BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI CLICK HERE: WWW.TOISTUDENT.COM STUDENT EDITION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2020 Newspaper in Education Women pilots to WEB EDITION World's richest 1% produced twice as much CO2 fly Rafale, serve emissions as POOREST HALF OF HUMANITY on Board warships IPL Photo: Getty images et ready to soon see a woman tear into 2020 rone to frequent the skies in the new omnirole Rafale flying, a passion PANDEMIC AN fighter, which can also deliver nuclear for SUVs and big OPPORTUNITY TO G weapons. Don’t also be taken aback if spending, the you finally spot women on board an Indian war- PADIKKAL, richest one per RETHINK ship on the high seas. IAF has short-listed one Pcent of the world's popula- of its 10 women fighter pilots to fly the spank- CHAHAL, DE tion produced twice as many The pandemic offers a ing new Rafale jets at the Ambala airbase, even VILLIERS SHINE planet-heating emissions as 1 chance to rethink sys- as the Navy also gets set to deploy two women the poorest half of humani- tems, the authors of the officers as part of the crew for multi-role heli- AS RCB BEAT SRH ty over the last quarter-cen- copters that operate from front- tury, researchers have said. study said. Business travel, linewarships. Young opener Devdutt Padikkal for instance, has shrunk dra- shined on debut before WHAT IT MEANS matically during the pandem- Yuvzvendra Chahal produced a ic, offering "a huge opportu- crafty spell to set up a 10-run win ➤According to scientists, nity" to tax business-class for the Royal Challengers Bangalore this excessive consump- flights, as well as private jets in their opening IPL contest against tion has left little room in and frequent fliers Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday. the world's "carbon Funds raised through budget" for poorer coun- 2 such levies could be tries to grow without used to support the poorest pushing the planet into ➥ by investing in healthcare increasingly-dangerous The research, carried out with the Stockholm Environment Institute, found that over the 25 years between 1990 and 2015, the richest 1% of people and education or to boost climate impacts-— from public transport, digital worsening storms to drove 15% of climate-changing emissions —more than twice the 7% emit- he twin moves infrastructure and other herald a new chapter in water shortages ted by the poorest half measures to make low-car- T the long-standing tussle to ensure the ➤Besides, it also sug- ➥ The richest 10% accounted for 52% of emissions over that period, the bon living easier requisite gender equality in the 15-lakh gests that keeping global study said France has already intro- ➤ strong armed forces. They also come at a Padikkal (56 off 42, 8 fours) climate change under con- ➥ 3 duced tougher taxes on displayed his highly- rated tal- trol will require not just The growing popularity of fuel-guzzling SUVs was a particular problem, with time when the Army is conducting a spe- SUVs, while New Zealand and ent with a half-century before helping poorer countries the vehicles emerging as the second biggest driver of global growth in car- Scotland are shifting away cial board this month to finally grant per- AB de Villiers (51 of 30) provid- to develop , but putting in bon emissions between 2010 and 2018, it said from economic growth as the manent commission to women officers, ed the much-needed final flour- place tough measures to main measure of success ➥ The Oxfam report estimates that the richest 10% of people would have to though it still has no plans to allow them ish to take RCB to 163 for five, curb over-consumption by towards a broader assess- slash their emissions to about 10 times lower than now to keep the world on in the main fighting arms of infantry, after they were sent in to bat. the world's rich ment of "well-being" track for the goal, and do it by 2030 mechanised forces and artillery Chasing 164 for a win, SRH were all out for 153 in 19.4 overs. ➤ BOOK The Sunrisers were on course CLICK for a comfortable chase with KAMALA HARRIS TO GET HER CHILD PRODIGY WRITES HER NEWS HERE FOR Jonny Bairstow (61 off 43) look- BRIEF MORE OWN COMIC BOOK AS FIRST BOOK AT AGE 7 IN ➤The game features a group of heroes ing in ominous touch. Chahal BIRTHDAY GIFT NEXT MONTH called the Marble Knights, who are able (3/18) removed the Englishman bhijita Gupta, who is all of 7-year-old, FANTASY ADVENTURE GAME MARBLE and Vijay Shankar in successive amala Harris is all set to get her own has penned her first book. Titled, to form a party of up to four players to balls in the 16th over to tilt the comic book, chronicling her path from A'Happiness All Around', it was re- KNIGHTS COMES TO APPLE ARCADE battle their opponents, interact with the K childhood to her historic nomination cently launched by 3D world, collect treasure, and solve puz- game decisively in his as US vice president. 'Female Force: Kamala Oxford Bookstores' ➤ team's favour. Harris', part of Tidalwave Productions' Polit- children's wing, Ox- zles ’Marble Knights’ is suitable for ical Power series, is set for release on Oct 21, ford Junior. A col- players of the age of nine and above, and a day after she turns 56. That is less lection of stories can be played on iPhone, iPad, and Apple than two weeks before the Nov 3 TV through the ‘Apple Arcade’ subscrip- US election. YOUNG tion gaming service PRIYANKA CHOPRA The story begins with her ACHIEVER ➤Earlier, Arcade added two new games, JONAS GOES VOCAL birth in California to an deep sea adventure, 'Beyond Blue' by E- FOR LOCAL Indian biologist and poems, the writ- Line Media and the emotional puzzle ings of the book are game, 'A Fold Apart' by Lightning Rod Shyamala Gopalan and In the wake of PM Jamaican economics reportedly unedited Games, on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV so that the innocence, mistakes of the child Narendra Modi’s ➤ professor Donald are not diluted. 'A Fold Apart' makes gamers interact call for Vocal for Harris, and follows GAMING ZONE with paper-like puzzles as they navigate a Local, Priyanka her path to becom- Besides the stories and poems, Abhijita has world where two people have been sepa- pple Arcade has added Marble Knights, a new Chopra Jonas took ing the second worked on the cover page of the book and fantasy adventure game from WayForward rated by their career choices, news portal to her instagram female African- has also made the illustrations herself ➤ A Technologies to its growing catalogue of over iMore reported 'Beyond Blue' game is handle to support American and first 130 games. The title comes from indie outfit, Way- set in the near future, with players Abhijita shares her latest short stories and Forward, developers of ‘DuckTales: Remastered’ woman entrepre- Asian-American US becoming a deep-sea explorer as they try poems on her Facebook page, 'Abhijita and ‘Double Dragon Neon,’ and offers players a mix neurs amid Covid- senator to interact with the ocean Gupta: The little poet' of sword-swinging fantasy mixed with marble ma- 19. “I'm making a nia, reports MacRumors. small start today by supporting few TECH BUZZ WHATSAPP WEB GETS WhatsApp Web users can businesses run by FEWER FEMALE ANTIHEROES inspiring women. check the new feature IN FICTION COMPARED TO MEN: MESSENGER ROOMS These brands have with the help of attach- GILLIAN FLYNN INTEGRATION been impacted by hatsApp is set to intro- ment options that the pandemic and one Girl author Gillian Flynn says, there is a duce a new feature that appears alongside the lack of female anti-heroes in fiction and this is W will let web users jump my hope is that we G why her characters, especially women, do not to Messenger through an inte- typing box. The can help give them belong to the binary of good or evil. The author, who gration built within the app. Messenger Rooms inte- and their businesses a boost.” said has also written "Sharp Ob- Facebook-owned WhatsApp on gration will mean that jects", is often credited for CELEB TALK Monday added a new feature to Priyanka. “I’ve shared their profiles on creating the not-so-perfect the web interface of the mes- users can create group my stories... please support them, give and evil-to-the-core women characters that are re- saging app that lets you create a video calls of up to 50 them a follow or make a purchase, what- freshing to read about. Flynn said the world of litera- room in Messenger and have a ture and cinema is full of male anti-heroes but their video call with friends. people for free ever you can do helps. SupportSmallBiz” female counterparts are largely missing from the scene. she added. An Ig Nobel for PM Modi rime Minister Narendra Modi, along ANDRIJ PAREKH MAKES INDIA with his counterparts from Brazil, P UK, Mexico, Belarus, USA, Turkey, Russia and Turkmenistan has been named on the Ig Nobel Prize for 2020. PROUD AT EMMYS 2020 The leaders have been named for the ‘med- ical education prize’ “for using the Covid- irector Andrij Parekh, 19 viral pandemic to teach the world the Indian connect in Schitt’s Creek became the first comedy programme to that politicians can have a more im- the Emmys 2020 win- sweep all seven of the major series prize categories on mediate effect on life and death than D ner roster, has dedicat- scientists and doctors can”.