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$100 MN WORKS EVER SOLD at AUCTION Composer Tweeted the News on WOMAN SITTING NEAR a WINDOW Wednesday Evening BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤Revise your syllabus by ➤Should there be Instagram ➤ Indian women STUDENT EDITION solving mock papers, exclu- for children under 13 years of set to play TODAY’S sively prepared by your age, aka Gen Z and Alpha? maiden pink ball FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 Newspaper in EDITION teachers Students debate Test Education PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 We haven't always got- ten it right the first TIMES NIE World's largest iceberg breaks off Antarctic ice time. Unfortunately, when you are dealing with a Answers Your Query new virus and a new epidem- shelf, it's nearly three times the size of Delhi ic, you don't know every- n enormous ice- thing on day one. But that's Pranay Upadhyay, berg, measur- size of Delhi. It meas- statement. They also the way science evolves. 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Give your- away of a mass of ice Weddell Sea, the nearly three times the self time to work on stress management strategies, including exercise and meditation. Talking with your friends and family members, and reassuring yourself with the progress they are making daily, will help you manage your stress levels. NASA-ESA SUN-WATCHING Google announces SPACECRAFT CAPTURES new privacy settings, Naomi Dewicka, class XII, DPS, FIRST SOLAR ERUPTION AI TOOLS AND RK Puram, New Delhi ASA and the European ANDROID 12 BETA Space Agency's sun-watch- N ing spacecraft has How soon can one exercise and get captured the first solar Qinto daily routines post Covid recovery? eruption. On February 12, the Solar Orbiter caught sight of Fatigue is a known aftereffect of Covid 19. Hence, it is advisable to take it slow as your the coronal mass capacity to exert your body and ejection(CME), NASA said. The exercise would have decreased CME was captured by a NASA considerably in the post-recovery instrument, the Solar Orbiter SPACE period. However, you may be able Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) onboard The Solar Orbiter was launched in to take upon the daily activities the spacecraft. SoloHI watches the gradually. So rest up, till you are February 2020 solar wind, dust, and cosmic rays TECHAWAY back to your usual energy level The spacecraft has already taken the For enhanced privacy, Google is before taking up heavy jobs. that fill the space between the sun closest picture of the sun to date introducing a new "quick delete" and the planets. The view captured Its official mission begins in November, oogle has announced a slew of new features, in- option that will help delete the last is brief and grainy, but shows a sud- when SoloHI and the rest of the remote- cluding new privacy settings, AI tools and release 2 15 minutes of Search history with a single EXPERT ADVICE GIVEN BY sensing instruments will be switched on in G of the first beta of Android 12 that will become den blast of particles, the CME, part of its products over the course of the year. Kicking tap from the Google Account Menu. It is Dr Meha Sharma. Consultant full science mode escaping the sun. off Google I/O 2021 in a virtual format from the Moun- also introducing Location History Rheumatologist - specialist of tain View campus, Google CEO Sundar Pichai also an- immune disorders. Cedar nounced additions to Google Workspace that will enable reminders in Maps Timeline richer collaboration, especially in view of the pandem- Superspeciality Centre, India, China, South Africa fared 'relatively better' ic that has driven enterprises across the globe to em- Locked Folder is a new passcode- Dwarka, Delhi brace remote working solutions. than other major economies in Q1 of 2021: UN protection feature in Google Photos, 3where select photos can be saved ndia, China and South Africa have al Trade Update by the United Nations Pichai and other Google executives laid out separately and these photos won't show AR RAHMAN'S '99 fared "relatively better" than other Conference on Trade and the roadmap for tools and features that will up as users scroll through their grid or in I major economies in imports and ex- Development (UNCTAD) be rolled out through the year across prod- shared albums. The feature will be intro- SONGS' TO HAVE DIGITAL ports in the first quarter of this has said that in Q1 2021, the 1 year, according to the latest UN value of global trade in ucts like Search, Lens, Photos, Maps and Shopping, duced to Google Pixel phones first, and data, which said that global goods and services grew by among others. more Android devices throughout the year PREMIERE ON MAY 21 trade recovery from the Covid- about 4 per cent quarter-over- 19 crisis hit a record high dur- quarter, and by about 10 per omposer AR Rahman's debut ing in the same period. The Glob- cent year-over-year. project as film producer, ‘99 A LOOK AT THE SPANISH ARTIST'S FIVE MOST-EXPENSIVE C Songs’, will have its digital premiere on May 21. The Oscar-winning $100 MN WORKS EVER SOLD AT AUCTION composer tweeted the news on WOMAN SITTING NEAR A WINDOW Wednesday evening. YOUNG GIRL WITH A FLOWER The painting was sold to an online bidder in THE WOMEN OF BASKET California for $103.4 million. ‘Woman Sitting $103.4 ALGIERS Picasso’s ‘Young Girl With a Flower Near a Window’ was also reportedly inspired by Picasso painted ‘The Women of Basket’ was painted in 1905, and $115 Marie-Therese’s youthfulness and statuesque MN Algiers’ (Version ‘O’) in 1955, and it was reportedly one of the stars MN beauty, and was made by Picasso on October 30, was sold for $179.3 million at of the 2018 auction of the works 1932. It is the first work since May 2019 to surpass the $100 Christie’s auction in 2015. This collected by the late US banker David million mark painting held the world record Rockefeller and his wife Peggy. The work for the highest-ever price paid represents a young girl nude holding a at an auction until it was taken basket of flowers. The painting also sur- ‘BOY WITH A over by Leonardo passed the $100 million mark and was sold $104.2 PIPE’ da Vinci’s for $115 million, including fees and was MN This painting is another Salvator Mundi $179.3 placed in David Rockefeller's Manhattan one from Picasso’s Rose The musical romantic drama ‘99 Songs’, which MN townhouse for decades Period in 1905 and was stars newcomers Ehan Bhat and Edilsy Vargas, is painted reportedly directed by debutant Vishwesh Krishnamoorthy, ‘NUDE, GREEN shortly after he was who is also a musician with the Mumbai-based That's the price of an oil painting by Pablo Picasso that was sold at moved to Paris and hardcore experimental band Scribe LEAVES AND BUST’ Christie's auction in New York, smashing its pre-sale estimate of $55 Painted in 1932, it was sold for settled in Montmartre. The film had released theatrically on April 16 but Becoming a record did not see much business owing to the ongoing $106.5 million, and is million. The portrait of Picasso's French lover Marie-Therese, 'Femme assise currently on loan at holder, ‘Boy with a pandemic, which kept the audience away from the- près d'une fenêtre (Marie-Thérèse)', or 'Woman sitting near a window,' led $106.5 the Tate Modern art Pipe’ was sold for atres during the unlock phase MN gallery in London $104.2 million in New ’99 Songs’ will stream in Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu the '20th Century Evening Sale'..
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