West Seti Power Project: Nepal India will be taking over West Seti Hydropower Project nearly four years after China withdrew from it, ending a six-year engagement between 2012 and 2018. Earlier, the Indian Prime Minister visited Lumbini, where he celebrated 2566th Buddha Jayanti celebrations, also Nepal invited India to invest in West Seti Hydropower Project. […]
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New Link National Highway 133B And 131A
New Link National Highway 133B And 131A: Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has informed that the project for the construction of New Link National Highway 133B and 131A is in full swing The National Highway-133B project spanning over 21 kilometer, is a one-of-its-kind project involving the construction of a six-kilometer-long Ganga […]
Bharat Gaurav Train : Coimbatore North To Sainagar Shirdi
Bharat Gaurav Train : Coimbatore North To Sainagar Shirdi The first service of the theme-based Bharat Gaurav Train from Coimbatore North to Sainagar Shirdi started its journey on 14-06-2022. With this, Southern Railway becomes the first zone in Indian Railways to get the first Registered service provider under the ‘Bharat Gaurav” Scheme and commence the […]
NH53
NH53: State-owned NHAI has created a Guinness World Record for the longest continuously laid bituminous lane of 75 kilometres in 105 hours and 33 minutes on the national highway between Amravati and Akola districts in Maharashtra. The total length of the 75 kilometres of single lane continuous bituminous concrete road is equivalent to 37.5 kilometres […]
Etalin Hydro Power Project
Etalin Hydro Power Project: Wildlife scientists and conservationists in Arunachal Pradesh flagged threats to local biodiversity from the proposed Etalin hydroelectric (3,097 MW) project in Dibang Valley. To raise the issue,they approached the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) under the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC). WildLIfe Institute of India (WII) and the […]
Yankti Kuti Valley
Yankti Kuti Valley: Multiple events of glacial advances have been witnessed from the Yankti Kuti valley situated in the extreme eastern part of Pithoragarh district, Uttarakhand, since 52 thousand years (MIS 3) that synchronises with climate variability, according to a new study. Scientists of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, an autonomous institute of the […]
Current State Of Water Scarcity
Current State of Water Scarcity: According to a newly published book, unconventional water sources can help beat global water scarcity. The book was compiled by experts at the United Nations University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH), UNU Institute for Integrated Management of Material Fluxes and of Resources and the UN Food and Agriculture […]
Development Of Trincomalee Port Into An Industrial Hub : Sri Lanka
Development Of Trincomalee Port Into An Industrial Hub : Sri Lanka Sri Lanka plans to develop Trincomalee port into an industrial hub that would spark global interest. The proposal is a long-standing plan to monetise land that belongs to the Sri Lanka Port Authority, by getting foreign and local investment for a special economic zone, […]
Why Neptune And Uranus Appear In different Colours?
Why Neptune And Uranus Appear In different Colours? Astronomers now have an explanation for why Neptune and Uranus appear in different colours. Neptune and Uranus have much in common — they have similar masses, sizes, and atmospheric compositions — yet their appearances are in different shades of blue. At visible wavelengths, Neptune is a rich, […]
Permanent Indus Commission Meeting : Indus Water Treaty
Indus Water Treaty: India and Pakistan have begun another round of the Permanent Indus Commission meeting that is held annually under Indus Water Treaty (IWT) 1960. The Indus talks have survived the freeze in ties as both countries see it as mandatory under the IWT. Under the provisions of the treaty, the two sides are […]
