MONDAY WISE WORDS » 18.05.2020 If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to NEW DELHI keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress. BARACK OBAMA NEW DELHI n Vol. XCVI No. 118 n Price ₹2.50 n 2 Pages. www.hindustantimes.com/ht-school n [email protected] MEET LEO, SEA LION & ARTIST (Anticlockwise, from left) The sea lion named Leo draws a figure of Amabie, a mythical mermaid said to repel plagues, at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium on the outskirts of Tokyo last week; Leo with his completed work; the sea lion gets a fish as reward for his creativity. PHOTOS: AFP llLIFE UNDER COVID SHADOW l IN THE NEWS Schedule for pending Class 10 and 12 board How children craft DEAR READER, Hindustan Times is coming to you in this new avatar at a exams to be announced today, says CBSE time when our normal lives and activities have been disrupted NEW DELHI : The Central Board of Secondary by the challenge posed by the Coronavirus disease (Covid-19). their own escapes in your class- HT School Edition Education (CBSE) is expected to declare Paramita Ghosh a certain world-weariness. Orra You have been reading the the schedule for the pending Class 10 and Singh, 9, a student of KR Mangalam rooms.Now, with schools closed and a lockdown in place, we 12 board examinations today. have created this specially curated e-paper to cater to your NEW DELHI: If Alice in Wonderland has World School, Delhi, has “too The schedule that was earlier to have varied interests and your appetite for knowledge. taught us anything, it’s that chil- many engagements”. “I have no been announced on Saturday, was dren have their own escape routes, free time,” she says, echoing what A special feature of this new e-paper will be the ’You’ section, delayed in view of additional technical and their world of make-believe is many adults are feeling. She has dedicated to your experiences during the lockdown, and how aspects that were to be taken into consid- its own reality. In times of crisis, now learnt to tackle the challenges you’re spending these unusual days. Apart from the contribu- eration before finalising the schedule. the young can often find their way. of attending classes online, trying tions from students, insights from teachers and principals will “The CBSE is taking into consideration also be featured in these columns. They will take cues from their par- to catch her teacher’s attention some additional technical aspects before ents, but how well they are able to with 30 other kids on the screen, As you engage with this special edition, we request you to finalising the date sheets of the board n The schedule was delayed in view of adjust to new and trying circum- asking questions via a chat win- keep sharing your views on it. Let us know what you like and exams of classes 10th and 12th, due to additional technical aspects that have stances can depend on a range of dow. But she still misses her old what you don’t, and what else you would like to read. Your which, the date sheets will now be to be taken into consideration before feedback will help us fine-tune this offering so that it better other factors — their age, personal- routine. “I feel stuck at home. I released by Monday (18-05-2020). Incon- finalising the board exam dates PTI FILE reflects exactly what you want. ity, imagination, previous expo- can’t meet friends, and after a venience caused is sincerely regretted exams are only pending in North-east sure to adversity, and the degree of delivery man caught the virus, I We at HT believe that the readers of today are the leaders of (sic),” Union HRD Minister Ramesh Pok- Delhi where they were affected due to the confidence and safety they feel in can get no pizza either.” Her pets — tomorrow. So let us begin this journey together. hriyal ‘Nishank’ had tweeted on Satur- law and order situation. their home environment. the seven cats at home and 20 in her day. The ministry had earlier announced Universities and schools across the lane — keep her sane, she says. Her that the pending Class 10 and 12 CBSE country have been closed and exams post- DUAL REALITIES silver lining is that her dad, a pho- German football exams, which were postponed due to the poned since March 16 when the Centre Rhianna Majumder, 12, a student tographer who spends most of the Covid-19-induced lockdown, would be announced a countrywide classroom of La Martiniere, Kolkata, has her year in Dubai, has been at home kicks off as Europe conducted from July 1 to 15. The schedule, shutdown as one of the measures to con- feet in two worlds. There are her since Holi. modalities and guidelines for the same tain the Covid-19 outbreak. online lessons, the newspaper, her are, however, yet to be announced. The board was unable to conduct Class current-affairs scrapbook, watch- LOOKING AHEAD begins reopening While the Class 12 exams will be con- 10 and 12 exams on eight examination days ing classics with her parents. And Who is more scared now – the child ducted across the country, the Class 10 due to the coronavirus outbreak. PTI her secret other world, which she or the parent? “Mum has more at BERLIN : Top-flight football in Germany retreats to when she feels anxious, stake than me,” says Pramit kicked off again on the weekend, becom- that lives in her diary. “Writing the Kumar Das, 17, a student of DPS, ing the first major sports league in the daily diary is my most important RK Puram, who lives with his world to resume play, as parts of Europe Artemis Accords the daily ritual. I pour out my thoughts brother and mother. “She has us, took more tentative steps towards nor- and feelings. In my dream world, I the home to look after and her mality after the devastation unleashed by basis for worldwide have many, many friends waiting office work too.” Helping with the coronavirus pandemic. for me. They know my secrets,” she housework is helping Pramit zone With the worldwide death toll past says. out. He is steering clear of sad 310,000 and the global economy reeling Moon exploration There are also more sombre books and is reading the Koran, from the vast damage caused by lock- notes. Rhianna gathers casual having finished BR Ambedkar’s downs, the reopenings in some of the hard- pact, says Nasa n The rising sea levels threaten to throwaway remarks by her par- Annihilation of Caste. Both are est-hit countries provided much-needed inundate populated coastal cities AP FILE ents. “Budget cuts, job losses, dai- things he wants to discuss with relief from the pandemic. League heavy- WASHINGTON: As Nasa plans to return ly-wage earners all feature in their friends once the lockdown lifts. weights Borussia Dortmund hosted rivals humans to the Moon by 2024 under its conversations. I think we will Youngsters are living for that Schalke at the all-but-empty Signal Iduna Artemis programme, the US space agency ‘Human activities value the food, shelter and cloth- day. When it arrives, Rhianna will Park -- which would usually be packed has laid out certain principles for respon- ing, the basics so to say, and be fru- walk around her neighbourhood. with more than 80,000 raucous fans. sible space exploration that will guide all responsible for gal in our spending from now on,” Orra will meet her best friend. And its international partners. she says. Children growing up Pramit will go to school and “hug EERIE SILENCE ACROSS STADIUMS Grounded in the Outer Space Treaty of amid the pandemic are marked by the girl I like”. AS BUNDESLIGA RESTARTS 1967, the Artemis Accords are designed to rising sea levels’ From social distancing substitutes using create a safe and transparent environ- NEW YORK: Sea-level rise, which has accel- airport stairs, to disinfected balls and a ment which facilitates exploration, sci- erated in recent decades, threatens to potential television audience of one bil- ence, and commercial activities for all of permanently inundate densely popu- lion, the Bundesliga enjoyed a chequered humanity to enjoy, Nasa said on Friday. lated coastal cities and communities. restart as the first major sports league to “While Nasa is leading the Artemis pro- According to researchers, modern sea- resume amid the Covid-19 pandemic gram, international partnerships will level rise is linked to human activities play a key role in achieving a sustainable and not to changes in Earth’s orbit. and robust presence on the Moon while The researchers were surprised to find preparing to conduct a human mission to that, over the last 66 million years, there Mars,” Nasa said. International space were times when ice-free conditions coin- agencies that join Nasa in the Artemis cided with carbon dioxide levels that programme will do so by executing bilat- were not much higher than what they eral Artemis Accords agreements. Nasa have reached today. said international cooperation on Arte- According to the study, the scientists n General view of the action and empty mis is intended not only to bolster space also pinpointed time periods that were stands, as play resumes behind closed exploration but to enhance peaceful rela- expected to be ice-free, but glacial ice was n Rhianna Majumder, 12, from Kolkata, escapes into her diary when anxious. ‘I have doors in Berlin REUTERS tionships between nations.