BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤ Check out must-know tips to ➤A student from Ahmedabad ➤ Debate: Umpire call STUDENT EDITION help you detect fake Science writes to Times NIE on how she creates confusion, says TODAY’S news while researching for your explored North-East India, and Kohli. Should it be WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 2021 Newspaper in EDITION projects relives each moment banned? Education PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION TICKER-TAPE CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 China's 31th Antarctic exploration team return to Waigaoqiao dock on April 10, 2015 in Shanghai, China. PEOPLE Icebreaker Xuelong (Snow Dragon) left Shanghai on October 30 in 2014, sailed across Hobart of Australia and finally arrived in Zhongshan Station. File CHHICHHORE BAGS BEST HINDI FILM IN NEWS AT 67TH NATIONAL FILM AWARDS: After late actor Sushant Singh-starrer film ‘Chhichhore’ bagged ‘Best Hindi Film’ accolade at the prestigious 67th TODAY National Film Awards, actor Varun Sharma who also featured in the film dedicated the award to the late star. 5 ‘Chhichhore’ is a movie full of nostalgia CATCH THE RAIN, SAYS PM MODI; and plays on the themes of friendship EMPHASISES ON SAVING WATER and college life. rime Minister Narendra Modi on KANGANA BAGS ‘BEST ACTRESS’ Monday launched ‘Jal Shakti THE FOURTH TIME, THANKS ALL: Abhiyan: Catch the Rain’ P Actress Kangana Ranaut won the campaign for conserving water and China’s Polar Ambition: National Film Award as ‘Best Actress’ for stressed that every penny of MGNREGA the fourth time for her performances in funds be spent on rain water conser- ‘Manikarnika’ and ‘Panga.’ Shortly after vation till the monsoon arrives. How is China occupying key the announcement, she posted a thank- Addressing an event at the virtual spots in Antarctica? you video on social media for the cast launch of the campaign on the World World Sees Red SCIENTIFIC: China has five research and crew of both films, saying her win Water Day, Modi said it is a matter of ith the aim to part of its geopolitical am- Council, in an article for the stations on Antarctica, said Gray, would not be possible without them. concern that majority of rain water in dominate the bitions, according to a re- magazine said that al- adding, Beijing has used some of its Arctic and port published in ‘The though the western coun- India gets wasted. He said the more the rain Antarctic bases for satellite stations water is conserved, the less will be the dependence W Antarctica re- National Interest.’ tries have taken note of Chi- gions, China has been pour- Alexander B Gray, a na’s designs over the Arc- and high-powered telescopes, both of on groundwater. ing investments and ag- Senior Fellow in National tic, however, Beijing’s which have military applications. This day gressively constructing a Security Affairs at the machinations in Antarcti- Despite the warning signs, none of the fleet of polar icebreakers as American Foreign Policy ca remain little-known. that year OUTRAGE OVER HEBDO’S JOKE ON bases have been inspected since 2015. MILITARY: Gray said China’s construc- PALACE-MEGHAN ROW WHO DOES ANTARCTICA BELONG TO? tion of a permanent Antarctic airfield WORLD TB tary nature” are prohibited. in 2018, its growing fleet of icebreak- French magazine used a front-page DAY is Both the United States and ers, and an influx of People’s cartoon of the Queen kneeling on China are signatories to the Liberation Army personnel at Beijing’s celebrated Meghan Markle’s neck. A 2 treaty and its most important research stations are just a few of every year Charlie Hebdo headlined the pic: ‘Why addendum – the 1991 Madrid Protocol, Beijing’s military objectives. Meghan left Buckingham’ and a speech on March which permanently prohibits extrac- bubble from her says: “I couldn't RARE EARTH: Also, Chinese experts tive mining, protects the unique flora 24 annually to breathe any more.” The reference to believe the Madrid Protocol expires in and fauna of the continent. commemorate the date when George Floyd’s death in the US last 2048, along with the accompanying The enforcement mechanism of ban on mining in the Antarctic. This year sparked outrage. Dr Halima Begum, Dr Robert Koch announced his Antarctica is considered a global the Antarctic Treaty and its pro- development has prompted Chinese a head of anti-racism think tank, tweeted: discovery of Mycobacterium commons to be preserved “for 3 tocols is an inspection system, officials to openly speculate about the "#Charlie-Hebdo, this is wrong on every 1 peaceful purposes only” under whereby signatories undertake periodic Southern Continent as a potential tuberculosis, the bacillus that level. It demeans the issues & causes offence, the terms of the 1959 Antarctic visits to the stations maintained by 30 source for rare earth elements. causes TB in 1882. across the board.” Many found it ‘bad humour’. Treaty and “any measures of a mili- countries. WHEN TITANS MEET AI Sophia’s first digital ARTSPHERE: Know About work up for sale World Wisdom Map It is a WHATuni que project featuring life les- Tesla chief Elon Musk and former Amazon CEO Jeff sons and stories of people from Bezos have been feuding publicly for years, but each one of the 195 countries in not many know that the two once met for a the world. The collation and exhi- friendly dinner in 2004. A photograph from the bition of human wisdom is show- cased on an artistic and interac- meeting is currently going viral on social media - obot artist Sophia, whose one artwork selling this month for tive digital world map, which and it even captured Elon Musk’s attention, who first artwork goes up for nearly $70 million. combines visual and wisdom reacted to it on Twitter. auction today, says she “I hope the people like my work, anthropology that people have to EXAMPLES: The map has exclu- draws inspiration for her and the humans and I can collabo- R offer one another, promoting nisms that the people employ sively curated life lessons from work from people and is open to fu- rate in new and exciting ways,” ture creative partnerships with Sophia said. cross-cultural understanding and to make the most of these deep dive segments of humans. creating social impact. strange times of COVID-19. Singapore, transgender women TRUMP ON OWN SOCIAL MEDIA A digital artwork by the Hong The intelligent art Accordin It took of India, influence from across ■ PLATFORM? Kong-based Hanson Robotics hu- Sophia, who was unveiled in 2016, g to the the world including Nobel lau- manoid, in the form of a Non-Fun- produced her art in collaboration team gible Token (NFT), is to be auc- with Italian digital artist Andrea Project HOW reate Jody Williams, Bollywood ormer US president Donald Trump WHY tioned in the first sale of such Bonaceto, known for portraits. Fuel India and Singapore over 11 months to document a actors Abhay Deol, Dia Mirza, is planning to return to social pieces, created jointly with artifi- ■ Called ‘Sophia Instantiation’, the International Foundation’s Arts story for each country. In collab- popular Latvian musician F media by launching his own cial intelligence (AI). digital work is a 12-second MP4 file For Good Projects, this con- oration with 10 Southeast Asian MaraUpmane-Holšteine, platform after being suspended from NFTs, a digital signature saved showing the evolution of Bonace- artists, 30 original pieces have on blockchain ledgers that allows to’s portrait into Sophia’s digital sciousness project further Madame Sophie Trudeau (wife Twitter and Facebook, one of Trump’s anyone to verify the ownership and painting, and is accompanied by a sparks awareness about the het- been created inspired by the life of Canadian PM Justin senior advisors told Fox News. “I do authenticity of items, have become physical artwork, painted by Sophia erogeneity of lifestyles, as well lessons and impact of each of Trudeau), amongst others. think that we’re going to see President the latest investment craze, with on a printout of her self-portrait. as the myriad coping mecha- these stories. Trump returning to social media in probably about two or three months here, with his own platform,” said Trump’s senior adviser Jason Miller. DRIVING DIVERSITY: HAMILTON Raising a ‘French’ toast to Covid chats! READY TO CHASE 8TH F1 TITLE UK students, French Every Monday at 4:30 pm British up the monotony and solitude of Ami’ programme last year, there time — 5.30 pm in France — Elliot Covid restrictions imposed on both have been 110 pairings of French f Lewis Hamilton wins an eighth seniors team up for Bellman, 20, keeps an unlikely sides of the Channel. seniors with French learners. Formula One title, he will move appointment with 97-year-old Bellman goes on to tell her the “The online conversations have one ahead of fellow great lockdown tete-a- I Jacqueline Tolu. latest news from the Warwick helped to stop my French from get- Michael Schumacher. Hamilton's tete to bridge gap “Comment allez-vous?” (how are University, in England, where he is ting rusty — and combat a sense of decision to pen a one-year contract you?) he asks Tolu over Skype. studying French, Spanish and isolation in lockdown. I think that with Mercedes has sparked specula- between Tolu, who lives in a retirement home Japanese. Tolu, in turn, regales him the two groups most affected by tion he may call it quits when the generations and in Bonneuil-sur-Marne, just outside with memories of the 14 years she the lockdown are the younger and sun sets on the F1 season at the Abu of Paris, tells him she is doing fine.