Mangalore : A painting by Tirthak Saha, a student of International Centre for Applied Sciences (ICAS)) of Manipal University, has bagged the first place in a national level inter-collegiate contest conducted at the Manipal Institute of Technology in April on the occasion of Earth Day.

The painting depicts the earth in danger with melting ice caps denoting signs of global warming.

He was presented the award by Ashwani Kumar, Minister of State for Science, at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on the occasion of the Foundation Day of the Ministry of Earth Sciences. Nobel Laureate R. K. Pachauri was also present.