Current Affairs Question - 18 March 2020

Explanation :

• Boko Haram is an ISIS-aligned jihadist group based in northeastern Nigeria.
• It is also active in Cameroon, Chad, and Niger.
• It was founded in 2002 in Maiduguri, Nigeria, by a Salafist cleric named Mohammed Yusuf and seeks to establish a caliphate, or Islamic state, in Nigeria.
• The group's name has always been Jamā'atu Ahli is-Sunnah lid-Da'wati wal-Jihad, meaning "Group of the People of Sunnah for Dawa and Jihad".
• It is also known as Wilayat Garb Ifrqiya, meaning "West African Province", since March 2015 after becoming part of the Islamic State.

Explanation :

• The Sundarbans National Park is a national park, tiger reserve, and biosphere reserve in West Bengal, India.
• It is part of the Sundarbans on the Ganges Delta, and adjacent to the Sundarban Reserve Forest in Bangladesh.
• The present Sundarban National Park was declared as the core area of Sundarban Tiger Reserve in 1973 and a wildlife sanctuary in 1977.
• On 4 May 1984 it was declared a national park.
• It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site inscribed in 1987, and it has been designated as a Ramsar site since 2019.
• It is considered as a World Network of Biosphere Reserve (Man and Biosphere Reserve) from 1989.
• Sundarban has achieved its name from the Sundari tree.
• The endangered species that lives within the Sundarbans are royal Bengal tiger, saltwater crocodile, olive ridley turtle, hawksbill turtle and mangrove horseshoe crab.
• It is also home to a large number of “rare and globally threatened species, such as the critically endangered northern river terrapin (Batagur baska), the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris), and the vulnerable fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus).
• Two of the world’s four horseshoe crab species and eight of India’s 12 species of kingfisher are also found here.