Banking in India – Part 1 Part 1 A Bank A bank is a financial institution that is licensed to accept deposits from and grant credit to people/legal entities. Apart from this, the banks also perform wealth management and currency exchange services so that the […]
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) El Nino El Nino translates to ‘little boy’ or ‘Christ child’ in Spanish. El Nino is a climate pattern that denotes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean along the coast of Peru and Ecuador. […]
Indian Ocean Dipole Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is sometimes also referred to as the Indian Niño due to its similarity with the El Niño. Indian Ocean Dipole the difference in sea surface temperature between two areas i.e., the Arabian Sea in the west and Bay […]
Jet Streams Jet streams are relatively narrow bands of geostrophic wind blowing horizontally through the upper layers of the troposphere. The main jet streams on Earth flow from west to east (Westerlies) but the flow often shifts to the north and south. Jet streams often […]
7 Wonders of the World The New 7 Wonders of the World was a campaign started in 2000 by the New 7 Wonders Foundation (N7W) based in Zurich, Switzerland Its aim was to choose New Wonders of the World from a selection of 200 existing […]
Natural Disasters – Wild Fire A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire that usually combusts in the wildland vegetation, often in rural areas. Wildfires can burn in forests, grasslands, savannas, and other ecosystems and are not limited to a particular continent or environment. Wildfires have the […]
Natural Disasters Landslides A landslide can be defined as the movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope. Landslides are a type of mass wasting, which denotes a downward movement of soil and rock under the direct influence of gravity. Landslides […]
Natural Disasters – Cyclones Tropical Cyclones Tropical cyclones are violent storms which have a diameter of about 320kms. They originate over oceans in tropical areas and move over to the coastal areas. The direction of rotation of cyclones is influenced by Coriolis Force. Hence cyclones […]
Natural Disasters – Volcanic Eruption Volcanic Eruption happens when the molten rock from inside the Earth flows into the surface. Volcanic Eruption is caused by the Earth’s internal heat, and is associated with tectonic processes and is a part of the rock cycle. Volcano: A […]
