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BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤ ➤Academicians and students Educators and parents tell us ➤ Can CSK and RR build on STUDENT EDITION share their views on issues why and what should be done to their first wins? TODAY’S make ‘inclusive education for all’ engulfing the country and the MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021 Newspaper in EDITION a reality world PAGE 4 Education PAGE 2 PAGE 3 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 CRISTIANOJEE-Mains RONALDO exam BECOMESscheduled FOOTBALL'S from CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC HITS HIGHEST-GOAL SCORER ‘CRITICAL POINT’ April 27 postponed ngineering entrance exam JEE-Mains scheduled to be Eheld from April 27-30 has been postponed in view of the vals that are being held all around the Covid-19 situation, Union education INDIA AND country, with people showing up without minister Ramesh Pokhriyal masks. The country's neighbour, 'Nishank' announced on Sunday. BANGLADESH Bangaldesh virtually sealed off the entire "Given the current #covid19 situa- SOUTH AFRICA EUROPE & BRITAIN India's rising cases have been attributed country from Wednesday. All domestic and tion, I have advised @DG_NTA to worldwide to the political rallies and festi- international flights have been shut down postpone the JEE (Main) 2021 April South Africa is struggling to vaccinate In Europe, countries are feeling the brunt of a Session. I would like to reiterate its population, while poorer countries more contagious variant that first ravaged Britain. that safety of our students and are relying on vaccines made by China More than 2.9 mn people have died In Britain, The trajectory of this pandemic is growing, their academic career are and Russia, with less protection @EduMinOfIndia's and my prime and about 136 mn have been infected till now exponentially. This is not the situation we concerns right now," Nishank want to be in 16 months into a pandemic, when we tweeted. PTI The global death toll from the coronavirus topped a staggering three million have proven control measures. We are in a The revised dates will be on Saturday, amid repeated setbacks in the worldwide vaccination campaign, announced later on, and at least critical point of the pandemic right now 15 days before the examination and a deepening crisis in places, such as Brazil, India and France Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead on Covid-119, WHO TECHAWAY Instagram testing 3 WHY WAS UK'S PRINCE new 'like' options to NOISE POLLUTION PHILIP NOT A KING? empower users K’s Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth-II's TRIVIA acebook-owned Instagram is now husband, who died at testing a new feature that will give poses long-term risk to U its users more controls in the form the age of 99, and was laid to rest on F Saturday, was never a King. This is of three options — an option not to see like counts on anyone’s posts, turn them trees: Study because in the British Royalty, the title off for their own posts, or keep the origi- of a king is bestowed by the line of suc- nal experience. According to The Verge, oise pollution poses a long- cession, not marriage. The British par- term risk to tree population the company has announced a "small liamentary law says that a man married and plant diversity that may global test" that will present the users Prince Philip was laid to rest persist even after the to a reigning queen is referred to as a after a ceremonial procession with these options. The company added N sources of excess noise are ‘prince consort’ rather than a king. that it is was also "working on a similar removed, according to a latest experience" for Facebook research. Researchers in the United States looked at the tree population Scientists create music BREAKTHROUGH Last year, Instagram ran a test to hide 'like' counts on in New Mexico that had been from spider web structure posts in seven different countries; announced in exposed to a high level of artificial cientists at the noise for 15 years, and found 75 per The team scanned a November that it was expanding the test globally Massachusetts Institute of cent fewer pinyon pine seedlings in Technology (MIT) in the US natural spider web with S a laser to capture 2D noisy sites than quiet ones. have translated the structure of Similarly, the areas affected Man-made noise from construction, indus- a spider web into music, which cross-sections and then Entertainment by noise from natural gas try and the building of infrastructure, such could have applications, ranging used computer algo- wells had a fraction of the as roads and pipelines, has increased dra- from better 3D printers to cross- rithms to reconstruct tree seedlings, in compari- matically since the middle of last century, species communication, and the web's 3D network ‘Major’ son to the quieter ones, and biologists are increasingly concerned other-worldly musical composi- The researchers then researchers found. about their impact on plants and animals tions. According to researchers, created a harp-like teaser receives "the spider lives in an environ- instrument and played ment of vibrating strings. They the spider web music in HOW NOISE POLLUTION Noise, by definition, is over- don't see very well, so they several live perform- over 22mn views DISRUPTS NATURE loud or disturbing sound. sense their world through vibra- ances around the world Sound levels are measured in tions, which have different Noise pollution may reduce the number decibels (dB). It is a frequencies." Such vibra- IN TWO DAYS of trees in an area by keeping away the unit for expressing tions occur, for example, he teaser of the upcoming biographical animals that support them, says the study when the spider stretch- drama ‘Major’ has garnered over 22 the relative inten- es a silk strand during Researchers believe that birds, which sity of sound on a million views within two days of release spread tree seeds, keep away from the construction, or when T scale from 0 to 130. on April 12, in Hindi, Telugu and Malayalam. The noise, and the mice that raid their seed the wind or a trapped fly film, which marks Telugu superstar Mahesh stashes are more hurried, leading to Noise level of 80 decibels or moves the web. Babu's debut as a producer, casts Adivi Sesh as greater seed loss more for more than eight 26/11 martyr Sandeep Unnikrishnan. The film Noise can also change birdsong in hours a day, increases also stars Sobhita Dhulipala, and is set to cities, and disrupt whale navigation tension and changes in release on July 2. through the seas breathing patterns PETA India renews call to fast-food giants to include vegan options he People for the Ethical PROMOTING In its letters, PETA India points to a study by "Much of the world, Treatment of Animals VEGANISM PETA India notes that in addition to the market research company Ipsos that many Indians included, is (PETA) India has fired off helping to combat infectious diseases, T came out in 2019, before the bird flu crisis turning away from people who go vegan, reduce their risk letters to McDonalds, KFC and company, Yum! Brands, and and the pandemic, revealing that 63 per cent meat, egg, and dairy Burger King India, urging them to McDonald's Corporation to of developing heart disease, diabetes, of Indians were willing to eat plant-based over animal welfare, and cancer, and spare sensitive animals add vegan options to their menus, explore and roll out plant-based meat. Similarly, a whopping 61.68 per cent of environmental, or health a terrifying death in the filthy, blood- as they are increasingly doing meat and egg alternatives for nearly 3,500 Delhi-NCR residents polled concerns," says PETA soaked slaughterhouses abroad. The letters followed these fast-food chains, as the recently said, they refused to consume chick- India Vegan Outreach Beyond Meat's global partnership global demand for vegan food en or egg because of the bird flu scare Coordinator Kiran Ahuja agreement with KFC's parent continues to surge. Share your views at [email protected] “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” READ. PLAY. LEARN RALPH WALDO EMERSON, POET 02 MONDAY, APRIL 19, 2021 Times NIE talked to parents and special educators on what should be done to make “inclusive education for all” a reality. A report... ith 1 in 54 people being diagnosed with autism (as per Centers for Dis- National Education Policy’s ease Control and Prevention (CDC) data), it is imperative that educa- role in empowerment of What educators and parents feel about W tors and educational institutions differently-abled students understand autism better, and learn how to inter- act with autistic students, accepting them with their India ratified the United Nations Convention hen it comes to talking about hose on the autism spectrum strengths and challenges. As online learning fast on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Wdifferently-abled learners, inclusive education? Tcannot be integrated easily in emerges as the #newnormal, struggles for such stu- acceptance is the most important dents and their parents have increased manifold. (UNCRPD) in 2007, which envisions free, quali- mainstream schools as they need According to a recent study by Autism Students ty, inclusive education as the fundamental thing. I disagree with the fact special care in the classroom and Association in Cleveland, more than 85 per cent human right of every child with a disability. In that the universities and schools eing different is not learning; assessment parents have to (in many cases) autistic students globally did not have access to ANY line with the UNCRPD, there is a need to are providing equal opportunities Beasy and the biggest methods depending on send a ‘shadow teacher’ for their learning in 2020.