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The Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR) has installed and activated India’s biggest Climate Clock in which city?
CSIR Headquarters, New Delhi Recently, the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), installed and activated India’s biggest Climate Clock at the CSIR Headquarters in New Delhi as a part of the Earth Day Celebrations. It was launched in 2015 to provide a measuring stick against which viewers can track climate change mitigation progress. It is a graphic to demonstrate how quickly the planet is approaching 1.5°C of global warming, given current emissions trends.
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Muria tribe primarily reside in which state?
Chhattisgarh The Muria are an indigenous Adivasi, scheduled tribe Dravidian community of the Bastar district of Chhattisgarh, India. They are part of the Gondi tribe. They speak Koya, which is a Dravidian language. They have progressive perspective towards marriage and life as a whole.
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Recently, three fish species (Jansen’s wrasse, checkerboard wrasse, moon wrasse) exhibiting tool-use capabilities have been found in which sea?
Laccadive Sea Recent findings indicate that three fish species (Jansen’s wrasse, checkerboard wrasse, moon wrasse) in the Laccadive Sea, off the southwest Indian coast, exhibit tool-use capabilities. The three fish species use live or dead coral structures as anvils to break the hard shells of sea urchins so they can get to the edible bits inside.
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Archaeologists have recently discovered a 5,200-year-old Harappan settlement at Padta Bet. Padta Bet is located at which place?
Kutch, Gujarat Archaeologists from Kerala University have recently discovered a 5,200-year-old Harappan settlement at Padta Bet. Padta Bet is located approximately 1.5 km from Juna Khatiya, an Early Harappan necropolis, in the Kutch district of Gujarat. The burials discovered at Juna Khatiya date from 3,200 BCE to 2,600 BCE, predating Dholavira and several other Harappan sites in Gujarat
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Recently, a hoard of 3,730 lead coins of the Ikshvaku period has been unearthed from which Buddhist heritage site?
Phanigiri, Telangana Recently, Telangana’s Department of Heritage discovered a hoard of 3,730 lead coins of the Ikshvaku period in an earthen pot at Phanigiri, a renowned Buddhist heritage site located 110 km away from Hyderabad. The coins feature an elephant symbol on the obverse and Ujjain symbol on the reverse, belonging to the Ikshvaku period (3rd-4th century CE) based on strata graphical and typological studies
