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RISE IN CYBERATTACKS FROM CHINA. OVER 40,000 CASES IN 5 DAYS

CYBER WORLD TER-MINOLOGIES MALWARE: According toMicrosoft, malware, shortfor malicious software,refers to any kind of soft-ware that "is a designed tocause damage to a singlecomputer, server, or com-puter network." Worms,viruses and trojans are allvarieties of malware. Theyare distinguished from oneanother by the means bywhich they reproduce andspread. These attacks mayrender the computer and

network inoperable, or

grant the attacker rootaccess so that they cancontrol the system remotelyPHISHING: Phishing is atechnique by which cyber-criminals craft emails tofool a target into takingsome harmful action. Therecipient might be trickedinto downloading malwarethat's disguised as animportant documentRANSOMWARE:Ransomwareis a form of malware thatencrypts a victim's files.The attacker then demandsa ransom from the victim torestore access to the dataupon payment

Yes, you heard itright. An artificial-ly-intelligenthumanoid robot has

grabbed the leading role for anupcoming Hollywood sci-fimovie. Titled, 'b', the $70 mil-lion movie will have 'Erica', theeerily human-like androidactress, who will play the roleof a genetically-modifiedsuperhuman, who goes on therun with the scientists whocreated her....

Now, a humanoid is a part of a sci-fi movie Erica, who made her public debut backin 2015, is the brainchild of roboticistHiroshi Ishiguro of Japan's OsakaUniversity, who calls his creation theworld's 'most beautiful and human-likeandroid' The AI-powered android resembles a23-year-old woman. While she can’t movearound by herself, she can tilt her headand blink, sports a sophisticated speech synthesiser, and can use her array of infrared sen-sors to recognise people According to ‘Daily Mail’, her first appearance on the silver screen is the result of a dealwith Los Angeles-based Life Productions, a firm that specialises in AI artistes

Proper positioning and preci-sion landings are not only thecrux of lunar landings, it is

very important for lunar loos as well.A small deviation this way or thatcan cause anything— from an em-

barrassment to a catastrophe.NASA has, therefore, inten-sified its activity on astro-nauts’ excretions. After de-

veloping a $23 million ‘UniversalWaste Management System’ — a hi-tech porta-potty — to be tested on the International Space Station,the premier space agency has now announced a contest for a lunarloo. Given that the first lot of astronauts had to make do with littlemore than plastic bags taped on their posteriors, this effort beingmade to ease their ablutions now is truly commendable.

Out-of-the-box lunar loos

The $35,000 in prize money for the open contest isapparently to tap ideas beyond traditional aerospace engi-neering concepts, as the toilet will have to function in themicrogravity of space as well as lunar gravity, which isone-sixth of what we experience on Earth

THIS DAY THAT YEAR

JUNE 301908: TTuunngguusskkaa

FFiirreebbaallll. Agiant fireball, most likely causedby the air burst of a large mete-oroid or comet, flattens 80 milliontrees near the Stony TunguskaRiver in Yeniseysk Governorate,Russia, in the largest impact eventin recorded history

1936: MargaretMitchell's

novel, 'Gone with the Wind' pub-lished

2019: PresidentDonald Trump

becomes the first sitting US presi-dent to set foot in North Korea inthe Korean Demilitarised Zonemeeting Kim Jong Un

W O R D

Incontrovertible:Means not open to question; indis-putable. It is derived from a Latinadjective, controversus, which liter-ally means, 'turned against.'

W A T C H

WOULD YOU TRY

Chyawanprash/Haldi ice cream?

A Karnataka-based populardairy brand has got every-one talking online after

launching two new ice-cream flavours,however, not for the reasons theywould like. Keeping in mind the healthquotient in food products, Dairy Dayhas launched two new range of ice-cream flavours — Haldi andChyawanprash — to help boost immunity. The two new ice-cream flavours,which also have the goodness of amla,honey and dates, haven’t really whet-ted people’s appetite, at least not onsocial media.

ASTRONAUT ACCIDENTALLY LOSESMIRROR DURING SPACEWALK

US pacewalking astronautadded to the millions ofpieces of junk orbiting

the Earth, losing a small mir-ror, as soon as he stepped out ofthe International Space Stationfor battery work. CommanderChris Cassidy said the mirrorfloated away at about a foot persecond. Mission Control saidthe mirror detached from Cas-

sidy’s spacesuit. The lost itemposed no risk to either the space-walk or the station, NASA said.Spacewalking astronauts weara wrist mirror on each sleeve toget better views whileworking. The mirror isjust 5 inches by 3 inches,and together with itsband has a mass of barely one-tenth of a pound.

While millions of pieces ofspace debris orbit the Earth,more than 20,000 items,including old rocket parts andbusted satellites are bigenough to be tracked to safe-guard the space station andfunctional satellites

SPACE

CLASS X STUDENTS MAY OPT FORTAKING EXAM IF NOT SATISFIED

WITH RESULT: HRD MINISTER

Union HRD minister Ramesh Pokhriyal has said that CBSEstudents of class X may opt for taking the exam, if theyare not satisfied by the result. Pokhriyal said, “As the re-maining class X and XII CBSE exams, which were earlier

rescheduled to be held between July 1 to July 15 have been cancelled,the CBSE has decided to declare the results on July 15.” The resultwill be calculated on the exams which have already been given, butthe students who think they could have done better if they had tak-en the remaining exams, may opt for giving exams again. This op-tion will, however, be open for students who have not taken examsfor all the subjects,” he added.

The CBSE and ICSE on June 25 told the apex court that theremaining class X and XII CBSE exams, which were earlierrescheduled to be held between July 1 to July 15, in view of theCovid-19 pandemic, have been cancelled. ICSE, on the otherhand, told the top court that they might give an option to theclass X students to write the exams at a later stage

EDUCATION

MELTING OF ANTARCTIC SEA ICE HASMADE PENGUINS HAPPIER: STUDY

While human beings are anxious about the decreasinglevel of ice in the Antarctica, there is one species in par-ticular that has been thriving on global warming. Ac-cording to a latest research, Antarctica-based Adélie

penguin is expected to see a population boom in the coming years,thanks to the decrease in sea ice level that has made it easier forthese small birds to survive.

ENVIRONMENT

NO WHITE ACTORS TO VOICE CHARAC-TERS OF COLOUR: THE SIMPSONS

SAY NO TO RACISM

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1The researchers, who studied the penguins for four seasons,in a different sea ice conditions during each season, conclud-ed that the result of sea ice melting can have different effects

on different species, highlighting the complexity of climate changeeffects on wildlife

2It turns out that Adelie penguins are happier with less seaice, said researchers, as the increase in sea ice can make itdifficult for penguins to walk. Less seawater let them dive as

and when they wish, making them happier, they added

Americans are in

the midst of a reck-

oning on systemic

racism and discrimi-

nation, ignited by

the killing of George

Floyd, an African-

American man, by a

white police officer

in Minneapolis on

May 25

The Simpsons' will no longeruse white actors to dub theethnic minority characters,the producers of the long-

running animated series said. The de-cision includes a recurring characterfrom the series launched in 1989— ApuNahasapeemapetilon, a grocer of In-dian origin, voiced in the Americanversion of the show by white actorHank Azaria. The character has longbeen seen as problematic, conveyingracist stereotypes.The announcementcame as Mike Henry, the white actor,who voices the black character ofCleveland Brown in Family Guy, an-other animated series produced byFox, announced on Twitter that hewas giving up the role.

Hackers based in China have attempted over 40,000 cyberat-tacks on India's Information Technology infrastructure andbanking sector in the last five days, a top police official inMaharashtra said. The spurt in online attacks from acrossthe border was noticed after tensions rose be-

tween the two countries in eastern Ladakh, said YashasviYadav, Special Inspector General of Police, cyber wing. Fraud-ulent email ID, such as ‘ncov2019@gov.in’ was found, whichsent bogus information about free Covid-19 testing for res-idents of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai and Ahmed-abad, officials said.

X-PLAINED: CYBERATTACK

WHATIn simple terms, a cy-berattack is a type of at-tack that is launched from

one or more than one computer against each other. Thereare broadly two types of cyberattacks: attacks where thegoal is to disable the target computer and knock it offline,or attacks, where the goal is to get access to the target’scomputer data, and perhaps gain admin privileges on it.

WHERE A cyberattack can beemployed by sovereignstates, individuals,

groups, society or organisations; it may origi-nate from an anonymous source as well. De-pending on the context, cyberattacks canalso be a part of a cyberwarfare or cy-berterrorism. A product that facilitatesa cyberattack is sometimes called a cy-berweapon.

WHYIn recent years,countries have re-sorted to cyberwarfare

to attack against one other. While conventional weaponsare only allowed to be deployed by a country's military, inthe realm of cyberwarfare, governments usually deny theirassociation with the hacker outfits. The Chinese govern-ment, for instance, has on numerous ocasions, denied itsrole in hacking operations emerging from the mainland.

Is India prepared to cope WITH SUCH THREATS?

INDIA AND CYBERWARFARE According to some analysts, India remains highlyvulnerable to cyberattacks, made worse by an inabilityto conduct any counter-offensive opera-tions While China has ramped up investmentinto cyberwarfare and cybersecurity overthe years, India has lagged behind. In fact,the country still does not have any dedi-cated laws around data protection andsecurity. In fact, the Defence Cyber Agencywas constituted last year Given India'slack of preparedness, some experts havesuggested that bolstering defence part-

nerships with technologically superiorallies, like Japan or the United States, orthe setup of a defence coalition, may beIndia's best bet at protecting itself fromcyber threats. This would allow the country to benefitfrom real-time information sharing andimproved training

Facebook will prompt userswhen they try to share links

Facebook is tweaking its platformwith subtle changes, in responseto the public outcry over its de-

cision to not moderate content. Onesuch update will feature prompts thatwill pop up to let users know if they'reabout to share the link to an articlethat was published a while ago.

The pop-up will be triggered, if the arti-cle shared was originally published morethan 90 days ago, prompting users torethink whether the content will be relevantto their friends before it appears on theirnews feedsThe issue of old news hadgiven headaches to online publishers

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02 “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”GÉRARD DE NERVAL, FRENCH WRITER AND POET

1. D) Oman 2. B) Manipur 3. C) A water stream

Q.1) EasternBridge-V is a jointbilateral exercisebetween India andwhich country?A. Bhutan

B. Japan

C. Burma

D. Oman

Q.2) Which of thefollowing states

celebrates ShiruiLily Festival? A. Assam

B. Manipur

C. Andhra Pradesh

D. Kerala

Q.3) What is theBuddha Nullah?A. An ancient

Buddhist site

B. Statue of

Lord Buddha

C. A water stream

D. Image of Buddha

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ABHORRENT/ABERRANT

THE RULES:

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■”Abhorrent” describes something truly horrible■”Aberrant” is just abnormal.

■She said sanitary conditions in the emergencyroom were aberrant.■Weeks ago the nation witnessed the culmina-tion of abhorrent fan behaviour.

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HOW TO DO IT PROPERLY:

■She said sanitary conditions in the emergencyroom were abhorrent.■Weeks ago the nation witnessed the culmina-tion of aberrant fan behaviour.

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✘Buddha Nullah is a seasonalwater stream, which runs

through the Malwa region ofPunjab and after passing

through the highly populatedLudhiana district, drains intoSutlej river. Today it has also

become a major source of pollu-tion in the region.

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Students win the InternationalSchool Enterprise Challenge 2019

An online workshopwas organized byDAV Public School,sec 14 Faridabad.

Under the pilotage of AnitaGautam, Principal, the work-shop was conducted.

Speaker gave 5R’s to Fairand Effective consequences-‘respectful,’ ‘related’,’ rea-sonable in duration’, ‘re-vealed in advance’ and ‘repeatit back to you’. He empha-sized on family rules andfirmness to evolve children

with the changing times. Headvocated child-centered par-enting organized around theneeds and interests of thechild. During question-an-swer session parents active-ly interacted with the speak-er to find out ways for im-provement. Ingenious guid-ance by Gautam made the ses-sion efficacious.

Tanuja Anand, Head Mis-tress, expressed her gratitudeto the Speaker, Principal andthe parents.

Leading the yoga life

S eth Anandram JaipuriaSchool celebratedInternational Yoga Day

through online medium forthe staff.

The theme for this year’sInternational Yoga Day was‘Yoga from Home’.

The event was graced byPresident’s award recipientPrincipal cum Director of SAJSManju Rana, who emphasizedthe importance of physicaland mental well being for alland motivated everyone tofollow yogic practices regular-ly for a healthy lifestyle. Sheemphasized that yoga helps incontrolling an individual’smind, body and soul, brings

together physical and mentaldisciplines to achieve a peace-ful body and mind, and willprove to be a very helpful toolto manage stress and anxietyin the current situation.

The session commencedwith the demonstration of var-ious yogic practices by NandiniRawat, sports faculty at SAJSand an expert in the field. Sheexplained the various posturesand their benefits whiledemonstrating them.

The session was concludedby Rajeev Kumar, sports facultyat SAJS, who emphasized onthe inclusion of yogic practicesin our daily routine for ahealthy lifestyle.

Addressingissues ofrelevance

‘Travel the worldfrom the comfort

of your home’

The 2020 edition of the DAVSreshtha Vihar Model UnitedNations concluded in DAVPublic School Srestha Vihar.

The two day conference was conductedvirtually.

Suhasini Khushinder Nath (Teacherin-charge) spoke about the resilienceshown by students towards their onlineeducation. She further added that ex-pecting students to have the same re-silience in their co-scholastic activities,the Virtual DAV Sreshtha MUN was or-ganized.

The various United Nations com-mittees that were stimulated during theconference included the United NationsGeneral Assembly,United Nations Hu-man Rights Commission,and the WorldHealth Organization.Two Indian com-mittees were stimulated as well,the In-dian National Congress and the NitiAayog.The journalists and the carica-turists of the International Press cov-ered the two-day conference.

Delegates from across the world par-ticipated in the conference. Studentsfrom Nigeria, Japan, Russia, Georgiaand Egypt, and India deliberated anddiscussed on the agenda in their re-spective committees. More than 200 stu-dents participated in the conference.

The agenda ranged from planningon saving and rejuvenating the Indianeconomy (Niti Aayog), providing aroadmap for universal health recoverypost the current pandemic(WHO), andcombating the defamation of reli-gion(UNHRC).

It is important to stress on the factthat the entire conference was conductedvirtually. In the current situation, withthe COVID-19 pandemic raging world-wide, the event was a grand success withpositive feedback from the ExecutiveBoard members as well as the nationaland international participants.

ACTIVITY

STUDENT CONTRIBUTION

Rambunctious (adjective): difficultto control or handle; wildlyboisterous

Synonyms: Unruly, turbulent,boisterous, raucous, noisy,tumultuous, energetic,unrestrained, etc

Examples:The unruly behaviour of the youngboys was too much for the old guard to handle. The boat tossed and tumbleduncontrollably in the turbulentwaters. The boisterous bunch of childrenbrought the whole place alive. The disagreement over the result ofthe match led to a raucous debatebetween the officials of the two teams.

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The White LadyMont Blanc or the WhiteMountain is the highestmountain in the Alps and the European Union. This mountainrises 15,781 ft above sea level. Its other names are La DameBlanche (in French ‘the White Lady’) or Il Bianco (Italian for'the White One'). The mountain lies in a range between Italyand France.

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FUN-ZONE

Q1: From which city didMangal Pandey lead

the revolt of 1857?A: Delhi ❑B: Jhansi ❑C: Barrackpore ❑D: Kanpur ❑

Q2: Who was the gov-ernor-general dur-

ing the Revolt of 1857?A: Lord Canning ❑B: Lord Irwin ❑C: Lord Lytton ❑D: Lord Willington ❑

Q3: Who was a promi-nent leader in

Lucknow during the Revoltof 1857?A: Begum Hazrat Mahal ❑B: Rani Laxmibai ❑C: Kuar Singh ❑D: Bahadur Shah Zafar ❑

Q4: Name the poet whowrote the famous

poem ‘Jhansi ki Rani’ aboutRani Laxmibai.A: Subhadra KumariChauhan ❑B: Sarojini Naidu ❑

C: Maithili Sharan Gupt ❑D: Toru Dutt ❑

Q5: Who among thefollowing British

officials suppressed theRevolt of Jhansi?A: Henry Lawrence ❑B: Henry Havelock ❑C: Colin Campbell ❑D: Hugh Rose ❑

Q6: In which city didRani Laxmibai die

during the revolt?A: Jhansi ❑B: Gwalior ❑

C: Indore ❑D: Meerut ❑

Q7: Which city markedthe beginning of

the Revolt of 1857?

A: Jhansi ❑B: Barrackpore ❑C: Gwalior ❑D: Meerut ❑

Q8: One of the effectsof the Indian

Revolt of 1857 on the EastIndia Company was that...

A: It was strengthened withmore administrators ❑B: Crown of England recognised it ❑C: British Crown surrendered ❑D: It was dissolved ❑

ANSWERS: 1. C, 2. A, 3. A, 4. A, 5. D, 6. B, 7. D, 8. D

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HISTORYTheme: First War of

Independence

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Content and pics by ‘History Diaries’. Co-founded by IIT-Delhi alumni, it is an initiative to make history interesting, engaging and relevant, transforming the way it is being taught in schools

1 In January 1962, onthe occasion of Swami

Vivekananda's birth centenary, agroup of people formed theKanyakumari Committee whoseobjective was to put up a memo-rial on the rock and a pedestrianbridge leading to the rock.

However, this news was not takenin good taste by a sizable popula-tion of the local Catholic fishermen. They put upa big Cross on the Rock, visible from the shore.This led to protests by the Hindu population whosaid the Rock was a place of worship for Hindus.The Government realised that the Rock wasturning into an area of dispute with Hindusclaiming it to be the Vivekananda Rock and

Christians that it was StXavier's Rock. It decreedthat although the rock wasVivekananda Rock, therewould be no memorialconstructed on it. Thethen Chief Minister ofTamil Nadu, MBhaktavatsalam, saidthat only a tablet declar-

ing that the rock was associated with SwamiVivekananda could be put up, and nothing else.With government permission, the tablet wasinstalled on the Rock on 17 January 1963.

Vivekananda Rock Memorial was inaugurated in1970 in honour of Swami Vivekananda who is saidto have attained enlightenment on the rock.

Vivekananda Rock Memorial,Kanyakumari

2 The biggest monastery of Buddhists in SpitiValley, Key Monastery is over 1000-year-

old. It is the oldest training center for Lamas.

It was founded by Dromton, a famous disciple ofteacher Atisha in the 11th century. Key Monasterywas destroyed byinvaders and rebuiltseveral times. In1840 it caughtfire and in 1975,it suffered exten-sive damage dueto an earthquake.The monasteryappears like afortress. It isfamous for itsarchitecture and isknown for its ancient murals, rare thangkas(Tibetan Buddhist painting on cotton, silk, usuallydepicting a Buddhist deity, scene, or mandala), andancient weapons.

Key Monastery,Spiti Valley

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U ndeterred by the covid-19-pandemic, D.A.V PublicSchool, R.K. Puram, organ-

ised a ‘Virtual Excursion’ for students.Students went to a virtual

excursion to London, Dubai andParis, and visited and discoveredplaces virtually. They were shownmonuments, beaches, shoppingmalls, mosque, church, themeparks and other popular touristspots. Children were astonished tosee the beautiful light and musicalfountain in Dubai. They were eager

to know more about the history ofBuckingham Palace of London. Theview of Eiffel Tower in Paris wasbreathtaking.

Children were happy to see thepopular places and monumentsthat they had only heard of. Ithelped in engaging children inexperiences that they wouldn’t getto see otherwise.

The virtual excursion organ-ised by DAV was a great way totake a break from their day – to -day grind.

SR DAV Public School,Dayanand Vihar hasbeen declared thewinner of School En-terprise Challenge

2019. It is an international busi-ness programme for schools runby the educational charity TeachA Man To Fish.The team has re-ceived the Best Silver BusinessPlan in the Asia Pacific Regionwith a value of US$1000.

More than 11,000 studentsfrom 100 countries round theglobe came together for this in-ternational challenge. A welldesigned business plan com-bined with hard work and com-

mitment to a cause opened thedoors of success.

Team Sambhav comprises

600 students from classes VI-XII. The Students and theteacher mentors Mrs. Vineeta

Garg , Head of the Department(I.T.), Neeru Mittal, MaliniSharma and Sonia Nagpal, fac-ulty members (Computers andIT Department) conceptualisedand designed the plan underthe guidance and support ofRenu Laroiya, Principal andVinita Kapoor, Senior Super-visory Head.

The Principal expressedher gladness over the win andshared that the school students’commendation at the interna-tional platform is a manifesta-tion of their hard work, dedi-cation and thinking and or-ganisational skills.

AARUSHI THUKRAL, XII, MANAV STHALI SCHOOL

St. Angel’s SchoolGurugram, Haryana

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