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▪️Armenia
Why news :
✅Armenia and Azerbaijan have again agreed to respect a "humanitarian ceasefire" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
✅Armenia is located in the geopolitical Transcaucasus (South Caucasus) region.
✅Bordered by Georgia and Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey.
✅Remember as Armenia - AGIT / GAIT
✅Nakhichevan (Naxcivan), an exclave of Azerbaijan, borders Armenia to the southwest.
✅The capital is Yerevan (Erevan).
✅The status of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave of 1,700 square miles in southwestern Azerbaijan populated primarily by Armenians, was from 1988 the source of bitter conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
✅It is a Landlocked country.
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▪️Armenia
Why news :
✅Armenia and Azerbaijan have again agreed to respect a "humanitarian ceasefire" in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
✅Armenia is located in the geopolitical Transcaucasus (South Caucasus) region.
✅Bordered by Georgia and Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkey.
✅Remember as Armenia - AGIT / GAIT
✅Nakhichevan (Naxcivan), an exclave of Azerbaijan, borders Armenia to the southwest.
✅The capital is Yerevan (Erevan).
✅The status of Nagorno-Karabakh, an enclave of 1,700 square miles in southwestern Azerbaijan populated primarily by Armenians, was from 1988 the source of bitter conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
✅It is a Landlocked country.
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🔆Five river linking projects announced in Union Budget:
✅Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed a project to link five rivers in India in her budget
speech.
✅The rivers identified for linking are:
🔸Godavari-Krishna,
🔸Krishna-Pennar,
🔸Pennar-Cauvery,
🔸Damanganga-Pinjal and
🔸Par-Tapi-Narmada.
▪️A brief overview of these rivers:
✅Krishna, the fourth largest river in India, originates in Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra and flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
✅Cauvery originates in Kodagu and flows through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
✅Penna originates in Chikkaballapura and flows through Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
✅Godavari which is the third largest river in India originates in Nashik and flows through Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
✅The Damanganga-Pinjal river linking aims to divert surplus water from the Damanganga basin to provide domestic water for Mumbai city.
✅The Par-Tapi-Narmada project proposes to provide water to doubt-prone regions of Kutch and Saurashtra by diverting excess water from seven reservoirs in the Western Ghats in North Maharashtra
and south Gujarat.
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▪️Benefits of interlinking: background click here
✅Enhances water and food security.
✅ Proper utilisation of water.
✅ Boost to agriculture.
✅ Disaster mitigation.
✅ Boost to transportation.
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✅Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has proposed a project to link five rivers in India in her budget
speech.
✅The rivers identified for linking are:
🔸Godavari-Krishna,
🔸Krishna-Pennar,
🔸Pennar-Cauvery,
🔸Damanganga-Pinjal and
🔸Par-Tapi-Narmada.
▪️A brief overview of these rivers:
✅Krishna, the fourth largest river in India, originates in Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra and flows through Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
✅Cauvery originates in Kodagu and flows through Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
✅Penna originates in Chikkaballapura and flows through Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh.
✅Godavari which is the third largest river in India originates in Nashik and flows through Maharashtra, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Orissa.
✅The Damanganga-Pinjal river linking aims to divert surplus water from the Damanganga basin to provide domestic water for Mumbai city.
✅The Par-Tapi-Narmada project proposes to provide water to doubt-prone regions of Kutch and Saurashtra by diverting excess water from seven reservoirs in the Western Ghats in North Maharashtra
and south Gujarat.
Details click here
▪️Benefits of interlinking: background click here
✅Enhances water and food security.
✅ Proper utilisation of water.
✅ Boost to agriculture.
✅ Disaster mitigation.
✅ Boost to transportation.
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🏔️Mountain Peaks:🏔️
• ⛰️Highest peak of India : Godwin Austin (K2) - It is in PoK , so various sites show "Kanchenjunga" as highest, which is in Sikkim.
• ⛰️Highest peak of Satpura : Dhupgarh
•⛰️ Highest peak of Aravalli :
Gurushikhar in Mount Abu
• ⛰️Highest peak of Western Ghat : Anaimudi (Higheat Peninsular peak in India)
•⛰️ Highest peak of Eastern Ghats : Jindhagada Peaks
• ⛰️Highest peak of Nilgiri : Doda Beta (2nd highest)
• ⛰️Highest peak of Naga hills : Saramati
• ⛰️ Highest peak of Andaman and Nicobar : Saddle peak (Barren Islands - only active island in India)
• ⛰️Highest peak of India : Godwin Austin (K2) - It is in PoK , so various sites show "Kanchenjunga" as highest, which is in Sikkim.
• ⛰️Highest peak of Satpura : Dhupgarh
•⛰️ Highest peak of Aravalli :
Gurushikhar in Mount Abu
• ⛰️Highest peak of Western Ghat : Anaimudi (Higheat Peninsular peak in India)
•⛰️ Highest peak of Eastern Ghats : Jindhagada Peaks
• ⛰️Highest peak of Nilgiri : Doda Beta (2nd highest)
• ⛰️Highest peak of Naga hills : Saramati
• ⛰️ Highest peak of Andaman and Nicobar : Saddle peak (Barren Islands - only active island in India)
🔆ETHIOPIA
✅It is a Landlocked country.
✅Bordered with Eritriea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan.
✅The second most populous country in Africa Situated in the strategic Horn of Africa region.
✅Different Ethnic Groups:
Divided into 10 regions based on the concentration of ethnic groups.
🔸The Oromo : the largest ethnic group in the country,
🔸Amhara : the second largest group
🔸The Tigrayans : an ethnic minority (constitute around 6-7 percent)
✅Tigray Region ; Northern Region of Ethiopia in news due to first formal African Union-led peace talks between an Ethiopian government team and Tigray forces are happening in South Africa.
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✅It is a Landlocked country.
✅Bordered with Eritriea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan.
✅The second most populous country in Africa Situated in the strategic Horn of Africa region.
✅Different Ethnic Groups:
Divided into 10 regions based on the concentration of ethnic groups.
🔸The Oromo : the largest ethnic group in the country,
🔸Amhara : the second largest group
🔸The Tigrayans : an ethnic minority (constitute around 6-7 percent)
✅Tigray Region ; Northern Region of Ethiopia in news due to first formal African Union-led peace talks between an Ethiopian government team and Tigray forces are happening in South Africa.
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🔆Kushiyara River
✅The Kushiyara River is a distributary river in Bangladesh and Assam, India.
✅It forms on the India-Bangladesh border as a branch of the Barak River, when the Barak separates into the Kushiyara and Surma.
✅Origin and course: The waters of the Kushiyara thus originate in the state of Nagaland in India and pick up tributaries from Manipur, Mizoram and Assam.
🔸From its origin at the mouth of the Barak, also known as the Amshid bifurcation point, the Kushiyara flows westward forming the boundary between Assam, India, and the Sylhet District of Bangladesh.
✅Distance covered: Altogether, the Kushiyara runs about 160 kilometres.
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✅The Kushiyara River is a distributary river in Bangladesh and Assam, India.
✅It forms on the India-Bangladesh border as a branch of the Barak River, when the Barak separates into the Kushiyara and Surma.
✅Origin and course: The waters of the Kushiyara thus originate in the state of Nagaland in India and pick up tributaries from Manipur, Mizoram and Assam.
🔸From its origin at the mouth of the Barak, also known as the Amshid bifurcation point, the Kushiyara flows westward forming the boundary between Assam, India, and the Sylhet District of Bangladesh.
✅Distance covered: Altogether, the Kushiyara runs about 160 kilometres.
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Jalaput dam
✅ It is located on the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border.
✅ It is one of the oldest power projects of India.
✅The Jalaput dam was built without reinforced concrete, a standard norm in all modern construction. It was built with random rubble masonry in cement mortar.
✅The Jalaput dam serves as the main storage for Machkund Hydroelectric Project.
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✅ It is located on the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border.
✅ It is one of the oldest power projects of India.
✅The Jalaput dam was built without reinforced concrete, a standard norm in all modern construction. It was built with random rubble masonry in cement mortar.
✅The Jalaput dam serves as the main storage for Machkund Hydroelectric Project.
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🔆Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal (SYL) Dispute:
✅The Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal (SYL), is an under-construction canal to connect the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers.
✅The decades-old dispute over the canal, which is supposed to carry water from Punjab to Haryana, has its origin in a disagreement over sharing of Ravi-Beas water.
✅The river Beas joins river Sutlej in Punjab.
✅The dispute regarding sharing of river water emerged after Punjab was reorganised in 1966, and the state of Haryana was created (out of Punjab).
After this, Punjab refused to share waters of Ravi and Beas with Haryana.
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✅The Sutlej Yamuna Link Canal (SYL), is an under-construction canal to connect the Sutlej and Yamuna rivers.
✅The decades-old dispute over the canal, which is supposed to carry water from Punjab to Haryana, has its origin in a disagreement over sharing of Ravi-Beas water.
✅The river Beas joins river Sutlej in Punjab.
✅The dispute regarding sharing of river water emerged after Punjab was reorganised in 1966, and the state of Haryana was created (out of Punjab).
After this, Punjab refused to share waters of Ravi and Beas with Haryana.
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🔆Parasnath Hills
✅Eastern end of chotangapur plateau
✅Giridih district, Jharkhand
✅Named after Lord parashvanath, 23rd Tirthankara (Jainism)
✅Highest point in Jharkhand
✅Jains worship the temple situated here called as sammed shikhar
✅ Santhals worships hill calling it Marang buru( hill deity)
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✅Sallekhana- voluntary fast till death
✅Chandragupta maurya embrace Jainism and died by this method
✅pratikarman - repent for sins
Agr option m Sutra typ koi literature ho to 80% chnc ki jain s hoga
✅anuvrata - vow for lay follower
✅mahavrata - vow by monk
✅Sutrakritanga - golden book Or Jainism
✅kaivalya - supreme knowledge ( mahiva attain kaivalya near river rijupalika in muzaffarpur bihar)
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✅Eastern end of chotangapur plateau
✅Giridih district, Jharkhand
✅Named after Lord parashvanath, 23rd Tirthankara (Jainism)
✅Highest point in Jharkhand
✅Jains worship the temple situated here called as sammed shikhar
✅ Santhals worships hill calling it Marang buru( hill deity)
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✅Sallekhana- voluntary fast till death
✅Chandragupta maurya embrace Jainism and died by this method
✅pratikarman - repent for sins
Agr option m Sutra typ koi literature ho to 80% chnc ki jain s hoga
✅anuvrata - vow for lay follower
✅mahavrata - vow by monk
✅Sutrakritanga - golden book Or Jainism
✅kaivalya - supreme knowledge ( mahiva attain kaivalya near river rijupalika in muzaffarpur bihar)
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✅अटाकामा मरुस्थल, दक्षिण अमेरिका में एक रेगिस्तानी पठार है जो कि एंडीज पर्वत के पश्चिम में प्रशांत तट पर 1,600 वर्ग किमी की भूमि पट्टी को कवर करता है।
✅अटाकामा मरुस्थल दुनिया का सर्वाधिक शुष्क मरुस्थल है, साथ ही यह ध्रुवीय मरुस्थल की तुलना में कम वर्षा प्राप्त करने वाला एकमात्र रेगिस्तान है।
✅ यह मुख्य रूप से चिली में स्थित है। वर्ल्ड-वाइड फंड फॉर नेचर के अनुसार, अटाकामा मरुस्थल पारितंत्र चिली के उत्तरी तीसरे हिस्से के संकरे तट के साथ लगभग 1,600 वर्ग किमी क्षेत्र की एक सतत पट्टी पर स्थित है, जो कि एरिका (18 ° 24′ दक्षिण) के समीप से दक्षिण की ओर ला सेरेना (29°55′ दक्षिण) तक विस्तृत है।
✅नेशनल जियोग्राफिक सोसायटी, दक्षिणी पेरू के तटीय क्षेत्र को अटाकामा मरुस्थल का हिस्सा मानती है और पेरू में इका क्षेत्र (Ica Region) के दक्षिण में स्थित मरुस्थल को भी इसमें शामिल मानती है।
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✅अटाकामा मरुस्थल दुनिया का सर्वाधिक शुष्क मरुस्थल है, साथ ही यह ध्रुवीय मरुस्थल की तुलना में कम वर्षा प्राप्त करने वाला एकमात्र रेगिस्तान है।
✅ यह मुख्य रूप से चिली में स्थित है। वर्ल्ड-वाइड फंड फॉर नेचर के अनुसार, अटाकामा मरुस्थल पारितंत्र चिली के उत्तरी तीसरे हिस्से के संकरे तट के साथ लगभग 1,600 वर्ग किमी क्षेत्र की एक सतत पट्टी पर स्थित है, जो कि एरिका (18 ° 24′ दक्षिण) के समीप से दक्षिण की ओर ला सेरेना (29°55′ दक्षिण) तक विस्तृत है।
✅नेशनल जियोग्राफिक सोसायटी, दक्षिणी पेरू के तटीय क्षेत्र को अटाकामा मरुस्थल का हिस्सा मानती है और पेरू में इका क्षेत्र (Ica Region) के दक्षिण में स्थित मरुस्थल को भी इसमें शामिल मानती है।
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✅हैती कैरेबियन सागर में एक देश है जिसमें हिस्पानियोला द्वीप और गोनावे, टोर्ट्यू (टोर्टुगा), ग्रांडे केई और वाचे जैसे छोटे द्वीपों का का पश्चिमी तीसरा भाग शामिल है।
✅ इसकी राजधानी पोर्ट-औ-प्रिंस है।
✅हैती की सीमा पूर्व में डोमिनिकन गणराज्य, जो हिस्पानियोला के बाकी हिस्सों को, दक्षिण और पश्चिम में कैरेबियन सागर और उत्तर में अटलांटिक महासागर द्वारा कवर करती है, से लगती है
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✅ इसकी राजधानी पोर्ट-औ-प्रिंस है।
✅हैती की सीमा पूर्व में डोमिनिकन गणराज्य, जो हिस्पानियोला के बाकी हिस्सों को, दक्षिण और पश्चिम में कैरेबियन सागर और उत्तर में अटलांटिक महासागर द्वारा कवर करती है, से लगती है
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अल साल्वाडोर
✅बहुत थोड़ी-सी समतल भूमि होने के बावजूद, यह पारंपरिक रूप से कृषि प्रधान देश था, यह कॉफी के निर्यात पर काफी निर्भर है ।
✅ लेकिन 20वीं सदी के अंत तक सेवा क्षेत्र अर्थव्यवस्था पर हावी हो गया था ।
✅इसकी राजधानी सैन साल्वाडोर है।
✅अल साल्वाडोर होंडुरस से उत्तर और पूर्व में, प्रशांत महासागर से दक्षिण में, और ग्वाटेमाला द्वारा पश्चिमोत्तर तक घिरा हुआ है।
✅इसका क्षेत्र पूरी तरह से इस्थमस के पश्चिमी हिस्से पर स्थित है, और इसलिए, यह एकमात्र मध्य अमेरिकी ऐसा देश कहलाता है जिसमें कैरेबियन तट मौजूद नहीं है।
✅अल साल्वाडोर का संपूर्ण क्षेत्र मध्य अमेरिकी ज्वालामुखी धुरी पर स्थित है, जो देश के प्रमुख भौगोलिक क्षेत्रों को निर्धारित करता है
✅बहुत थोड़ी-सी समतल भूमि होने के बावजूद, यह पारंपरिक रूप से कृषि प्रधान देश था, यह कॉफी के निर्यात पर काफी निर्भर है ।
✅ लेकिन 20वीं सदी के अंत तक सेवा क्षेत्र अर्थव्यवस्था पर हावी हो गया था ।
✅इसकी राजधानी सैन साल्वाडोर है।
✅अल साल्वाडोर होंडुरस से उत्तर और पूर्व में, प्रशांत महासागर से दक्षिण में, और ग्वाटेमाला द्वारा पश्चिमोत्तर तक घिरा हुआ है।
✅इसका क्षेत्र पूरी तरह से इस्थमस के पश्चिमी हिस्से पर स्थित है, और इसलिए, यह एकमात्र मध्य अमेरिकी ऐसा देश कहलाता है जिसमें कैरेबियन तट मौजूद नहीं है।
✅अल साल्वाडोर का संपूर्ण क्षेत्र मध्य अमेरिकी ज्वालामुखी धुरी पर स्थित है, जो देश के प्रमुख भौगोलिक क्षेत्रों को निर्धारित करता है