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Athlete DuteeChand to sell car tomeet Olympictraining expenses?

FACTOID

P rice of an unopened copy of a vintageSuper Mario Bros video game that wassold recently at an auction. The Super

Mario Bros copy, designed for Nintendo's NESgaming console in 1985, is believed to be oneof the few handful of sealed copies of such vin-tage games, to be still available in the world.

$114,000(` 85 Lakh)

The government doesn't havemoney right now because of

coronavirus, so it doesn't look good,if I ask money from them.Coronavirus has impacted all of us.Since there is no competition, no oneis willing to sponsor us, we are atloss; these are troublesome times.Lockdown made all of us stay athome, it will take 6-7 monthsto reach my best fitness levels

Ace Indian athlete Dutee Chand is fac-ing a shortage of funds due to thepostponement of the Tokyo

Olympics to next year, and is planning tosell her car to meet the expense of her train-ing. The player has spent all her allottedmoney given by the state government andsponsors for training, as the scheduledOlympics has been shifted to a new datedue to the coronavirus pandemic. Chand,who has been recently nominated for theArjuna Award 2020, said Covid-19 has im-pacted sports, and sponsors are not will-ing to support her at this time. IANS

NOW, MAKE A WHATSAPPVOICE OR VIDEO CALLWITH GOOGLE ASSISTANT

G oogle has announced that Assis-tant would be able to make videoand audio calls with

WhatsApp.This means that one can easi-ly access WhatsApp and some of its op-tions by triggering the Google Assistantfrom the home screen on your smartphone.The voice calls commenced by Assistantwere earlier used to place a network callfor the user, while video calls could be setup via Hangouts or Duo only.

I rregardless is a wordthat has often irritatedthose who are meticu-

lous with language . People

use it instead of regardless,which is a word, while ir-regardless is not. But nowMerriam-Webster Dictio-nary has included 'irre-gardless'.As our worldgrows and changes, lan-guages evolve too.

MERRIAM-WEBSTERDICTIONARYJUST INCLUDED‘IRREGARDLESS'

APPLE ARCADE ADDS PUZZLEADVENTURE GAME 'CREAKS'

A pple's subscrip-tion-based gam-ing service Ar-

cade has added a new puz-zle adventure game‘Creaks’ for its users.‘Creaks’ is described as apuzzle adventure game in which players have to ex-plore an old mansion to find hidden paintings, andsolve puzzles to uncover the mansion's secrets. It isavailable on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV.

Earlier, Arcade added two new games — deep seaadventure, 'Beyond Blue' by E-Line Media, and theemotional puzzle game, 'A Fold Apart' by LightningRod Games on the iPhone, iPad and Apple TV

ELON MUSK IS THE'BEST' PAID CEO

T esla’s CEO Elon Musk hasgrabbed the top spot in thelist of highest- paid CEOs

in the US, while Apple CEO TimCook ranked second in the list

created by Bloomberg for 2019.As per the Bloomberg Pay Index,Musk made $595.3 million in 2019.Tim Cook made $133.7 millionin 2019 from Apple.

GAMING

IN THE NEWS

The coronavirus has not only put abrake in our lives, it has alsodevastated the world economy.According to a new study, the

pandemic and the measures to slow its spreadhas cost the global economy $3.8trillion.That's not all. It has left around 147 millionpeople unemployed.

SECTORS AFFECTED➤According to researchers, travel industry isthe worst affected, courtesy, the cancellation offlights, and countries closing their borders tovisitors, particularly in Asia, Europe and the US➤ In fact, according to them, the loss of globalconnectivity led to an 'economic contagion',

causing major disruptions to trade, tourism,energy and finance sectors

➤ It has affected the global consumption aswell. Consumption dropped by 4.2 per cent —-or about $3.8 trillion — equal to the grossdomestic product of Germany➤Apart from creating a digital divide, it is alsolikely to widen the global wealth and income gapsthat already exist, and potentially decimate thehealthcare systems in lower income countries

■ It has impacted countriesand regions in differentways. The Organisation ofthe Petroleum ExportingCountries(OPEC), forinstance, lost income,asthey weren't extracting asmuch oil due to reductionsin global transportation use

■ Low-wage nations, suchas China and India sufferedemployment losses, as peo-ple stopped buying, resultingin the drop in production

COUNTRIESAFFECTED

PM2.5 particulate matterdropped by about 3.8%; sulphurdioxide dropped by 2.9%

■ Sulphur dioxide emissionsmainly come from burning fos-sil fuels, one of the causes forasthma and chest congestion

■ Air pollution dropped drasti-cally, with greenhouse gasemissions seeing the largestdrop in human history— downby about 2.5 gigatons — orabout 4.6 per cent of normal

■ Similarly, other atmosphericemissions, such as the dangerous

THE SILVER LINING

(SOURCE: INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC JOURNAL

PLOS ONE)

➤ Companies around the world will take on as much as $1 trillion of newdebt in 2020, as they try to shore up their finances against the coron-avirus, a study of 900 top firms has estimated.

➤The increase will see total global corporate debt jump by 12% to around$9.3 trillion, adding to years of accumulation that has left the world's mostindebted firms owing as much as many medium-sized countries (REUTERS)

C O R P O R AT E D E B T S M O U N T

AMAZONDEFORESTATIONSURGES

Deforestation in Brazil's Ama-zon has risen by a quartersince last year, official sta-tistics show. The rainforest

is also on the course for its worst yearon record and in the first half of 2020,3,069 square kilometres — an area, 10times the size of Paris — was de-stroyed.AFP

ENVIRONMENT

➤ Covering over 5.5 millionsquare kilometres, Amazon isthe world’s largest tropical rain-forest. It’s 17 times the size ofthe UK and Ireland.

➤ Experts say due to the thick-ness of the canopy (the topbranches and leaves of thetrees), the floor of Amazonlooks completely dark. In fact,it’s so thick that when it rains, ittakes around 10 minutes for thewater to reach the ground! (AFP)

‘Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!’, a 1987video game based on the formerformer heavyweight boxing cham-pion, was sold for $50,400.

Comet NEOWISE

Anew comet called C/2020 F3 NEO-WISE, which was discovered byNASA's Near Earth Object Wide-fieldInfrared Survey Explorer telescope,

is clearly visible to the naked eye these days,giving a new hope to the skywatchers. "FromJuly 14, C/2020 F3, a comet discovered on March27, became clearly visible in the north-western

sky. It is visible after sunset foraround 20 minutes for the next 20days. People can observe it with the

naked eyes," said deputy director, PathaniSamanta Planetarium, Odisha. It can be seenby the skywatchers at pre-dawn. After July, itwill fade away very fast, and will not be visibleto the unaided eye," he added. ANI

VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE

SPACE

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FACTS ABOUT COMETS41 Comets are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit

the sun in a highly elliptical path

2 When frozen, they become the size of a few hundred kilometers comparedwith the size of a small town. When a comet's orbit comes closer to the sun, itheats up and melts, thereby releasing a large amount of dust and gases, andturning into a giant glowing head, larger than most planets

3 The dust and gases form a tail that stretches away from the sun for millionsof kilometers in the opposite direction. There are likely billions of cometsorbiting our sun in the Kuiper Belt and even more distant Oort Cloud

4 Currently, there are 3,650 known comets

➥ If you have set up the GoogleAssistant app on your Androiddevice, you may directly invoke itby saying, OK Google or HeyGoogle. When Google Assistant isopen, use one of the two com-mands, "Make a WhatsApp call to[contact-name]" or "Call [contact-name] on WhatsApp. For a videocall, just say, "Make a WhatsAppvideo call to [contact-name]".➥ To make things faster, add anickname to the most-frequentlycalled contacts.

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TECH BUZZ

➥ This word has been used by mil-lions for a long time (over two hun-dred years) with a specific and iden-tifiable meaning ("regardless").➥ Merriam has categorised theword as an adverb and specifiedthat it's a non-standard word,meaning regardless. ➥ It has even included a FAQ sec-tion, explaining that the word was first used in 1795. it has beenincluded in other dictionaries TNN

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➤Four CEOs from the tech industry made it to the top 10 chart of the highest- paid CEOs.The companies, include Apple, Google, Inteland Microsoft.

AMAZON FACTS

Deforestation and fires inBrazil's Amazon released

115 million metric tons ofcarbon dioxide in the first half of2020, up roughly 20 per centfrom the same period a year ago,equivalent to the annual emis-sions of 25 million cars

LET'S PLAY WORD GAMESTell us 5 words that are used commonly by you and your friendswhile communicating with one another, but are not a part ofany dictionary. Share them at

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TOPPERS’ STORY

DIVYANSHI JAIN

SCORE: 600/600

G etting hundred per cent inexaminations is no meanfeat but Divyanshi Jain of

Lucknow has done the impossi-ble. She has scored 600 marksout of 600 in the CBSE class XIIexaminations. She has scored

full marks in English, Sanskrit,history, geography, insuranceand economics. Divyanshiappeared for the examination ofall subjects except geography,which was cancelled due toCovid-19 pandemic.

BOOK REVIEW

Sapiens: ABrief Historyof Humankind- Yuval NoahHarariStarting fromthe yearswhenhumans werejust begin-ning to standupright,develop lan-guage, andharness fire,the authorgoes on to explain how the humanspecies evolved to acquire specif-ic skills, and eventually rose tobecome the dominant species onthis planet. However, instead ofsimply charting the path of evolu-tion, Harari engages with both thebiological as well as anthropologi-cal aspects of human develop-ment. Written in simple language,the two aspects are combined tocreate a cohesive narrative storyof our origins for the young mindsINAYAT KAPOOR, class XII, Bhavan

Vidyalaya, Panchkula

For me, it is unbelievable and

the result is yet to sink in. I am delighted and surprised at the same time,DIVYANSHI, NavyugRadiance SeniorSecondary School,Lucknow.

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Just like you and us, everyone is scared of an empty page. Many writers in fact were famous for having built

strange-sounding rituals to get writing. For example:

“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.”GÉRARD DE NERVAL, FRENCH WRITER AND POET LEARN AND PRACTISE02

Who said writersare not weird?

Raymond Carver oftenwrote in his car (which was

stationary or he was driven around by someone).

Virginia Woolf wrote whilestanding up, working at a

custom-built standing desk.

Charles Dickens always facednorth when he wrote because he,

like most Victorians in his erabelieved that the earth’s mag-

netic currents could imbue themind with creative energy.

On account of poor eyesight,James Joyce would write on largepieces of cardboard usingcrayons, while lying on hisstomach in bed.

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Divya Doraiswamy, founder ofGurukulam, one of the first on-line shloka schools in Bengaluru explains why chanting Sanskrit

shlokas can help you deal with negativeemotions, heal, improve your confidence,and boost your learning skills.

Self healingDorwaiswamy says that, “chantingshlokas have miraculous power to heal.”This happens because chanting results inrhythmic vibrations which creates a melo-dious effect in the body known as the Neu-ro-linguistic effect (NLE); andPsycho-linguistic effect(PLE), which occurs whenone knows the meaningof what one is chanti-ng. A study done byProfessor Dr T Tem-ple Tutler, of Cleve-land University (US)found that NLE andPLE together releasecertain chemicalsthat helps in curingcertain ailments in thebody and releases endor-phins that act as pain re-lievers in the body, besides boost-ing the metabolic processes. Having ex-perienced the healing powers of shlokasduring a difficult phase in life, Do-raiswamy found solace in the ‘Hare Kr-ishna Mahamantra’, which she said hada healing effect in her life.

Fights anxiety, sharpens intellect Doraiswamy started her online school in2014 and currently teaches over 80 chil-dren around the world.She said “Exposureto shlokas helps one to build confidenceand courage, fight negative emotions likerestlessness, anxiety, and anger. Research

says learning a new language likeSanskrit boosts reading and

Math skills”. As per RobertGass, author of the seminal

book ‘Chanting’, this hap-pens because chanting ofshlokas requires system-atic rhythmic deepbreathing which booststhe oxygen supply to thebrain which in turn

sharpens focus and im-proves concentration.

Trust the system Doraiswamy added that chanting

shlokas is beneficial to those battling neg-ative emotions like anxiety or restless-ness, especially now, during the lockdown.However, she specified, that healing viachanting shlokas does not occur overnight.That one must invest time effort and be-lief in their practice.

Learn anywhere, anytime While it is recommended that one learnchanting sanskrit shlokas with a properinstructor, Doraiswamy said that thereare many self-learning tools available viabooks and videos, besides classes to beginthe practice oneself.

Age no barDoraiswamy’s students range from asyoung as 3-year-old kids to over 50 plusCEOs of companies, academicians andhomemakers. She says, “Kids learnshlokas because the aim is to keep our tra-ditional roots in place and the adults whocome to class are the ones who are tryingto fight stress or other health disorders.”

The magic in

Sanskritshlokas

Mata narasimha, pita narasimha

Bratha narasimha, sakha narasimha

Vidyaa narasimha, dravinamnarasimha

Swami narasimha, sakalam narasimha

Itho narasimha, paratho narasimha

Yatho yatho yahihi, tatho narasimha

Narasimha devaath paro na kaschit

Tasmaan narasimha sharanam prapadye

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna KrishnaKrishna Hare HareHare Rama Hare Rama Rama RamaHare Hare

Om Namo Bhagavate VasudevaayaDhanvantaraye Amrita-kalasha HastaayaSarva-amaya VinaashanaayaTrailokya NaathayaSri Maha-vishnave Namaha

HARE KRISNA MAHAMANTRA

DHANVANTRI SHLOKA

NARASIMHA PRAPATTI

Theword shloka means

‘song’, and originates from theroot sru or ‘hear’. A shloka is

generally a couplet of Sanskrit verse,especially one in which each line contains

sixteen syllables. Research shows that a chanter’s respira-tion rate slows from the normal 12 to 15breaths per minute to between five and

eight breaths per minute, which isconsidered optimal for

mind-body health

➤ Research says learning a newlanguage like Sanskrit boostsreading and Math skills. It alsohelps you deal with anxiety

Why skipping meals for weight lossmay be doing more harm than good

Are you skipping meals to reach your weight loss goal?Well, it might be doing bad than good to your body. Hereare a few negative effects, which skipping meals can haveon your body:

OvereatingNot eating for a long time willmost likely make you overeat inthe next meal. When you starveyour body for a long period, itwill naturally demand more foodwhen you eat in order to com-pensate for the energy lost. It isalso said that skipping mealsincreases your craving forprocessed and junk food and inturn makes you eat more thanyour regular amount of food.

Slow metabolismOur bodyadapts to

the lifestyle we have been fol-lowing since long. If you usuallyeat three meals, then skippingmeals in between can affect themetabolism of your body. Asyour metabolism rate slowsdown, so does your weight lossrate. As a result of skippedmeals, your metabolism startsconverting fat into energy. Thiscan make you prone to healthissues like fatigue, low bloodpressure, low energy levels, exhaustion and nausea.

Constant feeling oftirednessNot eating for long hours cansurround you with clouds of con-stant tiredness. You might feelhead rush or dizzy when youstomach is empty. As blood glu-cose level falls, your body willstart feeling tired and drained.This feeling might make youfeel sluggish and may not let

you work properly or thinkstraight. So it is important toeat at least thrice a day tokeep giving your body con-stant doses of energy.

Stomach problemsYour stomach will con-

tinue to produce stom-ach juices even if you don’t

eat anything. These juices cancause acidity and gas.

HEALTH WISE

What’s inside J K Rowling’s Ickabog? Here is our quick wander through JK’s new world...

WHAT ISANICKABOG?THE Ickabog is amonster that dwells in the “dark and misty”Marshlands. It eatschildren and sheepand has even “carriedoff grown men andwomen”.

WHO ARE THE MAIN CHARACTERS?

King Fred the Fearless The King of Cornucopia, who has “lovelyyellow curls” and is “generous” and“awfully handsome”. But his mistreat-ment of the Dovetail family is the “beginning of all the troubles” in thekingdom. Lord Spittleworth and LordFlapoon: Fred’s two best friends, wholive at the palace. Lady Eslanda: Thetarget of the King’s affections.Spittleworth and Flapoon try to deterhim from falling for Eslanda.

Bert BeamishLittle boy who, like all the other children, fears the Ickabog. BerthaBeamish is his mum.

Major BeamishBert’s dad and head of the Royal Guard.

Dan DovetailDora Dovetail is the Head seamstress of theking. Daisy Dovetail is their daughter andBert’s best friend.

In what world is The Ickabog set? In CORNUCOPIA, which is a small countryfilled with “acres of orchards, fields ofshimmering golden wheat and emerald-green grass”. The capital is Chouxville,famed for its cakes and pastries, while thenearby towns of Kurdsburg and Baronstowneach have specialities for cheese – “hugewhite wheels, dense orange cannonballs” –and meats. Food seems to be an importanttheme so far...The Beamishes andDovetails live in a place called theCity-Within-The-City because theywork for the king.

IDIOM OF THE DAY

➤ RING FENCINGMMeeaanniinngg:: Guarantee that (funds allocatedfor a particular purpose) will not be spenton anything else.

1) Meera, knownfor her exquisitewedding cakes,opened a bakery ayear ago and busi-ness was slow. Herconsultant report-

ed that the localpopulation consid-er it a joint tovisit it if theywere celebrating aspecial occasion.Which strategy

should Meeraemploy to increaseher daily business?A. Making couponsavailable that enti-tle the couponholder to receive a25% discount onspecial cakes.

B. Exhibiting atthe next BridalExpo and havingpieces of one ofher wedding cakesfor tasting.C. Placing a seriesof ads in the localnewspaper that

advertise the widearray of breads.D. Moving the bak-ery to the otherside of the town.

CHECK YOUR APTITUDE

ANSWER: C. Placing a series ofads in the local news-paper that advertise

the wide array ofbreads.

COMMON GRAMMATICAL MISTAKES m

itsakes

CONTINUAL/CONTINUOUS

THE RULES:

HOW NOT TO DO IT:

■ ’Continual’ means start and stop.■ ’Continuous’ means never-ending.

■ There were continuous battles betweenauthority figures like Skinner and the freespirits who formed the band.■ There was a continual flow of ideas.

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HOW TO DO IT PROPERLY:■There were continual battles between author-ity figures like Skinner and the free spirits whoformed the band.■ There was a continuous flow of ideas.

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Quiz time

1. A) Belgium 2. D) Treaty of Ghent 3. C) Enterprise 4. C) Gettysburg

5. C) France

Q.1) In which country did theBattle of Waterloo takeplace?A. Belgium B. Norway

C. Hungary D. France

Q.2) Which treaty ended theWar of 1812?A. Treaty of Versailles

B. Maastricht Treaty

C. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk

D. Treaty of Ghent

Q.3) What was the world’sfirst nuclear-powered air-

craft carrier?A. Yamato B. Forrestal

C. Enterprise D. Invincible

Q.4) Which of these was not abattle fought in World War II?A. Okinawa B. Iwo Jima

C. Gettysburg D. Anzio

Q.5) The D-Day invasion ofJune 6, 1944, took place in:A. Ireland B. Canada

C. France D. Belgium

MIXED BAG

A N S W E R S

Classified: (adj)Arranged ordistributed in classesor according to class.Of or designating thepart or parts of apublication thatcontainadvertisements orlists arranged bycategory. Confidentialor secret, etc.

Synonymous words:classed, clarified, etc.

Examples: Classifiedbuildings are eligible forstate-funded restoration.

The bank has a list ofclassified customers towhom it will not makelarge loans.

The firm’spromotional budget fornext year is classifiedinformation.

WordWise

ScovilleScoville scale is a

measurement of the pungency (spici-ness or “heat”) of chilli peppers andother spicy foods, as recorded inScoville Heat Units (SHU), based on the concentra-tion of capsaicinoids, among which capsaicin is themain component. The scale is named after its cre-ator, American pharmacist Wilbur Scoville.

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