13 January 2022. Introduction: The Assam Government has recently decided to increase the size of Orang National Park. The park is to be expanded thrice. About the Expansion plan The State is to add 200.32 square kilometre to the Orang National Park. The area to be added consists of Brahmaputra river.  It also includes sandbars […]

11 January 2022. Introduction: The India Meteorological Department (IMD) projected that; western disturbance is likely to hit the eastern states from January 11, 2022. Highlights: Making these predictions, IMD issued yellow and orange alerts for the states of Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar, for January 11 to January 13. Scattered to fairly widespread light […]

11 January 2022. Introduction: The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) recently categorised the Red Sanders (or Red Sandalwood) again into the ‘endangered’ category in its Red List. Red Sanders The species, called Red Sanders, is scientifically called as Pterocarpus santalinus. It is an Indian endemic tree species and its geographical range is restricted to Eastern […]

11 January 2022. Introduction: Recently a report was made public by Copernicus Climate Change Service, which is a European Union programme. The report found that, 2021 was the fifth-hottest year on the Earth. Highlights: As per report, last seven years have been the warmest on record. 2021 was ranked fifth among those 12-month spans because […]