Consider the following countries:

1. Sudan

2. Eritrea

3. Djibouti

4. Egypt

5. Saudi Arabia

6. Yemen

Consider the following rivers :

1. Sutlej

2. Beas

🔆 Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary

📍 Key Highlights

✅ Red Panda Sighting – A Red Panda was recently captured on camera in Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary (EWS), Arunachal Pradesh.

✅ Location – Situated in the Himalayan foothills of West Kameng District.

✅ Bordering Areas –
• Northeast – Sessa Orchid Sanctuary 🌿
• East – Pakhui Tiger Reserve 🐅

Consider the following statements with respect to Eco-Sensitive Zones :

1. They act as shock absorbers for the specialised ecosystem, such as in protected areas

2. They are identified by state government

3. They are notified by the central government

Madhav National Park in Madhya Pradesh becomes India’s 58th Tiger Reserve

✅Madhav National park is situated near Shivpuri town in Madhya Pradesh. It is a part of the upper Vindhyan hills. 
✅It got the status of a National Park in 1958.
✅The Park was the hunting ground of Mughal emperors and Maharaja of Gwalior.
✅The Park is a combination of dry deciduous & dry thorn forests that make home for different varieties of antelopes like Nilgai, Chinkara and Deer.
✅The park is home to Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG)s like Saharia.

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🔆 Tizu & Zungki Rivers: Key Facts

📍 Significance & Development
✅ Harnessing Tizu & Zungki rivers for Nagaland's development under National Waterways 101 is a government priority.

📍 Tizu River
✅ Origin: Near Longkhim, Nagaland.
✅ Flows into: Chinwin River (Ningthi River), Myanmar, a major tributary of the Irrawaddy River.

📍 Zungki River
✅ Tributary of Tizu River, located within Nagaland.

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🔆Dnipro River:
✅The Dnipro (Dnieper) River is one of the major transboundary rivers of Europe.
✅It is the fourth-longest river in Europe (after the Volga, the Danube, and the Ural).
✅Located in Eastern Europe, the Dnieper River and its many tributaries drain much of Belarus and Ukraine.
✅Historically, the river was an important barrier dividing Ukraine into right and left banks.
Course:
✅It originates in Russia, in the low Valdai Hills, west of Moscow.
✅It runs a total length of 1,368 miles through western Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine before emptying into the Black Sea.
✅Approximately 300 miles of the waterway is located in Russia, 430 miles are in Belarus, and 680 miles are within Ukraine.
✅The Dnipro is a typical river of the plains, sloping gently and flowing slowly. The water level varies considerably, and the riverbed is unstable.
✅The Dnipro Basin covers 504,000 sq.km of which 289,000 sq.km. are within Ukraine (48 percent of its area).
✅It passes through numerous urban centers such as the Russian cities of Smolensk and Dorogobuzh, as well as Mogilev in Belarus and Kiev, Cherkasy, Dnipro, and Zaporizhia in Ukraine.
✅It is an important navigable waterway for the economy of Ukraine and is connected by the Dnieper–Bug Canal to other waterways in Europe.
✅Tributaries: It has as many as 32,000 tributaries, including the Sozh, Desna, Trubizh, Bilozerka, Drut, Berezina, and Prypiat.

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🔆 Koyna-Warna Deep Drilling Project

📍 Location: Koyna-Warna region, Maharashtra
📍 Objective:
✅ India plans to drill a 6-km deep hole to study earthquakes and the Earth's crust.
✅ This initiative aims to enhance seismological research and improve earthquake prediction capabilities.

📍 Why Koyna-Warna?
🔹 The region is seismically active due to reservoir-induced seismicity from the Koyna Dam.
🔹 It provides a natural laboratory to study earthquake mechanisms deep within the Earth's crust.

🔆Brahmani River:
✅It is one of the major rivers in eastern India, primarily flowing through
✅The river is known as Dhamra in its lower reaches.
Course:
✅It is formed by the confluence of the Sankh and South Koel rivers near the major industrial town of Rourkela in Odisha.
✅Both the sources of the Brahmani River are on the Chota Nagpur Plateau.
✅The Sankh River has its origins near the Jharkhand-Chhattisgarh border, along with the South Koel River, which also rises in Jharkhand.
✅The basin flows through Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Odisha, draining a total area of 39,033 sq.km. before it outfalls into the Bay of Bengal.
✅Together with the rivers Mahanadi and Baitarani, it forms a large delta before emptying into the Bay of Bengal at Palmyras Point, Odisha.
✅The Brahmani delta is the site of the Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary, famous for its estuarine crocodiles.
Length: The total length of its run is about 799 km, of which 541 km are in Odisha itself.
✅It is one of the few rivers that cut across the Eastern Ghats and has formed a minor gorge at Rengali in Odisha, where a dam has been built.
✅Tributaries: The principal tributaries of this river are Sankh, Tikra, and Karo.

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🌋 Shiveluch Volcano Eruption 🌋

⚠️ Russia's Shiveluch volcano erupted following a 7.0-magnitude earthquake. This highlights the link between seismic activity and volcanic eruptions in the region.

🚨 Kursk Region, Russia: Federal Emergency Declared 🚨

🔴 Russia has declared a "federal-level" emergency in the Kursk region after a major Ukrainian incursion. The situation highlights rising tensions and security challenges in the region.