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Chennai’s Veeranam Lake

Source: DTE According to data from the Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB), Veeranam Lake, a primary water source for...

22 Apr 2024 Geography

Hokkaido, Japan’s Garden of Gods

Source: DTE Recently, a record-high temperature of 26 degrees Celsius in Sapporo, Hokkaido was recorded by the Japanese Meteorological...

22 Apr 2024 Geography

India’s New Post Office in Antarctica

For Prelims: National Centre for Polar and Ocean Research (NCPOR), Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Himadri, Dakshin Gangotri,...

19 Apr 2024 Geography

Volcanism

For Prelims: Types of Volcanoes, Distribution of Volcanoes, Pacific Ring of Fire, Circum-Pacific Belt, Subduction Zones For Mains: Distribution,...

18 Apr 2024 Geography

Volcanic Vortex Rings

Source: IE Why in News? Mount Etna, the largest volcano in Europe, and among the world’s most active volcanoes, has been sending up almost...

16 Apr 2024 Geography

Drought in East Flowing Rivers

For Prelims: East and West Flowing River, Ganga River System, Peninsular Rivers For Mains: Difference between East and West Flowing Rivers,...

16 Apr 2024 Geography

Artificial Reefs to be installed in Mumbai

Source: IE India's second-ever installation of artificial reefs (after Pondicherry) to boost marine life is being deployed near Worli Koliwada,...

15 Apr 2024 Geography

India Gains Sittwe Port Access

Source: BS Recently, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) has approved a proposal for India Ports Global Ltd (IPGL) to take over the operations of...

15 Apr 2024 Geography

Taiwan Earthquake and Pacific Ring of Fire

For Prelims: Pacific Ring of Fire, Circum-Pacific Belt, Subduction, Tsunami, Earthquake. For Mains: Ring of Fire, Features and Causes of Frequent...

10 Apr 2024 Geography

Water Crisis in South India

For Prelims: Water Crisis in South India, El Niño, Monsoon, NITI Aayog, MGNREGA for water conservation, Jal Kranti Abhiyan. For Mains:...

06 Apr 2024 Geography

Magnetic Fossils in Bay of Bengal

For Prelims: Magento Fossils, Magnetotactic bacteria, Earth's magnetic field, Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, Middle Eocene Climatic Optimum, Bay...

05 Apr 2024 Geography

Tropical Cyclones Need New Category

For Prelims: Tropical Cyclones Need New Category, Tropical Cyclones, Hurricanes, Saffir-Simpson (SS) Scale, Global Warming. For Mains: Tropical...

03 Apr 2024 Geography

India Joins Sri Lanka in Seabed Mining Race

For Prelims: Indian Ocean Seabed, Cobalt-Rich Afanasy Nikitin Seamount (AN Seamount), International Seabed Authority (ISBA), United Nations...

29 Mar 2024 Geography

Integrated River Basin Management

For Prelims: Indus Waters Treaty, Ganga, Brahmaputra, Yamuna For Mains: Effective river planning, Necessity of multilateral treaties for effective...

27 Mar 2024 Geography

Shipra (Khipra) River

Recently, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) conducted a performance audit (2016-17 to 2020-21) on the degradation of the Shipra...

27 Mar 2024 Geography

Sabroom

Source: IE Recently, Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually launched several developmental projects in Tripura including the inauguration of the...

21 Mar 2024 Geography

Menace of Illegal Migration

For Prelims: International Organization for Migration, Missing Migrants Project, Internal Migration, Donkey flight, Global Compact for Safe,...

19 Mar 2024 Geography

Conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Source: TH Recent clashes in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have sparked international concern and worsened the already severe...

19 Mar 2024 Geography

Haiti

Source: TH Recently, Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced his intention to resign, once a transitional presidential council is...

13 Mar 2024 Geography

Surge in Demand of Copper

For Prelims: Properties and Applications of Copper, Mining Methods of Copper, Copper Deposits in India, Hindustan Copper Limited, Chalcopyrite,...

08 Mar 2024 Geography