WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE OCT2016 | Page 6

WINSON COMPETITIVE GUIDE

New lizard species named as Cyrtodactylus Varadgirii discovered in Mumbai :

A new species of a ground-dwelling lizard has been discovered in Goregaon ’ s Aarey Colony and Thane ’ s Badlapur forested belts in Maharashtra . It has been named as Cyrtodactylus Varadgirii or Giri ’ s Geckoella after a Bengaluru-based scientist Varad Giri . It was discovered 130 years after the last such gecko was discovered .

ISRO successfully launches 8 satellites into two different orbits :

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