Washington: Indian-origin Sathwik Karnik has won National Geographic Bee 2013 contest after gruelling rounds testing his geographic knowledge about lions in Botswana, mountain ranges in Asia and port cities in England. To clinch the title, Karnik, 12, correctly named Chimborazo as the mountain in Ecuador that represents the farthest point from the Earth's center.
Karnik, a native of Norfolk, south of Boston, is a 7th grader at King Philip Regional Middle School. He will take home the spoils of the Bee prize that include a USD 25,000 college scholarship, an all-expenses paid trip to the Galapagos Islands, and a lifetime membership to the National Geographic Society, National Geographic reported. Competitors also get the chance to compete on behalf of the United States in an International geographic competition.
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06:08 AM, May 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Maharashtra government on Thursday ordered withdrawal of Class X geography text books that excludes Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India. Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan termed as "unpardonable mistake" the exclusion of Arunachal Pradesh from the map of India published in the text books and disbanded the committee of experts which had approved of the textbook. "Orders have been issued to stop circulation of the textbooks to...
11:51 PM, May 16, 2013
Mumbai: For lakhs of 10th class students in Maharashtra, Arunachal Pradesh is not a part of the country, as the north-eastern state is reportedly "missing" from the map in their geography textbooks. Taking a serious note of the lapse, the state government today sought clarification from the chairman of the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education, asking him to explain the factors contributing to the goof-up. "I...
07:32 PM, May 15, 2013
Paper I: Principles of Geography Section A: Physical Geography Geomorphology: Factors controlling landform development; endogenetic and exogenetic forces; origin and evolution of the earths crust; physical conditions of the earths interior; geosynclines; continental drift; isostasy; sea-floor spreading; plate tectonics; mountain building; volcanicity; earthquakes; concepts of geomorphic cycles; landforms associated with fluvial, arid, glacial, coastal and karst cycle; groundwater; Applied Geomorphology. Climatology: Temperature and pressure belts of the world; heat budget...
06:02 PM, Jul 03, 2012
Sydney: Scientists have identified 15 distinct regions of Antarctica and its near-shore islands, based on the geography, geology, climate, flora and fauna of the ice-free areas, including the biologically distinct Antarctic Conservation Biogeographic Regions. Australian Antarctic Division terrestrial biologist Aleks Terauds, who led the study, said this is the first time a continent-wide assessment of the biogeography of Antarctica has been made using all of the available biodiversity data. "The...
12:27 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Mumbai: The fate of 100 young students teetered in the balance last month, while their answer sheets to the Geography paper of the crucial, career-building HSC (Higher Secondary Certificate) examinations lay on an abandoned motorcycle in Kalbadevi, unattended and exposed to the elements. Thanks to the vigilant eye of a shopkeeper in the area, the scripts were recovered and returned to the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary...
01:06 PM, May 08, 2012
A fresh paper would be prepared for the examination to be held on April 2. ...
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