Woman Empowerment

Editorial by UPSC chairman

Khus ho jao Gandhians ❤️

🌸🌿 Bathukamma, the floral festival of Telangana

Celebrated during Navratri, it honours the `life-giver’ Bathukamma.

In Telugu, ‘Bathukamma’ means ‘Mother Goddess Come Alive’ & Goddess
Maha Gauri -‘Life Giver’ is worshipped in the form of Bathukamma

Bathukamma is a beautiful flower stack, arranged with different unique seasonal flowers most of them with medicinal values, in seven concentric layers in the shape of temple gopuram

Women make small ‘Bathukammas’, form circles around them and sing folk songs every evening & immerse them in a nearby water pond.

Jay Bajarangbali ❤️💫🎧

आदौ राम तपोवनादि गमनं, हत्वा मृगं कांचनम्।
वैदीहीहरणं जटायुमरणं, सुग्रीवसंभाषणम्।।
बालीनिर्दलनं समुद्रतरणं, लंकापुरीदाहनम्।
पश्चाद् रावण कुम्भकर्ण हननम्, एतद्धि रामायणम्।।

शुभ विजयादशमी 🙏
मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम राजा रामचंद्र जी की जय

⚡️Cabinet approves Mission
for Aatmanirbharta in Pulses

The Raja Ram Temple in Orchha (MP)
is a unique blend of divinity & royalty,
where Ram ji is worshipped not just
as a deity, but as a king.

Markhor 🐐

Consider the following statements regarding the Markhor:

1. It is the national animal of Afghanistan.

2. The Markhor is categorized as 'Endangered' under the IUCN Red List.

3. It primarily inhabits high-altitude mountainous regions in the Karakoram and Himalayas.

4. The Markhor is listed in Schedule I of India's Wildlife (Protection) Act, 1972.

Markhor

Venezuela

[ Places in the news ]

✅ Geographic Setting :
- Lies at the northern tip of South America.
Spans a triangular landmass larger than France and Germany put together.

✅Capital: Caracas

✅Borders :
East: Guyana
South: Brazil
West: Colombia
North: Caribbean Sea & Atlantic Ocean

✅Physical Landscape:

Andes Range – Includes Pico Bolívar ,Venezuela’s highest peak.

Orinoco Basin & Llanos Plains – Agricultural and cattle ranching heartland; source of hydroelectric power.

Lake Maracaibo – South America’s largest lake; center of the nation’s oil industry.

Guiana Highlands – Rich in minerals; home to Angel Falls (979 m), the world’s tallest waterfall.

✅ Resources & Economy:
- Holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves.

- Abundant iron ore, gold, diamonds, plus vast hydro potential.

✅ Strategic Significance :
- Extensive Caribbean coastline with notable islands like Margarita, Los Roques, and La Tortuga.

- Functions as a natural link between South America, the Caribbean, and North America.