BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤For parents: Check out ➤How do you plan to spend ➤ Meet the STUDENT EDITION our tips on how to turn your weekend, amid lockdown English TODAY’S your kids into avid readers Champions, Man THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021 Newspaper in ➤Check out your favourite Education City EDITION reviews PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION MAN CITY CROWNED CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 ENGLISH CHAMPIONS TIMES NIE CBSE's 'dost for life' app to counsel Answers Your Query Arv Srivastava, class IX to XII students class X, Jayshree anchester City won their The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has launched a mobile app to solve fifth Premier League title in Periwal Global school, M nine years after crosstown Jaipur the mental health problems of students from classes IX to XII during the ongoing Covid rivals Manchester United slumped to a pandemic. With the help of the app, students and parents will be able to get answers to 2-1 loss to Leicester City on Tuesday How can kids night, marking an extraordinary rise to Qprotect them- their questions on education, health and social topics... power since the takeover of the club by selves from a sup- the Abu Dhabi royal family. posed 3rd wave? Named 'dost for life', the app To ask queries Kids should stay at home, 'DOST Pep Guardiola's men will regarding Covid-19 eat home-cooked food, can be used to improve students' psycho-social wellness now aim to top it off with their and Vaccination from wash hands well and wear maiden European trophy, when masks even at home, if FOR our experts, scan the Free live counselling sessions will they face fellow English side possible. Children should QR Code or visit be conducted for the students take immunity booster in LIFE' Chelsea in the Champions https://bit.ly/331RxDn through this app, the CBSE said. diet like multivitamins, 1 League final on May 29. A At least 83 volunteers have already vitamin C, and D along European trophy would mark a joined for live counselling. Of these, 66 with fruits and vegetables. treble for the side, having are in India, and the rest 17 are in Besides, taking a good tions, internet addiction disorder, already won the League Cup Saudi Arabia, UAE, Nepal, Oman, nap, limited usage of depression and special learning this season Kuwait, Japan and the USA. The coun- gadgets, regular gargle, disability will be removed through the Crosstown rivals selling sessions will be held three days and steam inhalation can help of this app Manchester United, the only work wonders. And of a week— Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 9.30 am to 1.30 pm and The app contains many features, side with a mathematical course, wait for shots for chance of taking the English kids in India. 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm including counselling sessions, expert advice, guidance on what trophy before Tuesday, conced- Content related to education, 3 to do after class XII, mental health tips, ed early against Leicester but society, emotion and behaviour Rudrakshi Singh, and an audio-video protocol related to levelled the scoreline just 5 class XII, Cambridge 2 will be made available in the app. Covid-19 The anxiety related to the examina- minutes later. But a 66th- Court World School, minute strike by Caglar Jaipur Apart from this, the CBSE Board will give another chance to the students of Soyuncu proved to be the win- class X to pass the exams. Students of class X will pass on the basis of ner for Leicester, wiping away United's slim chances and con- internal assessment and half-yearly examination. Despite this, if a student Do masks limit our Oxygen intake? firming City as the English fails, he/she will be given another chance to take compartmental examination QHow are doctors and para medics champions. keeping their morale high? A fitted, good quality mask, if worn properly, will pre- vent the person from coming in contact with the virus. Besides, it does not influ- ence the intake of Oxygen in any way. THIS AI SYSTEM CAN US AUTHORISES PFIZER- FY22 GROWTH MAY SLIP TO Masks are the most-effective way to be BIONTECH VACCINE FOR 8.2% IF SECOND WAVE PEAK safe in this pandemic and is easily avail- DETECT,SARCASM IN able, cost-effective, and covers all age groups. One life 12-15 YEAR OLDS COMES IN END-JUNE: CRISIL saved by any health care worker is worth a million-dol- SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS ndia's economic growth may slip to 8.2 per cent if lar smile and is the best gift of God. That's the way we he US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has the second wave peaks in end of June, domestic rat- keep our morale high by supporting omputer science researchers have developed an artifi- authorised the use of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid- cial intelligence (AI)-based sarcasm detector for posts on 19 vaccine on children aged 12 to 15 years old. ing agency Crisil warned on Monday, maintaining its one another. T I C social media platforms. Sarcasm has been a major Acting FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock described baseline estimate of 11 per cent uptick in activity. The hurdle to increasing the accuracy of sentiment analysis, the move as a "significant step in the fight against the EXPERT ADVICE GIVEN BY especially on social media, since sarcasm relies heavily on vo- Covid-19 pandemic." Today's action allows for a younger agency made it clear that the risks to its 11 per cent cal tones, facial expressions and gestures that cannot be rep- population to be protected from Covid-19, bringing us growth forecast are "firmly tilted downwards", and pre- Dr Sushil Poddar, child special- resented in text. closer to returning to a sense of normalcy and to end- sented two likely scenarios. If the second wave peaks in ist, Director Poddar ing the pandemic, Woodcock said in a statement. "Par- May-end, the GDP expansion will come at Hospital, Jaipur ents and guardians can rest assured that the agency undertook a rigorous and thorough review of all avail- 9.8 per cent, and can go down to The team TECHAWAY able data, as we have with all of our Covid-19 vaccine 8.2 per cent, if the peaking taught the emergency use authorisations," she added. happens in June-end, computer model to find patterns that often it warned. The corona indicate sarcasm and combined that with TEARS OF JOY: MILAN'S FDA said, update teaching the programme to correctly pick out As per official esti- some 1.5 LA SCALA OPERA HOUSE cue words in sequences mates, the economy con- million Covid-19 cases in individuals aged that were more likely to tracted by 7.6 per cent in REOPENS TO PUBLIC 11 to 17 years old have been reported to FY21, because of the national lockdown. There have been a slew of indicate sarcasm the Centers for Disease Control and downward revisions in growth estimates after the emergence of the They taught the Prevention between March 1, 2020 second wave, which has overwhelmed the healthcare apparatus model to do this by and also led to localised lockdowns across the country. through April 30, 2021 feeding it with large The agency said two "gigantic challenges" confront the country, The course of the disease is generally data sets and then including the spread of the second wave and vaccination. On the milder in children but they can pass it on former, it said, while the second wave have been bigger spreaders checked its accuracy to older, more vulnerable adults globally, the death rates are falling in India with the rise in infec- tions. However, India ranks lowest among fully-vaccinated popula- tion, it said, recommending that rendering jabs to half of the popu- lation by festivities in October would be good. ilan's Meet the world's most- leg- Entertainment BAMBOO BATS MAY DRIVE M endary La Scala opera CRICKET IN FUTURE house erupted into huge applause on Monday to 'Instagrammable' bird hail a stirring performance at its triumphant he likes of Virat Kohli, Chris Gayle and Kane Williamson could reopening after six months of silence imposed cientists claim to have identified the world's most- 'Instagrammable' bird well discard their English willow bats for those made from bam- T boo. British scientists have come up with a research saying that by the coronavirus pandemic. The performance – the strange, scruffy-looking frogmouth (Podargidae) from Asia and Australia. cricket bats made of bamboo are a viable option given that they don't came a day before the 75th anniversary of a Researchers in Germany collected 27,621 photos of birds from nine bird-relat- compromise on the 'sweet spot' of traditional willow. "Willow has been historic concert in 1946 that celebrated the ed Instagram accounts, including data on how many likes each photo gar- the principal material for cricket bats for cen- S turies," said Darshil Shah from the Univer- post-war reopening of La Scala, which had been nered. Using an algorithm to analyse their 'aesthetic appeal', they found that the photos sity of Cambridge, who is the co-author of Bamboo, bombed three years earlier and rebuilt. The of frogmouths received the highest number of likes, relative to the posts' exposure to the study. "Despite a good innings, there a grass, is a cheap, musicians and performers were greeted by loud the accounts' followers. are problems with the supply of Eng- plentiful, fast-growing applause and volleys of "Bravos!" from the lish willow.