BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI CLICK HERE: WWW.TOISTUDENT.COM STUDENT EDITION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 2020 Newspaper in Education Google adds new feature; India's FOREX RESERVES cross half WEB EDITION update will show a trillion dollars for the first time ❛ COVID-19 TESTING LABS QUOTE UNQUOTE Photo: Getty images ❛ India’s foreign exchange WHAT: reserves (Forex) rose "As a person $8.2 billion in the week of June 5 who has and has now crossed the milestone experienced $500 billion mark for the first time in the country’s history. Forex re- mental ill- serves are external assets in the form ness, I cannot of gold, SDRs (special drawing rights of the International Monetary Fund) stress enough and foreign currency assets (capi- about the tal inflows to the capital mar- importance of reaching out. kets, FDI and external commercial borrow- ING Talk. Communicate. Express. ings) accumulated by RN W Seek help. 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And most importantly, help users find infor- in English, along with pressed in US dol- there is hope" mation on Covid-19 test- TECH BUZZ eight other languages lars, foreign cur- ing centres near them. in India — Hindi, Ben- rency assets in- DEEPIKA PADUKONE, actor, on Google is working with the Indi- gali, Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, clude the effect of T mental health Newspaper in an Council of Medical Research Kannada, Marathi and Gujarati, appreciation or de- I Education E (ICMR) and MyGov to provide it added. preciation of non- M I For more: Check Page 2 US currencies, such N as the euro, pound and E S ➤ While making a coronavirus-related search (for example, yen held in the reserves. The rising reserves have also SUMMER DIGITAL 'coronavirus testing') on Search and Google Assistant, users will THE SIGNIFICANCE helped in strengthening rupee now see a 'Testing' tab on the search results page providing a ARE FOREX RISING DESPITE ECO- PROJECTS FOR WHY NOMIC SLOWDOWN: Accord- The rising forex reserves is an added against the dollar list of nearby testing labs, along with key information and guid- 2 YOU TO MASTER ing to experts, the major reason for advantage for any government. It is an ance needed before using their services the rise in forex reserves is the rise economic boost to the government and It also gives confidence to ➤ in investment in foreign portfolio 1 Start a family blog or construct At present, Google has integrated over 700 testing labs on the Reserve Bank of India in managing India’s the markets that the country investors in Indian stocks and for- a family website (Weebly or Search, Assistant and Maps spread across 300 cities. Google external and internal financial issues at a can meet its external eign direct investments (FDIs). For- 3 Google Sites). Decide which said, it is working with authorities to identify and add more test- eign investors have acquired stakes time, when the growth is set to contract by obligations, and keep a reserve for 1 ing labs located across the country in several Indian companies in the 1.5 per cent in 2020-21 emergency situations family members will have access – last two months. grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins – and invite them to help with content. Ask extended family CLICK members to contribute as well NEWS HERE FOR Photo: Getty images NEWSWS ININ IN BRIEF MORE A CLASS IX STUDENT INVENTS A 'LIGHT MOTORCYCLE' FROM SCRAP MILLIONS OF MICROPLASTIC PARTICLES ARE SPI- class IX student, Arshad TH, RALLING THROUGH THE EARTH'S ATMOSPHERE has developed a light motorcy- YOUNG CLUES A cle by using scrap materials from his father's automobile f reports are to go by, workshop in Kochi. A stu- tiny pieces of plastic, ACHIEVER dent of SDPY school at Pal- known as microplas- ➤ I luruthy, Kochi, Arshad The bike has a petrol This country is officially the 19th tics, are filling made the innovative mo- the Earth's at- tank attached to the seat worst-hit by pandemic torcycle in one- and- a half mosphere, and and handles, with the months by putting together have been dis- DID the scrap parts. “I first want- capacity to hold one litre CLUE 1: The farthest covered rain- Teach yourself a bit about The most dis- YOU ed to create a bike when I of fuel. Arshad claimed ing down on US coding. If no one in your place on land from sea is KNOW saw an iron pipe and engine tant point parks, like the that the bike can travel up located here of a motorbike in my fa- family knows much about the from an ocean Grand Canyon, to 50 km on a full tank. 2 CLUE 2: It is a perma- ther's workshop during the topic, MIT's Scratch (free down- claim researchers. Photo: Getty images ➤ is the Eurasian lockdown. At first, my fa- Manufactured with scrap nent member of the According to reports load or use the website) offers a ther scolded me but halfway tyres, disc brakes, LED Pole of Inaccessibility, published in ‘Daily ➤ In 2017, the world produced around United Nations Security through the process, he basic graphical coding introduc- located in the desert of Mail’, more than 1,000 lights, handles of other 348 million tons of plastic. It is helped me, and it got com- tion. Scratch is easy and user- Council tons of microplastics China's Xinjiang region, believed that this figure has only pleted in one and a half bikes and carrier and the CLUE 3: It joined the were discovered in over friendly, and you can have fun near the border with month. It was made using seat of bicycles, Arshad 11 US locations, including increased year on year, since then designing mini-video games. World Trade Organisation the parts of many bikes. I Kazakhstan protected areas, having ➤ Plastic is highly-resilient and lasts a spent nearly ` 10,000 to in 2011 wish to manufacture a trol- travelled through the air, develop a light motorcycle long time before breaking down. The ley next,”Arshad said. Organise the family’s digital like rain. High-resolution ANSWER: CHINA. China on Sunday reported its equipment was used to microplastics, known to accumulate in photos. Adults and kid picture- highest daily total of new coronavirus infections in discover samples of this wastewaters, rivers and oceans, have 3 takers can get together a few two months, raising fears that reopening of the plastic pollution that had also accumulated in the atmosphere INDIA LEADS INITIATIVE AT UN TO COUNT- times to download, sort, label, and rained down. country has caused a second wave ER MISINFORMATION ON COVID-19 back-up the photos on all of the digi- ndia, along with 12 other coun- tal devices in the house. Think about NEIL GAIMAN TO RELEASE tries, has led an initiative aimed turning some of the picture albums ABHISHEK BACHCHAN'S DIGITAL NEW BOOK FOR KIDS Iat spreading fact-based content into picture books or calendars (gifts to counter misinformation on the or mementos) at sites like DEBUT 'BREATHE: INTO THE SHADOWS' coronavirus, with over 130 nations CLUES eil Gaiman,author of the comic endorsing the global call to fight iPhoto/iTunes, Shutterfly, or Blurb. TO RELEASE ON JULY 10 book series, ‘The Sandman’ will the "infodemic" relating to the Consider uploading some of these mazon Prime Video's latest series, Nbe releasing a new children's book Covid-19 pandemic. On the initia- pictures to a digital frame to gift ‘Breathe: Into The Shadows’, featur- with Chris Riddell. Titled, ‘Pirate Stew’, tive by Australia, Chile, France, your grandparents or friends. Aing Abhishek Bachchan, is all set to it was written by Gaiman over a decade Georgia, India, Indonesia, Latvia, release on July 10. The psychological-crime ago. A pirate adventure, Lebanon, Mauritius, Mexico, Nor- A GIANT LEAP thriller, created and produced by Abundantia the book will be illustrat- BOOK way, Senegal and South Africa, a Help a senior citizen or elder ed by Chris Riddell, who total of 132 member states endorsed a cross-regional statement in your family or community ENTERTAINMENT also worked with Gaiman on ‘The on "infodemic" or manipulated information. to become more confident on Graveyard Book’, ‘Coraline’ 4 Entertainment, marks Abhishek's digital and ‘Fortunately, the ➤ UN secretary general Antonio Guterres has said that apart from a computer mobile phone or iPad. debut, along with Southern star Nithya Milk’. The book is due fighting the Covid-19 pandemic, the world is also seeing a "dangerous Check out the iPad for Dad series Menen. ‘Breathe: Into The Shadows’ will see to come out on De- at AsOurParentsAge.net or help actor Amit Sadh reprise his role as inspector cember 1, 2020. outbreak" of misinformation about harmful health advice, hate Kabir Sawant from the first chapter of the se- speech and wild conspiracy theories. An antidote to this misinforma- them learn more about the scams ries in 2018. tion is fact-based news and analysis, he added that cause so many problems for the elders. dential or personal data, or gain trust to cause harm in due course. Be careful of WANT How to use FACEBOOK, online friend requests you accept. 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