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BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI CLICK HERE: WWW.TOISTUDENT.COM STUDENT EDITION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 2020 IN THIS ISSUE: Did you know that ghee HAVE YOU REGISTERED ON THE SITE? If not, do YOUR CORNER: Have activities or Newspaper in Education 1 is easily digestable fat? Read more 2 so now. Also read our story on anti-viral herbs for 3 paintings to share? Or do you want to here. Also, read up on how to access the staying healthy by clicking ON THE LINK at write something on the lockdown situation? WEB EDITION Marvel quiz hosted by celebrity Tom shorturl.at/ADNZ9. Don’t forget to leave your Be our Times NIE reporter; send matter to Holland on his Insta, TODAY! comments on the story [email protected] TRENDING CLICK NEWS HERE FOR IN BRIEF MORE WILL A WOMAN RUN IS THIS THE NEW NORMAL: Tom Holland will NORTH KOREA? KIM'S TELEMEDICINE IS THE SISTER OUTSHINES WAY TO GO host a Marvel- MALE RIVALS Pallavi.shankar @timesgroup.com themed quiz f all the family members who BIG Q: Telemedicine - which show, online could eventually take the reins means consultation through Ofrom North Korean leader Kim phone and digital applica- Jong Un, his sister seems like the ob- tions like mobile apps, video vious choice. Kim Yo Jong, in her calls, and email - is the pre- early 30s, has been by her ferred mode of consulting brother’s side at summits with doctors in the wake of coro- US President Donald Trump INSPIRATION navirus, and it is likely to and Chinese President Xi continue even after the lock- Jinping, sat behind Vice KOLKATA WOMAN IN OXFORD UNIVERSITY down ends. “It’s a good idea President Mike Pence while to consult a doctor online representing North Korea COVID VACCINE PROJECT TEAM rather than venture out and POLICIES at the 2018 Winter Olympics. POLITICS handra Datta, 34, who lives in Oxford, is working as a qual- put yourself and your fam- pider-Man star Tom Holland ity assurance manager at the university facility which is ily at risk. Most reputed doctors are available online through is set to host a Marvel- C manufacturing the anti-viral vector vaccine — ChAdOx1 various mobile apps and digital platforms,” advises dermatol- themed quiz show on CANADA WARNS AGAINST nCoV-19 — which went to human trials last Thursday. If the vac- ogist Dr Rinki Kapoor. S cine passes the trials, it could be made available to the public by Read more here Instagram today. The 23-year-old CHLOROQUINE USE AS TREATMENT September or October this year, she said, warning, “It all depends actor made the revelation during on the trial data.” an online appearance on ‘Jimmy anadian health au- CORONAVIRUS MEDICAL WASTE thorities have issued Kimmel Live’. The virtual quiz will C a warning against INDIA NEEDS POLLUTING THE ENVIRONMENT be organised by Brothers Trust, the use of anti-malarial set up by Holland’s family to sup- drugs chloroquine and hy- BIO-DEFENCE loves, masks and other personal protective equipment port various charities, to give peo- droxychloroquine to treat (PPE) are critical for those fighting the pandemic but STRATEGIES AGAINST ple a sense of community as the coronavirus infections or G are also widely used by the public. Still, because they’re prevent reinfections. TERROR, PANDEMICS not always disposed of properly, environmentalists fear nega- world fights coronavirus. Where? “Chloroquine and hydrox- tive consequences for wildlife and the fight against plastic pol- On his Instagram ychloroquine can have se- lution. Residents of Greece noticed huge amounts of discarded rious side effects. These gloves, wipes and bottles of sanitisers strewn across parks, side- should be used only under walks and roads, as people try to protect themselves and others WAYS TO IMPROVE supervision,” Canada’s from infection. Plastic pollution is on the rise as residents of health agency said. most parts of the world are either on complete lockdown or al- 5 YOUR QUIZZING HEALTH lowed out only in strict circumstances. BIOTERRORISM PRACTICE MAKES A MAN LOCKDOWN HAS MADE ME ENVIRONMENT PERFECT: This is the very he jury is still out on 1 MORE DEDICATED, HIMA the exact origin of dharma, the daily ritual of a T COVID-19, even quizzer. You need to practice till DAS TELLS RAINA though both China and WHO you drop. You may stumble. You contend it was not lab-made rom crying after meeting at Wuhan. may stutter. But do not, ever, idol Sachin Tendulkar to But the pandemic has un- give up! F learning how to be more ded- derscored like never before the icated during the coronavirus lockdown, India’s star need for India to be prepared WATCH TELEVISION SERIES: sprinter Hima Das opened up about her life in a candid for deadly bio-threats, whether 2Even the most obscure ones. chat with Indian cricketer Suresh Raina. Hima said that they arise from natural out- Of different languages, of different she has learnt dedication, better eating habits and has breaks or bioterrorism. gained the knowledge that one can survive without ven- Do you think we are ready culture, even the ones belonging turing out unnecessarily. SPORTS to manage this crisis? to Chaplin era. READ! CULTIVATE THE HABIT WHAT’S HOT 3 OF READING: Starting from WHO COINED THE TERM your textbooks, novels, non-fiction ENTER LAMONT-DOHERTY LAB: Lamont-Doherty now ‘GLOBAL WARMING’? to the very fine prints you get has the largest concen- from the covers from the The crucial role the Lamont- Satyajit Ray’s tration of earth scien- chanawala or jhalmuriwala. Read Doherty lab plays in climate even the covers of the shampoo One That Discovered tists on earth. Half of research all started with a and soap and food packets and them are working on brilliant and somewhat screen guard packets. 'Feluda' will test projects related to cli- eccentric geologist named BE PASSIONATE AND DON’T GLOBAL WARMING mate change Wallace Broecker, who is credited as the first person 4 GIVE UP: You may fail the first COVID -19 in mins estled in the forest behind to use the term “global time, but you got to learn some- a guard house just north change research. warming” in a scientific thing in that experience, didn’t N of the border between Here, is a sylvan 180-acre Indian scientists have developed an affordable New York and New Jersey off campus where researchers have paper — ‘Climatic Change: you? You learnt so many things and easy test for COVID-19 and have named it Route 9W is one of the world’s helped to untangle mystery after Are we on the Brink of a from your fellow contestant. This after the Indian fictional detective - Feluda - a greatest meccas for climate mystery about how our planet ac- Pronounced Global knowledge accumulates. tually works. No other geoscience Warming?’ — published in character created by Satyajit Ray lab was as influential as this dur- BE CRITICAL: Ask questions. ing the second half of the 20th 1975, a year before global 5Hone your curiosity, to a century. It is where the phrase temperatures began a point even Google will get tired! “global warming” was coined. To- steady rise that has contin- (If that is even possible). Don’t day, more than 300 researchers ued until today. and graduate students work in be shy. If you don’t know some- Broecker likened the climate this lab. thing, then ask. For more on this click here system to “an angry beast”! Eat Right: Try DIGITAL LITERACY GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP There is no doubt that technology is an Today’s society is a global society. these immunity important part of society today. From Due to technological advancements, business to personal communication, it is es- it is easy for companies to do business sential for people to have skills that help them all over the world. As a result, the lines between Who developed boosters navigate technology to be successful. Some of nations and industries are blurred. In order to be Satyajit Ray received these skills come from regular use of tech- successful in business, it is necessary for you to the test? an Honorary Oscar in nology but other skills need to be learnt dur- understand the role of globalisation in society A team led by Dr Souvik ing your school days so you are prepared for and approach your work from the perspective of Maiti and Dr Debojyoti 1992 for Lifetime the future workplace. global citizenship. Chakraborty at the Coun- Achievement. The cil of Scientific & Indus- filmmaker, writer and trial Research’s Institute EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE CURIOSITY of Genomics and Integra- illustrator brought tive Biology (CSIR-IGIB) in recognition to cinema There is often a stereotype that people Today is an age of rapid advancement and tech- New Delhi have developed who are successful must be cold and nological innovation. Because of this, the strate- this test. with his film 'Pather emotionless, focusing only on business. gies and tools used in offices are frequently chang- Panchali' and others However, emotions help make people ing. In order for you to adapt in this rapidly-chang- who they are. Rather than cutting off, ing environment, you must have a sense of cu- What’s Feluda it is important for you to be able to con- riosity and a love for learning. Most careers re- test? testing costs as it will be front and control emotions so they are quire ongoing learning so that people can keep available for Rs 500. expressed appropriately in a work up with technology advances. If you don’t em- ☛ The test is a paper-based setting.