Category: Geography Current Affairs

Decline Of Dogri Language: Growing concern has emerged over the gradual decline of the Dogri language in the Jammu region. Dogri Language is an Indo-Aryan language, part of the larger Indo-European family of languages. It is spoken in India, chiefly in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir. It is also spoken in the state […]

Taal Volcano: Taal Volcano in the Philippines reportedly erupted three times It is located in Batangas province about 70 kilometers south of Manila, Philippines. Taal is classified as a “complex” volcano by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS). Taal is an active volcano within a massive caldera, with at least 38 recorded eruptions […]

Sone River : Bodies of two persons Found Bodies of two persons, who had gone missing while bathing in the Sone river on the occasion of the Chhath festival, were fished out in Jharkhand’s Palamu district recently. The Sone River, also called Son, is a principal southern tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River after the […]

Ollo Tribe: In an effort to promote self-reliance and inclusive growth, the Khonsa Battalion of the Assam Rifles recently launched a skill-based initiative to empower women of the Ollo tribe under Operation Sadbhavana. It is an indigenous tribe inhabiting the Laju Circle of the Tirap district in Arunachal Pradesh, India, and parts of Myanmar. The […]

Cyclone Montha: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a high alert for Andhra Pradesh and Odisha as Cyclone Montha is set to make landfall between Machilipatnam and Kalingapatnam near Kakinada.Cyclone Montha is a tropical cyclonic storm forming over the southeast Bay of Bengal, expected to intensify into a Severe Cyclonic Storm (SCS) as it […]

Aurangabad Railway Station Renamed Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar: The Aurangabad Railway Station in Maharashtra has been officially renamed Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar Railway Station, as per a notification by the Central Railway. The station now carries the new code ‘CPSN’, and falls under the Nanded Division of South Central Railway. The renaming follows the earlier change of the city’s […]

Mount Etna: Researchers recently analyzed changes over time in the ratio of small earthquakes to bigger ones beneath Mount Etna and found a strong correlation with the volcano’s activity over the past 20 years. It is an active stratovolcano located on the island of Sicily in the Mediterranean Sea. (Sicily is a part of Italy.) […]

Markanda River: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) recently directed the State Pollution Control Boards of Himachal and Haryana and the Sirmaur deputy commissioner to file detailed reports on the status of water pollution caused by industries in the Markanda River in the Sirmaur district of Himachal Pradesh. Markanda River is a tributary of the Ghaggar […]

Taftan Volcano: New research shows that Taftan volcano in Iran seems to be waking up after a 700,000-year-long sleep. It is a 12,927-foot (3,940 meters) semi-active stratovolcano located in southeastern Iran, 56 km from the Pakistan border. It is the only active volcano in the Makran continental volcanic arc. It is situated among a rump […]