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BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤Plan your stay at home New ➤Students share their ➤ Decoding why India’s STUDENT EDITION Year Party. We tell you how travel diaries victory at the MCG is ➤ TODAY’S Should you wear a face ➤Relive your school one of the most WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2020 Newspaper in mask at home? Education EDITION experiences significant ‘away win’ PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 We are ultimately one world and we can only win together — that’s what this virus has INDIA SCRIPT HISTORIC taught us. We will, as countries, have to work hard to boost consumption, bring in BOXING DAY TEST WIN AGAINST AUSTRALIA infrastructure development to create jobs, and find solutions to revive industries and ungry for redemption, India sectors that are in deep depression. - RATAN TATA, chairman emeritus, Tata Sons recorded a sensational win H under an inspirational Ajinkya Rahane, beating Australia by eight wickets in the second Test to level the four-match series 1-1 on THINGS INDIA NEEDS TO KEEP Tuesday. Cricket fans, who woke up early on Tuesday to catch the action, saw Australia set a target of 70 for 4 IN MIND AS IT ENTERS 2021 India to cross over the victory line. The year 2020 will go THERE IS A LARGE POWER THAT GOVERNS US. LET’S TECHNOLOGY IS TRANSFORMING THE WAY WE EAT, LIVE, LEARN AND PLAY — LET US BE down in history as the Gender LEARN TO LIVE WITH HUMILITY AND GRATITUDE, AS BRAVE ENOUGH TO EMBRACE IT AND FIND SOLUTIONS COLLECTIVELY THROUGH COL- most-unprecedented year equality will be 2 LIFE IS UNCERTAIN. We must do our best to 3LABORATION. Innovation and ideas to solve have always been in- critical for progress. keep ourselves safe by co-creating solutions that ad- trinsic to India. However, we just don’t have the capacity or intent to this planet has ever seen. Women will rise up but we dress all humankind. As we go through the economic fund it from within the country.Most innovators had to look to the West have to understand, if we cycle, it will be important for us to remind ourselves or East for investment or acknowledgement. Dr. Amar Bose, who was Business magnate Ratan have the ecosystem to of the migrant labourers, who paid heavily with renowned for the Bose brand of audio equipment, became a world phe- the loss of lives and livelihoods dur- nomenon. He used his knowledge and tech expertise to create many so- ➤ Tata shares his 4-point allow them to ing the early days at the start lutions for different sectors. For 20 years, he worked hard to create one Rahane was awarded the flourish of the pandemic. This is be- of the best suspension systems for cars. When most cars find it hard Player of the Match for his gritty guide on how to handle 2021 cause they had no choice. The to navigate through Indian road conditions, here was a car invented by century (112) in the first innings one thing they do have, which we Dr.Bose that sailed through with utmost comfort to the passenger.This LET’S NOT TAKE THE UNIVERSE FOR GRANTED: as a country must recognise, pro- invention unfortunately never saw the light of day. Many such Amar that helped India take a dominant Whether we find an effective vac- tect and value, is their Boses exist in India. We need to find them, support them and build them lead over the hosts. 1cine or not, I am hopeful that we will skills, which no one else to grow into businesses of the future. That’s when India will unlock its eventually find some cure that will reduce the intensity could replace in their latent potential. We are on the threshold of innovation through tech- of the pandemic. But it will be imperative for all of us absence. If we build nology.Artificial intelligence, machine learning and other such new- to learn not to take this pandemic for granted. It calls an ecosystem that can age technologies will change the way we operate today and forever. for true reflection — if we look at what’s happening in the protect and grow this community VIRAT KOHLI: ICC CRICK- UK and Europe, we need to stay on the safe side by wear- based on their skills, we will emerge To be part of this high world transformation that is happening around ing our masks and washing our hands, and continuing to prosperous as a nation. us, we need to foster a CULTURE OF INNOVATION that converges with the ETER OF THE DECADE adopt solutions that are working for us today. right investment without fear of failure. 4 he Indian captain has grabbed the Photo: Getty images International Cricket Council's 2 OF 15 MOST-DESTRUCTIVE T(ICC) top honours for the decade, CHRISTMAS TREES STAY winning the Sir Garfield Sobers award for 2020 CLIMATE DISASTERS Seven-year-old boy is a sensation on GREEN BECAUSE OF PHOTO- the best male cricketer of the decade, IMPACTED INDIA: REPORT beating the likes of R Ashwin, Joe Root, SYNTHETIC SHORTCUT Kumar Sangakkara, Steve Smith, Ab de new global report in its analysis of 15 most- destructive climate disasters of UGANDAN AVIATION SCENE Villiers and Kane Williamson. The 32-year- A 2020 has found that nine of these ex- 7-year-old Ugandan boy has be- old was also named the ODI Cricketer of treme events, including two in India, come a sensation in his country YOUNG SENSATION the Decade. He is the only player with caused damage worth at least $5 billion. A with his precocious display of 10,000-plus ODI runs in the#ICC Though hurricanes in the US and central aircraft knowledge and budding flying skills. Graham American countries turned out to be the most- Shema has flown as a trainee three times on a Cessna Awards peri- expensive ($41 billion), floods in India dur- 172. He flew three times as co-pilot between January and od— 39 ing June-October period caused the loss of March before the pandemic stopped him from flying. centuries, highest number of human lives. He has since been focusing on aviation theory,and im- 48 fifties, mersing himself in videos about aviation and space ex- ENVIRONMENT ploration on his virtual reality viewer.A lover of math 61.83 aver- and science, Shema wants to be a pilot and an astronaut cientists have deciphered age and 112 and someday travel to Mars. that a shortcut in the pho- DID catches, the Stosynthetic machinery al- ICC tweeted. lows the needles of Christmas trees YOU hema recently impressed his instructor at the he was 3 years old, a police helicopter flew so low to the to stay green. According to them, KNOW S Uganda's Entebbe International Airport, when he ground that it blew off the roof of his grandmother's the photosynthetic apparatus is ➤ Australian batting was asked to explain how the engines worked on a house on the outskirts of the Ugandan capital Kampala, wired in a special way,which allows mainstay Steve Smith pine needles to stay green all year long. and Afghanistan Bombardier CRJ9000 plane parked on the tarmac. His while he was playing outside. "It triggered a curiosity on The study was done with pine trees, but curiosity for flight was piqued by a freak incident. When his mind about aeroplanes," said his mother. the researchers believe that the mechanism is spinner Rashid Khan probably similar for other conifer species, like were named the Test the typical Christmas trees spruces and firs, be- Cricketer of the nitially, the cause their photosynthetic apparatus is similar. Decade and T20 SOLAR ORBITER MAKES Cricketer of the Ispacecraft, which ➤In winter, the light energy is absorbed by Decade, respectively. ITS FIRST VENUS FLYBY will be confined to the the green chlorophyll molecules but cannot be same plane as the ➤ Australia's Elysse he joint US--European Solar Orbiter utilised by the downstream reactions in the planets, will make its Perry swept the women's spacecraft has completed its first of photosynthetic machinery, as freezing temper- the many gravity assist flybys of first solar pass at 17 awards, securing the ICC atures stop most of the biochemical ndia’s floods, which killed 2,067, Venus to get closer to the sun. It also degree of inclination Female Cricketer of the T ➤ I caused loss of more human lives tilted its orbit to observe our star from differ- by 2025, increasing to reactions In spring, the temp can still be Decade honours along- than casualties in all other 14 destruc- ent perspectives. The probe, launched in Feb- very low, but sunlight is already strong, which side ODI and T20 ruary to study the sun, aims to perform un- 33 degree by the end tive climate disasters put together. precedented close-up observations of the sun of the decade can damage the photosynthetic machinery Cricketers of the Floods in Pakistan, which claimed 410 and investigate the sun-Earth connection. Decade awards lives figured at the second spot, fol- lowed by the US and central American countries (400 lives lost in hurricanes) COVID-19: OXFORD VACCINE MAY History tells us that at the third position on the list of 15 WORK THAT BAFTA PLANS this will not be the GET NOD IN A FEW DAYS last pandemic, and epi- TO DO IN INDIA FAR BEYOND ndia is likely to see the demics are a fact of life.