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#international sponge cities
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#international havana syndrome
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#international Katchatheevu Island; as part of Indo-Sri Lanka Maritime Agreement; Indira Gandhi ceded it to Sri Lanka in 1974.
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#culture Allagadda Stone Carving: Andhra Pradesh.
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#mnemonic to remember borders of Niger; place in news: important: AB2CLMN:
Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Chad, Libya, Mali, Nigeria.
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#international murmansk port
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#history Karnail Singh Isru; Goa Liberation Movement.
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#history operation Jericho; to take control of Aizawl.
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#history Matangini Hazra; she also participated in CDM 1930 and the Salt March.
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#history Kanaklata Barua
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#science Aditya L-1 of ISRO to observe the sun. Lagrange points.
#history Macaulay and IPC
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#international Lahaina is in Hawaii.
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#international Tripoli is second largest city of Libya.
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#international Benghazi: Libya.
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#mnemonic to remember borders of Libya: ACE-NST. Libya’s dangerous political impasse.
Libya borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north; it shares borders with Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Niger, Sudan, and Tunisia.
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#science cosmic rays and solar gamma rays
#science Cherenkov radiation and Photomultiplier tubes
Trivia: In the series "Chernobyl" when the reactor first explodes, there's an eerie blue light emanating from it. In scary movies, it's always a bad idea to enter a room that has a spooky blue light coming out of it. As it turns out, that spooky blue light is a real phenomenon, and it's called Cherenkov Radiation. It is emanated from nuclear reactors too.
#science Luna-25; Russia.
#history role of Wellesley