Tenders for project on Mahadayi river in Karnataka may not fiend any takers Subject : Geography Section: Places in news Context: Tenders floated for implementation of the controversial Kalasa Banduri scheme by the previous BJP government minutes before Karnataka Assembly elections were . What is the Kalasa-Banduri project? The Kalasa-Banduri project aims to […]

    See maps of where the Titanic sank and how deep the wreckage is amid the search for missing sub Subject : Geography Section: Places in news Titanic’s planned path: The voyage started in 1912. It took off from Southampton, England, for New York City. It first made stops in Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, […]

    Shipwrecks can teach us a lot. But the submersible incident is a warning Subject : Geography Section: Places in news Context: The Titan, belonging to the private company OceanGate Expeditions, had taken the tourists to the wreck of the RMS Titanic in the waters of the North Atlantic. Contact with the Titan was […]

    Why jeera prices are shooting up in wholesale markets Subject :Geography Section: Economic geography Context: The price of Cumin, commonly known as jeera, the aromatic seed that adds an extra punch of taste to Indian dishes, has crossed the 50,000 per quintal mark at the APMC mandi of Unjha in Gujrat’s Mehsana district. […]

    Lightning activity in the European Eastern Alps doubled in 40 years. What does this indicate? Subject :Geography Section: Physical geography ( Climatology) Context: Lightning activity in the higher European Eastern Alps doubled in the 2010s compared to the 1980s, according to a new study. Details of the study: Warming in the European Eastern […]