BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤Board exams are round the ➤As we battle stress in this ➤ IPL 2021: New-look RCB STUDENT EDITION corner. Check your physics pandemic times, experts share takes on defending TODAY’S quotient with the physics sample quick tricks to kick-start your champions MI in the opening FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021 Newspaper in EDITION paper, prepared by your teacher happy hormones match, amid Covid scare Education PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 VIEWPOINT IMA URGES PM MODI TO OPEN CRISTIANOMukesh RONALDO Ambani BECOMESfirst, Adani FOOTBALL'S 2nd on COVID VACCINATION FOR ALL HIGHEST-GOALForbes 10 SCORERrichest Indian billionaires ABOVE 18 YEARS 2021 list WANT OR NEED... Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases in India reported the highest-ever the country, the Indian Medical 1,26,789 new Covid-19 cases in the ith a net worth of $84.5 Association (IMA) has written to last 24 hours, as per the Union billion, Mukesh Ambani, W the chairman of Reliance Prime Minister Narendra Modi health ministry data on Thursday. Industries Ltd, has secured the first spot on the Forbes 10 richest Indian bil- suggesting that vaccination be India has given more than nine crore lionaires 2021 list. The Adani Group allowed for all people above the doses of vaccine, and Thursday's chairman Gautam Adani is at the sec- tally stood at 9,01,98,673 ond place($50.5 billion). An unprece- age of 18 years dented surge in the wealth of the bil- lionaires comes amid a rapid rise in the The IMA also suggested stock market, even as Covid-19 cases that private sector family STUDENTS' TAKE THE CHALLENGES & HOW TO TAKE continue to rise across the country. 1 clinics should be included According to Forbes, the number of bil- lionaires increased to 140 from 102 last actively in the vaccination drive, As the Our country has a humon- IT FORWARD... EXPERTS SPEAK year, and their collective wealth dou- along with the private hospitals supply of gous working-population aged Let’s remember children’s immune can be dealt with, if the govt takes bled to $596 billion last year. Making vaccination certifi- vaccine is between 20 and 40. It’s time systems are different from the up the programme first in areas, cate mandatory for entering limited, I they are inoculated, lest it adults. So, their immune responses where the infection rate is high. HCL founder Shiv Nadar public places and 2 feel prece- takes a huge toll on the health can vary at different ages— from DR PRAVIN GARG, consulting physician, receiving products is perched on the third dence of the masses, which in turn infancy through the teenage years. Ahmedabad under the public spot on the Forbes 10 rich- should be could effect our economy. The major challenge remains on get- distribution system, est billionaires 2021 list, given to the HARSH KUMAR AGARWAL, ting a clarity on how safe it is to inoc- was also part of the The database of youth above 18 with a net worth of $23.5 priority groups, which class X, National English School, Kolkata ulate the young population years is still not in place. Also, with suggestions made by include the senior citizens billion the association DR SANGITA KESKAR, head of patholo- malls, pubs, cinemas, etc, open, it and those with co-morbidi- With the cases of coronavirus gy, Chinmaya Mission Hospital, conveys a wrong message to the Avenue Supermarts' It said that ties. However, in Covid on a deadly surge, I feel Covid vac- Bengaluru youngsters that Covid affects only founder Radhakishan the availabil- hotspots, where the posi- cine should be made compulsory The major challenge with the gov- the elders. They may not be ready to Damani at $16.5 billion and ity of vacci- 3 tive cases are high, people for everyone above the age of 18, ernment in inoculating the young Kotak Mahindra Bank’s MD take the jab. nation with all doc- above the age of 18, should as it’s the young population, who population lies with the demand and Uday Kotak with a fortune tors and family DR A SRIKANTH, secretary, Indian be vaccinated to break the are venturing out from their supply of the vaccine. However, it of $15.9 billion took the physicians will have a Dental Association, Hyderabad chain. homes for different purpose. positive impact on the fourth and the fifth spot on SAI KRISHNA PRIYA, class X, inoculation drive ADITYA SINGH, class XII, Sadhu SHARE YOUR VIEWS AT [email protected] the list respectively GTAVM, Chennai Vaswani International School, Pune MAHIWAY ASTEROID THAT ELIMINATED SALMA HAYEK JOINS LADY GAGA DINOSAUR GAVE RISE TO MS DHONI ANNOUNCES AMAZON RAINFOREST AND ADAM DRIVER IN RIDLEY ANIMATED SPY SERIES SCOTT'S 'HOUSE OF GUCCI' 'CAPTAIN 7' DID ormer India captain alma Hayek is the latest YOU Reggiani was abandoned after 12 Mahendra Singh Dhoni is set to pro- A-lister in the cast of KNOW years of marriage by Maurizio F duce an animated series, titled 'Captain 7'. S veteran filmmaker Gucci in 1985 for a younger The first season of the spy series, which is cur- Ridley Scott's 'House of Gucci'. woman. She was tried and con- rently in pre-production, will be based on The much-awaited movie will Billed victed of orchestrating her ex- Dhoni, the makers said. The ‘seven’ in feature pop star Lady Gaga as as the husband's assassination on the the title refers to Dhoni's jersey num- Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife country's first steps of his office in Italy in ber, which he donned in many one-day of Guccio Gucci's grandson ‘animated spy 1995 international matches. The project is a Maurizio Gucci (to be played by universe’, the She got the nickname the joint venture between Mahendra Singh Adam Driver). Hayek will essay show will launch Black Widow during the trial Dhoni and wife Sakshi Singh Dhoni's with its first the role of Pina Auriemma, who and served 18 years production house Dhoni Entertainment season in was a clairvoyant friend of before being released Pvt Ltd, and Black White Orange Brands 2022 he asteroid impact that wiped out the Reggiani, reported Deadline. from prison in 2016 dinosaurs from the Earth also gave Pvt Ltd(BWO). T birth to the Amazon rainforest, says a new study. In an analysis of thousands of fossil pollen and leaves, researchers found that the PANDEMIC cataclysmic asteroid impact that resulted in LOSS Evidence of the destruction of nearly 75 per cent of all the NORTH KOREA BECOMES FIRST terrestrial life on the Earth drastically restruc- normalisation of tured the tropical forests. It also set the stage for the evolution of what has become one of India’s economic the planet's most-diverse ecosystems — the country to drop out of Tokyo Olympics neo-tropical rainforest, according to the study. activity: Gita orth Korea's sports ministry has said that its national It will be the first time for Gopinath According to the findings, late Olympic Committee has North Korea to miss a Summer Cretaceous rainforests were charac- 1 decided not to participate in Olympics since 1988, when it terised by an open canopy environment. N boycotted the Seoul Games However, plant diversity declined by the 32nd Olympic Games, in order to pro- tect its players from the world public during the Cold War 2roughly 45 per cent at the Cretaceous- nternational Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Gita Gopinath health crisis caused by Covid-19. The pandemic has already Paleogene (K/Pg) boundary and extinc- pushed back the Tokyo Games has said that there is an evidence of normalisation of However, Japan's Olympic Committee said India’s economic activity, ahead of the annual spring tions were widespread, particularly among to July 23, 2021 — originally I the seed-bearing plants that North Korea has not yet notified it meeting of the IMF and World Bank in Washington. that it wouldn't participate. scheduled for 2020 — and the While the forests recovered over the organisers have scrambled to subsequent six million years, The IMF recently upgraded India’s growth 3 put in place anti-virus measures, such as banning international spectators angiosperms or the flowering plants, came FYI: All International Olympic projection for the financial year 2021-22 to ensure the safety of athletes and residents to dominate the forests, said the study Committee member countries While North Korea claims to be coronavirus-free, outsiders remain (FY22) upwards to 12.5% from 11.5% earlier, This transition led to the closed are required to take part in doubtful about whether the country has escaped the pandemic entirely, but cautioned that the outlook did not factor 4canopy structure and the layered, ver- tical distribution of plant biodiversity that each Games under the given its poor health infrastructure, and a porous border it shares with in “sever risks”, arising out of the ongoing defines the modern tropical rainforests Olympic charter China, its economic lifeline second wave of Covid-19 In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded. MOCK PAPERS -Terry Pratchett 02 FRIDAY, APRIL 9, 2021 TAKETAKE THETHE QUANTUMQUANTUM LEAPLEAP CLASS: XII - 2020-21 SUBJECT: TO SUCCESS IN PHYSICS PHYSICS (CBSE) TO SUCCESS IN PHYSICS Maximum Marks: 55 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS PRACTICE PAPER SET BY MANJU RATHEE, PGT (PHYSICS), UDGAM SCHOOL FOR CHILDREN, AHMEDABAD You may use the following values of physical constants wherever necessary. screen by travelling different distances Q21. Draw a plot of potential energy of c = 3 × 108 m/s and hence alternate bright and dark a pair of nucleons as a function of their h = 6.63 × 10-34Js fringes are formed on the screen.