Places in the News (National) in 2022
Atal
Tunnel:
The World Book of Records has recently certified Atal Tunnel
as the World’s Longest Highway Tunnel over 10,000 feet. It connects Manali to
the Lahaul-Spiti Valley in all weather conditions.
Chisumle-
Demchok Road:
India
inaugurated the world’s highest motorable road in Umling La Pass, located in
eastern Ladakh.
Erra
Matti Dibbalu:
The Erra Matti Dibbalu, situated between the Visakhapatnam
and Bheemunipatnam, are uncommon red sand dunes that serve as a reminder of
millions of years of geological activity.
Mekedatu:
The state government of Karnataka originally
commissioned the Mekedatu project in 2017. It is a contentious project between
Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Nadabet:
Inaugural of an India-Pakistan border viewing point at
Nadabet in Gujarat.
Orang
National Park:
The state government of Assam has issued an initial notice
for the addition of 200.32 square kilometres to the 78.82 square kilometres
Orang National Park, which is the state’s oldest reserve, and which is located
around 110 kilometres northeast of Guwahati. On September 21, 2021 the
government removed the ‘Rajiv Gandhi’ prefix from Orang, which had been
provided by the government in 1992.
Pangong
Tso:
The continued border tension between India and China around
Pangong-Tso lake in Ladakh.
River
Bhogdoi:
The death knells for the River Bhogdoi in Assam have been
sounded by uncontrolled coal mining activities in Nagaland, along with effluent
discharges from tea farms and encroachment.
River
Lukha:
One of Meghalaya’s major rivers is the Lukha. The river has
been rendered dead by unchecked mining activity and effluents released by
cement factories.
Zojila
Tunnel:
The Zojila tunnel, which would be India’s longest road
tunnel, and Asia’s longest bidirectional tunnel, is being proposed. When
completed, the Zojila tunnel would allow year-round travel across Srinagar and
Ladakh
Places in the News (International) in 2022
Places: Reasons to be in the news
Africa:
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) concluded in a
research that Africa’s Great Green Wall (GGW) programme to mitigate
desertification in the Sahel region is an essential contribution to tackling
climate change.
Black
Sea:
The sinking of the huge Russian warship Moskva.
Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai
volcano:
Eruption of the marine underwater volcano located south-east
of Fiji.
Indonesia:
Shifting of its capital from Jakarta to East Kalimantan.
Japan:
Eruption of Japan’s largest volcano Mount Aso Volcano.
Mount
Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya and Mount Ruwenzori:
According to a recent research by the World Meteorological
Organization (WMO), climate change may cause three African mountain glaciers
(Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and Mount Ruwenzori) to vanish by 2040.
Queensland,
Australia:
Carmichael Mine has begun shipping coal through an Indian
multinational. It’s in the North Galilee Basin of Queensland, Australia.
Solomon
Islands:
The Solomon Islands and China have agreed to a security
agreement that might allow China to increase its military involvement in the
South Pacific island country.
Turkmenistan:
The Darvaza gas crater, popularly called as the Gateway to
Hell or the Doors of Hell, is a cavern formed by a burning natural gas field
near Darvaza, in Turkmenistan.
Zaporizhzhia:
After seizing control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power facility,
Russia halted Ukraine’s supply of electricity.
Places in the News (National)
in 2021
Andhra
Pradesh:
First Online Waste Exchange
Platform
Bihar:
The first state to have its
own ethanol policy for biofuel.
Chandigarh:
India’s first amputee
clinic
Dahanu/Maharashtra:
Vadhavan Port Initiative
Daman:
Cyclone
Nisarga
Gairsain:
Summer Capital of
Uttarakhand
Galwan
Valley:
Line
of Actual Control (LAC) Tensions
Gir National Park:
Increase in Asiatic Lion
Population
Gujarat:
·
Thol
Lake Wildlife Sanctuary – Recently declared as Ramsar site
·
Wadhvana
Wetland – Recently declared as Ramsar site
·
Dholavira – Inscribed on UNESCO’s World
Heritage list; 40th World Heritage Site of India.
·
NTPC
to set up India’s single largest solar park [capacity – 4.75 gigawatt (GW)]
in Rann of Kutch.
Gujarat,
Maharashtra, Goa, Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu:
Cyclone Tauktae – Very
severe cyclonic storm (VSCS) – Developed as a depression in the Arabian
Sea
Haryana:
·
Sultanpur
National Park, Gurugram – Recently declared as Ramsar
site
·
Bhindawas
Wildlife Sanctuary, Jhajjar – Recently declared as Ramsar site
·
India’s
first ‘Grain ATM’ launched in Gurugram – automatic machine – 70 kg
grain in 7 minutes.
Kamakhya
Temple/Assam:
Ambubachi Mela
Karnataka:
·
Indian
Railway’s first-ever movable freshwater tunnel aquarium at Bengaluru station
·
1st
state in the country to officially implement National
Education Policy 2020
·
The
first state in India to provide reservations for transgender in all government
services
Kerala:
·
Wins
India Biodiversity Award 2021
·
India’s
First Digital University
Kodumanal/Tamil
Nadu:
Megalithic Burials, etc.
Excavation
Kushinagar/Uttar
Pradesh:
Kushinagar International
Airport
Ladakh:
ndia’s first green
Hydrogen Mobility project
Ladakh,
Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim:
Border
Area Development Programme
Lipulekh,
Kalapani, Limpiyadhura:
Nepal’s Revised Political
Map
Lonar
Lake:
Haloarchaea Microbes turned
its water pink
Madhya
Pradesh:
Second-Largest Wheat
Producer in the country
Madhya
Pradesh:
Fossils of ‘Dickinsonia’
– the earliest known living animal is found at Bhimbetka rock shelters by
the Geological Survey of India
Maguri-Motapung
Wetland:
Assam’s Baghjan Oil Well
Gas Leak
Mahakali
River:
India-Nepal Political Map
Issue
Mumbai:
Megacity Flood Warning
System
Naku
La Pass:
India-China Face-off
Narcondam
Island:
Important Bird Area by
Birdlife International
New
Delhi:
First Bio-Bank of the world
in Ayurveda at All India Institute of Ayurveda
Odisha:
·
Puri
– First city in the country to implement the Drink from Tap Project
·
Bhitarkanika
National Park – a threat to mangrove vegetation and crocodiles due to
massive diversion of freshwater from the Brahmani river basin.
·
Odisha,
Andhra Pradesh:
Vamsadhara River Water
Dispute
Periyar
Tiger Reserve/Cardamom Hills/Pandalam Hills:
Drive to eradicate aquatic
catfish to protect local fish species
Rajasthan:
The first state to provide
health insurance for all its residents
Sukhna
Lake/Chandigarh:
Sukhna Lake Management Plan
– WWF and India
Tadoba-Andhari
Tiger Reserve:
Proposed Human Dam
Tamil
Nadu:
India’s first wetland
conservation centre to be set up in Chennai
Telangana:
Rudreswara Temple (Ramappa
Temple) –
Inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list; 39th World Heritage Site of
India.
Tillari
Forest:
Gets conservation reserve
tag
Uttarakhand:
First State To Launch
Earthquake Alert App
Vadhavan
Port:
To be India’s 13th Major
Port; Part of Sagarmala Initiative
Places in the News (International) in 2021
Amami
Islands:
Archipelago, part of Japan
Ambarnaya
River/Arctic Region:
Oil Spill in Russia’s Arctic Region Power Plant
Antarctica:
World’s largest iceberg breaks off
Baltic
Sea:
The navies of India and Russia concluded the 12th edition of
the biennial Exercise Indra Navy at Volgograd, Russia in the Baltic Sea.
Bandar
Abbas Port/Hormuz Strait:
Operation Samudra Setu
Brisbane,
Australia:
Announced as host of the 2032 Olympics
China:
·
The first batch of ‘space rice’.
·
World’s first country to ban
synthetic cannabinoids.
·
Demilitarized
Zone (DMZ):
North Korea-South Korea Tensions
El Salvador:
·
World’s First Country To Make
Bitcoin Legal Tender
·
Certified as malaria-free by WHO
·
French
Guiana:
World’s first commercial fully re-programmable satellite
lifted from here.
Litani
River:
Tonnes of dead fish wash up on the shore of polluted
Lebanese lake
Liverpool:
UNESCO World Heritage Status has been stripped off
Malta:
Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, added this country to
the ‘grey list’.
Mount
Nyiragongo:
It is located inside Virunga National Park, Democratic
Republic of Congo, which erupted recently.
New
Zealand:
World’s 1st Climate Change Law For Financial Firms
Pashupatinath
Temple/Nepal:
India’s assistance in the construction of sanitation
facility
Portugal:
World’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge
Senkaku
Islands:
China-Japan dispute
South
China Sea:
Leaders of G7 raised concerns about the situation in and
around the South China Sea
Sweden:
·
World’s first carbon-neutral cement
plant to be built.
·
Joins International Solar Alliance
(ISA).
·
Tokara
Islands:
A small archipelago in Japan/Mysterious Volcanoes