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The recovery programme is a joint effort of the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, the Rajasthan Forest Department and the Wildlife Institute of India, with technical collaboration from the International Fund for Houbara Conservation and funding support from National CAMPA.

The bird is the State bird of Rajasthan, and the Chief Minister called the day of its rewilding a day of pride for the whole State, noting that the species is part of the cultural heritage of the Thar and has been brought back from the brink of extinction.

The two captive-bred birds were moved from a soft-release facility at this park in the Thar desert, with the Union Environment Minister present at the site and the Chief Minister of Rajasthan joining by video conference during Wildlife Week 2026.

The bureau deliberately took its programmes into the licensed poppy-growing tracts of Rajasthan, holding meetings for cultivators in Kota, Jhalawar, Bhilwara, Chittorgarh, Pratapgarh and Udaipur districts, including villages such as Mangrol and one near Babrikhda in Jhalrapatan tehsil.

The student session at the University of Kota was organised by CBN Kota under this campaign, with Deputy Narcotics Commissioner Naresh Bundel as chief guest and the university Registrar Murlidhar Pratihar present; participants ended the session by taking the Nasha Mukti Pledge.

The release on the Rajasthan Unit’s anti-addiction programmes was issued under the Ministry of Finance, which is the parent ministry of the Central Bureau of Narcotics; the bureau licenses and supervises legal opium poppy cultivation.

National Anti-Drug Addiction Day falls on 2 October, the birth anniversary of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and the Central Bureau of Narcotics tied its Rajasthan programmes to Gandhi’s message of self-discipline and social responsibility.

Where air pressure is low the air rises, cools as it goes up and the moisture in it condenses, so low pressure brings cloudy skies and wet weather, while in a high pressure area the air sinks and warms, clouds do not form and the sky stays clear and sunny.

Earthquake waves fall into body waves, which travel through the interior of the Earth, and surface waves, which move along the surface, and the surface waves are called L waves, or long waves.

The Bureau of Indian Standards code IS 1893 divides the country into four seismic zones, numbered II, III, IV and V, where Zone V carries the highest risk and Zone II the least.

The Lucknow Pact of December 1916 was an agreement between the Indian National Congress and the All India Muslim League, by which the Congress accepted separate electorates for Muslims and the two bodies placed a joint demand for self government before the British.

In the continental drift theory that Alfred Wegener put forward in 1912, the single land mass was Pangaea and the single mega ocean around it was Panthalassa, a Greek name meaning all sea.

The All India Muslim League was founded at Dhaka in December 1906, with Nawab Salimullah of Dhaka taking the lead and Nawab Mohsin-ul-Mulk and Nawab Viqar-ul-Mulk among its founders, while Aga Khan III became its first president.

The Earth turns through 360 degrees in 24 hours, so it covers 15 degrees of longitude in one hour, and each standard time zone is drawn one hour, that is 15 degrees, wide.

Gandhi led the Kheda satyagraha in 1918, asking the government to remit land revenue after the crops failed in that district of Gujarat.

Dal Lake in Srinagar is called the jewel of Srinagar, because the houseboats, floating gardens and shikaras of the city sit on it.

Magadha was the first power of ancient India to use elephants in war on a large scale, taking them from the forests of its east Indian heartland.

The Sirki Waterfall lies near Pasighat in the East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh.

The same drive was followed at the sabhas in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, Jharkhand and Haryana, where plantation accompanied the honouring of sanitation workers and the Swachhata pledge.

The framework lets a panchayat judge its own sanitation work each year, and it was taken up in the Special Gram Sabhas, above all in ODF Plus (Model) Gram Panchayats; the Joint Secretary and Mission Director of the Swachh Bharat Mission (Grameen) made a presentation on it at Majigam.