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Important Case study 📌 Modhera village is situated 25km from Gujarat’s Mehsana district & about 100 km from state’s capital, Gandhinagar. 🖌The village is situated on the banks of River Pushpavati. 🖌It hosts the famous Sun Temple, which was built during the reign of Chalukya dynasty’s Bhima I. The temple was built in Maru-Gurjara style (Chaulukya style) of architecture. 🖌First heritage site in India to be powered only by solar energy.

Today the earth will witness the universe's beauty in the form of a #SolarEclipse. It would be the partial solar Eclipse in the form of a ring, thus known as the 'Ring of Fire.' How it occurs? A solar eclipse occurs when a portion of the Earth is engulfed in a shadow cast by the Moon, which fully or partially blocks sunlight. A ring of fire is when the Moon, passing between Earth and Sun, blocks most, but not all, of the Sun's disc. Types of Solar Eclipse The shadow of the Moon has two parts: a central region known as the umbra and another region is known as the penumbra. Depending upon which part of the shadow passes, three types of solar eclipses visible to you namely: - Total Solar Eclipse: In this, the entire central portion of the Sun is blocked out. - Partial Solar Eclipse: Only a part of the Sun's surface is blocked out. - Annular Solar Eclipse: Only a small, ring-like silver of light is seen from the Sun's disc.

Tamil Nadu has maximum number of Ramsar sites (14), followed by UP which has 10 Ramsar sites.

The 11 Indian wetlands which have been designated as new Ramsar sites are Tampara Lake, Hirakud Reservoir and Ansupa Lake in Odisha; Yashwant Sagar in Madhya Pradesh; Chitrangudi Bird Sanctuary, Suchindram Theroor Wetland Complex, Vaduvur Bird Sanctuary and Kanjirankulam Bird Sanctuary in Tamil Nadu; Thane Creek in Maharashtra; Hygam Wetland Conservation Reserve and Shallbugh Wetland Conservation Reserve in Jammu and Kashmir.

BRIEF OF 10 NEW RAMSAR SITES