GRID 2020 report: Over 5 million displaced in India in 2019

The Global Report on Internal Displacement, GRID 2020 released by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, IDMC said that over 5 million people have displaced in India in 2019. According to the report, this is the highest in the world. Highlights: World According to the report, around 33.4 million people faced displacements in the world due to ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020

Category: Reports & Indexes Current Affairs

Topics: Cyclones • Disaster Managament • Internal Conflicts • Migrant workers • Natural Disasters • Vulnerable

IMD released list of 169 new names of Tropical Cyclones

The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has released 169 new names for the tropical cyclones in the Indian Ocean Region. Highlights The names were contributed by 13 countries namely India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Myanmar, Oman, Thailand, Qatar, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Iran. The decision to create new list of cyclones was taken during ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020

Category: Environment Current Affairs

Topics: Arabian Sea • Bay of Bengal • Cyclone • Cyclones • Cyclones in India • Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) • Indian ocean region • World Meteorological Organisation

RIMES terms Titli cyclone ‘rarest of rare’

Regional Integrated Multi-Hazard Early Warning System (RIMES) for Africa and Asia has termed ‘Titli’, the severe cyclonic storm that devastated Odisha in October 2018 as ‘rarest cyclone’. Earlier, India Meteorological Department (IMD) had called formation of Titli as ‘rarest of rare’ occurrence after this severe cyclone had changed its path after making landfall. Key Facts ..

Month: Current Affairs - November, 2018

Category: Environment Current Affairs

Topics: Cyclone • Cyclones • Disaster Management • Environment • Fluid dynamics • Meteorology • North Indian Ocean cyclone season • Odisha • Physical geography • Rarest of Rare • RIMES • Titli cyclone • Vortices • Weather hazards

Fact Box: Tropical Cyclone “Mora”

A deep depression in the Bay of Bengal has been declared intensified into a tropical cyclone named Mora. This is second cyclone in the Bay of Bengal after Maarutha, which helped bring in the Monsoon earlier by a week over Andaman & Nicobar Islands. The tropical Cyclone Mora is likely to hit Bangladesh coast in ..

Month: Current Affairs - May, 2017

Topics: Bay of Bengal • Cyclone Mora • Cyclones • Fact Box • Insights • Monsoon • Tropical Cyclone • Tropical Cyclone Maarutha

Depression in Bay of Bengal named "Tropical Cyclone Maarutha"

A deep depression in Bay of Bengal has intensified into a tropical cyclone named Maarutha. This cyclone is expected to hit Myanmar on 17 April 2017 and bring heavy rains in parts of that country. Tropical Cyclone Maarutha is the first named storm of 2017 Northern Hemisphere tropical cyclone season. About Tropical Cyclones A Cyclone ..

Month: Current Affairs - April, 2017

Topics: Cyclones • Hurricanes • Indian Ocean • Myanmar • Tropical Cyclone Maarutha • Tropical cyclones