{"id":15867,"date":"2025-02-24T06:43:49","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T01:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15867"},"modified":"2025-04-03T20:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:53:13","slug":"palk-strait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/palk-strait\/","title":{"rendered":"Palk Strait"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Palk Strait Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>In a fresh incident, 32 fishermen from Tamil Nadu were arrested by Sri Lankan Navy personnel on charges of poaching along the Palk Straits recently.<\/p>\n<h2>About Palk Strait<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>inlet of the Bay of Bengal between<\/strong> southeastern <strong>India and northern Sri Lanka<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>bounded <\/strong>on the south <strong>by Pamban Island <\/strong>(India),<strong> Adam\u2019s (Rama\u2019s) Bridge<\/strong> (a chain of shoals), the<strong> Gulf of Mannar, and Mannar Island (Sri Lanka).\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>southwestern portion <\/strong>of the strait is also <strong>called Palk Bay.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The strait is <strong>named after Robert Palk<\/strong>, who was a <strong>governor of Madras Presidenc<\/strong>y (1755-1763) during the Company Raj period.<\/li>\n<li>The strait is 40 to 85 miles wide, 85 miles long, and less than 330 feet (100 metres) deep.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It receives<strong> several rivers, <\/strong>including the <strong>Vaigai (India),<\/strong> and it contains many islands on the Sri Lankan side.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>port of Jaffna,<\/strong> the commercial centre for northern Sri Lanka, lies on the strait.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>shoals and numerous islands <\/strong>long have <strong>limited transit<\/strong> through the strait to smaller vessels.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Palk Strait FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which strait separates Sri Lanka from India?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The Palk Strait separates India from Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. Where is Ram Setu?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Ram Setu (Adam\u2019s Bridge) is a chain of limestone shoals connecting Rameswaram Island (India) to Mannar Island (Sri Lanka) across the Palk Strait.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. Which two seas are connected by Palk Strait?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. It connects the Bay of Bengal in the northeast with the Gulf of Mannar in the southwest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/32-tn-fishermen-arrested-by-sri-lankan-navy\/article69253927.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palk Strait is an inlet of the Bay of Bengal between southeastern India and northern Sri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15867","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}