FACTS
Ahmedabad:
Ahmedabad is the first Indian City to get the World Heritage Tag. Ahmedabad was
inscribed as a World Heritage City at the 41st session of UNESCO’s
World Heritage Committee meeting in Krakow, Poland. The walled city of
Ahmedabad will now join the likes of Paris, Cairo and Edinburg. Of the 287
World Heritage Cities across the globe only two were near to the Indian
subcontinent, one is Bhaktapur in Nepal and the other is Galle in Sri Lanka.
Buxa
Tiger Reserve: Buxa Tiger Reserve is located in the Alipurduar district, in
west Bengal. It was announced as a tiger reserve in 1983.Over the past few
years, the number of tigers in the Buxa Reserve has been debated by wildlife
enthusiasts as there was almost no presence of big cats in the reserve but it
was claimed by forest officials. The Survey of Tigers in 2011 based on DNA
analyses of scat put the number of tigers at 20.The Buxa Tiger Reserve, parts
of which border Bhutan, was identified for the tiger augmentation programme by
the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA).
Chitrakoot:
Chitrakoot, the place in Madhya Pradesh where 1.6 billion year old fossils of
red algae were found by researchers from
the Swedish Museum of Natural History. It is believed to be the oldest evidence
of plant-like life found on earth. The Red brown alga discovered before these
fossils were 1.2 billion years old.
Gurudongmar
Glacier: Gurudongmar Glacier is located in Sikkim which is the source of one of
the most iconic lakes in the world by the same name has receded one – fourth
its size since 1989 as per a new study published by the American Geophysical
Union. The Gurudongmar Lake, named after the founder of Tibetan Buddhism Guru
Rinpoche in the 18th century is the main source of the Testa River
that flows from the Himalayas in Sikkim to Bangladesh.
Vishakhapatnam:
Vishakhapatnam Railway Station was declared the cleanest railway station as per
a survey report. The survey was carried out by the Quality Council of India.
Secunderabad and Jammu occupied the second and third positions among the 75
busiest stations in the country.
Aishwarya Barathi
II B.A English.,
Kg Cas.,
Coimbatore.
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