Indian Geography Questions

It rises on the Amarkantak plateau in the in the Maikal Range from a spring at a height of 1060m

The provisional geographical area of india as on 31st March 1982, given by survey of india, is 3287,263 sq km. which includes 78,111 sq km under occupation by pakistan, 5180 sqkm given by pakistan to china and 37,555 sq km under occupation of china.

A team of scientists led by Abhay Mudholkar, from CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography (CSIR-NIO) in Goa on February 17, 2017 informed that India’s only live volcano, the barren island volcano in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has started erupting smoke and lava again. The Barren Island volcano last erupted in 1991 after lying dormant for 150 years. Again the volcano has started showing sporadic activity in small intervals of 5-10 minutes. As per the scientists, during the day only ash clouds were observed, but after sunset red lava foundations were erupting from the crater into the atmosphere and hot lava streamed down the slopes.