Droupadi Murmu a Santhal Women nominated by NDA for President post Subject: Geography Section: Human Geography Santhal People The Santal or Santhal, are a Munda ethnic group native to India. Santals are the largest tribe in the Jharkhand state of India in terms of population and are also found in the states of […]
How lightning kills and how to be safe when it strikes Subject: Geography Section: Climatology Context: Seventeen people have been killed by lightning over the last two days in various parts of Bihar, Six deaths have been reported from Bhagalpur district, while three people were killed in Vaishali, and two each in Banka and Khagaria. Other deaths happened in Madhepura, […]
American warship fired a warning flare at an IRGC speedboat in Strait of Hormuz Subject: Geography Section: Mapping Strait of Hormuz The Strait of Hormuz is a strait between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. It provides the only sea passage from the Persian Gulf to the open ocean and is […]
Too many tourists in Himalayas; new report presses for pre-empting disasters Subject: Geography Section: Mapping Context: There is a need to pre-empt the disastrous effects of unregulated tourism and learn lessons from the over-exploited tourist destinations in the Himalayan region What is the impact of the tourism in the Himalayan region? Demand for tourism […]
Sterlite plant Copper of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu Subject : Geography Section: Economic geography Context: Sterlite Copper of Thoothukudi in Tamil Nadu has become a moral issue after the police firing on protesters resulted in the deaths of 13 people in May 2018 . Complaints against the plant Over some 20 years of […]
Crop holiday Subject : Geography Section : Economic Geography Context: Lack of payment of dues, no change in MSPs and creaking infrastructure has caused farmers in Andhra Pradesh’s Godavari delta region to refrain from sowing paddy Crop holiday Farmers in the fertile and water-rich delta of the Godavari River in Andhra Pradesh are […]
Marine heatwave fuelled super cyclone Amphan Subject :Geography Section: Climatology Context: A study, published in the Frontiers in Climate, is the first study conducted in the Indian Ocean that investigates the interaction between a marine heatwave and super cyclone Amphan in the Bay of Bengal in May 2020. Marine heatwaves The high sea […]