Category: CA Landmarks

Centre seeks time from SC to respond to plea on Ram Setu. Also, Tamil Nadu assembly recently passed a resolution urging Centre to resume work on Sethusamudram Ship Canal project (SSCP).

After 4 months and 55 deaths, the latest Ebola epidemic in Uganda (worst in 2 decades) was declared over by the WHO.

According to the Study conducted by UN University Institute on Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH) – UN’s think tank on water, 3,700 Indian dams will lose 26% of their total storage by 2050 due to accumulation of sediments.

Due to land subsidence, Joshimath – a key transit point for tourists travelling to Badrinath and Hemkund Sahib – developed cracks, causing panic and protests among the local population.

The Govt of India recently approved Karnataka’s Kalasa-Banduri drinking water project which is facing opposition from Goa and Maharashtra.

In the next 5 years, the Centre will build a 1,748 km long NH-913 new “frontier highway” close to the India-Tibet-China-Myanmar border in Arunachal Pradesh which will be as close as 20 km from the international border.

Recently, geologists have suggested to protect the site of Coastal Red Sand Dunes, of Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.

The boreal forest is in just as much danger from climate change as the Amazon rainforest.

A volcano is likely erupting deep beneath the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Small passenger plane crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania

Recently, the Government of Uttar Pradesh has announced that Mathura-Vrindavan is aiming to become a “net zero carbon emission” (1st carbon neutral master plan for tourist destination) by 2041.

Recently, a suspension bridge collapsed over the river Machchu, in Gujarat’s Morbi district, which killed almost 135 people.