On December 26, 2004, the world witnessed one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history – the Boxing Day Tsunami. This massive tsunami, named after the Boxing...
Rupay, India’s answer to MasterCard and Visa was launched in 2011 and Bank of India became the first bank to give out a batch of automated teller machines...
Mango showers is the name of the pre-monsoon showers in Karnataka, Kerala, Konkan and Goa that help in the ripening of mangoes. They are also known as April...
A marine transgression is a geologic event during which sea level rises relative to the land and the shoreline moves toward higher ground, resulting in flooding. Transgressions can...
Tafoni are small cave-like features found in granular rock such as sandstone, with rounded entrances and smooth concave walls. They often occur in groups that can riddle a...
Hogback is one of the Erosion landforms. It is a homoclinal ridge, formed from a monocline, composed of steeply tilted strata of rock protruding from the surrounding area....
Reverse brain drain refers to the movement of human capital in reverse from a more developed country to a less developed country. India is one of the first...
India’s urbanization is often termed as over-urbanisation/pseudo-urbanization. Pseudo-urbanization is a state when a city is unable to contain its populace in terms of providing livelihood, housing and infrastructure....
Petrology is the scientific study of the Rocks. Lithology is now a subdivision of petrology and Lithology deals with the macroscopic description of the rocks. Petrology exhaustively uses the...
Nandalal Bose decorated the stage of Haripura congress session. Nadalal Bose, a disciple of Abanindranath Tagore was the great painter of Bengal school of art. He was principal...
