MONDAY WISE WORDS » 06.04.2020 We cannot teach people anything; we can only NEW DELHI help them discover it within themselves. GALILEO GALILEI NEW DELHI n Vol. XCVI No. 82 n Price ₹2.50 n 2 Pages. www.hindustantimes.com/ht-school n [email protected] MILLIONS LIGHT CANDLES AND DIYAS TO SHOW NATION’S RESOLVE TO FIGHT COVID-19 Millions of people across India switched off lights at their homes and lit candles, earthen lamps or turned on mobile phone torches on Sunday night, heeding Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s appeal to PUNE show the nation’s “collective resolve and solidarity” in the fight against Covid-19 disease. As the clock struck 9, people gathered in balconies and at doors, flashing phone lights while many lit candles and diyas. Fireworks, thalis, whistles and police sirens were also heard. n Photo left: An illuminated locality in Pandav Nagar, Delhi, at 9 pm on Sunday was reminiscent of Diwali; Photo right (above): The Sane Guruji Wasahat bathed in a bright, CHANDIGARH warm glow in Pune. Photo right (Below): Children were at the forefront of the public display of solidarity with the While you enjoy Covid-19 warriors. reading the paper, RAJ K RAJ/ SANKET WANKHADE/ ANIL DAYAL/ here is the QR code to DELHI HT PHOTOS/ DELHI/ PUNE/CHANDIGARH our picture library llOFF THE SPORTS ARENA l IN THE NEWS Covid-19: Cats can infect each other DEAR READER, ‘HELPED MOM, BEIJING : A team of Chinese researchers has is coming to you in this new avatar at a Hindustan Times revealed that cats are not only suscepti- time when our normal lives and activities have been dis- ble to contracting new coronavirus but rupted by the challenge posed by the Coronavirus disease can pass it on other cats as well. 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Agriculture Sciences. n The virus can get transmitted among cats via respiratory As you engage with this special edition, we request you “We investigated the susceptibility of droplets, according to researchers in China AFP to keep sharing your views on it. Let us know what you like ferrets and animals in close contact with and what you don’t, and what else you would like to read. humans to SARS-CoV-2. We found that cats via respiratory droplets. Your feedback will help us fine-tune this offering so that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, The study comes after a cat in Belgium it better reflects exactly what you want. pigs, chickens, and ducks, but efficiently tested positive for the coronavirus last We at HT believe that the readers of today are the leaders in ferrets and cats,” said the researchers. week, after catching the coronavirus from of tomorrow. So let us begin this journey together. They found that the virus transmits in an infected owner. IANS Risk of contagion prompts astronomical In Gujarat, children observatories to suspend their work too show they care SANTIAGO : Chilean telescopes that comb the AHMEDABAD: In a heart-warming gesture, skies seeking answers about some of the children in Gujarat are emptying their universe’s most fundamental questions humble piggy banks and donating their n PV Sindhu at her home in Hyderabad. INSTAGRAM have confirmed they, too, have fallen vic- little savings to help fight the coronavirus tim to the mass disruption brought about crisis and provide relief to poor people Everyday a top athlete will talk situation was normal as the num- by the new coronavirus. Observatories affected by the ongoing lockdown. about her or his experience of bers weren’t too many. But it all dotted above the coastal city of La Serena They have enthusiastically joined the dealing with the Covid-19 pan- changed once we came back. The and in the Latin nation’s dry northern celebrities and tycoons in donating to the demic. This is PV Sindhu, the 2016 numbers increased, the situation deserts have closed for the first time since n La Silla European Southern Observatory is PM-CARES Fund and also aid in direct Rio Olympics silver medallist and became worse and I can’t remem- some opened several decades ago, citing seen at Coquimbo, Chile REUTERS FILE relief measures for the poor. the reigning world badminton ber the last time I took such a the risk of potential contagion among While a four-year-old girl from champion who is in self-quaran- long break — maybe never! international visitors and scientific staff. recent years its telescopes have contrib- Ankleshwar town in Bharuch district has tine at her home in Hyderabad. Since returning, I have only Research teams travelling to the uted images to advance theories of planet donated ₹11,200 in the PM-CARES Fund, I was in self-quarantine since been at home and in my room, observatories from their homes in nearby and galaxy formation and discovered a three boys from Ahmedabad walked into returning from the All England watching TV and Netflix and just cities and Santiago were also hampered collection of planets that could help find a police station to give away their com- Open (in March). Though the chilling. I get up late, work out a by flights cancellations and curfews.In life beyond Earth. REUTERS bined savings of ₹5,500 to feed the poor and two-week period has just ended, bit, watch TV, rest for a while, migrant workers, whose life has been we are now under a lockdown. talk to my nephew and then go upended by the lockdown. Three months ago, everybody back to watching the TV again. Four-year-old Paris Vyas won the was expecting the Tokyo Olym- I have been watching so many In Tunisia, ‘robocop’ enforces lockdown hearts of millions when she told the media pics to take place as per schedule. movies during this period that I she is donating whatever she had saved in I was fine and prepared when I don’t even remember all their TUNIS : Tunisia’s interior ministry has PGuard calls out to suspected violators of her piggy bank to fight the crisis and pro- got to know about the Olympics names. I recently watched Con- deployed a police robot to patrol the the lockdown: “What are you doing? Show vide succour to the poor. PTI being postponed. I was not sure if tagion (released in 2011) and just streets of the capital and enforce a lock- me your ID. You don’t know there’s a lock- the Olympics would happen this like in the movie, all of a sudden, down imposed last month as the country down?” Tunisia has been under night- year because every other day a everyone around the world is get- battles the spread of coronavirus. time curfew since March 17 and authori- new country was getting affected ting affected by a virus now. Known as PGuard, the ‘robocop’ is ties imposed stricter lockdown orders by the Covid-19 pandemic. If the My elder sister stays just three remotely operated and from March 22. Since March 2, 14 people situation was normal, we would buildings away but I have not equipped with infrared have died from coronavirus in the coun- have been in a different zone, seen her or my nephew — who is and thermal imaging try and 455 people tested positive. with all of us busy preparing for a year and eight months old — cameras, in addition to a The robot’s Tunisian creator Anis Sah- the Olympics and the qualifica- for more than two weeks now. I sound and light alarm bani said the machine was first produced tion tournaments. have only been seeing him on the system. In images and a in 2015 essentially to carry out security When we were in the UK, the phone. Being confined to home is soundtrack posted on patrols and it also operates autonomously (reported positive Covid-19) fine, except that you cannot do the interior ministry’s through artificial intelligence. The robot, cases were not so high but we anything which can get a bit bor- website last month, built by Sahbani’s Enova Robotics firm, were still wearing masks, sanitis- ing. I don’t do much household costs between $100,000-$140,000 and has n In towns across Gujarat, children have ing our hands and not shaking chores but I make sure I help my n A police robot patrols been selling mostly overseas to compa- joined celebrities and tycoons in hands. There, people were cover- mom in the kitchen. in Tunis AFP nies for security uses. AFP donating to the PM-CARES Fund ISTOCK ing their faces with masks but the (As told to Sandip Sikdar) HINDUSTAN TIMES, NEW DELHI 02 KALEIDOSCOPE MONDAY, APRIL 06, 2020 TENNIS QUEEN OF THE 1970s, ‘80s CHRIS EVERT: Counted among the greatest tennis players, this winner of 18 Grand Slams titles was ranked an all-time fifth best in women’s singles.