🔆Mount Marapi
✅Recently, Indonesia’s Mount Marapi in West Sumatra province erupted, spewing white-and-grey ash plumes for more than 3,000 metres (about 9,800 feet) into the air.
✅Not to be mistaken with Mount Merapi in Java, this Mount Marapi is located in West Sumatra.
✅Its name means Mountain of Fire.
✅With over 60 eruptions to its credit since the late 18th century, Marapi claims the title of the most active volcano in Sumatra.
▪️Pacific Ring of Fire :
✅It also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt,is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterised by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
✅Its length is approximately 40,000 kilometres (24,900 miles).
✅It traces boundaries between several tectonic plates—including the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Indian-Australian, Nazca, North American, and Philippine Plates.
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✅Recently, Indonesia’s Mount Marapi in West Sumatra province erupted, spewing white-and-grey ash plumes for more than 3,000 metres (about 9,800 feet) into the air.
✅Not to be mistaken with Mount Merapi in Java, this Mount Marapi is located in West Sumatra.
✅Its name means Mountain of Fire.
✅With over 60 eruptions to its credit since the late 18th century, Marapi claims the title of the most active volcano in Sumatra.
▪️Pacific Ring of Fire :
✅It also known as the Circum-Pacific Belt,is a path along the Pacific Ocean characterised by active volcanoes and frequent earthquakes.
✅Its length is approximately 40,000 kilometres (24,900 miles).
✅It traces boundaries between several tectonic plates—including the Pacific, Juan de Fuca, Cocos, Indian-Australian, Nazca, North American, and Philippine Plates.
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🔆Salton Sea
groundbreaking study, scientists exploring Southern California’s Salton Sea, the state’s largest lake, have uncovered a remarkable lithium reservoir estimated to be worth $540 billion. This ‘white gold’ discovery positions the United States as a potential leader in lithium production, marking a significant development for the country.
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groundbreaking study, scientists exploring Southern California’s Salton Sea, the state’s largest lake, have uncovered a remarkable lithium reservoir estimated to be worth $540 billion. This ‘white gold’ discovery positions the United States as a potential leader in lithium production, marking a significant development for the country.
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🔆Biligiri Rangaswamy Temple (BRT) Tiger Reserve:
✅Location: Karnataka.
✅Area: 574.82 Km².
✅It derives its name BILIGIRI from the white rocky cliff on the top of which is a temple of Lord VISHNU locally known as Rangaswamy.
✅It is also believed that the hill range gets its name by white mist and silver clouds that cover these lofty hills for a greater part of the year.
✅In Kannada, Biligiri means white hills – hence the name.
✅It is situated in the middle of the bridge between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats in South India.
✅This unique sanctuary exhibits scrub, dry deciduous, moist deciduous, evergreen, semi evergreen and shola forests.
✅It was constituted as a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1974.
✅BRT Wildlife Sanctuary was declared as a Tiger Reserve in 2011.
✅Flora: Anogeissus latifolia, Dalbergia paniculata, Grewia teliaefolia, Terminalia alata, Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia paniculata, among others.
✅It is widely known for its many endemic species of plants including valuable medicinal ones.
✅Fauna: tigers, elephants, leopards, wild dogs, bison, sambars, spotted deer, barking deer, four-horned antelope, sloth bears, wild boars, etc.
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✅Location: Karnataka.
✅Area: 574.82 Km².
✅It derives its name BILIGIRI from the white rocky cliff on the top of which is a temple of Lord VISHNU locally known as Rangaswamy.
✅It is also believed that the hill range gets its name by white mist and silver clouds that cover these lofty hills for a greater part of the year.
✅In Kannada, Biligiri means white hills – hence the name.
✅It is situated in the middle of the bridge between the Western Ghats and the Eastern Ghats in South India.
✅This unique sanctuary exhibits scrub, dry deciduous, moist deciduous, evergreen, semi evergreen and shola forests.
✅It was constituted as a Wildlife Sanctuary in 1974.
✅BRT Wildlife Sanctuary was declared as a Tiger Reserve in 2011.
✅Flora: Anogeissus latifolia, Dalbergia paniculata, Grewia teliaefolia, Terminalia alata, Terminalia bellirica, Terminalia paniculata, among others.
✅It is widely known for its many endemic species of plants including valuable medicinal ones.
✅Fauna: tigers, elephants, leopards, wild dogs, bison, sambars, spotted deer, barking deer, four-horned antelope, sloth bears, wild boars, etc.
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🔆Malta
✅Why in news: Malta Becomes 119th Country to Join International Solar Alliance.
✅Malta, an island country located in the central Mediterranean Sea.
✅It is located in the southern-central region of the Mediterranean Sea, in Southern Europe.
✅It is positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth.
✅Malta is situated South of Sicily (Italy), East of Tunisia and North of Libya.
✅The three largest islands in the archipelago are Malta, Comino, and Gozo.
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✅Why in news: Malta Becomes 119th Country to Join International Solar Alliance.
✅Malta, an island country located in the central Mediterranean Sea.
✅It is located in the southern-central region of the Mediterranean Sea, in Southern Europe.
✅It is positioned both in the Northern and Eastern hemispheres of the Earth.
✅Malta is situated South of Sicily (Italy), East of Tunisia and North of Libya.
✅The three largest islands in the archipelago are Malta, Comino, and Gozo.
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🔆Jawaharlal Nehru Port
✅Jawaharlal Nehru Port iz the first major port of the country to become a 100% Landlord port of India having all berths being operated on PPP model.
📍What is Landlord Port?
✅In this model, the publicly governed port authority acts as a regulatory body and as a landlord, while private companies carry out port operations—mainly cargo-handling activities.
✅Here, the port authority maintains ownership of the port while the infrastructure is leased to private firms that provide and maintain their own superstructure and install their own equipment to handle cargo.
✅In return, the landlord port gets a share of the revenue from the private entity.
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✅Jawaharlal Nehru Port iz the first major port of the country to become a 100% Landlord port of India having all berths being operated on PPP model.
📍What is Landlord Port?
✅In this model, the publicly governed port authority acts as a regulatory body and as a landlord, while private companies carry out port operations—mainly cargo-handling activities.
✅Here, the port authority maintains ownership of the port while the infrastructure is leased to private firms that provide and maintain their own superstructure and install their own equipment to handle cargo.
✅In return, the landlord port gets a share of the revenue from the private entity.
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Osun River
✅The Osun River is one of the major rivers in southern Nigeria, draining into the Gulf of Guinea.
✅ It’s culturally linked to the ancient city of Osogbo.
✅ A stretch of the river that flows by a sacred grove in the ancient town of Osogbo has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its cultural significance.
✅The river have suffered plastic pollution, heavy metals contamination as a result of illegal gold mining as well as pollution from human generated waste.
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✅The Osun River is one of the major rivers in southern Nigeria, draining into the Gulf of Guinea.
✅ It’s culturally linked to the ancient city of Osogbo.
✅ A stretch of the river that flows by a sacred grove in the ancient town of Osogbo has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site due to its cultural significance.
✅The river have suffered plastic pollution, heavy metals contamination as a result of illegal gold mining as well as pollution from human generated waste.
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NOTO pennisula of Japan recently seen in news due to seismic activity in this area
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🔆City of mashhad in news
President Raisi buried in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad
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President Raisi buried in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad
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🔆Taiwan Strait:
✅The Taiwan Strait, or Formosa Strait is a 180 km-wide strait between mainland China and the island of Taiwan.
✅It runs between the coast of Fujian (Fukien) Province, China, and the island of Taiwan.
✅The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north.
✅The strait’s seafloor is mostly a continental shelf extending out from the Asian continent, with Taiwan on the outer edge.
✅It is relatively shallow. It has an average depth of about 490 feet, and a minimum depth of 82 feet.
📍Islands:
✅The biggest islands along the Taiwan side include Penghu (or Pescadores), Xiamen, and Pingtan.
✅The Xiamen and Pingtan Islands are administered by the People’s Republic of China, while the other three islands: Penghu (or Pescadores), Kinmen and Matsu are under the administration of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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✅The Taiwan Strait, or Formosa Strait is a 180 km-wide strait between mainland China and the island of Taiwan.
✅It runs between the coast of Fujian (Fukien) Province, China, and the island of Taiwan.
✅The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north.
✅The strait’s seafloor is mostly a continental shelf extending out from the Asian continent, with Taiwan on the outer edge.
✅It is relatively shallow. It has an average depth of about 490 feet, and a minimum depth of 82 feet.
📍Islands:
✅The biggest islands along the Taiwan side include Penghu (or Pescadores), Xiamen, and Pingtan.
✅The Xiamen and Pingtan Islands are administered by the People’s Republic of China, while the other three islands: Penghu (or Pescadores), Kinmen and Matsu are under the administration of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
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