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WRESTLER RAVI DAHIYA SETTLES FOR SILVER AFTER LOSING Podium finish after 9-goal FINAL TO WORLD thriller ends 41 yr-medal wait! CHAMPION UGUEV resolute Indian men's hockey team avi Dahiya on rewrote history, as it claimed an I don't know what to say right now, it was fan- Thursday  is the only other Indian Olympic medal after 41 years, defeat- tastic. The effort, the game, we were 3-1 down. I R became only the wrestler to have made it to the final at A ing a plucky Germany 5-4 to win the think we deserve this medal. We have worked so second Indian wrestler to Olympics He had won a silver at the 2012 bronze in an edge-of-the-seat play-off match of win a silver medal at the London Games, where also the ongoing Games on Thursday. Determined Congratulations hard, the last 15 months were difficult for Olympic Games after he lost the won a bronze. Sushil had won a bronze at to clinch a medal, the Indians made one of us also, we were in Bangalore and some men's freestyle 57kg title clash 4- the 2008 Beijing Games  India now have the most-memorable comebacks in the his- TEAM of us got Covid also. We would like 7 to reigning world champion five Olympic medal winning wrestlers tory of the game, fighting back from a two- INDIA!!!! to dedicate this medal to doctors Zavur Uguev. There were expecta-  KD Jadhav had won a bronze in the 1952 goal deficit to turn the match in their favour. and frontline health workers tions that the 23-year Dahiya Helsinki Games. had become would become India's youngest the first woman wrestler to win an Olympic It is India's third hockey bronze medal in the who have saved so many lives in India Olympic champion but the history of the Olympics. The other two came in medal when she clinched a bronze at the MANPREET SINGH, SKIPPER Russian defended well to win 2016 Rio Olympic Games 1968 Mexico City and the 1972 Munich Games comfortably. BRAINLESS 'BLOB' IS With $1.7 bn, Rihanna is the Feel the tremor? India’s IN OTHER NEWS GOING TO SPACE richest woman in music 1st quake early warning single-celled yel- TRAVEL: UK TO MOVE INDIA low slime called op star Rihanna, with a net MUSIC system launched A 'Blob' is set to worth estimated at $1.7 billion, FROM RED TO AMBER LIST blast off to the International P has become the richest woman musician in the Space Station (ISS) where SPACE world, Forbes magazine said. The Barbados-born astronauts will study how it singer, whose birth name is Robyn Fenty, derives an learns and adapts despite estimated $1.4 billion of her fortune from her 50% stake in the Fenty Beauty cosmetics line, Forbes being brainless. One of the The mold, or Physarum pol- reported. studies will see how Blob cephalum, has become highly- behaves in a microgravity interesting to the scientific com- The singer of 'Umbrella' and environment without food munity due to its ability to think, 'Love the Way You Lie' ranks sec- and the other with which it make decisions, sleep, learn and ond behind Oprah as the richest will be given oat flakes. even navigate a maze female entertainer, Forbes said he UK government has announced that it will move India from the red to the amber list, in the ndia’s first earthquake early warning system that will T country's latest update to the 'Red-Amber-Green' give people a head start of 10 seconds in the event of traffic light ratings for arrivals into England, amid the a temblor went online from Wednesday in I Oldest example of applied Covid-19 pandemic. This means that the visit visas for the Uttarakhand, giving people just enough time to get out of UK from India are open, in addition to other long-term visas buildings and into open spaces when an earthquake strikes. that have remained open.

 The Uttarakhand Bhookamp Alert app, which will be DISCOVERED GEOMETRY India’s first and on the lines of such earthquake early FILM FESTIVAL TO SHOWCASE warning systems in place in , Mexico and the US, 3,700- year-old clay tablet featuring PRE-INDEPENDENCE SCIENCE will collect and collate seismic data from 200 sensors maths attributed to Pythagoras 1,000 across the Main Central Thrust zone (a major geological years later has been discovered. Known as watantrata Ka fault in the Himalayas), which will be sent to a control A Si.427, it was discovered in the late 19th Amrit Mahotsav unit at IIT-Roorkee, if the quake is of 5.5 magnitude or Century in central Iraq, but its significance had S Ka Vigyaan more remained unknown until it was analysed in more detail Filmostav, a science film  This will then be disseminated as a warning for an by mathematicians from the University of New South festival to highlight the impending quake via mobile phones, with a 10-second Wales in Sydney, Australia. role of Indian scientists, buffer. The app will notify people of the magnitude and ori- science communicators gin of the quake, while counting down how much time one The tablet, which to make accurate right and teachers in the Indian has. Once that time is up, an “I need help” red button and 1 dates from the Old angles, but 1,000 years Independence movement an “I am safe” green button will be displayed. Based on Babylonian period( 1900 before Pythagoras was alive. A Pythagorean triple is three positive will be held between that, first responders can plan rescue operations to 1600 BC), includes The discovery and numbers: a, b and c. Triples are commonly- August 13 and 15 to mark maths that was used by 3 analysis of the tablet written as (a,b,c) and a common example is India's 75th year of Uttarakhand falls in the category IV and catego- surveyors to define land have important implica- 3,4,5. It is derived from Pythagorean theo- Independence. This film ry V seismic zones, which are considered the boundaries tions for the history of festival, organised by Researchers believe it mathematics, putting rem, where every right triangle has side most active. In fact, of the nearly 59% of Vigyan Prasar, is part of the year-long festivities that would is a 'significant object', geometry centuries earlier lengths that satisfy a2 + b2 = c2 be dedicated to those scientists, science communicators India’s landmass that is prone to earthquakes, 2 as it includes an example of than first thought, Other triples include (5,12,13), (7,24,25) and and teachers who struggled and sacrificed their personal close to 29% falls in the category IV and V what is now known as reasearchers added. (8,15,17) gains and careers against the tyranny of the British during seismic zones 'Pythagorean triples', used the Indian Independence movement. It’s not just a place where you get to learn Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. It’s also a place where you can think beyond the classroom. SCHOOL IS COOL Hence we say, SCHOOL IS COOL! 02 FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2021

Shining stars of CBSE class XII

Faith academy second shift, Gyan Bharati School, Saket Jaspal Kaur Public School, Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Manav Rachna International Tejas Mendiratta 96% (C) Prasad Nagar Sanyam Pasricha 98.4% (S) Shalimar Bagh (Sr) Ashok Vihar School, Sector 46, Gurgaon Gunnika Mehra 96% (C) 97.80% (C) Shivika Gupta 99% (C) Sabreen kaur 98% (S) Ashna Mittal 98.60% (S) Tushar Joshi 96.4% (S) Jasmine Kaur 96% (C) Vishakha Jatoliya 95.60% (H) Preksha Nagar 97.4% (H) Prabhleen Kaur 98% (C) Divya Jain 98.80% (C) Karanveer Singh Kalsi 96.4% (S) Kshitij Gupta 96% (C) Vrinda Mittal 98.60% (H) Akshit Gupta 96.4% (S) Gauri S Nambissan 96% (C) Faridabad Model School, Faridabad Gyan Devi Public School, Senior K R Mangalam World School, Misha Kalra 97.4% (C) Vidyashree Mahadevan 96% (H) Simran 95.6% (S) Secondary Gurgaon Gurugram KV, Sec22 sector-3, Rohini Sharnya Garg 93% (H) Stuti Sandhu 96% (H) Moksha Jadon 90% (C) Himanshi Yadav 95% (H) S Karun Vikhash 98% (S) Divya Verma and Shruti 85.80% (C) Payal chaudhary 96.6% (H) Asmita Jain 98.4% (C) Tripti Pandey 92.80% (H) Manav Rachna International Mount St. Mary's School, Gyan Devi Senior Secondary Saanvi Bakshi 99.2% (H) School, Sec14, Faridabad Delhi Cant Father Agnel School, Gautam Nagar School, Sector 10, Gurugram Lal Bahadur Shastri School, Akhil Sehgal 97.4% (S) Anoushka Marwah 97.6% (S) Utkarsh Jha 99.80% (S) Sachin Kumar 95.6 (S) KV, AGCR Colony East Delhi RK Puram Ishita Bindra 99.4% (C) Kisha Jain 98.6% (C) Agrim Goel 97.60% (C) Hritik Yadav 93.8 (C) Anushriya Roy 97.60% (S) Kirti Sansanwal 97.80% (S) Palak Bakshi 97.8% (H) Durgesh Jha 99% (H) Ananmay Dhaka 97.80% (C) Mugdha Choudhary 95.40% (C) N K Bagrodia school, Gyandeep Sr. Sec School, Gurgaon Deepanshu Rawat 99.00% (H) Arushita Singh 95.80% (H) Manav Sthali School, sec-4 Dwarka G D Goenka Public School, Kashish Tiwari and Shivangi 96.4% (S) New Rajendra Nagar Kalpana Kumar 98.4% (S) Vasant Kunj New Delhi Deepti 96.2% (C) KV, Jharoda Kalan CRPF, Lancer's Convent, Prashant Priyanshu Gupta 98.8% (S) Sanya Grover 99% (C) Aryan Agarwal 97.6% (S) Khushi Badaik 93.8% (H) Jh.Kalan, N.D Vihar, Rohini Vidushi sinha 98% (H) Sparsh Goyal 98.4% (C) Sudhanshu Malik 95.6% (S) Anjali 97.60% (S) Eish Nangia 99% (C) Vani Chandolia 98.4% (H) Hamdard Public School, Deepa Vats 98.8% (C) Palak Bansal 99% (C) Vanshika Chaudhary 97% (H) Sangam Vihar Neha Chikkara 95.8% (H) Sitara Sigi 98% (H) Vani Jain 97% (H) N K Bagrodia Public School, G D Goenka Public School, Kulsum Azad 98.2% (S) Suhani Jain 97% (H) Rohini Rajnagar Extension, Ghaziabad Manvi Garg 97.8% (C) Kala Niketan International Lilawati Vidya Mandir, Shakti nagar Siddh Jain 99.60% (S) Kumari Kanishka 97% (S) Zainab Qazi 97.6% (H) school, Ghazipur, Delhi Suhana 96.40% (S) Mata Jai Kaur Public School, Drishti Jain 99.80% (C) Ishaan Gupta 98.20% (C) Bhoomi khandelwal 93.80% (S) Sania Gupta 97.80% (C) Ashok Vihar Mansha Jain 98.80% (H) Khushi Tyagi 97.60% (H) Happy Model School, Janakpuri Rishvi Jain 92.40% (C) S.M.Moulya 91.60% (H) Prajakta Tiwari 96.60% (S) Priyanshu Sharma 95.6% (S) Anushka Sharma 91.40% (H) Siddhant Arora 96.60% (C) National Victor Public School, G D Goenka Public School, Dhruv Gupta 96.80% (C) Lions Public School, Ashok Vihar Rabnoor Singh Jolly 96.60% (C) Patparganj, East Delhi Indirapuram Simardeep Kaur 95% (H) Kalka Public School, Alaknanda Deepali 96% (S) Khushi Solenki 97.40% (H) Ria Gupta 97% (S) Aravinda Venkatesan 97.75% (S) Shashank Dubey and Farneet Singh Sukhleen Kaur 95% (C) Harshit Malhotra 96% (C) Lavyansh Gaur 96.50% (C) Heera public school, Samalkha, Delhi 94.9% (S) Rinku Singhal 95% (C) Mater Dei School, Tilak Lane Dakshta Gautam 96% (C) Chhavi Arora 90% (H) Anamika 95.4% (S) Palak 95.4% (C) Anjali Pandey 95% (H) Vanshikha Jain 97.60% (S) Riya Vishnoi 96% (C) Khushi Yadav 96.6% (C) Sheweta Sethi 88.8% (H) Sanjana Verma 95% (H) Khushboo Sadhwani 98.40% (C) Mridul Garg 96% (C) GBN School, Sec21, Faridabad Rashi 96.2% (H) Jasleen Bedi 99.20% (H) Divyanshi Khandelwal 95.75% (H) Amisha Kohli 97.2% (S) Nysha Ranjan 97.2% (C) Hermann Gmeiner School, Faridabad Maxfort School, Dwarka Navyug School, Moti Bagh Ishika Panchal 93% (H) Purva Sharma 96.2% (S) Pathik Shah 98% (S) Sneha Joshi 94.6% (S) Ananya Malviya 92% (C) Navya Jindal 97.8% (C) Rhythm Gupta 92.6% (C) GD Goenka School, Gurgaon Mayank Bhadana 92% (H) Udhai Rawat 98.2% (H) Soumya Pal 91% (H) Anushka Jain 96.8% (S) Sahil Anjana 95.8% (C) Himalaya Public sr. Sec. School, Maxfort School, Rohini, Delhi New Era Public School, Dwarka Ayush Chauhan 96.4% (H) North West Aishvi Guleria 96% (S) Apoorv Jaiswal 93.2% (S) Shubham Hazra 95.60% (S) Ridhima Ahuja 96.40% (C) Tanish Jain 94.2% (C) Gitarattan Jindal Public School, Geetika Kukreja 97.20% (C) Aprajita 97.00% (H) Bhumika Puri 94.4% (H) D Block Sector 7, Rohini Piyush Sharma 95.60% (H) Mehar 97.00% (H) Dipen Kalsi 96.6% (S) Aishwarya Sareen 95.60% (H) New Era School, Ghaziabad Vanshika Gupta 97.4% (C) Dhruv 95.60% (H) Mayur public school, IP Extension Aditya Roysha 97.50% (S) Rakshit Jain 95.4% (H) Holy cross school, Najafgarh Vansh padhi 98.4% (S) Vansh Garg 96.75% (C) Goodley Public School, Kshitez Pratap Singh 94.8% (S) Manav singh Chauhan and Shriya Jha Nisha Kumari 95% (H) Shalimar Bagh Dev Priya Kaushik 97.2% (C) 97.8% (C) Naman Arora 97.60% (S) Tanya Bisht 94.8% (H) New Greenfields School, Vedika Mehra 98% (C) MCL saraswati Bal Mandir, Alaknanda Krishika 96.80% (H) Holychild Public School, Faridabad Hari Nagar Harsh Vardhan 96.8% (S) Gracy Kushwaha & Gehna Ratra 97% (S) Anjali Nayak 96.4% (S) Kanika Choudhary 96.6% (C) Green fields School, Kritika Bawa 97.4% (C) Kendriya Vidyala, Keshav Puram Lotus Valley International Aryan Narula 96.4% (C) Ranu Bhiduri 96.8% (H) Safdarjung Enclave Amisha Gusain 97.80% (S) School, Sector 50, Gurugram Rahul Pabbi 95.60% (H) Mohit Bansal 98% (S) Homerton Grammar School, Muskan Goel 98.60% (C) Niharika Rajput 97.6% (S) New Greenfields School, Saket Ishika Goyal 98% (C) Faridabad Jyoti Kumari 95.20% (H) Alaina Rara 98.4% (C) Modern convent school, Dwarka Aastha Tomar 97.8% (S) Ananya Sharma 98% (H) Vinit Goyal 95.4% (S) Ishani Mukherjee 97.4% (H) Harsh jha 98.6% (S) Bhavya Verma 96.4% (C) Chirag Makkar 96% (C) Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sadiq Nagar Mudit tanwar 99% (C) Navya Kumar 98.6% (H) Greenwood Public School, Mansi 95.6% (H) Pranjal Vats 96.6% (S) Lt. Col Mehar Little Angels Sr. Ananya Dubey 98.8% (H) Gurgaon Pratham Sode 94.8% (C) Sec. School, Paschim Vihar New Horizon School, Nizamuddin Simran Mehlawa 97% (S) Hope Hall Foundation School, Aishwarya R 97.8% (H) Karan Bisht 96% (S) Modern Era Convent, Janakpuri Ayan Ullah Khan 95.75% (S) Yashika 96.4% (C) Sec 7, RK Puram Prateek 96.40% (C) Aarti Arora 96.6% (S) Mohd Fauz 92% (C) Sachita 95.8% (H) Om Shivam Verma 96.6% (S) Kendriya Vidyalaya, Janakpuri Dhruv Setia 97.8% (C) Eram Shakeel 95.75% (H) Kanishka Navin 94.8% (H) Shatakshi Tiwari 95.8% (S) M R Vivekananda Model School, Gregorios School, Sec11, Dwarka Isha Malik 95.8% (C) Mukhram Park, New Delhi Modern Public School, North Delhi Public School, Diksha Kapoor 97.2% (S) Ideal Public School, Shiv Durga Uma Dubey 95.8% (H) Archit jain 94.8% (C) Shalimar Bagh Shalimar Bagh Saadhvi Sikka 96.4% (C) Vihar, Lakkarpur, Faridabad Kirti Chopra 98.60% (S) Kartikay Aggarwal 97.25% (S) Dhriti Adlakha 96.4% (H) Anjali Sharma 91% (S) Kendriya Vidyalaya, BSF Camp M.D.H. International School, Dwarka Radhika Singhania 98.80% (C) Himanshi Saxena 98% (C) Ashish Kumar 87.2% (C) Chhawla Lakshay Mehra 97% (S) Himani Khullar 98.80% (H) Guru Harkrishan Public School, Brij Bhusan 93% (H) Arjun Bhardwaj 95.4% (S) Lisupriya Baral 97% (S) North Ex Public School, Tilak nagar Surbhi Bhandari 95.4% (S) Pawan Kumar Sai 97% (C) Montfort School, Ashok Vihar Sec 38 Rohini Jaismeet Kaur 91.8% (S) Indira Ideal School, Janakpuri Swati kumari 95.4% (S) Ashman Mehra 98.80% (S) Chetan Pal 92.40% (S) Gurleen Kaur 92.4% (C) Vibhor Mishra 97.6% (S) Yogesh chahar 88% (C) M.R Vivekananda Model School, Ragini Gambhir 98.60% (C) Aayushi Jain 95.60% (C) Sachin 92.6% (H) Raj Rajeshwari 95.6% (C) Harshita Maurya 95.6% (H) Dwarka Priya 95.40% (H) Diksha Mishra 96% (S) Guru Harkrishan Public School, Indirapuram Public School, Kendriya Vidyalaya, Shalimar Bagh Danish Behl 96% (S) Mother Divine Public School, Punjabi Bagh Indirapuram Ayush Dubey and Shubham Bisht Vaibhav Kumar Jha 97.2% (C) sector-3, Rohini OPG World School, Dwarka, Delhi Mansimar Singh 94.40% (S) Aditya Choudhary 97.60% (S) 96% (S) Anushka Arora 93.2% (H) Ronit Goel 96.20% (S) Arnav Singh 97.6% (S) Gazal Anand 94.20% (C) Cheruvu Vishnu Priya 98.40% (C) Rajni G.K 97% (C) Anisha Goyal 97.40% (C) Diya Gupta 98.6% (C) Gagandeep Kaur 94.20% (H) Nandini Bhardwaj 99.20% (H) Jyoti Thakur 99% (H) Maharaja Agarsain Public School, Nivedita 96% (H) Anhat Paul Singh 96.4% (H) Vasundhara, Ghaziabad Guru Nanak Public School, J M International School, Dwarka Kendriya Vidyalaya, Sec 8 Rohini Anushka Rai 97.40% (S) Mount Abu Public School, Oxford Public School, Pushpanjali Enclave, Pitam Pura Aarvindaksh 96.6% (S) Akshat Malhotra 97.80% (S) Sarthak Agarwal 96.40% (C) Sec-18, Rohini Nehru Nagar Jassal 94.6% (S) Vanshaj Vidyan 96.6% (S) Sakshi Narain 96% (C) Shruti Chauhan 96.40% (H) Satyam 92% (S) Naveen Kumar Jha 95.4% (S) Piyush Yadav 96% (C) Shruti Anand 97.8% (C) Priyanka Kumari and Sanjana Kumari Harsh Bansal 79% (C) Taiyaba Mustaque 92% (C) Mandeep Kaur Puri 98.8% (H) Sneha Sehrawat 97.8% (H) 95.60% (H) Maharaja Agarsain Public School, Gungun 78% (H) Maheen Khan Lodhi 96.6% (H) Ashok Vihar Guru Nanak Public School, Jain Bharati Mrigavati Vidyalaya, Kendriya Vidyalaya, No 2 Nikita Kanodia 98% (S) Mount Carmel School, Dwarka Punjabi Bagh North west Delhi (Shift-1) Delhi Cantt Akshat Goel 98.60% (C) Suhani Jain 99.2% (S) S - SCIENCE; Khushpreet Singh 96% (S) Divij Saini 97.8% (S) Priyanka Singh 97.80% (S) Riya Yadav 98.20% (H) Mayank Choudhary 98.2% (C) Manmeet Singh 95.50% (C) Kashish 94.4% (C) Lal 94.60% (C) Eshita Razdan 98% (H) C - COMMERCE; Poorva Malhotra 94.20% (H) Aditya Goel 97% (H) Gunjan Saini 96.00% (H) Maharaja Agrasen Model School, H - HUMANITIES; CD Block, Pitam Pura Mount Carmel School, Gurusharan Convent, Paschim Vihar Jain Happy School, Gole Market KIIT World School, Pitam Pura Jeevanshu Goel 97.5% (S) Anand Niketan V - VOCATIONAL Ashmita Kaur 97.3 (S) New Delhi Nayan Punia 98% (S) Aditya Agrawal 97.5% (S) Srishti Dwivedi 96% (S) Arshjot Kaur 97% (C) Esha 81.80% (C) Anshu Bansal 99.4% (C) Aayush Garg 98.75% (C) Krishh Kumar 96% (S) Anshika Saxena 94.8 (H) Kartik Gola 95% (H) Pragati Rana 99.2% (H) Gargi Sharma 93.5% (H) Shubham Sarda 96% (C) TO BE CONTINUED.... 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“Life is short, but there is always time WIZARD’S CORNER enough for courtesy.” RALPH WALDO EMERSON, POET FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 2021 03

ANAGHA SASTIKAR educator, Bodakdev School for Children, Draw the easy way COENYOM NEYME Ahmedabad I possess a large ‘tusk’ that a. conic b. conical a. eyes protrudes from my canine tooth. I c. economy d. ecology b. menial use it to detect temperature, c. yes water pressure, motion and particle gradients. I live in the LOMGO d. enemy Arctic close to Greenland, Russia

a. loom b. cloud and Canada. I am closely related c. gloom d. loom d 3) c, 2) c, 1) Answers: to the beluga whale. I am also known as the unicorn of the sea

Step-1 Step-2 Narwhal Answer: AUGUST Complete each of SURYAKUMARI DENNISON, teacher, Aavishkar Academy, Bengaluru Quiz these statements on The Zodiac sign that Dropped on Hiroshima time August. Choose 3 August shares with 5 on August 6, 1945, correctly! September is was atomic bomb Little A) Virgo B) Scorpio A) Boy B) Girl August, earlier called C) Gemini D) Aries C) Child D) Baby Sextilis, is named Step-3 Step-4 1 after an In August 1947, A) Event b) Era 6 Jawaharlal Nehru C) Epic D) Emperor spoke of India's 'Tryst' with In leap years, August A) Democracy B) Devotion starts on the same 2 The UN observes World C) Destiny D) Dedication day as Humanitarian Day on A) April B) February 4 August C) July D) October A) 13 B) 19

Step-5 Step-6 C) 23 D) 29

3) A. Virgo 4) B. 19 5) A. Boy 6) C. Destiny Destiny C. 6) Boy A. 5) 19 B. 4) Virgo A. 3) Answers: 1) D. Emperor 2) B. February February B. 2) Emperor D. 1) Answers:

Editor Idiom-etrics in the making WEAVE A STORY WITH HEADLINES SURYAKUMARI DENNISON, teacher, Aavishkar Academy, Bengaluru Include some of these headlines to make a story and give (Choose the idiom that best suits the situation) it a title. Mail the story to us at [email protected].

hen Mukesh the game with them on The interesting one will be published in the heard about the TV, but Mukesh said that edition. Watch out for this space!!! W cricket match to he wanted to be at the be played in town, he scene to cheer his started saving his pocket favourite team. When money. "I want the best Mukesh went to buy his The headlines: seat in the stadium," he ticket, he found that the 1) From UP village, she stands tall: And the told his friends. They event was sold out. He winner is...

suggested that he enjoy was too late. scores perfect 100% in class XII THWISHA A) Be in the same boat B) Miss the boat C) Rock the boat B Answer: class V, Birla Open Minds 2) Instagram makes accounts for International School, Kollur, users under 16 private by default Hyderabad, Telangana alented Reena lost her way to the TRIVIA singing-competition venue. She could 3) Expert-approved ways to boost T not participate, much less win, because t the birth of Achilles, the A LAZY DAY of her poor sense of direction. legendary Greek hero, it was your kid’s immunity hy is it Monday again?, I prophesied that he would die A) Achilles' heel A 4) UK government to reward those thought. Reshma madam B) Trojan horse young. His mother immersed him in the who lose weight! was telling something. C) Midas touch river Styx, believed to guarantee invul- WSuddenly, she asked, nerability. She held the infant by the 5) Gutsy Satish Kumar shows true “Thwisha! Can you repeat what I back of his foot, and that one dry part just said?” remained unprotected. Eventually, valour “Umm... some Bihar... Achilles was killed by an arrow piercing Goldmine...Nation....” I wasn’t able to his heel. Thus, somebody's 'Achilles' reply. She then asked Aishwarya. heel' means a weakness (not necessari- “Yes ma’am. Bihar is the goldmine ciao! hola! hello!

hallo! of the nation.” Aishwarya said. Well, Answer: A Answer: ly physical) that lets the person down. Learn a then I got an invite for social, and I FRENCH hung up. “Dear students, today you will learn how to build better health Find the missing number in the 1) C’est bon marché! Work sheet habits again.” Seema madam said. following number line: Meaning: It’s a great deal! She told all sorts of things about 3 Q:1 How will you communicate that you health habits. Finally, the classes

1, 3, 9, 15, 25, ?, 49. 2) C’est bon/mal/terrible were over and I clicked on a news Answer : D : Answer like the offer? A. 26 B. 39 C. 30 D. 35 Meaning: It’s good/bad/terrible. site. It had its biggest headline in bold. It read: “UNESCO adds four nat- NUMBER SERIES 3) Où est le centre- Q:2 How will you ask for the location of ural and three cultural sites to the Find the missing number in the commercial? Can you find the missing the mall? world heritage list” following sequence Meaning: Where is the mall? number? 4 Well, I scrolled down. It read: 1 5, 7, 11, ?, 17, 19

14 ? 26 32 34 38 4) Je voudrais un café Q:3 How will you ask for a cup of coffee? “Mirabai Chanu dedicates Olympic

Answer : B : Answer A. 25 B. 18 C. 33 D. 35 B : Answer A. 16 B. 13 C. 20 D. 35 MEANING: I would like a coffee. medal to India”. Hmm... still not Q:4 How will you tell the shopkeeper that interested. Text by my friend Meera Write the missing number in Find the missing number in the 5) Je voudrais un verre food is bad? got me excited. She wrote, “Booker 2 the given sequence. 5 following sequence MEANING: I would like a glass prize longlist unveiled.” But soon, 99

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he eight-time former gold-win- gle edition of the Games (6 in 2012), history has . Harmanpreet made his champions Argentina, three-time world ners, who battled a heart- already been made on the hockey pitch. We dedicate this senior India debut in 2015 and in the absence champions and current world no.1 Aus- breaking slump in the last four of skipper Manpreet in 2019, led the Indian team tralia, New Zealand, Spain and hosts Japan decades, made the resurgence medal to our Covid-19 to a win at the FIH Olympic Test event in Tokyo. in Pool A. India lost only to the Aussies (1- of the last couple of years Manpreet’s But the most interesting fact about this Indian 7), but won all their remaining matches to count in the best way possible squad is that out of the 16 players, as many as enter the quarter-finals. In the quarters, In- with an Olympic medal. Sim- successful captaincy frontline warriors. 10 players featured in their maiden Olympics. dia beat Great Britain 3-1 to storm into the Tranjeet Singh (17th, 34th minutes) scored a These 10 players are: , Hardik semi-finals. However in the semis, India brace, while (27th), Harmanpreet ■ At Tokyo 2020, the 16-member Indian team Doctors, soldiers and Singh, Vivek Sagar Prasad, , lost to former world number one team Bel- Singh (29th) and (31st) were was led by mid-fielder Manpreet Singh, who Sumit, Shamsher Singh, , Gur- gium 2-5. That result meant they entered the other goal getters for world no.3 India. De- was the first Indian hockey player to be named everyone else who fought jant Singh, Lalit Kumar Upadhyay and Biren- the bronze medal match where they played termined to clinch a medal, the Indians made the FIH men’s hockey player of the year - in dra Lakra. had missed the 2016 Germany. The Germans are ranked 6th in one of the most memorable comebacks in the 2019. The Indian team has done well under Man- to keep us safe. Rio Olympics due to a knee surgery. the world, one place below India (5). It was history of the game, fighting back from a two- preet’s captaincy over the past four years, hav- end to end hockey on Thursday morning as goal deficit to turn the match in their favour. ing won the Asia Cup in 2017, the Asian Cham- MANPREET SINGH neither team wanted to give an inch. The There was a school of thought before the Tokyo pions Trophy in 2018 and the FIH Series Final Journey so far - match momentum and scoreline sung like Olympics began that these Games could well in 2019. They also reached the quarterfinals in Indian Hockey team a pendulum. But in the end, India managed be a historic edition for Indian sport. While the the 2018 World Cup in Bhubaneswar.These were as it happened to hold on to a slender one goal difference Indian contingent is well on target to go past Manpreet’s third Olympic Games and he had skipper to win the match 5-4 and with it a historic the maximum number of medals won at a sin- two deputies in defenders Birendra Lakra and ■ India were clubbed alongside defending bronze medal.

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ATHLETICS HOCKEY Women’s 20km Race Women’s Women’s freestyle Men’s freestyle 65kg 1/8 Final OLYMPIC WATCH August 6, 2021 | INDIANS IN THE FRAY Walk Final Bronze Medal 50kg 1/8 final Bajrang Punia vs Bhawna Jat, Priyanka Goswami Match Seema Bisla vs S Hamdi E. Akmataliev DE GRASSE ENDS A LONG WAIT FOR GOLD Photo: GETTY IMAGES Ravi Kumar Dahiya has become the second Indian wrestler, after Sushil Kumar, to win an Olympic silver medal fter years of finish- ing among the minor hen Ravi entered the getting the better of a Bulgarian wrestler Deepak Punia misses out Amedals, Canada’s gold medal match, it 14-4. He produced a masterful come-from- Andre De Grasse got his meant that for the fourth behind win in his semi-final bout against on bronze gold, winning the Olympic straight edition of the a wrestler from Kazakhstan. He was trail- Grappler Deepak Punia was not able men’s 200 metres with a W Olympic Games, Indian ing 1-9 before he made it 5-9. With his op- to win a bronze medal in the men’s scorching time of 19.62 sec- wrestling would have representation on ponent needing a medical time out and freestyle 86kg category at the Tokyo onds that made him the the podium for sure. In 2008 it was Sushil losing momentum, Ravi attacked, pin- Olympics after suffering a defeat eighth-fastest man ever Kumar (bronze), in 2012 Sushil won sil- ning down his opponent to win the bout at the hands of Myles Amine of over the distance. De ver and Yogeshwar Dutt clinched a and enter the final. San Marino at the Makuhari Grasse, who claimed the Andre De Grasse bronze, in 2016 it was Sakshi Malik who Thanks to the silver medal Ravi Messe Hall A Mat B. Punia suf- 100m bronze and 200m sil- won a bronze. And now,Ravi has clinched Dahiya has also became the 5th Indian fered a 2-4 defeat on the basis of ver at the 2016 Games and Grassy would again finish silver for India. wrestler overall (after KD Jadhav in 1952, points in the bronze medal 2019 World Championships, with any medal but gold. He Sushil Kumar in 2008 and 2012, Yogesh- match. In the first period, finally fulfilled his potential came into the turn third but Tackling tough opponents war Dutt in 2012 and Sakshi Malik in 2016) Punia went on to take an at Tokyo. The 26-year-old seemed to find a higher gear to secure an Olympic medal for India. early 2-0 lead and the Canadian became the first to surge past his American In the men’s freestyle 57kg final Ravi was Ravi’s confirmed silver medal also takes pressure was on his Olympic 200m champion af- rivals in the last 40 metres up against a very tough opponent - Zavur India’s overall medal count at the Tokyo opponent. However, ter Jamaican Usain Bolt, and claim victory with a Uguev of the ROC, a two-time defending Olympics now to officially five. Punia lost control who won gold at three con- Canadian national record. world champion in the category.Ravi had When he entered the gold medal match in the dying min- secutive Olympics from the The United States last won earlier made his way to the men’s earlier, Ravi Dahiya also became the first utes of the Ravi Kumar of India in 2008 Beijing Games before this event was in 2004, Noah freestyle 57kg semi-final with two huge male Indian athlete to secure an individ- game to come action against Zavur Uguev retiring in 2017. Lyles had established him- wins in the 1/8 and 1/4 finals, first beat- ual medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo back empty- For most of the race, self as the world’s top 200m ing a Colombian wrestler 13-2 and then for India. handed. however, it looked like De sprinter in 2018. REUTERS

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Who won the men’s Nethra Kumanan, who was Which Indian star wrestler Name the first transgender Q3: singles final at the Q5: in news recently, is the Q6: won the Gold medal at the Q8: athlete to compete at the QUIZ TIME! Tokyo Olympics 2020? badminton World Tour held in first Indian woman to qualify for Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches which sport in the Tokyo Olympics? Memorial tournament? a. Laurel Hubbard Which football club has won ? b. Chris Mosier Q1: a. Weightlifting a. the UEFA Champions a. Anders Antonsen c. Quinn b. Sailing b. Sakshi Malik League 2020? b. Lin Dan d. Cece Telfer a. AC Milan c. Fencing c. Babita Kumari c. Jan o Jorgensen b. Real Madrid d. Archery d. Gita Phogat d. Lee Chong Wei Which country is the only c. Bayern Munich Q9: two-time winner of d. Barcelona Nethra Kumanan Phil Mickelson became the football’s UEFA European Which Indian bowler is the Championship this century? Q7: oldest sportsperson to The Indian men’s cricket Q4: fastest to reach the a. Germany win a major championship in Q2: team scored its lowest b. Spain milestone of 400 wickets, as of which sports? ever total in Test cricket against February 2021? c. England a. Tennis d. Portugal which team? a. Jusprit Bumrah a. England b. Squash b. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar ANSWERS: 1. c. Bayern Munich 2. b. Australia b. Australia c. Table Tennis 3. a. Anders Antonsen 4. c. Ravichandran Ashwin c. Sri Lanka c. Ravichandran Ashwin 5. b. Sailing 6. a. Vinesh Phogat 7. d. Golf d. Golf d. South Africa d. Ishant Sharma 8. a. Laurel Hubbard 9. b. Spain Photo: TOI