Category: Geography Current Affairs

Japan : Earthquake Japanese Prime Minister said that 13 people were confirmed dead after a powerful earthquake struck the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto. Japan is an island nation in East Asia, situated in the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. It is bordered by the Pacific Ocean, Sea of Okhotsk, Sea of Japan and East China Sea. […]

Soliga Tribe: A recent study showed that fortress conservation approach has led to uprooting, ongoing distress and despondency worldwide, and offers the Soligas in the Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple Wildlife Sanctuary (BRTWS) as a prime conservation exemplar. The term “Soliga” literally translates to “children of bamboo”, which reflects the tribe’s relationship with nature and their belief […]

Andromeda Galaxy: A major new study using data from Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope has found that star formation in Andromeda has been declining for the past 500 million years. Andromeda Galaxy is also known as M31, comparable in size to our Milky Way galaxy. It is a large spiral galaxy located approximately 2.5 million light […]

Pickaxe Mountain: Pickaxe Mountain in Iran has gained global attention after US threatened military strikes, amid reports that the mountain may conceal deep underground nuclear facilities linked to Iran’s nuclear programme. The developments have also revived discussions on India’s decision not to launch a pre-emptive strike on Pakistan’s Kahuta nuclear facility in the 1980s despite […]

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 […]

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: 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 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: 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: 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 […]