Category: CA Places

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.

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, 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.

India has for the first time referred to what it called “the militarisation of the Taiwan Strait”.

Russia, Ukraine accuse each other of shelling around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plantc.

Recently, Azerbaijan claimed that it had captured the territory in Karabakh after an Armenian attack killed one Azerbaijani soldier.

The week-long protests has been ongoing against the construction of the Adani Group’s Vizhinjam International Transhipment Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport in Kerala’s capital Thiruvananthapuram.

Union government has awarded Geographical Indication (GI) tag to Mithila Makhana. Mithila Makhana or Makhan is a special variety of aquatic fox nut cultivated in Mithila region of Bihar and Nepal.

The Northeast Frontier Railway (NFR) is planning to construct a ropeway from the Kamakhya Railway Station to the Kamakhya temple in Guwahati.

Chad’s military government and more than 40 rebel groups signed a pledge in Qatar.

Scientists have discovered over 4,300 dinosaur footprints in Hebei province of Zhangjiakou in northern China.

Science article in The Hindu – Many life forms in Madagascar have affinities to lineages found in India (3,800 km away) rather than Africa (413 km).