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BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤Check out the success ➤Missing the fun and frolic ➤ Europe’s top STUDENT EDITION story of a teen, who gave of your school days? Hear it football clubs TODAY’S solutions for the stubble out from your friends on their see title hopes WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021 Newspaper in EDITION burning crisis in the country school life take a hit Education PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 TIMES NIE Answers Your Query Chinese rocket debris Ashrit Badagala, class V, Birla Open Minds Int’l School, lands in Indian Ocean Kollur, Hyderabad he remnants of China's biggest rocket, the Long March 5B, What is the landed in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, with most of its com- Qbest diet for ponents destroyed upon its “uncontrolled re-entry” into children now? T the atmosphere, ending days of speculation over where the Good nutrition is crucial debris would hit. (It had blasted off from Hainan island on April 29). The To ask queries during Covid. The ideal coordinates given by the Chinese state media put the point of impact in regarding Covid-19 plan is to follow the WHO- the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago. The US Space command KOHLI GETS and Vaccination from recommended balanced confirmed the re-entry over the Arabian Peninsula, but said, it was our experts, scan the diet with adequate unknown if the debris impacted land or water. FIRST DOSE amounts of carbs, protein QR Code or visit THE DANGER: According to nearly 29,000 kmph Few https://bit.ly/331RxDn and fat. The regular Indian OF COVID-19 meal usually fulfills this. experts, when a rocket is expected the debris to harm Drink plenty of fluids. launched, its discarded booster humans, courtesy its burning up VACCINE stages re-enter the atmosphere in the atmosphere, as well as the Expert advice given by soon after the liftoff and harm- fact that large parts of the Earth India’s captain Virat Dr Bimal Prasad lessly fall into the ocean— a stan- are covered by oceans, and mas- Padhy, Consultant dard practice. However, in this sive land areas lie uninhabited Kohli, senior pacer Neurologist, Care case, a 10-floor large vehicle of However, the incident has raised Hospital, Ishant Sharma and Nampally, the rocket, weighing 18 metric questions about the space Hyderabad tons, went into the orbit along technology that China is Test specialist with the section of the under- developing, and the probability of construction space station that it harm being caused to populated Cheteshwar Pujara on Raghuvir Prakash, was carrying. It was travelling at areas in the future Monday received their class VII, DPS, RK first doses of Covid-19 Puram, New Delhi IT HAPPENED BEFORE PRIOR INCIDENTS: In July 1979, when the NASA space station Skylab vaccine. Kohli also How can we kick negative was brought down, large chunks fell from orbit and landed in Australia. urged others to get Qthoughts away? In March this year, a SpaceX rocket stage made an uncontrolled landing When negative thoughts overhelm you, a therapist practis- on a farm in Washington state in the US, but this happened due to a vaccinated "as soon es cognitive behavioural therapy. So, if you are to describe an event that has led to a stream of negative thoughts, malfunction in the engine tasked to bring it down, and not by choice as you can" evaluate the thought in an objective way and figure out if it is valid, appropriate and healthy. If not serving any pur- pose, then find alternative solutions that serves a purpose. Cutting methane emissions key to Manas Kapur, class IX, Sri Covid-appropriate behaviour, Venkateshwar International slowing warming: United Nations School, New Delhi vaccination main shields against How to deal with loneli- ndustry could cheaply and easily slash ness amid Covid? humanity's methane emissions by at Q I least 30 per cent in a decade, the United all mutants, future waves: Experts There are two ways of looking at it—one is acceptance Nations has said, adding that such cuts and the other, resigned acceptance. Acceptance is a would slow global warming and prevent With the second wave of the Covid- defence mechanism, where you resolve conflicts in a hundreds of thousands of deaths. Curbing 19 pandemic ravaging the country healthy way. However, resigned acceptance leads to a emissions of methane from farming, fossil fuel operations and waste management is and concerns being raised about a sense of defeat, lack of purpose. Try to accept reality. a crucial part of efforts to restrain runaway possible third wave, experts caution climate change. The powerful greenhouse Expert Advice Given By gas, which is short-lived but many times that the next wave could be less Dr Sanjay Chugh, Senior Consultant more potent than carbon dioxide, also severe, if people keep following contributes to toxic air pollution, harm- Psychiatrist, New Delhi Covid-appropriate behaviour, and a ing human health, plants and ecosystems. Environment large portion of the population is ALAN MOORE IS WORKING ON Technical solutions, mostly in vaccinated. the fossil fuel and waste sec- CO2 is responsible for more corona SHORT STORY COLLECTION, than three-quarters of global update tors, are "readily available" Several experts adviser to the government, 5-VOLUME FANTASY SERIES warming. But methane also and can reduce humanity's believe that a casual had said last week that the methane emissions by more plays an important role approach that followed the trough of the first third wave was inevitable and it was necessary than 30 per cent this decade, BOOK wave could be a possible reason for the pan- to be prepared for new waves, but clarified two the analysis found. Together, It has a warming potential 28 times greater demic raising its head again, though others are days later that the "insidious asymptomatic with other measures that are than CO2 over a 100-year period and its concen- currently available, the reduc- tration in the atmosphere has more than dou- also putting the blame on the new mutants and transmission" can be stopped, if prescribed tion could be as much as 45 bled since the Industrial Revolution. Over a 20- variants of the virus being more virulent guidelines about precautions, surveillance, con- per cent, it said year period, it is more than 80 times potent K Vijay Raghavan, the principal scientific tainment, treatment and testing are followed lan Moore has many, many stories still to tell. The celebrated British author known for 'V A for Vendetta' and 'Watchman' among other works has a deal with Bloomsbury for the story col- lection 'Illuminations' and a five-volume fantasy se- Users not accepting privacy terms to face limited ries, 'Long London'. In a statement, Moore said, he was "bursting with fiction, bursting with prose", and thanked his publisher for its commitment to "ex- The messaging platform said, after a delete the users' accounts, if they haven't pand the empire of the word." access: WhatsApp few weeks of limited functionality, accepted the update but highlighted that users, who still won't accept the its existing policy related to inactive users Moore's 'Illuminations', scheduled for fall hatsApp will not delete any account for not accept- terms, “won't be able to receive will apply WhatsApp accounts are 2022, takes in everything— from ghosts to the ing its new privacy update, but users not agreeing incoming calls or notifications, generally deleted after 120 days of big bang theory to the controversial terms after "several weeks" and WhatsApp will stop sending inactivity, wherein inactivity refers to will not be able to access their chat list, and messages and calls to your users not connecting to the messaging 'Long London' follows a "sometimes-accessi- W eventually, will not be able to answer incoming phone or video calls phone” WhatsApp said it won't platform ble shadow city that is beyond time," starting over the app. Last week, the Facebook-owned company had said, with London after World War II and “following users not accepting its privacy policy update by its May 15 Raising concerns over the changes the population of writers, criminals, artistes, and deadline will not face deletion or lose functionality of their to WhatsApp's privacy policy, TECHAWAY magicians through that familiar city and a ver- accounts on the said date. WhatsApp, on its website, said it is the Union ministry of electron- sion of London just beyond our knowledge,'' continuing to remind those who haven't had the chance to ics and IT had asked the messaging platform to withdraw the recent according to Bloomsbury review and accept the terms, and after a period of several change, along with several industry groups raising the question The first volume of 'Long London' comes out weeks, "the reminder (that) people receive will eventually over the data sharing of WhatsApp users with Facebook become persistent". It, however, did not divulge the in 2024 timelines set for these reminders. “Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.” READ. PLAY. LEARN RALPH WALDO EMERSON, POET 02 WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021 YOUNG ACHIEVER From eco warriorship burning acres and acres of puter science, engineering stubble and felt curious – and logical problem solv- surely this material could ing was always something be put to some use! We that came naturally to me. stopped on the way, and I In eighth grade, I learnt to MIT… brought back a sample to about DNA and genetics. I experiment with and was fascinated by how A teen gives workable solutions for the stubble burning joined hands with two of such a small, seemingly in- my best friends to collab- significant molecule hides crisis in the country, wins an award, and is all set to orate.