{"id":16577,"date":"2023-11-02T03:57:07","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=16577"},"modified":"2025-04-04T21:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:26:23","slug":"awaous-motla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/awaous-motla\/","title":{"rendered":"Awaous Motla"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Awaous Motla<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It\u00a0is a fish with a vibrant yellow-coloured body and a fleshy upper lip.<\/li>\n<li>It was collected from the\u00a0Mahanadi river.<\/li>\n<li>The discovery was made during the ongoing research project funded by the department of science and technology of the Odisha government.<\/li>\n<li>The species belongs to the\u00a0family &#8216;Awaous&#8217; (Oxudercidae), and thus, is named &#8216;Awaous motla.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Key facts about Mahanadi River<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one\u00a0of the major east-flowing peninsular rivers in India.<\/li>\n<li>Origin: The river originates from\u00a0the Sihawa range of hills in the Dhamtari district of Chhattisgarh state.<\/li>\n<li>Course:\n<ul>\n<li>It flows in a southeastern direction through\u00a0Chhattisgarh and Odisha.<\/li>\n<li>The catchment area of the basin extends over major parts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha and comparatively smaller portions of\u00a0Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is bounded in the north by Central India hills, in the south and east by the Eastern Ghats and in the\u00a0west by Maikal hill range.<\/li>\n<li>Tributaries: The main tributaries of Mahanadi are Seonath River, Jonk River, Hasdeo River, Mand River, Ib River, Ong River and Telen River.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Maikala Range?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a mountain range in Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It runs in a north-south direction and forms the eastern base of the triangular Satpura Range. The Maikala Range consists of laterite-capped, flat-topped plateaus (pats) with elevations ranging from 2,000 to 3,000 feet (600 to 900 metres).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/home\/science\/researchers-discover-new-freshwater-fish-species-in-odishas-mahanadi-river\/articleshow\/104894888.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Researchers discover new freshwater fish species in Odisha&#8217;s Mahanadi river<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awaous Motla  is a fish with a vibrant yellow-coloured body and a fleshy upper lip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":16578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16577","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\/16577","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=16577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}