{"id":115815,"date":"2021-06-21T06:58:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=115815"},"modified":"2021-06-21T06:58:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T06:58:07","slug":"worlds-third-largest-diamond-unearthed-in-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/worlds-third-largest-diamond-unearthed-in-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s third largest diamond unearthed in Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Question- In which of the following country the world\u2019s third largest diamond is unearthed?<\/strong><br>(a) Botswana<br>(b) Kenya<br>(c) Rwanda<br>(d) Nigeria<br><strong>Ans. (a)<br>Related facts-<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A diamond believed to be the third-largest ever to be mined has been unearthed in Botswana, as per a joint venture between Anglo American&#8217;s De Beers and the government.<\/li><li>The 1098-carat diamond was shown to Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi on June 16, 2021, two weeks after the diamond firm Debswana discovered it.<\/li><li>The large gem-quality stone, which measures 73mm long, 52mm wide and 27mm thick, is slightly less heavy than the world&#8217;s second-largest diamond \u2018Lesedi La Rona\u2019 which was also found in Botswana in 2015.<\/li><li>The largest diamond unearthed to date, 3106 carat Cullinan stone, was recovered in South Africa in 1905.<\/li><li>This is the largest diamond to be recovered by Debswana in its history of over 50 years in operation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By- Yogesh Pratap singh<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Reference- <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/diamond-believed-to-be-world-s-third-largest-unearthed-in-botswana-101623920970460.html.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/world-news\/diamond-believed-to-be-world-s-third-largest-unearthed-in-botswana-101623920970460.html.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question- In which of the following country the world\u2019s third largest diamond is unearthed?(a) Botswana(b) Kenya(c) Rwanda(d) NigeriaAns. (a)Related facts- A diamond believed to be the third-largest ever to be mined has been unearthed in Botswana, as per a joint venture between Anglo American&#8217;s De Beers and the government. The 1098-carat diamond was shown to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":115816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[2529],"class_list":["post-115815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne","tag-international-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115817,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115815\/revisions\/115817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}