#history Ashokan Edicts on Pillars in Delhi. Tarikh-i-Firoz Shahi; Book by Ziauddin Barani/Shams-i Siraj ʻAfif.

#history Topra Pillar

#science four phases of soft landing: rough braking, attitude hold, fine braking, terminal descent.

#history Ajnala Massacre related to 1857 Revolt; Ajnala is near Amritsar, Punjab. The book Crisis in Punjab by Frederick Cooper, the then deputy commissioner of Amritsar, gave details.

#geography Lake Ohrid: Lake Ohrid is a lake which straddles the mountainous border between the southwestern part of North Macedonia and eastern Albania.

#environment vegetated canopies for creating green spaces in Urban Spain. By SingularGreen; a new way to generate shadows in the city.

#environment vegetated canopies/awnings

#report World Migration Report: UN IOM.

#history treaty of Amritsar; 1st Anglo-Sikh War. Lord Harding was the Governor General during the First Anglo-Sikh War.

#environment UNCBD; COP15 Montreal: Adopted World Restoration Flagships in 2022; amongst which Namami Gange was recognised as one of the worlds acclaimed river rejuvenation program.

#international ASEAN: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok, Thailand, with the signing of the ASEAN Declaration (Bangkok Declaration).
HQ: Jakarta, Indonesia.
#mnemonic: TV CLIP of MBBS:
Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Burma (Myanmar), Brunei, Singapore.

#international Acatenango Volcano

#polity CVC: Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) is an apex Indian governmental body created in 1964 to address governmental corruption. In 2003, the Parliament enacted a law conferring statutory status on the CVC.

#polity CVC

#international Haiti Gang Violence; Port-Au-Prince

#defence Malabar Naval Exercise: Australia, India, Japan, USA.

#history Basrur; trading city, KN. Historic port town. his travel account Moroccan Traveller Ibn Batuta mentioned it as Abu-Sarur. It also came under Portuguese control who built Santa Luzia there.

#history guilds like Uhayadesi, Nanadesi participated

#international GCC: HQ: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Peninsula shield arm is the military arm of GCC. Member states; #mnemonic SUKO-QB;
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain.
GCC members and Yemen are also members of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA).

#upscpyq GCC

#international Arab Peace Initiative; it is also known as Saudi Initiative; is a 10-sentence proposal an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict that was endorsed by the Arab League in 2002 at the Beirut Summit.