BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤ Must know restaurant ➤ Educators and students ➤ Former cricketers STUDENT EDITION etiquette: Some of the share their views on various slam India's poor TODAY’S biggest faux pas that you issues engulfing the country fielding standards MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2021 Newspaper in Education EDITION shouldn't commit and the world PAGE 4 PAGE 2 PAGE 3 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 CRISTIANOROOT BECOMESRONALDO BECOMESFIRST PLAYERFOOTBALL'S TO WORLD'S FIRST HIGHEST-GOAL SCORER SCORE 200 IN 100TH TEST We are not dependent on the existing ngland skipper Joe Root be- FLYING RACE came the first cricketer to two vaccines, as the country is work- Enotch up a double century ing on seven more indigenous vac- in his 100th Test, touching the milestone on the second day of the cines. Simultaneously, we are also CAR UNVEILED first Test against India in Chen- nai. The 30-year-old reached his working on the development of more vaccines double hundred, when he lofted because India is a huge country and we need n one of the far-reaching inventions of this century, scientists India’s spinner R Ashwin for a six have unveiled the world's first flying race car. With top speed of over long-on in the second session more players and research to reach out to on day two of the series-opener. I 75mph and 'octocopter' speeders that will see it compete in a new "First batsman in the history of everyone. The Covid-19 inoculation process for event later this year, it is being touted as the Formula One of the skies! Test cricket to score a double cen- people above 50 years of age will tury in his 100th Test – JOE ROOT. Sensational innings from the Eng- start next month. Presently, FEATURES 100kg without a pilot, Named Airspeeder, it will initially land skipper!," the International Covid-19 vaccines are being allowing speed of up to 75 be flown by a remote pilot and Cricket Council (ICC) tweeted. According to experts, miles per hour COST 1 can take off and land vertically, Former Pakistan skipper administered on an emergency Airspeeder Mk3 is a 'giant The craft is in an 'octo- according to its developers Alauda According to Morgan Inzamam ul Haq, who hit 184 basis, under full observation and technical leap forward, as it copter X formation' that Aeronautics Stanley, the electron- against India in Bengaluru in includes a suite of technolo- gives advantage to pilots in a controlled manner. If the ic vertical take off According to a report in Daily 2005, held the previous best gies never seen in an elec- when it comes to manoeu- and landing industry mail, its first foray into the score in the 100th Test vaccines are released in the trical flying vehicle before vrability and stability when is likely to be more 2 world of racing will see it operat- Root became the ninth open market, there won't be This includes LiDAR and racing, the firm claimed than $1.5 trillion by ed remotely for a racing series that player in the history of the Radar collision avoidance While racing, the pilot will any control over them. The 2050 will act as a 'technical test-bed', ahead game to score a ton on his systems, creating a 'virtual be able to make the same decision will be taken as the of a crewed racing series in 2022 100th appearance, when he forcefield' around the craft, sharp hairpin style turns as the new version has seen The flying vehicle has been in brought up his 20th hundred situation demands a carbon fibre frame and a Formula 1 car, but with its power increased by 95 development for more than He joined the likes of fuselage designed for the added third dimension per cent with only a 50 per 3 three years and is part of a bid compatriot Alastair HARSH VARDHAN, strength, stiffness and of being able to move cent weight increase to create a sport that can 'accelerate Cook, South Africa's Union health minis- lightweight properties vertically It has a 96 kW electric a new clean-air aerial mobility revolu- Graeme Smith and Compared to the Mk2, tion' ter, on the Covid-19 unveiled earlier this year, powertrain and weighs (Source: Daily Mail) India's Rahul vaccine Dravid, who all have five double INDORE GIRL GETS Pulitzer prize-winning tons ADMISSION IN COLLEGE Virat Kohli remains India’s most-valuable celeb, Jhumpa Lahiri's new book AT THE AGE OF 13, actors Akshay Kumar & Ranveer Singh follow will release in April CREATES A RECORD Team India skipper Virat Kohli retains the top position BOOK as India’s most-valuable celebrity for the fourth consecutive year. His brand value remains steady at $237.7 million in 2020, despite the Covid-19 pandemic IN THE NEWS Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar ranked second with a brand value of $118.9 million, a jump of 13.8 per cent, fol- Instagram to launch 1 lowed by Ranveer Singh with a brand value of $102.9 million vertical feed for The overall brand value of the top 20 celebrities in 2020 is ulitzer prize-winning author Jhumpa estimated at $1 billion, a dip of approximately five per cent Lahiri will be coming out with a new Stories soon anishka Sujit has novel in April, Penguin India has an- created history by 2 from last year Pnounced.The new book, titled 'Where- Facebook-owned Instagram is now passing the class XII examination at While established celebrities continue abouts', follows Lahiri's 2013 novel 'The Low- working on a new vertical feed for T the age of 12, and is now pursuing grad- land' and 2006's 'The Namesake'. Written in Ital- Stories, the way TikTok first used. uation at Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya in Indore to dominate the rankings, notable mil- ian and translated into English by Lahiri, at the age of 13. Tanishka passed her class X ex- 3 lennials with a strong social media 'Whereabouts' is the story of a woman protag- Reels on Instagram has already amination at the age of 11 and was allowed to jump presence have managed to climb the ladder. onist and her journey through life. cloned the feature. to class X, soon after giving her fifth-grade exams, and then she was directly promoted to class XII by Ayushmann Khurrana, Tiger Shroff and Rohit the school authorities, seeing her extra-ordinary Sharma, all jumped a few spots to grab the The woman protagonist, who longs to abilities and skills. It may be noted that there is no No. 6, No. 15 and No. 17 spots, respec- belong but dares not conform, is moving such provision in the education policy of Madhya tively through her life in a city that almost Pradesh that allows any student to jump classes. becomes her companion. "From the side- Tanishka's parents had to struggle to get special Further, Kartik Aaryan permission for their ward to jump classes and pro- walks, parks, and bridges to the pool and mote her to higher classes. debuted at No. 20. 4 These rising millennial the train station that leads her to her griev- ➤ After passing the class X and XII celebrities were in greater ing mother after her father's untimely exams, Tanishka made it to the India Book demand during the pandem- death, she moves through the city, one sea- of Records and Asia Book of Records, ic, owing to their popularity son after another. Until one day, her per- respectively among the youth spective changes” VIEWPOINT According to a TechCrunch BID ADIEU TO DRIVING TESTS Scientists 'teach' spinach to send emails report, navigating with vertical TO GET A DRIVING LICENCE swipes up and down would make magine receiving INTO THE Stories experience more like n order to impart quali- ning to provide accredita- emails from ‘paalak’. Scientists say Reels, recently launched by ty driver training to cit- tion certificates to driver Facebook to compete with the I izens to reduce road ac- training centres in all the Well, scientists have cidents in the country, the states and Union Territories I plants are Chinese short-video making app Central government is plan- (UTs) by the end of this year. actually taught spinach uniquely-qualified Vertical swiping feels more to send emails. Nope, we to detect microscopic natural than taps and horizontal Those who will receive suc- save thousands lives during aren't talking about a flicks, the way we do on smart- cessful driver training from road accidents every year changes in the soil. phones and other apps such centres will be "exempt- The ministry has also issued futuristic science fiction The feature is not live yet ed from the requirement of a draft notification regarding film. Engineers at the "They have an exten- driving test while applying for accreditation of driver training sive root network in Short video making app a driving licence" centres MIT in the US have Instagram Reels is rolling out a But the certificates will be Further, the ministry has also transformed spinach into The researchers used MIT scientists the soil, are constantly new update, allowing users to nanotechnology to turn According to scientists, provided to institutes or train- said that any individual, on sensors, capable of make 30-second videos instead of ing centres, after they achieve successful completion of driver spinach into sensors that the process could be used to sampling groundwater, 15 seconds warning pollution and picked up on nitroaromatics receive early warnings about certain standards training from such centres, will and have a way to self- The company has also in the groundwater.