Sita Eliya temple

Sita Eliya temple is a temple dedicated to Goddess Sita in Sri Lanka. It is believed to be built at the site where Sita was held captive by Ravana, the Lankan King. It is also said to be the place ..

ARGOS instrument

ARGOS instrument was created by the French space agency, CNES and NASA in 1978. It is a scientific instrument for collecting oceanographic and meteorological data from around the world and relaying it to the ground stations. CLS, a subsidiary of ..

Project TRISHNA

Project TRISHNA or Thermal infraRed Imaging Satellite for High resolution Natural resource Assessment is a collaboration between India’s ISRO and France’s space agency CNES. The project seeks to monitor and study the water cycle to enable the sustainable use of ..

Fagradalsfjall

Fagradalsfjall is a volcanic mountain in Reykjanes Peninsula in Iceland. Recently, a fissure site near the mountain spewed lava following a series of small earthquakes. More than 40,000 earthquakes were recorded in the area over a period of 4 weeks. ..

Istanbul Convention

Istanbul Convention or Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence Against Women and Domestic Violence is a landmark human rights treaty that seeks to protect women from violence. It was signed in 2011. Under the treaty, men and ..

National martyrs memorial

National Martyrs Memorial is the national monument of Bangladesh that was built in memory of the soldiers who died in the 1971 Bangladesh liberation War. It is located in Savar, Bangladesh. It was designed by Syed Mainul Hossain and inaugurated ..

Bagha Jatin

Bagha Jatin (meaning ‘tiger Jatin’) or Jatindranath Mukherjee was a revolutionary freedom fighter born in Kushtia in Bangladesh. He acquired the ‘Bagha’ epithet after he singlehandedly fought and killed a Royal Bengal Tiger. He is known for his clarion call, ..

Rabindra Kuthi Bari

Rabindra Kuthi Bari is a country house in Kushtia in Bangladesh. It was built by Dwarkanath Tagore, the grandfather of Rabindranath Tagore, the noted Bengali poet and Nobel Laureate. It was in this house that Tagore had composed several of ..

Sugandha Shaktipith temple

Sugandha Shaktipith temple is a temple dedicated to Goddess Sunanda and is located in Shikarpur in Barishal district of Bangladesh. It is an important pilgrimage destination for the followers of the Shakti sect of Hinduism. It is one of the ..

Matua Mahasangha

Matua Mahasangha is a religious reformation movement founded by Harichand Thakur in 1860 CE. Matua is a sect of Vaishnava Hinduism. The movement originated in Orakandi in Bangladesh. The sect’s members were people who were considered as untouchables called Namasudras. ..