Social Studies Assignment On: India and Her Neighbors Done by: Tatinee Dey 1.The Kargil War • The Kargil War‚ also known as the Kargil conflict was an armed conflict between India and Pakistan that took place between May and July 1999 in the Kargil district of Kashmir. The cause of the war was the infiltration of Pakistani soldiers and Kashmiri militants into positions on the Indian side of the Line of Control‚ which serves as the de facto border between the two nations. Directly after the
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India (i/ˈɪndiə/)‚ officially the Republic of India (Bharat Ganrajya)[c]‚ is a country in South Asia. It is theseventh-largest country by area‚ the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people‚ and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south‚ the Arabian Sea on the south-west‚ and the Bay of Bengal on the south-east‚ it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west;[d] China‚ Nepal‚ andBhutan to the north-east; and Burma and Bangladesh to the east
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India is one of the most populated countries in the world. In the year 2001 India became the second country in the world after China to cross the one billion mark. About 1‚080‚264‚388 people live today in India. By the middle of the 21st century‚ India will have passed China in the terms of number of inhabitants. India’s population grew by 21.34 % between 1991 and 2000. If the growth continues in the same way‚ space might be a problem. Although India occupies only 2.4% of the world’s land area
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regional variations in the climatic conditions of India with the help of suitable examples. Despite the overall unity accorded by the monsoon‚ there are visible regional variations in climatic conditions within India. Regardless of the moderating influences of the Himalayas in the north and the sea in the south‚ variations do exist in temperature‚ humidity and precipitation. For example‚ in summer‚ some parts of the Rajasthan desert‚ in north-western India‚ record temperatures of 50°C‚ while it may be
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The most densely populated places are cities in the northeastern part of india around the Ganges river‚ that leads to the sea‚ where the plains of Ganga are. These cities include Calcutta and Lucknow. Bombay‚ the most populated city in India‚ is located in the western coast of the country‚ in the Western Ghats. Another of the biggest cities‚ Bangalore‚ is located where the Penner and Palar rivers meet‚ in the south of India‚ in the verge of the Eastern Ghats. The capital‚ New Dehli‚ was placed
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Endangered Animals of India : Endangered Animals of India Nataraj M.B. Department of Zoology. What is an endangered animal? : What is an endangered animal? A species is called endangered when there are so few of its kind left that it could disappear from the planet altogether and become ’extinct.’ Extinct means an animal hasn’t been seen in the wild for 50 years. In total 762 plant and animal species are now recorded as extinct. IUCN RED LIST : IUCN RED LIST The IUCN Red List of Threatened
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(GK) 2. Mathematical Aptitude 3. Reasoning 4. English language SECTION-II QUESTIONS - ESSAY: Essay Writing on Given Topics‚ IB ACIO Exam has Three Topics for Essay(Not more than 400 words): 1) Emergency Trends in india 2) Security threats in India 3) Cultural Diversity In India SECTION-I QUESTIONS -GK‚ APTITUDE QUESTIONS: 1. How many languages and dialects are spoken by people all over the world? A. 6‚000 B. 9‚000 C. 4‚000 D. 1‚000 Ans: C 2. Approximately‚ how many people speak Chinese
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South America South America is a continent located in the Western Hemisphere‚ mostly in the Southern Hemisphere‚ with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east by
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INTRODUCTION The subject of this report is India in medieval time. Medieval time is the time between 500C.E-1400C.E. India has always been diverse and rich in culture and architecture places like Gandhara was rich with culture of different regions of world. That’s because it had influences from people coming from different areas like when Alexander came from Greek civilization. World’s first university was in Taxila. It became the centre of education. In medieval times invaders mainly Arabs came
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HERITAGE OF INDIA | Heritage means what we inherit from our ancestors and from our past. The heritage of India is the result of developments in the social‚ economic‚ cultural and political life of Indian people over a period of thousands of years. | India is a vast country. It extends for approx 3000 km from Kashmir in the north to Kanyakumari in the south and for the same distance from its western-most parts to its eastern-most parts. The Himalayan ranges in the north and the sea in the east
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