Author: Pawan.Muddu

I am Pawan Muddu, a national of India living in the city of Hyderabad; I am currently working for GREd foundation, Guwahati, as a Senior GIS Faculty (Online), having completed my MA in Geography from SP College, Pune, and a certificate program in NRM from ITC, Netherlands. I am pursuing a dual degree program (Online) called IGEON, having worked for prominent companies like EXL, Tomtom, and CSS Corp (Apple Maps). I am also an Intern for Asiana Times as a Geopolitcal, Geo Journalist and Current Affair related news .

In the blanket of Air Pollution during the Winter Months, The City of Mumbai is second world worst AQI in the world.

India’s financial capital is in the blanket of air pollution and has now had the dubious distinction of being the second most polluted in the world after Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia, during the month air quality Index recorded in February. This is according to the Switzerland-based Air Quality Index (AQI) monitoring company IQAir. The city, considered the ‘Jaan’ (heart of India), is now gripped with fine particulate smog pollution that has serious health risks to its hard-working inhabitants. IQAir classified the reading of Mumbai as 163 on February 13, according to their real-time worldwide air quality monitor, which updates…

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Imported Cheetah Surge in India benefits our forest and grassland biodiversity

After the reintroduction of Cheetahs in the mid-1950, the species became extinct in India. Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh brought back India’s lost species when all eight of them were ferried (5 Female and 3 Male) were ferried from Namibia during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s birthday on 17th September.   Recent Imported Cheetah Surge Considering India’s Historic Tryst with Cheetah.  A sudden imported cheetah surge has taken place.This now follows 12 more cheetah species from South Africa which are to be flown from Johannesburg aboard the Indian Air Force Boeing C-17 Globe Master, as confirmed by Union Environment Minister Bhupendra…

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Mapping for Humanity the Need of the Hour

There has always been a quest for real-time maps, and mapping for humanity has always eluded the first responders. On the 6th of February, a powerful, catastrophic earthquake rocked the levant region of the Middle East. Such an Earthquake which the region has never seen before, was recorded at a Richter scale of 7.8 with an encompassing region of Central and Southern Turkey, Northern and Western Syria. With the First Primary wave at 4.14 PM Local time (TRT), 1.17 (GMT). This was followed by a 7.7 Richter scale earthquake about 9 hours later. The Epicenter of the Earthquake was 34…

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