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LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤ Check out five musical ➤ Know about your friends’ ➤ Explained: How the STUDENT EDITION podcasts that have the weekend plan failure of India's top TODAY’S potential to teach and ➤ order to get big 100s THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021 What are you reviewing Newspaper in EDITION delight audience this week? is hurting the team Education PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION 'JALLIKATTU' OUT OF THE CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 OSCARS RACE, FAILS TO MAKE THE CUT allikattu, In- dia's official J entry in the Best Internation- FSSAI NOTIFIES REGULATIONS TO LIMIT al Feature cate- gory at the 93rd Academy Awards, is out of the Oscars race but the country is still in the fray, with short film 'Bittu' ad- vancing to the next round in the Best Live Action Short Film segment. trans fat in food items Thomas Vinterberg's 'Another Round' The food regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has said that has made it to the shortlist. regulations to limit the content of trans fat in all the food items have been notified... Industrial trans fats are pro- Now, a made-in-India Under the regulation notified on December duced by adding hydrogen to WhatsApp alternative 29 last year, the FSSAI said, it has limited liquid vegetable oils to make industrial TFA (trans fatty acids) to not 1 them solid, thereby increasing for govt officials more than 3 per cent in all fats and oils their stability at room tempera- by January 2021, and not more than 2 per ture f reports are to go by, some cent by January 2022 Trans fats are largely- pres- government officials have start- The Food Safety and Standards ent in partially-hydrogenated I ed using a desi alternative to (Prohibition and Restrictions on vegetable fats/oils, vanaspati, WhatsApp. Called Sandes, it could Elimination of industrial TFA Sales) Second Amendment margarine and bakery shorten- change the game for WhatsApp, feel 2 has been recognised as one the Regulations, 2021, was notified earlier ings. They are found in baked many. The government had con- modifiable risk factors to pre- this month and fried foods firmed on working on a WhatsApp- vent heart diseases According to 2017 estimates, chat-like feature last year. With the This regulation states that all the food In 2018, the WHO had called every year more than 1.5 mil- latest developments, it seems that products, in which edible oils and fats for the elimination of industrial- lion deaths in India is attrib- the app is ready and going through are used as an ingredient, should not 3 ly-produced trans fat from the uted to coronary heart dis- the initial testing phase by the contain industrial trans fatty acids food supply by 2023 and eases, of which nearly 5 per ministry officials. According to a more than 2 per cent by mass of the total released an action package cent (71,000) are due to trans report, currently, the use of Sandes oils/fats present in the product, on and from 'REPLACE' for the same January 1, 2022 fats intake is restricted to government offi- cials only. It also defines industrial trans fatty acids India joins the club of around 40 coun- as "all the geometrical isomers of mono- tries that have already enacted policies unsaturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids 4 best suited to eliminate trans fats, and ICC TEST RANKINGS: VIRAT having non-conjugated, interrupted by at least would be among the first countries in Asia one methylene group, carbon-carbon double bonds in KOHLI DOWN TO FIFTH, JOE the trans configuration.” It, however, excludes trans-fatty after Thailand in achieving policies to elimi- ROOT MOVES UP TO THIRD acids from dairy, meat, fish and their products nate trans fat ndian skipper Virat Kohli was on IWednesday pushed to the fifth spot by his English counterpart Joe ELON MUSK TO OFFER $100 Root, who rose two RANVEER SINGH-STARRER '83 TO RELEASE rungs to third in the lat- MILLION PRIZE FOR 'BEST' est ICC Test rank- ings for batsmen, even as Jasprit IN THEATRES IN JUNE 2021: REPORT Bumrah and R Ashwin moved up CARBON CAPTURE TECH in the bowlers' chart. esla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, f Bollywood sources are to go by, Ranveer- starrer '83 Kohli, who scored 11 and 72 in who had promised a $100 million prize for the develop- is all set to release in theatres in June this year. the opening Test against ment of the “best” technology to capture carbon diox- "Reliance, along with the many other producers of the ide emissions, few days back, has now revealed more de- England, has 852 T film, have decided to release the sports flick in the tails about the competition. In his tweet, he has mentioned that I points. the 'XPrize team will manage the $100mn carbon capture prize.' month of June. It makes sense, as normalcy would have Root, who helped his FOR A CAUSE kicked in firmly by then. Also, getting it in theatres before, in team to a memorable The $100 million prize will be receive $1 April, is not feasible, as 'Sooryavanshi' is releasing on April 227-run victory in given away in a four-year global million, while 25 student schol- 2," Bollywood Hungama quoted a source as saying. Chennai that kept competition to find a way to arships worth $200,000 will also England in con- reduce carbon dioxide from the be distributed to the competing The sports drama film, which was earlier scheduled for a tention for the ICC Earth’s atmosphere. “This is not student teams theatrical release on April 10, 2020, was pushed to World Test a theoretical competition; we December 25 due to Covid-19 pandemic. In November Championship final, The grand prize winner will want teams that will build real has reached 883 rat- get $50 million, while the second 2020, the film was again delayed to the first quarter of systems, which can make a ing points place holder will get $20 million; 2021. The makers are yet to give a final release date measurable impact and scale to MOVIES $10 million will go to the third a gigaton level,” Musk said in a place holder statement To win the competition, the Full guidelines of the competi- teams would have “to create and tion will be announced on April demonstrate a solution that can TOM HOLLAND FACTOIDFACTOID 22. The competition will last for pull carbon dioxide directly from four years through the Earth Day, the atmosphere or oceans and 2025, XPrize, which will be lock it away permanently in an organising the competition, said would love to play environmentally-benign way,” £2,62,000 The top 15 teams will XPrize added (`2.61 CRORE) Capturing planet-warming emissions is JAMES BOND rice of a cow bred in Central becoming a critical part of many plans to pider-Man' star Tom Holland says he would love to suit up and play England that was sold at an keep climate change in check, but very little British spy James Bond in future. The 24-year-old actor, who is best P auction recently. Named progress has been made on the technolo- known for essaying the role of Peter Parker/ superhero Spider-Man in after Spice Girl, Posh Spice, the gy to date, with efforts focussed on the Marvel Cinematic Universe, quipped, at 5' feet-6 inches, he will four-month-old Wilodge Poshspice, cutting emissions rather than taking S be a "really short" Agent 007. "Ultimately as a young British lad, who loves a pedigree heifer, has broken the carbon out of the air. The International cinema, I'd love to be James Bond. So, you know, I'm just putting that out Energy Agency said late last year world sales record. The previous there. I mean I look pretty good in a suit! I'd be like a really short James best breed was sold for £1,31,250 in that a sharp rise in the deployment of Bond," Holland said. carbon capture technology was needed, 2014. if countries are to meet September net-zero emissions Post Spice has not only target Before starring in the third broken the world sales chapter of 'Spider-Man', Holland will again change record but has also become gears with crime drama UK and Europe's 'Cherry', in which he will most- reunite with Russo Brothers after 'Avengers: expensive The actor was last seen in Endgame', and 'Chaos bovine the psychological thriller 'The Walking', a sci-fi action animal Devil All the Time', which adventure thriller released on Netflix in “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” READ. PLAY. LEARN RALPH WALDO EMERSON, POET 02 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2021 Five Music Podcasts Good news parents! There is a way to give kids a screen break without forgoing engrossing and educational content. 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