BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI STUDENT EDITION ➤What is the significance ➤Put your DIY skills to ➤ Premier League of World Sanskrit Day? test with the help of defies FIFA, blocks THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021 TODAY’S Students talk on why we players for WC Newspaper in some easy to do home Education need to be rooted to our projects qualifiers EDITION language and revive it As far as India is con- PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 cerned, it seems that because of the size of India and heterogeneity of popula- CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 tion and immunity status in differ- ent parts of the country in differ- ent pockets, it is feasible that the situation may continue with ups and downs in different parts of the HAS COVID-19 IN INDIA country, particularly where there are more susceptible population. So, those groups who were perhaps The most important less affected by first and second thing right now is BECOME AN ENDEMIC? waves or those areas with low lev- that our country els of vaccine coverage, could see needs to host big peaks and troughs for the next several months events where star athletes Soumya Swaminathan, like Vetter come and play, so scientist, WHO that our people get to know more about athletics. Our WHO claims... people should know what ath- ovid-19 in India may be scientist of the World Health moderate level transmission going letics is in reality, and what it entering some kind of Organisation Soumya Swaminathan on, we are not seeing the kinds of takes for these athletes to stage of endemicity has said. "We may be entering some exponential growth and peaks that perform. People should under- C stand why athletics is so dif- where there is a low or moderate kind of stage of endemicity where we saw a few months ago," ferent to sports like cricket. I level of transmission going on, chief there is low-level transmission or Swaminathan said. intend to work on this. I want the media to help in this Neeraj Chopra, Javelin WHAT IS AN ENDEMIC AND HOW IT AFFECTS US throw gold medal- ENDEMIC VS PANDEMIC CAN WE GET RID OF WHAT ABOUT JABS? ist at the Tokyo SO, IS COVID-19 AN Olympics The International Epidemiology COVID? Experts are of the view that while vac- Association’s Dictionary of ENDEMIC? Opinions are divided. Countries like cines will Epidemiology says that a pandemic is Well, medical experts are convinced China hope that Covid will die in years still be “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or that the Covid-19 pandemic could ahead. In fact, Beijing is pursuing a effective, over a very wide area, crossing inter- WHAT IS ENDEMIC? become the next “endemic”. “zero tolerance” approach to the virus, there is no national boundaries and usually According to WHO, endemic is Interestingly, experts have previ- with strict lockdowns, contact tracing, clarity on affecting a large number of people.” In the stage when a population testings, and quarantines. Similarly, the need for March 2020, the WHO declared Covid- ously said that in countries like the learns to live with a virus. Australia has sought to shut out the booster shots. Doctors feel higher vac- 19 to be a global pandemic. Although US, it would be impossible to reach Some examples of endemics virus with closed borders, lockdowns, cination rates may lead to a decrease in there is no universally agreed-upon “true herd immunity” with Covid- include chicken pox and malar- and widespread testing. However, the Covid cases in some areas, depending definition of what constitutes a pan- 19, courtesy the new strains of the ia, where there are predictable increasing cases of delta variant has on various factors such as how long demic, the WHO had previously called virus, which will continue to devel- number of cases every year in raised question mark over the long-term they last, and how effective they are at a pandemic the “worldwide spread of a certain parts of the world op in the years ahead viability of a zero-Covid strategy. new disease” reducing transmission over time IN OTHER NEWS Martian snow is dusty, can FACTOIDFACTOID Instagram switches off potentially melt: Study its swipe-up gesture acebook-owned Instagram is all set to ditch the team of US scientists has developed a new approach to determine 100 ‘swipe-up’ link in Instagram Stories starting how dusty Mars ice really is, and whether it could melt. The team F August 30. The popular feature has historically Afrom the Universities of Arizona State and Washington combined allowed businesses and high-profile creators a way to data from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with TRILLION direct their Story's viewers to a website where they computer simulations to successfully match the brightness of Martian ice and That's the number of interstellar could learn more about a product, read an article, sign determine its dust content.Based on their simulations, the team predicted objects lurking at the edge of our up for a service or do anything else the creator wanted that the ice dug up by the Phoenix Mars Lander formed by dusty snowfall, solar system, claims a new study. One to promote, reports TechCrunch. sometime over the last million years, similar to other ice deposits found pre- of them is the comet 2I/Borisov, viously across the mid-latitudes of Mars. which was discovered by astronomer In place of the ‘swipe-up’ call to action, ‘India among aspiring hosts for Gennady Borisov in 2019. According Instagram users who previously had access to the Olympics in 2036 and beyond’ Mars is a dusty planet, to scientists, approximately one per feature will instead be able to use the new Link so much of its ice is cent of carbon and oxygen in the ndia is among the aspirants for hosting the Olympics Sticker, the company said also dusty and much Milky Way could be locked in inter- This sticker had been in testing starting in in 2036 and beyond, Thomas Bach, the President of darker than fresh snow stellar objects, with many of them June with a small handful of users, the company I International Olympic Committee (IOC), has said. we might see on the located in the Oort cloud. said. But on August 30, it will begin to roll out After Brisbane (Australia) was chosen last month to host Earth. The dustier the more broadly the 2032 Summer Games, the IOC enjoys a queue of suitors ice is, the darker and According to NASA, the thus warmer the ice Instagram says, it will begin to convert those to host the Olympics in 2036, 2040 and even beyond, Bach Oort cloud is a theoretical who currently have access to the swipe-up link to said. The aspiring hosts include India, Indonesia, Germany gets, which can affect concept of icy objects at both its stability and evolution through time. Under the Link Sticker starting on August 30 and Qatar, Bach said. Others who have publicly expressed certain conditions, this might also mean that the ice the farthest reaches of the This will include businesses and creators who interest in hosting the Games include Russia, whose ath- could melt on Mars solar system are either verified or who have met the threshold letes have spent the past three Olympics with their coun- SPACE for follower count try under partial or full ban for doping. Will Afghanistan’s heritage marvels survive a resurgent Taliban? he world witnessed the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban recently. WHAT ARE THE HERITAGE SITES OF While the crisis continues, the UNESCO AFGHANISTAN? is worried about the safety of Air rescue efforts from Af named T THE OLD CITY OF HERAT: The 65m-tall Afghanistan’s cultural heritage. The UN cultural 'Op Devi Shakti' Minaret of Jam is a graceful, soaring struc- organisation has called for the preservation of the ture, dating back to the 12th century. It is a he air rescue efforts from war-torn country’s cultural heritage in its diversity and Afghanistan have been given a name by the UNESCO site asked to protect the historic assets. The UNESCO BAMIYAN VALLEY: The archaeological government, Op Devi Shakti. The government T fears "damage and looting" of the crucial her- remains of the Bamiyan Valley is where the has so far evacuated 800 persons from Afghanistan itage of the country since the Taliban takeover. In UNESCO has been working for several since the Taliban took over the country recently. a statement, the organisation also reminded the years now Indian officials are making all efforts to evacuate not world of the time when the iconic Bamiyan THE NATIONAL MUSEUM IN KABUL: only Indians, but also Afghani nationals, from Kabul as Buddhas, a world heritage site in Bamiyan Valley, This is another significant attraction that well as neighbouring countries like Qatar, Doha and was destroyed by the Taliban in 2001. preserves the history of the country Tajikistan. “You must be the change, you want to see in the world.” EDIT MAHATMA GANDHI 02 THURSDAY, AUGUST 26, 2021 TIMES NIE EDITORIAL POWERED BY STUDENTS LanguageLanguage ofof thethe GodsGods andand ofof FUTURE SCIENTISTS This year the World Sanskrit are known to us have most of his- tory recorded in Sanskrit. 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