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LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI STUDENT EDITION ➤ Fourteen-year-old ➤ Educators and students ➤ Six reasons why bestselling author talks share their views on various India beat Australia TODAY’S MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 2021 issues engulfing the nation Newspaper in about her adventures 2-1 in the Test series Education EDITION in writing and the world PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 US REJOINS PARIS CLIMATE AGREEMENT; BIDEN TO CONVENE WORLD LEADERS TALK ON CLIMATE CHANGE TWO LEVELS OF ENGLISH AND SANSKRIT FROM WHY CLIMATE CHANGE SHOULD 2021-22 SESSION: CBSE WILL IT USHER IN A NEW or the academic year 2021- BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY? 22, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), RISING TEMPERATURES: The year 2020 was one of the three warmest years on F record and rivalled 2016 for the top spot, indicating the pace of the ‘human- is all set to introduce English and COMMITMENT TOWARDS induced’ climate change, which is now as powerful as the force of nature, the UN Sanskrit language papers in two levels. 1 Presently, the Board offers Maths and weather agency has said. All the five data sets surveyed by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) concur that 2011-2020 was the warmest decade on record, in a per- Hindi at two levels to reduce the stress sistent long-term climate change trend. The warmest-six years have all been since 2015, levels of students. In addition, with 2016, 2019 and 2020, being the top three beginning next academic year, the Board will introduce improvement CLIMATE CHANGE? THE ARCTIC IS MELTING FASTER THAN THE REST OF he Biden administration hours of remarks from the world lead- THE WORLD: According to environmentalists, the Arctic tests as part of NEP’s is planning to host the ers. However,they only offered incre- sea ice is melting at an alarming rate, especially during the implementation of the national world leaders in a climate mental steps to combat climate change. 2 education policy. summit on the Earth Day, The US-organised event, which could boreal or the northern hemisphere summer. The trend, which according to people fa- be announced next week as part of a started in the 1980s, is continuing to increase at an alarming rate. Tmiliar with the matter— a sign of the package of climate-related policies, is The temperatures in the Arctic have warmed twice as fast as the new President’s commitment to not likely to focus on major world emit- global average. Scientists have warned that it is likely that the just rejoin the Paris carbon-cutting ac- ters of greenhouse gases. Biden has cord but also strengthen it. The US- made climate change one of his Arctic summer sea ice could disappear as early as 2035 hosted meeting on April 22 could be main priorities, and has set a goal virtual, one of the people said, simi- of achieving a zero-emission ener- CO2 LEVELS CONTINUE TO RISE: According to the lar to a United Nation’s climate sum- gy grid by 2035, and carbon net- WMO, despite lockdown-related fall in Competency-based questions mit in December, which featured six neutrality by 2050. emissions, the global greenhouse emis- 3 have already been included in sions increased in 2020. In May 2020, The Paris Agreement, a legally-binding interna- the Co2 levels hit 417ppm, the Board exams for classes tional treaty on climate change, adopted in 2015, highest in human history X and XII. The Board has aims at limiting global warming to well below 2, decided to increase the num- preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to LOSS OF FORESTS: Since ber of questions by 10 per the pre-industrial levels. India is one of the few 1990, the world has lost 178 million cent every year countries, which is on track to meet the 2009 goal of 4 hectares of forest. In 2020, the limiting the global average temperature increase to not deforestation of the Amazon rainforest more than 2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level surged to a 12-year high Photo: Getty images Ladakh to make debut in Republic Day parade DISCOVERED Social influence may induce people on Rajpath The researchers found that people to follow Covid rules didn’t simply follow the rules, if they eople are more likely to follow Covid-19 restric- felt vulnerable or were personally con- tions based on what their friends do, rather than 1 vinced. Most-diligent followers of the guide- their own principles, a new study suggests.The lines were those whose friends and family P findings indicated that the best predictor of also followed the rules. Close circle’s compli- people’s compliance to the rules was how much their close ance had an even stronger effect than peo- circle complied with the rules, which had an even stronger ple’s own approval of the rules, the effect than people’s own approval of the rules. here is a palpable excitement researchers said among the members of the Ladakh This discovery applied to all T contingent for the Republic Day the age groups, genders, Parade, as the young union territory is all 2 countries, and was independ- set to make its debut in the extravaganza A NEW SPECIES ent of the severity of the pandemic on Rajpath with a beautiful tableau, Bats play critical ecological roles in West The study also revealed depicting the iconic Thikse monastery and OF ORANGE AND Africa, dispersing seeds, pollinating that people, who were par- its cultural heritage. The tableau promi- BLACK BAT plants and keeping insect species in 3 ticularly-bonded to their nently depicts the historic Thikse check. Yet, they are persecuted through- country were more likely to monastery located on the top of a hill in new species of orange and stick to the lockdown rules — the black bat from the Nimba out the region because of superstitions, Thikse in Leh district, and is one of the mountains in West Africa and these ideas have been compounded country was like a family, most-visited tourist sites in the region. A has been discovered by sci- by the animals’ association, with Ebola someone for whom, one is entists from the American Museum willing to stick their neck out ➤ The Union Territory of Ladakh was of Natural History in New York. The and other diseases, say experts. Like finding of the orange bat was de- many other species, they are also The findings also created in 2019, after the central scribed as striking, as the species is threatened by habitat loss suggested that government bifurcated the state of believed to be critically-endangered. 4 including experts Jammu and Kashmir into UTs in human and social behaviour is ENTERTAINMENT crucial when planning the next stages of ➤ A total of 17 states and UTs will be ‘MONSTER HUNTER’ TO HAVE 3D the pandemic response, such as how to represented on the Rajpath in this RELEASE ON FEBRUARY 5 ensure that people comply with extended year’s parade through their vibrant lockdowns or vaccination tableaux, besides that of various min- he Milla Jovovich and Tony Ja-starrer action-adventure ‘Monster Hunter’ will have recommendations istries and the three Armed Forces. a big screen release on February 5. The film T will be the first 3D release, post the reopen- ing of cinemas in India, in the aftermath of the lock- CLUES TOUCH ID COULD RETURN WITH down closure. VIEWPOINT ➤ The technology will use artificial IPHONE 13 ➤ The fantasy- action film is based on the immensely- intelligence (AI) to read the facial f reports are to go by,Apple phones without having to remove popular role-playing video game series of the same name expressions of women could be bringing back its their masks. Rather than being a ➤ The film tells the story of two heroes, who come ➤ touch ID technology in its replacement for face ID, the touch The new project is being helmed 2021 iPhone, in the form of ID would be an additional method from different worlds to defeat a common danger — under the ‘Mission Shakti’ programme I an on-screen fingerprint reader of unlocking the iPhone, accord- the powerful, deadly and magnificent monsters that images Getty Photo: that was launched in October 2020. It to help users unlock their smart- ing to the report. inhabit the land is projected to help reduce cases of ➤ The Sony Pictures Entertainment film will be harassment of women, who are sub- ➤ released in Hindi, English, Tamil, and Telugu The report, by Bloomberg, indicates that changes to this year’s jected to stalking and threat in the city iPhone will be minor ➤ The facial recognition technology is ➤However, one of the biggest changes is expected to be the addi- NEWS IN CLUE 1: He also served as the minister of state for touted to alert the nearest police sta- tion of an on-screen fingerprint reader, which would be offered external affairs (2009-10) and HRD minister (2012-14) tion even before the victims dial the alongside the current face ID and passcode options CLUES in the UPA government police helpline. It will activate the ➤According to Bloomberg, instead of reintroducing a CLUE 2: In 2006, he lost to South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon cameras upon detecting facial expres- home button, the touch ID technology would be embedded within for the UN secretary general post sions of women, and trigger the sys- the new iPhone screen Which Indian CLUE 3: He was India’s most-followed politician on Twitter, tem to notify the police politician until he was overtaken by PM Narendra Modi in 2013 FACIAL RECOGNITION TECH authored the DEPLOYED IN UP TO HELP Is it a good move? Apple first ANSWER: SHASHI THAROOR.