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Abstract:Geomagnetic Storms are disturbances in Earth's magnetosphere caused by solar activities such as solar flares or coronal mass ejection (CMEs). These storms occur whe n solar wind carrying charged particles and magnetic field, interacts with Earth's magnetic field. Here we have investigated the relationship between cycles 22, 23 and the rising phase of cycle 24. Solar features are, we observed and used to qualitatively characterise intense storms. The results of this paper reviewed specifically provide an estimate of the main source of geomagnetic storms (GMS), which are arising in cycle 22 & 23 and rising phase of cycle 24. We observed that solar cycle 23 was magnetically disturbed with 41.52% of disturbed days against 27.58% for cycle 24 which was magnetically calm with 72.35% of quit days against 58.64% for cycle 23. The solar cycle 24 proceeded as a low energy cycle with historically lower energy levels of sunspots and geomagnetic activity than that of all previous solar cycles of the space era. Solar cycle 24 presents similar characteristics as solar cycles 12 & 14 which experienced spotless days at solar maxima and have experienced Gleissberg minimum.