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Goes Digital Goes Digital THINK GREEN THE LARGEST NEWSPAPER FOR YOUNGSTERS IN INDIA Young Minds, New Delhi, 29 August to 04 Sep., 2015 www.youngmindsonline.com Volume VIII, Issue 9, Pages-8 Call : 011-46558855, 9871115502 Email : [email protected] GLOBAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS By Credit Card, log on to Eligibility: High School Students in grades 9th - 12th www.youngmindsonline.com Young Minds is a global outreach partner of Columbia Business School send a cheque made to the order of For program details: www.youngmindsonline.com Delhi, India Young Mind Newspapers Pvt. Ltd. [email protected] th nd 406, 3rd Floor, Udyog Vihar, Call : 9811456566, 9871115502 18 - 22 Dec, 2015 Phase – 3, Gurgaon – 122002 Annual subscription : ` 499/- CHINA DEVALUES YUAN IN A NEPAL OPENS EVEREST SHOCKING MOVE EXPEDITION AFTER EARTHQUAKE TRENDING IN A Japanese climber will SENTENCED scale Mount Everest since bea massivethe first earthquaketo attempt toin April triggered avalanches that killed 18 climbers, shutting an industry that feeds thousands of people director has been sentenced to 20 across Nepal. Nobukazu Kuriki, 33, of Tokyo will Ayears highly in a acclaimedmaximum-security Ukrainian prison film make a solo attempt on the 8,850-metre (29,035 feet) in Russia. Everest summit along the normal Southeast Ridge Oleg Sentsov was convicted of conspiring to commit terror attacks route pioneered by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa by a Russian court in the southern Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Source PTI city of Rostov-on-Don. TWO US TV JOURNALISTS SHOT TRAGEDY China devalued its tightly controlled currency on Tuesday, DEAD ON AIR Aug. 11,2015, following a slump in trade, triggering Two television the Yuan’s biggest one-day decline in a decade.China’s journalists were shot and killed in Virginia markets and could prolong the West’s slowdown. A on 26th Aug., while numberdevaluation of emerging has created market new (EM) risk currencies, in global includingfinancial conducting a live television interview, British IndyCar driver Justin Wilson the rupee, fell by more and their stock markets came under their station. The has died after being hit by a piece of severe strain. Equity prices in the developed world too Alison Parker and Adam Ward debris during a race in the US.Wilson incident occurred saw large declines and the commodity markets has taken broke into Formula One in 2003 with during a live broadcast in Bedford County, when the Minardi team and later drove for another hit. There are other worries as well. Some analysts Jaguar. shots could be heard, sending the reporter and her fear that, with oil prices falling, the Gulf economies will source screaming and ducking for cover. The station ENTERTAINMENT revalue their currency peg against the dollar so that each said that journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward dollar of oil revenues translates into higher local currency died in the incident.The shooter, a former reporter revenue. The devaluation will reawaken concerns that shot himself after the incident. Source PTI Beijing is still a million miles from having re-engineered the Chinese economy to deliver more balanced growth NESTLE TO BRING BACK MAGGI based on stronger domestic consumer demand. Source PTI BY YEAR END More blockbusters could be made SAINA NEHWAL REGAINS WORLD NO.1 SPOT in the UK after plans to increase Despite losing the World Championships approved by the European Union. tax breaks for film-makers were £40m in UK would £1m in tax relief. Sunday, ace Indian That means that, on a film costing shuttlerfinal in SainaJakarta Nehwal on regained the top spot Reconcile-verb in women’s singles Bolstered by the Bombay High Court order re-con-sile in the latest rankings overturning the ban on Maggi noodles, Nestle India of the Badminton Saina Nehwal plans to bring back the popular instant noodles back in the market by end of this year subject to certain World Federation (BWF).The 25-year-old Saina rose a meaning-To make up from a fight clearances.The company, which has taken a hit of Rs antonym-To fight place to overtake her conqueror in the summit clash, 450 crore, including destroying over 30,000 tonnes “A dream doesn’t become reality Carolina Marin of Spain, to once again be ranked No.1. of the instant noodles since June when it was banned through magic; it takes sweat, The reigning World Champion dropped to No.2 while because of alleged excessive lead content, says it will determination and hard work.” Chinese Taipei’s Tai Tzu Ying overtook reigning Olympic continue with the existing formula of the product Colin Powell champion Li Xuerui of China to be No.3. Source PTI and not change the ingredients. Source PTI 2 www.youngmindsonline.com 29 August to 04 Sep., 2015 www.facebook.com/inventednewdelhi JUNK FOOD TO BE BANNED N SCHOOLS ASIA’S RICHEST MAN LOSES ABOUT $13 BILLION Centre for Science and Asia’s richest man Wang Jialing has Environment (CSE) lost about $13 billion in China’s has welcomed the stock market crash.Wang recently move by an expert overtook Hong Kong billionaire committee set up by Li Cashing as Asia’s richest man. the Ministry of Women Wang spent 16 years as a soldier and Child Development before achieving billionaire status (MWCD) which has by amassing an empire as founder recommended ban on of the Dalian Wanda Group, a sale of junk foods in conglomerate that operates in real school canteens and estate and entertainment. Source PTI Wang Jialing within 200 meters of school in its report submitted to the ministry this week. The committee, chaired by T. Longvah, director-in-charge, National THE WORLD’S HIGHEST PAID ACTRESS Institute of Nutrition, Hyderabad, was asked to look into the issues Jennifer Lawrence has been named the world’s related to growing problems of obesity in children and its relationship highest-paid actress after earning $52m in with consumption of junk food.In its report, the committee expressed the past year. The star, who won an Oscar for its concern on rising childhood obesity, diabetes and hypertension and Silver Linings Playbook in 2013, topped up reviewed how junk food is regulated across several countries and the available legislative and institutional frameworks in India. Source PTI of the fashion company Dior. 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Hustle origin are among 29 Source PTI people, who have been OIL SINKS TO $40 been named as Fellows US oil prices dived again last week, this year by the American threatening to dip below $40 Society for Metals, for their contributions in atheir barrel longest for weeklythe first losing time streaksince science and engineering. thesince financial 1986, as crisis a drop and in notchingChinese Thethe fieldIndian of materialsFellows manufacturing rattled global are - Pradeep Goyal, Vivekanand Kain, and Gankidi Madhusudhan markets.World stock and currency Reddy, while the Indian-origin achievers are - Pranesh Aswath, Suveen markets joined an extended rout across raw materials this week, a slump accelerated 21st Aug. by data showing activity in China’s factory sector Mathaudhu, Muthukumarasamy Sadayappan. 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The two students played out across Poland from 1939- spent four hours after school poring over 1945: a German invasion from the west, n-number of images and ended up making a Soviet invasion from the east, the the preliminary discovery. Source PTI murder of Jews across occupied Poland DID YOU KNOW? Germans after Adolf Hitler turned on andformer fighting ally Josef between Stalin. the SovietsSource and PTI A 16-year-old Indian-Canadian boy has developed a personalised search engine that he claims is 47 per cent more accurate than Google.Anmol Tukrel made the search engine for Google Science Fair, a global competition that is open for students aged between 13 to 18 years. 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