Category: Geography Current Affairs

Kwar Hydroelectric Project: The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the 540-megawatt Kwar hydroelectric project on the Chenab in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir. Kwar Project is part of the Indus basin and would be one of at least four projects coming up in the district, including the 1,000 MWs Pakal Dul […]

What Is A Heatwave? A heatwave has gripped the Vidarbha and Marathwada regions of Maharashtra. This is the fourth heatwave in the last two months, and the second in April. In fact, on April 26, Vidarbha was the hottest region in the country. Heatwave: A region is considered to be under the grip of a […]

Kuril Islands: On April 22, Japan’s Diplomatic Bluebook for 2022 described the Kuril Islands (which Japan calls the Northern Territories and Russia as the South Kurils) as being under Russia’s “illegal occupation”. This is the first time in about two decades that Japan has used this phrase to describe the dispute over the Kuril Islands. […]

What Is Seafloor Spreading? According to a study that analyzed data from the last 19 million years, Seafloor spreading rates have slowed down by roughly 35% globally. For this study, researchers selected 18 of the world’s largest spreading ridges (mid-ocean ridges). A ridge or a mountain ridge is a geographical feature consisting of a chain […]

Blue Straggler Stars: Scientists at Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bengaluru, have found support for one way to understand peculiarity about Blue Straggler Star. The researchers made use of the observations by the UVIT instrument (Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope) of Astrosat, India’s first science observatory in space. Earlier in September 2021, in the first-ever comprehensive analysis of […]

Falklands Dispute: “The Commission for Dialogue” with the United Kingdom on the Falkland Islands was recently inaugurated by India and Argentina. The commission seeks to settle the territorial dispute over the Islas Malvinas that are known as the Falkland Islands in the UK. The British, in 1765, were the first to settle West Falkland, but […]

Arunachal Pradesh – Assam Border Dispute: Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu and his Assam counterpart Himanta Biswa Sarma have decided to form district-level committees for settling their inter-state boundary disputes. Recently, the Union government gave the seal of approval to an agreement to partially resolve the disputed sectors on the Assam-Meghalaya border. Assam has […]

Meteor Showers In Indian Skies: Lyric Meteor showers peaked in Indian skies on April 22nd and will continuously pass through till April 29 at nearly 10-15 meteors every hour. Lyrids are debris of Comet Thatcher, which is currently traveling at a distance of 1,60,00,00,000 kilometers from the planet. Currently traveling away from the Sun, Comet […]

Western Disturbances: Variations in the intensity and locations of the Western Disturbances have brought heavy rainfall to Delhi during some months and kept the city dry and in the grip of a heat wave at other times. Western disturbances are storms that originate in the Caspian or Mediterranean Sea, and bring non-monsoonal rainfall to northwest […]