Geopolitics Education 📖

* INDIA'S NEWEST NATIONAL PARK🌴 * 🔖The Assam government has decided to upgrade * Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary * into a * National Park. * It is also known as * Amazon of the East. * 🔖Post upgradation, Dehing Patkai will be the * sixth national park in Assam * 6️⃣ 🔖Dehing Patkai was * declared a wildlife sanctuary in 2004. * 🔖Dehing is the * name of the river *  🏞️that flows through this forest and * Patkai is the hill * ⛰️at the foot of which the sanctuary lies. 🔖As a national park, its importance will increase and new rules will bring * increased vigilance to the area. * 🔖Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary is located within the larger * Dehing Patkai Elephant *🐘 🔖 * Fauna * 🐆: Rare fauna found in the region include Chinese pangolin, flying fox, wild pig, sambar, barking deer, gaur, serow and Malayan giant squirrels. * It is the only sanctuary in India which is home to seven different species of wild cats - * tiger, leopard, clouded leopard, leopar...

*What is ITER? 🤔 * 🔖 * ITER * (originally the * International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor * ) is an international * nuclear fusion *☢️ research and engineering megaproject, which will be the * world's largest magnetic confinement plasma physics experiment * . 🔖 It is an experimental * tokamak * nuclear fusion reactor that is being built next to the * Cadarache facility in Saint-Paul-lès-Durance, in Provence, southern France. *🇫🇷* WHAT IS FUSION? * Fusion is the energy source of the Sun ☀️and stars✨. In the tremendous heat and gravity at the core of these stellar bodies, hydrogen nuclei collide, fuse into heavier helium atoms and release tremendous amounts of energy in the process. WHAT IS A TOKAMAK? The tokamak is an experimental machine designed to harness the energy of fusion. Inside a tokamak, the * energy produced through the fusion of atoms is absorbed as heat in the walls of the vessel. * Just like a conventional power plant...

 🔖 * Iran’s 🇮🇷 Chabahar port * is located on the * Gulf of Oman *🇴🇲 and is the only oceanic port of the country. The port gives access to the * energy-rich *💥 * Persian Gulf nations’ * southern coast. 🔖 Iran formally handed over the port to * India *🇮🇳 during a first meeting of the follow-up committee for the implementation of the * Chabahar Agreement between Iran🇮🇷, Afghanistan🇦🇫, and India🇮🇳 held  in the port city Tehran. * 🔖 The * Chabahar Agreement was signed ✍️in June 2015 * and approved by Iran’s * Guardian Council * in November 2016. * Importance for india *🇮🇳 🔖 * India can bypass Pakistan🇵🇰 in transporting goods to Afghanistan. * Chabahar port will boost India’s access to Iran, the key gateway to the International North-South Transport Corridor that has sea, rail 🛤️and road 🛣️routes between India, Russia, Iran, Europe and Central Asia. 🔖 Chabahar port will be beneficial to India in countering * Chinese🇨🇳 presence in the Arabian ...

* WHAT IS GOLDEN CRESCENT? *🤔🌙 🔖 The clandestine land routes of * Iran🇮🇷, Afghanistan🇦🇫 and Pakistan🇵🇰 * collectively constitute the * Golden Crescent, * also called the * silk route of drugs. *💊 It's 🔖 the route through which the drug cartels enter * India *🇮🇳 ; mainly * Punjab * . 🔖 * Heroin, poppy husk, opium, and synthetic drugs * are the four kind of drugs entering India. WHAT IS GOLDEN TRIANGLE?🔽 Along with * Afghanistan *🇦🇫 in the * Golden Crescent * , it has been one of the most extensive opium-producing areas of Asia and of the world since the 1950s. Most of the world's heroin came from the Golden Triangle until the early 21st century when Afghanistan became the * world's largest producer. * The Golden Triangle designates the confluence of the * Ruak River and the Mekong River, * since the term has been appropriated by the Thai tourist industry to describe the nearby border tripoint of * Thailand🇹🇭, Laos🇱🇦 and M...

* 8th continent *??😯 🔖 * Zealandia * — or Te Riu-a-Māui, as it’s referred to in the indigenous * Māori language * — is a 2 million-square-mile (5 million square kilometres) continent east of * *Australia * , beneath modern-day * New Zealand * 🇳🇿 🔖Still, the “ * lost continent * ” remains largely unknown and poorly studied due to its * Atlantean geography. * 🗺️ 🔖Zealandia was classified as a “ * microcontinent * ,” as the * island of Madagascar * , until 2017. But according to * Mortimer * , it has all the requirements to be classified as a continent. It has * defined boundaries * ; it occupies an area of over one * million square kilometres * and is elected * above the ocean crust. * 🔖Data for the bathymetric map was provided by the * Seabed2030 * project — a global effort to map the entire ocean floor by 2030. The new maps reveal Zealandia’s bathymetry (the shape of the ocean floor) as well as its * tectonic history, * showing how * volcanism * and * tectoni...

*JIO GLASS 😎*  🔖 *Reliance Industries (RIL)* , at its *43rd RIL annual general meeting* , announced its new offering: Jio Glass.  🔖Jio Glass is a *Mixed Reality headset* that is lighter than most products in the market. *(75 gms)* 🔖It pairs with your smartphone using a cable and allows you to make *holographic video calls, conduct meetings,classes, etc in a virtual, 3D environment.* 🔖Calls can be made using Jio Glass by simply saying “ *Hello Jio, please call...”*📞 🔖Users can join the call using not only holographic video calls as well as *2D video* 🔖Reliance Jio has *not revealed the pricing💰 or the availability details of its Jio Glass* . During its AGM, it simply showcased the device would work when launched. 🔖RIL has partnered with *Google* for its Jio products, which means that both the companies will be able to collaborate with each other and develop the product. To recall, Google in the past had a similar product it was working on, called the *Goog...

Israel 🇮🇱- Palestin🇵🇸 conflict * ⚔️ The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the * world’s longest-running🗺️ and most controversial conflicts. * At its heart, it is a conflict between two self-determination movements — * the Jewish Zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project * — that lay claim to the same territory. But it is so, so much more complicated than that, with seemingly * every fact and historical detail small and large litigated by the two sides and their defenders. * About Israel and Palestine * 🤔 * Israel is the world’s only Jewish state, *🇮🇱 * located just east of the Mediterranean Sea * 🌊.* Palestinians, the Arab population that hails from the land * Israel now controls, refer to the territory as Palestine, * and want to establish a state by that name on all or part of the same land. * The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is over who gets what land and how it’s controlled. * * History *  🔖 In the late 1800s a group in Europe🇪🇺 decided to coloniz...