comes from the constellation Gemini, from whose location in the sky the meteor shower appears to originate. The constellation for which a meteor shower is named only serves to aid viewers in determining which shower they are viewing on a given night. […]

Heatwaves In India : Report By World Bank A new report by the World Bank suggests India could soon become one of the first places in the world to experience heatwaves that break the human survivability limit. India has witnessed a concurrent increase in meteorological droughts and heat waves over the last 60 years. A […]

Cyclone Mandous: It has been reported that a cyclone may impact the Tamil Nadu and Puducherry coasts from 8th December 2022 onwards. Cyclone Mandous is a slow-moving cyclone that often absorbs a lot of moisture, carries a humongous amount of rainfall and gains strength in the form of wind speeds. The name has been suggested […]

Kanger Valley National Park: Around 200 bird species were documented during the Kanger Valley Bird Survey in state’s first-ever systematic inter-state bird survey. It is located in the state of Chhattisgarh. The name of Kanger Ghati National Park is derived from the Kangar river, which flows in its length. Kanger Valley got the status of […]

Kaziranga Project: India and France are collaborating on Kaziranga Project. Agence Française de Développement (AFD) of France has committed funding of €80.2 million for a 10-year period, between 2014-2024. The Kaziranga project is a part of a larger Assam Project on Forest and Biodiversity Conservation (APFBC). The Assam government, with the support of AFD, launched […]

Mount Semeru Volcano Eruption: Mount Semeru volcano erupted recently triggering top alert status. It is located in Indonesia. It is one of the East Java Island’s tallest volcano. Semeru’s last major eruption was in December 2021. Semeru, also known as Mahameru, has erupted numerous times in the past 200 years. Indonesia is one of the […]

Samruddhi Corridor: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of the 701-km ‘Hindu Hrudayasamrat Balasaheb Thackeray Maharashtra Samruddhi Mahamarg’ on December 11. The Expressway will reduce the time taken to 839-km distance between Nagpur and Mumbai, to seven hours. This currently takes at least 17 hours. The Expressway, also called Samruddhi corridor, built […]

Coastal Red Sand Dunes: Geologists have suggested to protect the site of Coastal Red Sand Dunes, of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The Coastal Red Sand Dunes is also known as ‘Erra Matti Dibbalu’. It is one of the many sites of Visakhapatnam, which have geological importance. The site is located along the coast and is about […]