A river drainage basin is an area drained by a river and all of its tributaries. A river basin is made up of many different watersheds. Example... View Article
A river basin is an area drained by a river and all of its tributaries. A river basin is made up of many different watersheds.A watershed is a... View Article
Yes, Ooty is in the Western Ghats. It is located at a height of 2240 m above sea level. Ooty is surrounded by hills on all sides. The main four... View Article
The Western Ghats are also known as the Sahyadri Hills. The Western Ghats extend from the Satpura Range in the north, go south past Goa, through... View Article
Yes, Western Ghats is also called Sahyadri. The range is called Sahyadri in northern Maharashtra and Sahya Parvatam in Kerala. The Biligiri... View Article
The Western Ghats runs parallel to India’s western coast, approximately 30-50 km inland. The Ghats covers six states of India(States of... View Article
The Western Ghats are called Sahya Parvatam in Kerala. It is called Sahyadri in northern Maharashtra. It extends from the Satpura Range in the... View Article
The Western Ghats are located on the western side of the Deccan plateau. They lie parallel to the western coast. They are continuous and can be... View Article
India's first nuclear power station is located at Tarapur, near Bombay. It consisted of two boiling-water reactors (BWR), each of about 200 MWe... View Article
APSARA is India's first reactor. It is a light water swimming pool reactor, with Al- U alloy fuel elements that are enriched to 40% U/sup 235/.... View Article
India has a total installed power capacity is 388.84 gigawatt (GW) as of 30th September 2021. Out of this, around 12 percent, or 45.8 GW, is... View Article
A watershed is an area of land and water bounded by a drainage divide within which the surface runoff collects and flows out of the watershed... View Article
Hill Area Development Programmes were initiated during Fifth Five Year Plancovering 15 districts comprising all the hilly districts of Uttar... View Article
The Desert Development Programme was introduced as a centrally sponsored scheme in 1977- 78. It was launched to minimise the adverse effect of... View Article
Bunding, also called a bund wall, is a constructed retaining wall around storage where potentially polluting substances are handled, processed or... View Article
Rice can be contaminated by aflatoxins producing fungi when the climatic conditions become favorable for their growth in the field, during... View Article
The tropics include the Equator and parts of North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. The tropics account for 36 percent of the... View Article
Aflatoxin is not harmful to humans in mild doses. Large doses of aflatoxin, however, lead to acute poisoning (aflatoxicosis) that can be life... View Article
