BENNETT, COLEMAN & CO. LTD. | ESTABLISHED 1838 | TIMESOFINDIA.COM | NEW DELHI ➤ A fashion expert ➤ Students share their ➤ Explained: How and STUDENT EDITION explains how upcycling is weekend plan why Mumbai Indians TODAY’S the latest trend, and its ➤ manage to get raw THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 What are you reviewing this Newspaper in EDITION benefits week? talents Education PAGE 2 PAGE 3 PAGE 4 WEB EDITION CLICK HERE: PAGE 1 AND 2 After being the worst in How students and teachers can 14-year-old's virtual 2020, RUPEE is now classroom app wins stay safe amid schools reopening IIT, Roorkee's app among the best-pperforming innovation challenge ith the com- and tables) need to be wiped mencement of na- EDUCATION with disinfectant regularly. Pro- ourteen-year-old Aritra Asian currencies tionwide vaccina- mote regular and thorough Neogi, a class IX student W tion drive and the hand-washing among the chil- F of Kendriya Vidyalaya falling numbers of active Covid- dren; place sanitising hand rub (AFS), Barrackpore, West Ben- he Indian rupee, which was the worst-performing Asian cur- 19 cases, the Centre has decid- dispensers in prominent places gal, has won the IIT, Roorkee's E- rency in 2020, has managed to improve its performance, and ed to slowly allow schools to re- around the workplace.Teach Summit'21 App Innovation Chal- open. Starting in phases, the children the essence of practis- lenge for his app named 'Yesmam slowly gaining foot to become one of the best-performing schools have re-opened for the ing respiratory hygiene, and us- —Realtime Classroom'. Aritra's currencies in Asia, reported Bloomberg. The inflows into students of classes X and XII. ing a mask to cover the face and app facilitates virtual classroom T With the junior classes also all the nose. Restrict social events, education through faster inter- India's stock markets, is one of the key reasons for its good showing. The set to re open in phases, experts assemblies and even gathering action between teachers and stu- rupee appreciated 11 paise to 72.54 against the US dollar in the opening share tips on the precautionary at student canteens, and the dents. trade on Monday, supported by sustained foreign measures needed for the safety habit of sharing food. of the students... fund inflows and weakness of the American MANDATORY THERMAL SCREENING: currency in the overseas market. HYBRID SCHOOL MODEL: A combi- No person with the slightest of nation of distance/virtual iting the number of students, PROPER HYGIENE: School authori- symptoms like fever or cough learning and in-person/tradi- who will come to school in one ties should make sure that the should be allowed in the prem- According to Bloomberg, the tional form of schooling, the hy- go, so that social distancing can building is clean and hygienic ise, and should be recommend- currency could see a further brid school model involves lim- be maintained effectively. — surfaces and objects (eg desks ed immediate self-isolation. impetus for more gains on Friday, with the latest economic growth figures Aritra received a certificate from IIT, Roorkee, along with India had forecast a robust NASA releases audio from Mars Codingal Merchandise. IIT, economic growth of 11% for Roorkee organised this com- the coming fiscal year in its ASA has released a petition a few weeks ago in annual economic survey, after a new video from its The video shows footage partnership with Codingal, an massive Covid-19 vaccination Mars 2020 Persever- after the spacecraft entered online coding platform for K-12 N ance rover, which the Red Planet's upper atmos- (school) students drive, and a rebound in consumer chronicles the major milestones phere at 20,100 kilometre Manas Hejmadi (St Paul's demand and investments during the final minutes of its entry, descent, and landing per hour. It opens in black, English School, Bengaluru) and The Indian economy, which the (EDL) on the Red Planet on Feb- with the camera lens still cov- Lakshay Kumar (Jiva Public International Monetary Fund singled ruary 18. A microphone on the ered within the parachute School, Faridabad) of classes XI rover has also provided the first compartment and XII were the first and second out as a global bright spot only a few years ago, is set to audio recording of the sounds Within less than a second, runners up, respectively contract 7.7% in the current fiscal year, its worst perform- from Mars. About 10 seconds the spacecraft's parachute While Manas developed ance in four decades, the government said in its report into the 60-second recording, a Martian breeze is audible for a deploys and transforms from 'TrashTag', an app that uses QR few seconds, as are the me- a compressed 46-by-66 cen- codes to incentivise garbage dis- But the government predicts that the rollout of vaccines A key objective of the heat shield dropping chanical sounds of the rover timetre cylinder of nylon, posal, Lakshay developed against Covid-19, which has killed 153,847 Indians, will re- operating on the surface. From Perseverance's mission away after protecting Technora, and Kevlar into a 'Neorky', an app to help unem- energise Asia's third-largest economy next year, putting it the moment of parachute in- on Mars is astrobiolo- Perseverance from scorching fully inflated 21.5-metre-wide ployed people find short-term on track to post the strongest growth since India liber- flation, the camera system cov- gy, including the temperatures during its ers the entirety of the descent canopy — the largest-ever jobs or projects nearby search for signs of entry into the Martian alised its economy in 1991 process, showing some of the sent to Mars rover's intense ride to Mars' ancient microbial life atmosphere The video also captures Jezero Crater. Now, women in Saudi AMAR CHITRA KATHA COMICS TO BE Obama, Springsteen team up PUBLISHED FOR YOUNG READERS Arabia can take up ublishing house for Spotify-exclusive podcast HarperCollins India and arms and join military Amar Chitra Katha(AKC) Former US President Barack Obama and rockstar Bruce Springsteen have have announced a new ENTERTAINMENT turned hosts for a podcast exclusively for the audio platform, Spotify. In P the first episode of the show, 'Renegades: Born in the USA', they collaboration to publish "a first-time talked about "race, fatherhood, marriage, and the state of adaptation of popular ACK comics America", The Verge reported. The first season will contain eight into a narrative format for young episodes in total, the first two of which went live on Monday. children". The collaboration will "bring the beautiful folktales of The podcast, produced by was, as it is, and as it ought India from our iconic comic books Barack and Michelle Obama’s to be going forward," Spotify into an exciting new format for the production company, said in a statement younger readers," said Preeti Vyas, BOOK Higher Ground, is decided- In 2019, Spotify signed an the President and CEO of Amar ly the highest-profile col- exclusive deal with the Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd, adding, "Since This series, meticulously put together by laboration in the history Obamas to produce our comic books are typically read the writers, brings some of the greatest of podcasting podcasts. Their first by children in the 8-14 age group, folktales in the ACK catalogue. Each book "It is a personal, in- production, ‘The Michelle we believe that these early chapter in the series is adapted from the original depth discussion between Obama Podcast’, was the top omen in books will help us take these engag- Jobs have been gradually open- Amar Chitra Katha comics, and aims to two friends exploring their global podcast, when it Saudi ing stories to a younger age group, Arabia can ing up for the Saudi women, bring the reader closer to the thoughts pasts, their beliefs, and the launched last summer W and open up our treasure trove of now take up arms and whose increased participation in and traditions that has shaped our coun- country that they love, as it stories to a new audience." enter the military, the the workforce is part of Crown try's identity latest profession in the Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s kingdom, to open up to plans to transform the Arab female recruits. The world’s largest economy. It is Saudi Arabian women now common to see them work- Primary education in mother tongue can boost children’s can be employed as sol- ing as cashiers in shopping malls, diers, lance cor- and taking up roles that porals, corpo- were previously limited self-esteem and creativity: M Venkaiah Naidu rals, sergeants, to men, such as waiting tables in restaurants and staff ser- rimary education in geants, accord- and brewing cappucci- Referring to multiple studies, Naidu The VP further said that with hun- mother tongue can boost VIEWPOINT ing to the Saudi- nos in coffee houses said, teaching through mother tongue dreds of languages co-existing, lin- WOMEN children’s self-esteem based Arab News. POWER in the initial stages of education can guistic diversity is one of the corner- P and creativity, and it boost a child’s self-esteem and stones of "our ancient civilisation". The plan to allow women into the military was first should be made the primary medium enhance his or her creativity. Observing how "our mother tongues announced in 2019, the same year the kingdom said that of instruction at least until class V, Calling the New Education can evoke an emotional response in Policy(NEP) a visionary and progres- the people", Naidu called them an it would allow women to leave the country without per- Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu has mission from a male relative, a major step towards end- sive document, he urged for its imple- "important link to our socio-cultural said.