#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.

#upscpyq Arab peace initiative hasn’t been signed by Israel. Statement 1 is correct The first Arab country to officially recognize and establish diplomatic relations with Israel was Egypt. The historic peace treaty between Israel and Egypt was signed in 1979 at Camp David, leading to diplomatic relations and normalization of ties between the two nations.
Another Arab country that has established diplomatic relations with Israel is Jordan. In 2020, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain signed agreements with Israel to establish full diplomatic relations, known as the Abraham Accords.

#International Members of OPEC: #mnemonic KIVIS AUR ANGEL 
Kuwait, Iran, Venezuela, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, UAE, Republic of Congo, Angola, Nigeria, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Libya.

Members of OPEC+ :
MBBS MARKOS
Mexico, Bahrain, Brunei, South Sudan, Malaysia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Kazakhstan, Oman, Sudan.

Observer States; Canada, Egypt, Norway, Oman.
Established in 1960 in Baghdad, Iraq.
HQ: Vienna, Austria.