Banking in India Part 1

Banking in India – Part 3

Banking in India – Part 3 Part 3 Types of Banks Cooperative Banks Cooperative banks are maintained by the stake and shareholders who are also the top clients. These are also be divided into urban and rural banks. These banks are regulated by the States […]

Banking in India Part 1

Banking in India – Part 2

Banking in India – Part 2 Part 2 Types of Banks Banks in India can be classified into public sector banks, cooperative banks, commercial banks, small finance banks, regional rural banks, etc. Commercial Banks Any organisation that deals with the deposits and loans to businesses […]

Banking in India Part 1

Banking in India – Part 1

Banking in India – Part 1 Part 1 A Bank A bank is a financial institution that is licensed to accept deposits from and grant credit to people/legal entities. Apart from this, the banks also perform wealth management and currency exchange services so that the […]

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO)

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) El Nino El Nino translates to ‘little boy’ or ‘Christ child’ in Spanish. El Nino is a climate pattern that denotes the unusual warming of surface waters in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean along the coast of Peru and Ecuador. […]

Monsoon

Monsoon

Monsoon The term “monsoon” denotes the seasonal reversal of wind direction and the climate system associated with it. The monsoons are a system of seasonal winds that travel from the sea to the land in the summer and from the land to the sea in […]

Indian Ocean Dipole

Indian Ocean Dipole

Indian Ocean Dipole Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) is sometimes also referred to as the Indian Niño due to its similarity with the El Niño. Indian Ocean Dipole the difference in sea surface temperature between two areas i.e., the Arabian Sea in the west and Bay […]

Jet Streams

Jet Streams

Jet Streams Jet streams are relatively narrow bands of geostrophic wind blowing horizontally through the upper layers of the troposphere. The main jet streams on Earth flow from west to east (Westerlies) but the flow often shifts to the north and south. Jet streams often […]

Natural Disasters-Wildfire

Natural Disasters-Wildfire

Natural Disasters – Wild Fire A wildfire is an uncontrolled fire that usually combusts in the wildland vegetation, often in rural areas. Wildfires can burn in forests, grasslands, savannas, and other ecosystems and are not limited to a particular continent or environment. Wildfires have the […]

Natural Disasters-Landslides

Natural Disasters-Landslides

Natural Disasters Landslides A landslide can be defined as the movement of a mass of rock, debris, or earth down a slope. Landslides are a type of mass wasting, which denotes a downward movement of soil and rock under the direct influence of gravity. Landslides […]