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St. Angel’s School Gurugram, Haryana BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤Take a lesson on how ➤ Why you must not ➤ What ails Kings XI STUDENT EDITION electric current works shame your kids publicly Punjab? TODAY’S ➤ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2020 ➤Learn the art of ➤ How to deal with Take our cricket Newspaper in Education EDITION writing a letter your teen's anger? quiz PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 FACTOID THE IMPACT 3 HOURS ANRICH NORTJE $400 BILLION The report titled, 'Beaten or Broken? Informality and Covid-19 in & 3 MINUTES 1 South Asia', also noted that the pan- hat's the time it took the naut, aboard a Russian rocket, to demic may cause around 5.5 million stu- two Russian cosmonauts reach the International Space Sta- dents to drop out from the education sys- T and an American astro- tion(ISS)— a record in itself. tem and cause substantial learning losses, which will have a lifetime impact on the Photo: ANI Photo: productivity of a generation of students The projected learning loss for the region is 0.5 years of learning- outh African pace bowler 2 adjusted years of schooling (LAYS), Anrich Nortje bowled the falling from 6.5 LAYS to 6.0 LAYS, an Sfastest ball in Indian enormous setback from the recent Premier League (IPL) history on advances in Wednesday during his team Delhi schooling," the Capitals' 13-run victory over World Bank said Rajasthan Royals. Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of ROSCOS- MOS and NASA’s Kathleen Rubins launched from the The 26-year-old eclipsed TIME FOR 1 Russian-operated Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan compatriot Dale Steyn's SCHOOLS TO at 0545 GMT on Wednesday effort of 154.40 km per hour he cost of prolonged REOPEN WITH Typically, it takes about six hours for a Soyuz space- set in 2012, clocking 154.74 school closures in In- The 'Learning Adjusted Year of SAFETY NORMS? craft to chase down the International Space Station, kph and 155.21 kph in the dia, apart from learn- Schooling' (LAYS) concept, intro- and the Soyuz must complete about four orbits around game at Dubai before his ing losses, due to 2 T Send your replies, contributions and the Earth. But the Soyuz MS-17 made it in only two best effort of 156.22 kph Covid-19, according to the World duced by the World Bank, seeks to Bank. South Asia region stands combine access and learning out- letters to the editor on orbits, making it the first crewed Soyuz spacecraft to was scooped for a boundary to lose $622 billion from school toinie175@gmail.com/timesnie175 try the "fast-track" rendezvous method by Rajasthan's Jos Buttler closures in the present sce- comes on a single measure. It combines nario or up to $ 880 billion in quantity (years of schooling) and quali- @gmail.com Russia has previously tested the two-orbit rendezvous a more pessimistic scenario, ty (how much kids know at a given grade level) You can also post your articles, method with its Progress cargo resupply spacecraft, CBSE SET NEW it said, adding that while the re- into a single summary measure of human capital in paintings, sketches, debates, concerns gional loss is largely driven by 3 which is nearly identical to the Soyuz spacecraft used GUINNESS WORLD India, all countries will lose sub- a society and feedback on www.toistudent.com to transport crew stantial shares of their GDP. (Source: AFP/space.com) RECORDS ECONOMY CLICK WORLD ECONOMY IN DEEP FACEBOOK REJIGS MESSENGER NEWS HERE FOR BRIEF MORE RECESSION IN 2020, GROWTH WITH NEW LOOK, FEATURES IN TO BE -4.4% : IMF TECH BUZZ MEET THE YOUNGEST he International Monetary Fund (IMF) has predicted a global recession BUDDING AEROSPACE The Central Board of Secondary T this year and the world growth to be ENGINEER Education (CBSE) has achieved a new – 4.4 per cent, asserting that the economic Guinness World Records title for the crisis is far from over, mainly due to the im- aleb Anderson, a 12-year-old pact of the coronavirus pandemic. In its lat- boy from the US, is all set to most users to take an online artificial est World Economic Outlook report, the IMF Cbecome the youngest student intelligence (AI) lesson in 24 hours. also said the swift recovery in China has sur- in the world to study aerospace en- The record was set after delivering a prised on the upside, while the global econ- gineering at a university. Anderson, omy's ascent back to pre-pandemic levels of who will soon be joining the study virtual lesson focused on demystify- activity remains prone to setbacks. course at theGeorgia University, ing the impact of AI and key consider- acebook has introduced a brand new says he can grasp information YOUNG ations around its use to 13,000 stu- THE SILVER LINING look for Messenger, including a new quickly, which makes learning dents from class VIII and above F logo and default chat colour as well quicker for him. The world is adapting as a result of eased as new chat themes, like love and cus- ACHIEVER between October 13 and 14. The train- lockdowns and the rapid deployment tom reactions. It has also an- ing was part of the ongoing AI For e started showing signs of his unique there... everyone was way taller than me, of policy support by the central nounced features like selfie Youth Virtual Symposium organised by stickers and vanish mode, learning ability from an early age. When because I was two. I could barely walk,” he banks and governments around Intel and CBSE. which are coming soon. he was just nine months old, he picked said. But all was not smooth sailing for the 12- the world. The global economy H up sign language. By the time he turned two, he year-old. He said, middle school was tough for is coming back from the Messenger recently was doing fractions. “I have this distinct mem- him, as other students looked down on him for #ArtificialIntelligence depths of its collapse in the announced cross-app ory of going to a first-grade class and learning being an 'anomaly’ continues to be first half of this year communication with one of the GITA GOPINATH, chief Instagram, which will be most crucial economist, IMF rolled out to most users in HERD IMMUNITY IS DANGEROUS he idea of using herd immunity approach to AND FLAWED APPROACH: LANCET manage Covid-19 — by allowing immunity to technologies of North America soon. Tdevelop in low-risk populations, while pro- Messages and calls from tecting the most vulnerable — is "a dangerous falla- the future, with friends and family using Instagram cy unsupported by the scientific evidence", says a the potential will stay in your Instagram app but peo- new letter signed by 80 inter- national researchers. The au- COVID UPDATE to leapfrog India’s digitalisa- ple using the Messenger app can now reach thors have acknowledged that tion journey you on Instagram without you needing to the ongoing restrictions have understandably led to RAMESH POKHARIYAL, download a new app, widespread demoralisation and diminishing trust education minister among the public and warned that in the face of the and vice versa second wave of infection, there is a renewed inter- est in the so-called natural herd immunity approaches. Photo: Getty images CELEB TALK WORLD STUDENTS SUSHMITA SEN'S DAY 2020 Shakespeare's First Folio fetches he World Students' Day was MANTRA: PREPARE, celebrated on October 15 Tworldwide to commemorate IN THE RECORD BOOKS the birth anniversary of former $10 mn at auction President A PJ Abdul Kalam, who LEARN, PRACTICE was also a great scientist and A copy of the first collection of plays by William Shakespeare was sold for $9.97 teacher. ctress Sushmita Sen has a few wise words on life million at an auction in New York, setting a new record for a work of literature... for her fans. Taking on to Instagram recently, the The collection, widely known as the Heminge and Henry Condell A former Miss Universe wrote: " Life is an exam and you are the subject. But life is the easiest exam.. all we got- First Folio, printed in 1623 and containing It contains major works, which ta do is prepare.. learn... practice! The questions life throws 36 plays by the Bard, is widely described would probably have been lost, us are unique... so must be our answers! Cheating here as the greatest literary work in the means cheating our ‘Self ’ of all that is authentic about were it not the collection, each one of us! Sushmita also urged everyone to be English language including 'Macbeth' and brave enough to try something original rather than It was published after the death of the 'Twelfth Night' copying others. Bard, who lived from 1564 until 1616, and was compiled by two of his friends, John Know yourself enough...be brave ➤ In 2010, the United Nations enough..to attempt an original...not ace Organisation (UNO) declared October 15 as the World Several books have brought in a copy! This for me is the greatest difference Students’ Day to honour his higher prices, such as the 'Codex between success ans failure! #sharing efforts on promoting education. Leicester of Leonardo De Vinci', which Bill Gates bought for #corebeliefs #authenticpower ➤ This year, the theme of the World Students’ Day is ‘Learning for people, $30.8 million in 1994. But none is a SUSHMITA SEN planet, prosperity, and peace’.