Category: Geography Current Affairs

Chenchu Tribe: The National Sanskrit University (NSU) organised a symposium, panel discussion, and exhibition recently highlighting the unique privilege the Chenchu tribal community has with the Ahobilam shrine and the deity of Lord Narasimha. The Chenchus are a food-gathering tribe primarily residing in the Nallamalai forests of Andhra Pradesh. They are one of the Particularly […]

Mexico’s Senate: The Mexico’s Senate approved tariffs of up to 50% on imports from Asian countries, including India. Mexico is located in the southern part of North America. It shares its land borders with the United States of America, Guatemala and Belize. It is surrounded by the Pacific Ocean to the south and west; by […]

Ratle Hydroelectric Project: Megha Engineering and Infrastructures Ltd. (MEIL), which is constructing the Ratle Hydroelectric Project recently said it may pull out of the project if the administration failed to stop threats and interference from locals and politicians. It is an 850 MW run-of-river hydroelectric power project being built on the Chenab River in the […]

Solar Storm : In News India’s first solar observatory Aditya-L1 played a key role in helping scientists decode why the strongest solar storm in more than two decades that struck Earth in May 2024 behaved so unusually, ISRO said recently. A solar storm is a sudden explosion of particles, energy, magnetic fields, and material blasted […]

Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event: A meteorologist warned of another Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event that could plunge temperatures below average across parts of the U.S. later this month. It refers to a rapid rise in stratospheric temperatures that weakens or distorts the polar vortex (a cold-air mass typically stabilized over the Arctic). It begins […]

Cosmic Filament : The University of Oxford researchers reported a roughly 50-million-lightyear-long cosmic Filament traced by at least 14 galaxies. Cosmic or galaxy filaments are the largest ‘threads’ in the universe’s cosmic web. A single cosmic filament is a structure spanning hundreds of millions of lightyears. These filaments are the largest known structures in the […]

Japan : Major Earthquake A major earthquake rocked Japan’s northern coast and also the country’s meteorological agency recorded several tsunami waves. It is an island nation in East Asia, situated in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by Pacific Ocean (East), Sea of Okhotsk (North), Sea of Japan (West East) and East China Sea […]

Kīlauea Volcano : Erupted Fresh lava fountains recently erupted from Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano nearly a year after one of the world’s most active volcanoes began its current eruptive phase.It is one of the world’s most active volcanoes.It is a shield-type volcano located in the southeastern part of the island of Hawaii, Hawaii State, United States.Hawaii […]

Powai Lake: Flagging a series of non-compliances by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) in checking untreated sewage flowing into Powai Lake, a National Green Tribunal (NGT)-mandated committee recently recommended that the BMC face a penalty of Rs 5 lakh per month per inlet if the new action plan is violated. It is an artificial lake […]

Afar region : Prediction Scientists predict that Africa’s Afar region could become Earth’s next ocean basin. It is the northeastern part of Ethiopia, where the Red Sea meets the Gulf of Aden. The Afar depression, also known as the Danakil depression, forms the northern part of the region and is largely desert scrubland with shallow […]