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CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 FACTOID 24 That’s the rank of India in global mobile internet speeds, out of 138 countries in 131: global mobile internet speed ranking, according to Ookla Speedtest Global Index. South Korea CHILDREN NOMINATEDED topped the list with an average mobile internet speed of 121.00 Mbps. FOR INTERNATIONALL HOW MUCH MOBILE INTERNET DATA DO YOU ACTUALLY NEED DAILY? While unlimited data is CHILDREN'S PEACE PRIZE highly-welcome, you may not need so much, especial- ly, if you are relying on Dussehra is the festival of victory Twenty-four THE AWARD of truth over untruth. But at the Five girls associated with child rights organisation Save the Children in your home WiFi for online young India are among those who have been shortlisted. Poonam Nikam, 13, ➤ The prestigious classes, gaming and watch- same, it is also a festival of vic- changemakers 1 has been nominated for her work with adolescents on issues related to prize is annually ing videos tory of patience over crises. puberty, menstrual hygiene management and for advocating WASH — awarded to a child, Today, all of you are living with from India have water, sanitation and hygiene practices HERE IS HOW MUCH MOBILE INTERNET DATA IS great restraint, celebrating festi- who has made a spe- CONSUMED ON AN AVERAGE ON AN HOURLY BASIS been nominated Jashoda, 15, from Ashapura, a remote village in Osian, Rajasthan has made it cial effort to pro- vals with modesty. Therefore, in for the prestigious to the list for her work to end violence against women and girls. She recently mote children's ACTIVITY DATA CONSUMPTION the battle, we are fighting stopped four child marriages; guided 10 girls for higher education (against Covid-19), victory is cer- International 2 rights and better the Playing Call of Duty Mobile for an hour 35MB tain. When we think of festivals, Vasundhara from Darda Turki village in Tonk, Rajasthan, is nominated for her situation of vulnera- Children’s Peace Watching YouTube videos at 360p shopping comes to our mind. This work to end child marriage, and on sexual and reproductive health and rights ble children Prize 2020. They among girls. She leads the ‘Chuppi Todo' menstrual hygiene campaign in her resolution for an hour 280MB time, amid the enthusiasm of fes- 3 ➤ are among the 142 village Last year, the Watching YouTube videos at 720p tival, when you go shopping prize was awarded nominees from 42 Nausheen from Bihar has been chosen for being a strong voice against child resolution for an hour 600MB make sure to remember your marriage and other gender stereotypes. The 15-year-old, who has seen girls to Greta Thunberg Watching Facebook videos for an hour 300MB resolve of 'vocal for local.' When countries, who and women face socially-inbuilt inequality, conducts sessions on life skills, from Sweden and purchasing goods from market 4 Watching a movie on low resolution and encourages adolescent girls in her village to raise their voice against Divina Maloum from give priority to local products. qualified for the on Netflix (1.35 hours) 650MB coveted award... gender-based social evils Cameroon NARENDRA MODI, PM, Google Chrome (2 hours) up to 150MB Mann ki Baat

NEWS CLICK IPL 2020 FACEBOOK TESTING DAILY MOUTHWASH MAY HERE FOR CLASSES ON STREETS: IN BRIEF MORE 'NEIGHBORHOODS' FEATURE INACTIVATE HUMAN ITALIAN STUDENTS ATTEND SAM CURRAN, IMRAN TO TAKE ON NEXTDOOR CORONAVIRUSES: STUDY LESSONS FROM BALCONIES, TAHIR BREAK ALL-TIME CORONA UPDATE RECORD OF HIGHEST TECH BUZZ ON PUBLIC STEPS 9TH-WICKET STAND IN IPL HISTORY Teachers in Italy have taken classes to streets, CSK’s Sam Curran and Imran Tahir etched their names on the record with students attending books as they broke the all-time from their balconies and on record of the highest ninth-wicket acebook is testing a feature called public steps amid the partnership in IPL. The duo shared Neighborhoods that connects people coronavirus pandemic. a 43- run ninth-wicket partnership F and businesses in a locality in a sim- ilar way that community-focused social Local authorities have against MI on Friday. network Nextdoor does. The new Facebook closed most schools until feature, which is currently in limited test- The previous record was the end of October due to a ing phase, allows users to display local posts, held by MS Dhoni and groups and marketplace items. rise in cases of coronavirus n a fight against the novel coronavirus, sci- Ravichandran in recent weeks ➤The Facebook Neighborhoods feature entists have found that certain oral antisep- Ashwin, who Itics and mouthwashes may have the ability shared a 41- allows users to select a locality, permit to inactivate human coronaviruses.The results the social network to use their location to indicate that some of these products might be run stand for display posts, marketplace items from useful for reducing the amount of virus in the CSK against mouth after the infection and may help to reduce MI in 2013 others in the neighbourhood the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that ➤If the feature rolls out widely, San causes Covid-19. Francisco-based Nextdoor, may have to ➤ The researchers found that several of deal with some serious competition the nasal and oral rinses had a strong ➤Founded in 2011, the privately-held ability to neutralise human coronavirus, Nextdoor is backed by prominent which suggests that these products may investors, including Benchmark, Shasta have the potential to reduce the amount Ventures, Greylock Partners, Kleiner of virus spread by people, who are Perkins, Riverwood Capital, Bond, Axel Covid-19-positive Springer, Comcast Ventures and others

Photo: ANI ELLI AVRRAM TO CREATE MENTAL NEWS IN HEALTH AWARENESS WITH A mask that translates: Start-up Donut Robotics SWEDISH SHORT FILM are going from Japan has created a face covering that helps wedish-Greek actress Elli AvrRam will flaunt CLUES FACE MASKS users adhere to social distancing, and also acts as her acting skills in a Swedish short film ti- 1 a translator. The "C-Face" mask works by transmitting a S tled 'With You'. "I had been waiting for an opportunity to do a Swedish project for sometime. HIGH-TECH! From monitoring wearer's speech to a smartphone via an app, and allows 'With You' is based on a very This social media people to have a conversation, while keeping up to 10 strong socially- relevant topic metres- apart. The lightweight silicon device is an advan- of mental health awareness network was nearly and childhood trauma. It has called ‘Friendstalker’ vital signs to translating words tage for doctors , who want to communicate with patients been FOR A CAUSE from a distance. It can translate speech from Japanese an CLUE 1: An Indian-American Parag into English, Korean and other languages enriching but an emotion- rom monitoring vital Agrawal is its current chief technology ally exhausting experi- signs to filtering filthy Singapore’s mask, aimed at protecting medics officer (CTO). ence. The short film is in- air and even translating treating Covid-19 patients, has sensors that moni- tense and sends out a very CLUE 2: Founded in March 2006, it was speech into other lan- strong message for the au- only in February 2018 that it reported F tor body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure guages, the coronavirus-fuelled 2 dience," she shared. and blood oxygen levels, and relays data to a smartphone its first profitable quarter ever. boom in mask-wearing has via a Bluetooth transmitter Elli was recently CLUE 3: It has been described as 'the spawned an unusual range of seen in Mohit Suri's SMS of the Internet'. high-tech face coverings. As For those seeking to combat the effects of pol- 'Malang'. Apart from masks become the norm world- TWITTER. The Centre has shot off a letter lution in smog-choked cities, South Korea's LG Bollywood, she was wide, tech companies and re- Electronics has developed an air purifier mask. to the microblogging site’s CEO, Jack Dorsey, searchers are rolling out weird 3 also seen in the expressing "disappointment and displeas- The futuristic white device, which fits snugly around Tamil film, 'Paris and wonderful models to both ure" over the wrong representation of Leh in the wearer's mouth, nose and chin, is equipped with CLUES Paris' and the guard against infection and cash its maps. Twitter had shown the geo-location in on a growing trend. two filters on either side and fans to aid airflow Kannada release of Leh “ in J&K, People’s Republic of China” 'Butterfly' “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” READ. PLAY. LEARN RALPH WALDO EMERSON, POET 02 MONDAY OCTOBER 26, 2020 The People of The Forests WHAT To drive them extinct, to rid a CAN YOU DO? species of a chance to grow seems brutally cruel to me. The question What Indonesia Has Done: The Indonesian government claims that they stand against is, is it cruel enough to make you plantations that burn down forests, but deep pockets ensure that little is actually done. In fact, they even want to take a stand? plan to build a road through large parts of the forest, opening up interior regions to illegal poaching. As consumers and citizens, what we CAN do is - Being Aware. literally meaning ‘person/people of the forest’. Please avoid But why attribute them to palm oils, or only buy pine oils ‘person’. Why not just that are certified and sustainable. It ‘forest monkey’ or takes only 5 minutes to find out. ‘forest ape’? Orangutans have 48 chromosomes, as opposed to human’s 46. They are very cog- Aditya Kaushal nitive beings, in some fields like Batch of 2020, Ekya Schools, pattern recognition, their intelligence rivals that of humans! Orangutans are Bengaluru able to stand up on two legs, and He has a keen interest in environ- have a flexible pelvis, a thick neck mental science, astronomy and STEM. and bowed legs. The most strik- Stop, Look at/Take , Share ing feature though, is that they food/Share object, together, go. Aims to raise awareness about cli- have a short opposable THUMB. mate change and studying towards To get a sense of why this is im- The sad story building a more sustainable future portant, try lifting a glass of water without using your Yet we, modern industralised peo- thumb (no, you cannot use ple, destroy the very home of these Fact check your palms). ‘people of the forest’. Mass scale Further, we can use our deforestation by industries and reach. While government protocols are proving to The Sumatran Orangutan is one of the illegal poaching have decimat- three species of orangutans. Found Thumbs up! ed their numbers. Paper and wood be ineffective, the power of private conservation organisa- exclusively in the Indonesian island of The presence of a thumb industries have cut down over 35% tions is effective. You can donate, or better yet, volunteer with Sumatra, they are rarest species of the allows them to have much of the forest, tearing down the homes organisations like World Wildlife Org to find out what can you do. three. Their name ‘orangutan’ comes better grip of branches and trees of these Sumatran Orangutans. Alternatively, if any of you do have relatives In Indonesia, or plan from two separate local words – among which they live. This evo- This is compounded by the fact that oil “orang” meaning ‘people or person’ lution is likely because of a need industries further burn down the re- to visit after the pandemic, please take some time to promote and “hutan” meaning ‘forest’. Thus, to stay among the trees, to avoid maining portion of the forest for palm oil eco-tourism, visit the forest tribes near these forests. The predators like the Sumatran Tigers and resins. Deliberately set for- more you support them, show them that you care, the more that lurked the forest floors. One slip, est fires are becoming com- and they’d become dinner. Today of mon to clear land for plan- the natives are inspired to make a difference. course, that is hardly a threat to them, tations, not only destroy- humans have now reduced the Sumatran one common species, and the orangutan ing the orangutans homes, Imagine if we too were tiger population too, to critically en- is perhaps our evolutionarily but burning infant orang- driven to extinction some 1 million years dangered. distant cousin. utans to death as well. What’s interesting is that it is What’s more, Sumatran Orangutans NESTLE among ago, just on the cusp of our evolution – widely agreed that early human have learnt to make and use tools, and many notable com- none of the amazing things humans have subspecies too evolved along the some sub-species are said to have already panies like SINAR done would ever occur. A bit of a reach, same lines. Mainly tree living entered their Stone Age – a period MAS, are also re- (and so developing humans entered not 2.6 million years ago! sponsible for this yes, but who knows where evolution will thumbs) and then Sumatran orangutans have also deforestation and take these primates in the next era. Who moving down to developed gestures to communicate, only in 2020 were knows how they could transform the planet land. It’s also long about 64 known so far, and we’ve even they halted by a in vital and unimaginable ways known that the hu- translated SIX of these ‘words’ – Play, PR storm. mans and apes separated from CLICK HERE TO READ THIS ARTICLE ONLINE

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