🌊Listed here 8 types of lakes, according to their origin.

✔️Tectonic Lakes; Formed due to the faults ad fractures in the earth’s crust. Most of the lakes are in the hilly areas of Kashmir and Kumaun. Example: Tso Moriri and Pangong Tso (Ladakh)

✔️Crater Lakes; Formed when the craters and calderas filled with water. Example: Lonar Lake of Buldhana (Maharashtra)

✔️Glacial Lakes; Formed due to glacial erosion. Tran is a small mountain lake, especially one that collects in a cirque basin behind rises of rock material. Found in Ladakh, Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh. Example: Gangubal lake (Kashmir)

✔️Fluvial Lakes; Rivers create a variety of lakes through their erosion and accumulation.

( Rivers are the destroyer of the lakes. Fluvially originated lakes are generally temporary and soon obliterated.
Fluvially originated lakes include, Plunge pool lakes (in front of a waterfall), Ox-bow-lakes, Alluvial fan lakes, Delta lakes, Flood plain lakes, and rift dammed lakes).

✔️ Alluvial lakes Mainly found in the middle and lower courses of the Ganga and Brahmaputra Rivers. Lakes formed by the meandering of rivers in the plains of the gentle gradient . Example: Gogabeel and Kanwar lake (Oxbow lake)

✔️Aeolian Lakes; Small temporary hollows or depressions lying on the windblown sand surface. Western Rajasthan has several lakes of these types. Desert lakes are generally high in salt and are often referred to as salt lakes. Example: Dhand (Rajasthan)

✔️Dissolution Lakes; Formed due to a depression of the surface by the underground dissolution of soluble rocks like limestone and gypsum. Example: Bhimtal (Kumaun), Garhwal (Uttrakhand)

✔️Lagoons Lakes; These are formed by deposition sandbars along the sea coast. Example: Chilka of Odisha, Pulicat (Andhra Pradesh), Vembanad, Asthamudi and Kayalas of Kerala.

✔️Landslide lakes; Produced by landslides and rockfalls causing obstruction in the course of streams. Example: Gohna Lake of Garhwal region

✔️Sambar is most salined lake in India (Rajastan).

✔️Wular is the largest fresh water lake in India (J&K) followed by kolleru lake (2nd position).

✔️Vembanadu lake(kerala) is largest or lengthiest lake in India (in Kms) if your consider length only.

✔️Chilika Lake is the largest internal saltwater lake in Asia, it is a paradise on earth for bird watchers and nature lovers. Chilika Lake is a brackish water lagoon, spread over the Puri, Khurda and Ganjam districts of Odisha, at the mouth of the Daya River.

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Cyclone FENGAL

👉 Cyclone Fengal made landfall over Puducherry on November 30. This tropical cyclone was named by Saudi Arabia.

👉 Landfall is the event of a tropical cyclone coming onto land after being over water. As per the India Meteorological Department (IMD), a tropical cyclone is said to have made landfall when the centre of the storm – or its eye – moves over the coast.

👉 A cyclone is a large-scale system of air that rotates around the centre of a low-pressure area. It is usually accompanied by violent storms and bad weather.

👉 Tropical cyclones are those which develop in the regions between the Tropics of Capricorn and Cancer.

👉 Tropical cyclones have different names depending on their location and strength. For instance, they are known as hurricanes in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Atlantic Ocean and the eastern and central North Pacific Ocean. In the western North Pacific, they are called typhoons.

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PM Narendra Modi has paid tributes to the country’s first President Dr. Rajendra Prasad on his birth anniversary today.(3 DECEMBER)

In a social media post, the Prime Minister remarked that as the Chairman of the Constituent Assembly, Rajendra Prasad made an invaluable contribution in laying a strong foundation of Indian democracy. He said, today, as all countrymen celebrate 75 years of the Constitution, Rajendra Prasad’s life and ideals have become even more inspiring.

In a significant development, the All Tripura Hotel and Restaurant Owners’ Association announced that Bangladeshi citizens would no longer be allowed to stay in hotels across the state starting December 2.