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India has signed a $24 million landmark deal with Argentina's state-owned CAMYEN company for rights to develop lithium mines across 5 sites in Catamarca province.

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Afghanistan's Positioning Makes It Earthquake-Prone 🇦🇫🌎

🔹 Afghanistan sits at the junction of Eurasian, Indian, and Arabian plates, causing frequent earthquakes.

🌪 Earthquake Basics:

🔹 Quakes happen when stress releases along faults, making rocks slip.
🔹 Key terms: Epicenter, Fault plane, Seismic waves.

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BRICS Levels Up: Historic Expansion As 6 New Members Join Club

🌐 Why Expansion is Happening Now
🆕 New Members
✅ Criteria for Selection
🌟 Importance of Each New Member
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia
🇮🇷 Iran
🇦🇪 UAE
🇪🇬 Egypt
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
🇦🇷 Argentina
🌀 Implications

https://upsccolorfullnotes.com/brics-new-members/

🌐What sparked the Africa Niger Coup? Simplified

✅Definition of Coup
✅Factors Leading to the Coup
✅Coup in Africa since 2020

https://upsccolorfullnotes.com/africa-niger-coup/

✅Himalayan Vulture Bred In Captivity For The First Time In India.
✅Researchers accomplished this pioneering feat at the Assam State Zoo in Guwahati through a collaborative effort between the Bombay Natural History Society and the Assam forest department.
✅This represents only the second captive breeding of the species worldwide and the first ever in India.
✅Also the Indian government on 31st July , 2023, implemented a ban on the production and distribution of aceclofenac and ketoprofen, two drugs known to be toxic for vultures.
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✅Russia attacks Port of Izmail
✅The list of Major Ports of Ukraine
✅Black Sea Grain initiative
✅Upcoming Peace Talks in Jeddah

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🌐Tensions between Kosovo and Serbia are on the rise. Discover the history and current state of the Kosovo-Serbia conflict. Learn how it has shaped the Balkan region. Read about the latest developments in this ongoing conflict.

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✅India’s first Nilgiri Tahr conservation project
✅To protect the Tamil Nadu state animal.
✅The Nilgiri tahr is a species of wild goat that is native to the Nilgiri Hills and the Western Ghats
✅Nilgiri tahr is classified as “Endangered” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
✅Native to the Nilgiri Hills and the Western Ghats mountain ranges, which are home to a type of forest known as sholas.

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Worst drought year in Europe in 500 years
Boats cannot be supported on some of Europe's largest rivers, including the Rhine, Po, Loire, and Danube! These are normally formidable waters.
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✅75 Ramsar Sites in India in 75th Year of Independence
As of Aug 2022, The state of Tamil Nadu has the most Ramsar sites in India (14), followed by the state of Uttar Pradesh with 10 sites.

https://upsccolorfullnotes.com/ramsar-sites-in-india-2021/

👉Aug 2022, Israeli and Palestinian in the Gaza Strip exchanged fire in the worst incidence of cross-border shooting since an 11-day confrontation between Israel and Hamas in 2021.

✅Israel and Palestine map HD
✅Gaza Strip
✅The Six-Day War
✅Israel Palestine two-state solution

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🔴✅Five new Indian sites were added to the List of Ramsar sites, or wetlands of international importance,The addition of these five wetlands brings India’s total number of Ramsar Sites to 54, the most of any South Asian country.

▶️New Sites

1️⃣Karikili Bird Sanctuary -- Tamil Nadu
2️⃣Pallikaranai Marsh Reserve Forest-- Tamil Nadu
3️⃣Pichavaram Mangrove-- Tamil Nadu
4️⃣Sakhya Sagar-- Madhya Pradesh
5️⃣Pala Wetlands-- Mizoram

https://upsccolorfullnotes.com/ramsar-sites-in-india-2021/