Category: Geography Current Affairs

Sela Tunnel: The final blast for the 980-metre long Sela Tunnel (Tunnel 1) was conducted by Director General Border Roads (DGBR). This marks the culmination of the excavation works on the complete Sela Tunnel Project. The Sela Tunnel Project is located in the West Kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh. Once completed, it will be a […]

What Is A Cold Wave? Various parts of India, especially North India, have been experiencing a severe cold wave. Warnings for the severe cold waves have been issued in several northern states. A cold wave is different for the plains and the mountains. According to the Indian Meterological Department (IMD) if the temperature goes below […]

Undersea Volcanic Eruption : Tonga A volcano erupted in the southern Pacific Island of Tonga, which triggered Tsunami waves around the Pacific. It is an Undersea Volcanic Eruption consisting of two small uninhabited islands, Hunga-Ha’apai and Hunga-Tonga. The Tonga Islands occur along the Ring of Fire—a perimeter of heightened volcanic and seismic activity that encircles […]

Harvest Festivals: The PM has greeted people across the nation on the occasion of harvest festivals Makar Sankranti, Uttarayan, Bhogi, Magh Bihu and Pongal. The festivals celebrate the hard work and enterprise of millions of farmers across the country. Makar Sankranti: Makar Sankranti denotes the entry of the sun into the zodiac sign of Makara […]

Katrol Hill Fault: Major earthquake events in last 30,000 years resulted in spectacular changes in landscape of the Katrol Hill Fault in the Kachchh region in Gujarat, a study conducted on sediment samples revealed. Seismicity in Kachchh region is highly complex as it is characterized by multiple seismic sources in the form of several East-West […]

Turkmenistan’s Gateway To Hell: Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov recently ordered officials to find a method of finally extinguishing the ‘Gateway to Hell’ in the country. Turkmenistan’s Gateway to hell, also known as The Darvaza Crater, is 225 feet wide and 99 feet deep. It has a diameter of 70 metres, across an area of 5.5 […]

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA): Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA)sets a new record of 19000 flying hours in 2021. During the year 2021, IGRUA piled up 19000 hours of flying as against an average yearly flying output of 15000 per year during the previous five years while it was 11641 hours in 2020. […]

Chilika Lake: Odisha As per the water bird status survey-2022 conducted in the Chilika lake, nearly 11 lakhs water bird and wetland dependent species visited the lake. Chilika Lake is the largest brackish water lake and wintering ground of the birds in the Indian subcontinent. Chilika is Asia’s largest and world’s second largest lagoon. In […]

Mullaperiyar Dam: An application has been filed in the Supreme Court seeking appropriate direction to Government of Tamil Nadu to construct a new dam as also augment the storage capacity of the Vaigai dam downstream or to take such steps to strengthen the Mullaperiyar dam till an alternative dam is constructed. The petitioners said this […]