Top Sugar Producing States: After a five-year gap, Maharashtra has overtaken Uttar Pradesh to regain its position as India’s top sugar producer. The state’s output for the 2021-22 crushing year (October-September) is expected at 138 lakh tonnes (lt). That is an all-time-high, beating the previous 107.21 lt of 2018-19. This record production is attributed to […]
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Connectivity Projects In Northeast India
Connectivity Projects In Northeast India: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said the Centre is implementing various rail, road and air connectivity projects worth ₹1,34,200 crore in Northeast India. Addressing the “Natural Allies in Development and Interdependence (NADI)” conclave here, she said the Union government had been pumping in huge money to develop a number of […]
Demands For a Separate Bhil Pradesh
Demands For a Separate Bhil Pradesh: The demands for a “Bhil Pradesh” have of late begun to be raised again. Bhil Pradesh is a demand for a separate state for tribal people in western India. The demand is to carve out a separate state from 39 districts spread over four states: 16 in Gujarat, 10 […]
New Karst Sinkhole
New Karst Sinkhole: A cave exploration team has discovered an ancient forest with trees nearly 40 metres high at the bottom of a giant karst sinkhole in Leye County in south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. In Mandarin, giant sinkholes are called Tiankeng or “heavenly pit”. Sinkholes are depressions formed in the ground when layers […]
Ramban Tunnel
Ramban Tunnel: The Centre has constituted a committee of three independent experts to investigate the reasons for the recent collapse of a part of an under-construction tunnel in Ramban on Jammu-Srinagar highway and suggest remedial measures. According to the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways office order, Professor J.T. Sahu of the IIT, Delhi will […]
Sela Tunnel project : Arunachal Pradesh
Sela Tunnel project : Arunachal Pradesh The strategically-significant Sela Tunnel project in Arunachal Pradesh is nearing completion. Located in West Kameng district of Arunachal Pradesh, the tunnel project will provide an alternate axis to the Sela pass, which is at 13,700 feet. It will be on the BCT Road – the Balipara, Charduar and Tawang […]
What Is An Urban Heat Island?
What Is An Urban Heat Island? Several parts of the country are reeling under heat wave conditions. Cities, especially, are a lot hotter than rural areas. This is due to a phenomenon called an “urban heat island”. An urban heat island is a local and temporary phenomenon experienced when certain pockets within a city experience […]
Kanheri Caves: Important Points
Kanheri Caves: Union Minister of Tourism, Culture and DoNER inaugurates amenities at ancient Kanheri Caves on the occasion of Buddha Purnima. The Kanheri Caves are a group of caves and rock-cut monuments cut into a massive basalt outcrop in the forests of the Sanjay Gandhi National Park, on the former island of Salsette in the […]
Amalthea : Jupiter’s Satellites
Amalthea : Jupiter’s Satellites According to recent findings, Amalthea appears to radiate out more heat than it receives from the sun, which NASA suggests may be due to Jupiter’s magnetic field or from tidal stresses. Amalthea is tidally locked to Jupiter in synchronous rotation — it always aligns with the planet along its long axis. […]
Cyclone Karim
Cyclone Karim: Cyclone Asani, active now in the Bay of Bengal, has a twin — cyclone Karim — in the southern hemisphere. Karim has been classified as a category II hurricane, with a wind speed of 112 kilometres per hour (kmph). “Asani remains a Severe Cyclonic Storm over the Bay of Bengal, with wind speeds […]
