Tea Horse Road: China’s Ambassador to India highlighted the Ancient Tea Horse Road, connecting China to India via Tibet, emphasizing its centuries-old role in facilitating exchanges between China and the Indian subcontinent. Tea Horse road, often referred to as the Southern Silk Road, is a network of caravan paths and a crucial trade route that […]
Category: Geography Current Affairs
Thames River : New Study
Thames River : New Study A new study has learned that climate change is increasing the potential for algal blooms in the United Kingdom’s River Thames despite a four-decade-long decline in phosphorus loads. Thames River is a 346-km river that flows through southern England. It is the longest river in England and the second longest […]
Dwarf Galaxies
Dwarf Galaxies: A team of scientists in the US, led by Indian-origin astrophysicist Raga Deepika Pucha, recently discovered the largest samples of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies with active black holes. They are small galaxies that typically contain just a few billion stars, unlike their larger cousins, which can hold hundreds of billions. They […]
Andaman Sea : Earthquake
Andaman Sea : Earthquake An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 struck the Andaman Sea recently. Andaman Sea is a semi-enclosed marginal sea in the northeastern Indian Ocean. It lies between the eastern coast of India and the Malay Peninsula, with Myanmar to the north and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the south. The Bay of […]
Zagros Mountains
Zagros Mountains: A geologist said that a hilly area surrounding the Zagros Mountains in Iraq is being pulled into Earth. Zagros Mountains is a major mountain range in West Asia. Scientists estimate that these Mountains were formed during orogenic episodes triggered by the sliding of the Arabian Plate underneath the Eurasian Plate during the Miocene […]
Mount Dukono
Mount Dukono: The Mount Dukono erupted which prompted the Indonesia’s Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation Centre to issue an aviation warning. Mount Dukono is located in Indonesia’s North Maluku province. It is a complex volcano and one of the most active volcanoes in Indonesia. The volcano, situated on Halmahera Island, spewed a column of ash […]
Gulf of Tonkin
Gulf of Tonkin: Vietnam’s foreign ministry published a map defining its baseline claim in the Gulf of Tonkin. Gulf of Tonkin is referred as “Beibu Gulf”in Chinese and “Bac Bo Gulf” in Vietnamese. It is a crescent-shaped, shallow, semi-enclosed water body situated off South China and Northern Vietnam coasts in the South China Sea’s northwestern […]
Mising Tribe
Mising Tribe: Assam’s largest tribal community, the Mising tribe, celebrated the Ali Ai Ligang festival recently. The Mising people are an indigenous tribe from Northeast India. They are part of the Tani people, who speak Tibeto-Burmese languages. They live in parts of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh in India and Tibet in China. Tibetans call them […]
National Dam Safety Authority
National Dam Safety Authority: The Supreme Court recently directed a supervisory committee chaired by the head of the National Dam Safety Authority, to look into issues raised by Tamil Nadu against Kerala concerning the maintenance of the 125-year-old Mullaperiyar dam. NDSA is a statutory body set up by the Central Government in exercise of the […]
Mount Dukono erupts in Indonesia
Mount Dukono erupts in Indonesia: Mount Dukono, one of Indonesia’s most active volcanoes, erupted on February 20, 2025, spewing a massive ash cloud up to 2,000 meters into the air. The eruption, occurring on Halmahera Island in North Maluku province, has prompted Indonesian authorities to issue urgent aviation warnings and safety advisories for residents
