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Know more about Education EDITION it all her medal hopes at Olympics PAGE 2 TWITTER TO LET PAGE 3 PAGE 4 USERS CHANGE WHO CAN REPLY TO CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 TWEETS AFTER POSTING TOKYO OLYMPICS THE X-PLAINED COUNTDOWN GHOST BEGINS TECHAWAY Cheer for India GEAR n a bid to give more power to its users, Twitter has the ‘Hindustani rolled out a new feature WHAT WHY I where you can decide who Recently, expressing concern Is it dangerous: According to the can reply to your tweet after you Way’ over the depleting number of National Oceanic and Atmospheric post it, a move that will help curb marine mammals, PETA said, Administration (NOAA), ghost fishing gear harassers and abusers on the plat- over 6,50,000 'non-target' wreaks havoc on marine animals and their environment. form. Called 'Change who can marine mammals(or bycatch- The most obvious concern is entanglement. Fish, seals, sea reply', the feature is available in es) are injured and/or killed lions, turtles, dolphins, whales, seabirds, crustaceans— are the three dots menu next to your every year due to the fishing vulnerable to entanglement. If an animal doesn’t die from can we stop it: To stop the de- tweet. "Your Tweets = Your Space. industry. Similarly, according injuries sustained during the entanglement, it will suffo- struction done by ghost gear, an to the World Wildlife cate or starve, trapped. Similarly, a single net has the Now, you can change who can HOWinitiative called the Global Ghost reply to you even after Fund(WWF), ghost gear is the potential to destroy an entire coral reef, killing some of Gear Initiative(GGGI) has been launched. Started in 2015, it brings you Tweet," the most-deadly form of marine the animals that live there, wiping out the habitat of many together more than 100 stakeholder groups, including 17 na- plastic debris. According to others, and damaging an already sensitive ecosystem for tional governments as well as representatives from the civil so- company said. experts, ghost gear is any dis- years to come. Ghost fishing gear can also transport inva- ciety, the private sector and others from across the fishing in- he Union minister for youth carded, lost or abandoned sive species to new areas. And it can be ingested by dustry. In India, in 2018, the Kerala government launched the Currently, the affairs and sports Anurag fishing nets, traps and pots in marine animals, which can lead to injury and death. It can ‘Suchitwa Sagaram’ scheme to collect ghost gear, which is fed users can limit who the marine environment. act as a hazard to navigation as well. Thakur has launched into a plastic shredding machine. replied to your tweets, T Team India's official cheer but they have song 'Hindustani Way', ahead of the Ghost nets make up 46% of the Great BEST OUT OF GHOST GEAR Pacific Garbage Patch (now about thrice to set that preference upcoming Tokyo Olympics, beginning If reports are to go by, a new market for 'green plastics' is report- the size of France) and up to 10% of all while writing the July 23. The song, titled, 'Hindustani edly emerging— from shoes partially made from ocean plastics to the marine litter. Interestingly, it takes about swimsuits made from ghost nets, and products such as skateboards, tweet Way', has been sung by pop singer 400-600 years for ghost fishing nets to sunglasses, athleisure wear, among others, are being produced from Ananya Birla and composed by naturally decompose old fishing gear and are getting popular among the scuba divers veteran music composer, AR Rahman. With the new feature, the In typical Rahman fashion, it’s heavy 1 users can change who can The Indian Space Research reply at a later time on rousing beats. ISRO SUCCESSFULLY The objective of the Gaganyaan pro- the human spaceflight demonstration Organisation (ISRO) on gramme is to demonstrate the capability Four Indian astronaut-candidates have To change who can reply, The video for ‘Hindustani Way’ begins with an Indian TEST FIRES LIQUID to send humans to low Earth orbit already undergone generic space flight click or tap the three-dot family watching Leander Paes in action at the 1996 Wednesday successfully 2 FUEL ENGINE FOR onboard an Indian launch vehicle and training in Russia as part of the Atlanta Olympics, where Paes won a bronze to end conducted the third long- menu on a tweet and look for bring them back to the Earth. Gaganyaan programme India’s 16-year drought without an Olympic medal. GAGANYAAN the option in the menu duration hot test of the liquid The Union minister of state ISRO's heavy-lift launcher GSLV Mk III The video then goes on to follow the same family, as (Independent charge) of space, Jitendra has been identified for the mission The new feature will soon it maps some of India’s Olympic medal winners since propellant Vikas engine for Singh, said in February this year that the The formal announcement of the be available on iOS, then— Rajyavardhan Rathore(2004), Abhinav Bindra the Gaganyaan programme, 3 first unmanned mission is planned in Gaganyaan programme was made by PM Android and the web globally (2008), PV Sindhu (2016) — interspersed with shots the country's first manned December 2021 and the second Narendra Modi during his Independence of Rahman dancing and Ananya singing mission to space... unmanned one in 2022-23, followed by Day address on August 15, 2018 Are you facing issues related to your academics, mental EMMY NOMINEES ANNOUNCED: 'THE CROWN' health, etc? 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