CLOUD BURST Subject: Geography Context: Cloudburst hits Devprayag in Uttarakhand, no one injured Concept: The cloudburst is a localised weather phenomena representing highly concentrated rainfall over a small area lasting for few hours. This leads to flash floods/ landslides, house collapse, dislocation of traffic and human casualties on large scale. Meteorologists say the […]

    MOUNT SINABUNG Subject : Geography Context :Recently, the Mount Sinabung has erupted again and belching a massive column of volcanic ash and smoke 3,000 metres (3 km) into the sky. Concept : Mount Sinabung It is a Pleistocene-to-Holocene stratovolcano of andesite and dacite. It is located in the Karo plateau of Karo Regency, […]

    POLAR WANDER Subject: Geography Context: Global warming and melting glaciers could have redistributed the global water fronts to such an extent that they have redefined the ‘polar wander’ or the drifting of the Earth’s axis, finds a study published in Geophysical Research Letters. Concept: Polar wander is the motion of a pole in […]

    HIMALAYAN FRONTAL THRUST Subject: Geography Context: Recently, several houses and buildings were damaged after an earthquake of magnitude 6.4 on the Richter scale hit Assam. The preliminary analysis shows that the events are located near to Kopili Fault closer to Himalayan Frontal Thrust (HFT). Concept: Himalayan Front Thrust (HFT) It is also known […]

    EARTHQUAKE Subject: Geography Context : A major earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter Scale jolted Northeast India on Wednesday morning. The earthquake originated in Tezpur of Assam and tremors were felt across Assam, North Bengal and other parts of the Northeast. Concept : According to the National Centre of Seismology, the earthquake measuring […]

    SOMALIA Subject : Geography / IR Context: Somalia, already fragile after decades of civil war and an Islamist insurgency, is facing its worst political crisis in recent years after the failure to hold planned elections in February. Concept: President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, best known by his nickname Farmajo, has faced harsh criticism from […]