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➤An educator shares tips onhow to turn adversities toyour advantage and clear hurdles from the way

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India set to update 2030 climatetargets under Paris Agreement

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ENVIRONMENT

JK Rowling releases Christmas bookabout 'being lost and found'

BOOK

SPACE

TOP

NASA sends Lucy mission to seek outsolar system's 'fossils'

A fter months of pushing back, India is set to update its 2030 cli-mate targets under the Paris Agreement. India is considering cut-ting down almost by half the amount of greenhouse gases pro-

duced for every dollar of economic activity by the end of the decade.

India’s updated nationally determined contributions orNDCs, as commitments by countries under the ParisAgreement are referred to, could include a commitment toreduce the emissions intensity of the economy by at least46 to 48 per cent from its 2005 levels

Building on its enhanced renewable energy target of450GW, India could pledge to increase the share of non-fossil fuel sources in its energy generation capacity to atleast 60 per cent, with the possibility of raising it to 65per cent, by 2030

OF THE DAY

H arry Potter author JK Rowling has releasedher first children's

Christmas book, inspired by lock-down and her son David'sbeloved cuddly toy pigs.'The Christmas Pig' is astory about "beinglost and being found,about loving and beingloved, about what stayswith us and what fallsaway," the authorsaid. "It's alsoabout hope andendurance,"she added.

I n a novel bid to seek out the origin of our solar system, the USspace agency has launched the Lucy mission, the agency's first toJupiter's Trojan asteroids.

Lucy will circle back to the Earth three times for gravityassists, making it the first spacecraft to return to thevicinity of Earth from the outer solar system

During its 12-year primary mission, Lucy will explore arecord-breaking number of asteroids, including a flyby ofone asteroid in the solar system's main belt and sevenTrojan asteroids near Jupiter

named among PrinceWilliam’s EarthshotPrize winners

Itwas among five

worldwide winners ofthe prize, created by

William, the Duke ofCambridge, to reward people trying to save

the planet

The Earthshot Prize's nameis a reference to the"Moonshot" ambition of 1960sAmerica, which saw the then-President John F Kennedy,pledge to get a man on theMoon within a decade

Each year for the nextdecade, the prize is awardingGBP 1 million each to five projects that are working tofind solutions to the planet'senvironmental problems

VIDYUT MOHAN

1 Takachar was named a winner for its technology,which reduces smoke emis-

sions by up to 98 per cent, aimed athelping improve the air quality that cur-rently reduces the affected population'slife expectancy by up to five years

2 If scaled, it could cut a billion tonsof carbon dioxide a year, "a winfor India's farmers in the fight

against climate change"

3 Costa Rica emerged as the winnerin the "protect and restorenature" category for a scheme

paying local citizens to restore naturalecosystems that has led to a revival of

the rainforest

ADelhi-based entrepre-neur's agricultural wasterecycling project wasnamed among the win-

ners of Prince William's inauguralEarthshot Prize, dubbed the 'EcoOscars', at a gala ceremony in Londonon Sunday evening. Vidyut MMohan-ledTakachar was named the winner ofthe GBP 1 million prize for its cheaptechnology innovation to convert cropresidues into sellable bio-products inthe "clean our air" category.

Cricket fans can nowwatch ICC Men's T20World Cup matches live

on the big screen at PVR

Multiplexchain PVRCinemas,which has

bagged the rights for thelive screening of cricketmatches during the ICCMen's T20 World Cup 2021,will be screening all theIndia games of the ICCMen's T20 World Cup 2021,along with the semi-finalsand final.

The matches will be screened in over75 cinemas in 35 plus cities, includingNew Delhi, Mumbai, Pune andAhmedabad, the multiplex chain said

TheT20 World Cup thatstarted on October17, will continue tillNovember 14 in theUAE and Oman

The Indian team,led by skipper ViratKohli, will play theirfirst match againstPakistan on October 24

Facebook rolls out end-to-endencrypted chat backups to WhatsApp

WhatsApp's end-to-endencrypted chat back-ups for iOS andAndroid are here! As

per The Verge, social media giantFacebook announced that the compa-ny has started rolling out end-to-endencrypted backups to WhatsApp.

Facebook has offered end-to-endencryption for chats for years, butwith this new change, users will beable to get the same level of encryp-tion with their backups too.Reportedly, the feature will be rollingout "slowly" for people on the latestversion of the app.

WHAT'S NEWThe backed-up WhatsApp chatsget stored in iCloud or GoogleDrive, but that could be handedover by Apple or Google to lawenforcement if compelled. However, with the new change, the users willbe able to secure their WhatsApp cloud backups with a password or a 6-4digit encryption key, which means that no third person, but you will beable to access the backup

NEWS IN

CLUESCLUES

CLUES

Which was the firstnon-European &

non-American city tohost the Olympics?

CLUE 1: It’s named after thebirthplace of the founder ofa travel agency.

CLUE 2: It is Australia’ssecond largest city.

CLUE 3: It was unofficiallyonce known as Bearbrass.

Answer: MELBOURNE. Thecity, wwhhiicchh hhaass bbeeeenn uunnddeerrtthhee lloonnggeesstt lloocckkddoowwnn iinn tthheewwoorrlldd dduuee ttoo CCoovviidd-1199,announced that it was liftingthe stay-at-home orders. Ithas been under six lock-downs totalling 262 days ornearly 9 months, since March2020. It’s named after thetown of Melbourne inDerbyshire, UK, whereThomas Cook, founder of theeponymously named travelagency Thomas Cook wasborn. It hosted the SummerOlympics in 1956, becomingthe first city outside ofEurope and the US to hostthe quadrennial games.

CBSE BOARD EXAMS:STUDENTS WOULDNOT BE 'FAILED'AFTER TERM 1

C BSE has clarified that itwould not be 'failing' anystudent - in the sense

that no fail, pass or repeat wouldbe given to the student for anysubject. The fail and pass wouldbe announced only on the basisof the cumulative result, whichwould be computed after Term 2examination arecompleted.However, the Boardhas said that while no 'fail' orpass would be awarded in Term 1- the performance in Term 1would impact the final 'fail orpass' once both the term exami-nations are complete. Also, sinceTerm 2 is expected to be a sub-jective paper (all conditionsremaining conducive), then themarks of the MCQ would surelydetermine whether the student ispassing or failing in the Boardexams. Term 1 scores might carryupto 50% weight in the finalresult, it added.(SOURCE: TIMESNOW)

It’s not that I am so smart, it’s just that I stay with theproblems longer.

-Albert EinsteinMOCK PAPERS

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 202102

MULTIPLY EFFORTS TO

GET A PERFECT SCORE

Q1) The relation defined in the set of in-tegers as aRb � a�b isa) reflexive b) not symmetric c) transitive d) all the three

Q2) If Aij is cofactor of aij ; then the val-ue of

[ 2 2 1 ]A21 + A32 If A= 3 4 21 1 1

a) –2 b) 2 c) –4 d) 0

dy Q3) If x = 4t² & y =8t, dx = at t = 2

a) 2 b) 0.5 c) – 2 d) – 0.5

Q4) A.At is aa) identity matrixb) a symmetric matrix c) a skew symmetric matrix d) None of these

4 3 Q5) If f(x) = 2x – 3 �x ���2 &

g (x) 3x – 2, then f (g(2))=

a) 0.8 b) 10 c) 16 d) 8

Q6) If f(x) = x² – 4x +5, then f(x) is ______at x = 5a) stationary b) decreasingc) increasing d) None of these

[ �� ]Q7) f(x) = cos 2x, ��x����0 2 is a

a) Injective function b) Many one function c) constant function d) None of these

dyQ8) If x² + y² =4, then dx at x= 3 is

a) 1 b) – 1 c) 3 d) –3

Q9) If A is of order 2 and det |A|= 4,then det |3A|= a) 108 b) 36 c) 12 d) 4

Q10) If A ={1,2,3,4} & B ={a,b,c,d,e} then number of one –– one functiona) 1024 b) 625 c) 120 d) 20

d Q11) dx (sin–1 x + cos–1 x) =

2 1a) 0 b) 1 c)1�–�x² d)

1�–�x²

|3 1 a|Q12) If b 2 -2 3 c 1

is a symmetric matrix then a+b+c

a) – 2 b) 6 c) 2 d) 6

d Q13) dx (sin² x)=

a) 2 sinx b) sin2x c) cos²x d) 2cosx

|a a² bc|Q14) b b² ca =c c² ab

|1 a a²| |a a² a³| |1 a a²|a) 1 b b² b) b b² b³ c) b 1 b²1 c c² c c² c³ c c² 1

d) none of these

Q15) If f(x)=x² + 3 and g(x) = 2x + 4,then the value of x for which f(x)=2g(x)a) 1, 5 b) –1, 5 c) 1, –5 d) –1, –5

Q16) The slope of the tangent to thecurve y=x² –4x+3 at P(3,0) isa) 0 b) 12 c) –12 d) 2

Q17) If y=ln (x+�x²�+�1) then dy/dx=

1 a)

�x²�+�1 b)

�x²�+1

x 1 c)

�x²�+1 d) x+

�x²�+1

Q18) If AB=3I and order of A and Bare 3, if |A|=9 then |B|=a) 81 b) 9 c) 3 d) None of these

Q19) The point on the curve y=x²–6x+7, where tangent is parallel to y=2x+3a) (3, 2) b) (2, –1) c) (4, –1) d) None of these

{2x+1 if x <1Q20) If f (x)= x² if 1��x ��5,

4x–1 if x>5

then the value of f(3)+f(–2)+f(7)=a) 33 b) 38 c) 30 d) 59

Q21) If f(x)=x²+1 and g(x)=2x–3 ��x�Ri) The values of x for which f(x)=17 isa) 4,0 b) –4, 0 c) 4, –4 d) 16, 0ii) The number of real roots of theequation f(x)=g(x) isa) 0 b) 1 c) 2 d) more than 2iii) The value of f (g(2))=a) 7 b) 2 c) 5 d) 4iv) The range of f(x) isa) R b) (0 �) c) (1 �) d) (1 �)

Q22) An open box with a square basehave to be made using c² cm² of cardboard, theni) The volume of the box is

1 1 a) 4 (c²x – 2x³) b) 4 (c²x – x³)

1 c) 4 (2c²x – x³) d) (c²x – x³)

dVii) The value of x for which dx 0

c c c2 a)6 b)

3 c)3 d)None of these

iii) The nature of the stationary pointa) Maxima b) Minimac) Point of inflexion d) None of theseiv) The Stationary value of V is

c³ c³ c³ c³ a) 63 b) 123 c) 33 d) 43

[ 2 -1 3 ] Q23) Given A= 1 2 4 ,4 3 1

[ 9 ] [ x ]B= 17 & X= y13 z

i) If Cij is cofactor of aij, then the valueof C12 + C31a) 5 b) –25 c) –5 d) 25ii) The value of det |A| =a) 50 b) –50 c) –20 d) –10iii) The value of x+y+z isa) 2 b) 3 c) 6 d) None of theseiv) The value of det |AdjA| isa) 125000 b) 2500 c) 50 d) 400

Q24) The line parallel to x–1 = y+1 = z–1

1 –2 3and passing through (1, –2, 3)

x–1 = y+1 = z+3 a) 1 –2 3x–1 = y+2 = z–3 b) 1 –2 3x+1 = y–2 = z+3 c) 1 –2 3 d) None of these

Q25) Find the value of so that thevectors

ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ ˆ2i ��3j + k & 3i ��2j+ kare perpendiculara) –12 b) 13 c) – 8 d) 0

Q26) The angle between the lines pass-ing through the points (2, 5, 8), (3, 6, k)and (–2, –3, 1), (1, 0, 4) is 90°, thena) 1 b) 2 c) 6 d) 8

Q27) The unit vector in the direction of� � � ˆ ˆ ˆ � ˆ ˆ ˆa+b, where a=2 i+ j+ 4k & b =i + j + 2k

1 ˆ ˆ ˆ 1 ˆ ˆ ˆa) 7 ( 3i+2j+6k) b) 49 ( 3i+2j+6k)

ˆ ˆ ˆc) ( 3i+2j+6k) d) None of these

� ˆ ˆ ˆ � ˆ ˆ ˆ ����� ˆ ˆQ28) If a =2i+2j+k b = 2i -3j+4k c=2i-3jthen answer the followingi) The vector of magnitude 6 units, whichis parallel to the vector 2a

�

+b�

–3c�

is 6 1 a)34 (10j + 6k) b)

34 (10j + 6k)

2 3 c)34 (10j + 6k) d)

34 (10j + 6k)

ii) The equation of line passing throughA and B whose position vectors are re-spectively a

�

& b�

a) r��

= (2+2t) i��

+ (2–3t)j + (1+4t)k

b) r��

= (2–2t) i��

+ (2+3t)j + (1–4t)k

c) r��

= (2) i��

+ (2–5t)j + (1+3t)k

d) none������������������

iii) If a ���b+ c��then value of �isa) 1 b) –1 c) 2 d) –2

iv) The angle between a�

& b�

( 2 ) ( 2 )a) sin-1

329 b) cos-1

329

( 2 )c) tan-1

329 d) None of these

Q29) A Company produced a productwith Rs 12000 as fixed costs. The vari-able cost is estimated to be 30% of thetotal revenue when it is sold at a rateof Rs. 20 per unit.i) The profit functions is equal toa) 14x – 12000 b) 26x – 12000c) 14x + 12000 d) 26x + 12000

Q30) The demand function for a prod-uct is given by p=16 – 4x then the mar-ginal revenue function is a __ functiona) neither increasing nor decreasingb) decreasing c) increasing d) constant

Q31) The average cost function for acompany is given by

3 AC = 2x – 4 – x . the marginal costwhen output is 10 units

a) 15.7 b) 157 c) 36 d) 2.03

Q32) The cost function is C= –10+10x –x² and Revenue function is R = x² – 2x,then break even output isa) 1, 5 b) 1, 4 c) 1, 3 d) 1, 2

Q33) The unit demand function is x =28 – 4p Where x is the no. of units de-manded and p is the price per unit .Then answer the followingi) The revenue function in terms of p

28–4pa) p b) 28p – 4p²c) 14 – 2p d) 14p – 2p²

ii) The marginal revenue in terms of xa) 28x – 4x² b) 14x – 2x² c) 14x – x²

1 d) 7– 2 x

iii) Marginal revenue at x = 40a) –5280 b) –13 c) –1040 d) –2640

iv) the actual revenue from selling 11th

itema) 3.5 b) 1.75 c) 7 d) None of these

CLASS: XII - 2020-21

SUBJECT:MATHEMATICS (ISC)

Time Allowed: 1½ Hours

Maximum Marks: 80

PRACTICE PAPER SET BY RAGHAVAN BADRINATH, GITANJALI SCHOOL, HYDERABAD

These questions are meant for practice purpose only. Students are advised to check for-mat, syllabus and marks for Board test paperswith their teachers. Questions have been givenby teachers and NIE is not responsible for them.

Change always happened when humans werechallenged. The roads we travel are not alwaysbeautiful with picturesque sceneries, lush greenforests on either sides or blue skies above.

BE DETERMINED TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION

Most often they are dotted with potholes and humps, wemay have to go up and down hills

and mountains. Still, we all takea road to reach our destina-tion. Even when a treefalls on the road or itstarts pouring, ifwe’re determined toreach our destina-tion, we would find away around, a betterway, wait till it’scleared or walkthrough it.

LEARN FROMCHANGES CAUSED BYTHE PANDEMIC

If you hold a knife by its sharp edge, surely you will cut your hand and bleed, but if held by the handle

it can be used right. The pandemic has wreaked havoc inour lives but we have found ways to overcome the chal-lenges it brought – our classes are now online, we havefound new ways of entertainment, we have learnt new skills to spend our time fruitfully, we have learnt to appreciate simple things in life and to nuture the environment around us.

Rosemary Joy, Special Educator, Innovative Learning Lab, Centre for HolisticLearning and Development of Children, Assisi Vidyaniketan Public School, Ernakulam

Turn adversities to youradvantage & advance

FACE PROBLEMS CRITICALLY, CREATIVELY

Those who face a situationcritically and creatively

come up with new ideas.Initially, as a teacher, I hadseveral issues to tackle. But Istarted thinking of ways to

deal with each challenge and developed new methods to

tackle them.

SEE OPPORTUNITIES IN ADVERSITIES

Adversities are like stones thatlife throws at you. Pick them up

and build a strong foundation onwhich you can build your life orplace them under your feet as step-ping stones but don’t throw themaway because they are opportunitiesto make things newand better.

GEAR UP TOCLEAR HURDLES

Obstacles may block our paths for awhile but we overcome them

and march ahead. In life, we face adversitiesall the time, from the time of birth till the last

breath we take. But if we give up each time we face a problem, we will never goahead but if we consider it as energy to

fuel us up, we will see light at theend of the tunnel.

DOUBLE SLIT EXPERIMENT:LIGHT A WAVE OR PARTICLE?

INTERFERENCE, DIFFRACTION AND POLARISATION OF LIGHT

The double slit experimentshows the wave nature oflight, which adds on to the

particle nature of light to getthe wave-particle duality oflight.

Albert Einstein showed uswe can also describe light asbeing made up of individualparticles of energy: photons.This is necessary to accountfor something called the "pho-toelectric effect". When youshoot a very specific wave-length of light at a sheet ofmetal, the metal emits elec-trons: particles that are elec-trically charged. This is thephotoelectric effect.

Then comes the Double Slitexperiment. It is one of themost famous experiments inphysics. It demonstrates thatlittle particles of matter havesomething of a wave aboutthem. To start off, imagine awall with two slits in it. Imaginethrowing tennis balls at thewall. Some will bounce off thewall, but some will travelthrough the slits with easilyunderstood trajectories. Ifthere's another wall behind thefirst, the tennis balls that havetravelled through the slits willhit it. If you mark all the spots

where a ball has hit the secondwall, what do you expect tosee? We expect to see 2 stripsof marks roughly the sameshape as the slits.

BUT

Now shine a light at thewall with two slits. Asthe wave passes though

both slits, it essentially splitsinto two new waves, eachspreading out from one of theslits. These two waves theninterfere with each other.Bright spots on the screenshow the areas where the lightwave interfere constructively,ie, they add on to each other.The dark regions show thedestructive interference oflight waves, ie, where the can-cel each other out. When thelight meets a screen placedbehind, you will see a stripedpattern, called an interferencepattern. It looks like:

We can notice the darkspots and the bright spots,showing destructive andconstructive interferenceof light waves.

MY EXPERIMENTI will be demonstratingthis experiment. Weshould expect to see aninterference patternwhich is caused by the light interfering with itself.

So finally, we can observe the interference pattern whichproves the wave nature of light, and now we can

conclude light behaves as a wave.

Shreyas Dutta, class XI, DPS Whitefield, Bengaluru

Materials Used Observation

Setting Up the Experiment

1) Laser pointer with a greendot (532�10nm)

To observe the effect, we needto point it at a screen

Here we can see the interferencepattern. Pictures I took of my experiment

Comparison of pointer withoutslits and same pointer with double slit

Showing similarities with wavesin water

2) A mountingstand

Conclusion

3) A home-made doubleslit usingtape (size ofslits approx.0.3mm)

The fourth Global Weekfor Action on NCDs(September 6-12,2021) was observedby the students, par-

ents and teachers of SSttMMaarryy’’ss SScchhooooll, Dwarka in col-laboration with the HealthyIndia Alliance (India NCDAlliance) and people livingwith NCDs.

A plethora of activities

were conducted to promoteawareness about mentalhealth and NCDs and its pre-vention and control with anaim to engage communities inthese efforts. The theme forthis year’s week was‘Community Engagement’. A‘Mental Health Dialogue’ wasconducted for parents onSeptember 7, with a clinicalpsychologist to identify the

needs of adolescents andyouth in building resilientcommunities in the COVID-19era.

The session focussed onhow COVID-19 had affectedtheir lives and measures theyhad taken to overcome theburden of the pandemic atindividual and family levels. Ajingle creation competitionwas conducted for the stu-dents of class X on the bene-fits of engaging communitiesin non communicable diseases,its prevention and control. Thestudents of class XI displayedthe letters ‘ACT ON NCDs’through various yoga poses-topromote physical and mentalwellbeing among communities.

The students of class XIIactively participated in agroup discussion on how wecan engage communities todeal with NCDs and find waysto prevent and control them.World Mental Health week wasobserved from October 4 to10. The students of classes VI-XII were shown a powerpointpresentation which focussedon causes of mental health,ways to improve mental healthand the need to be sensitivetowards others. Overall, theactivities helped reach to dif-ferent stakeholders in thecommunity to develop anunderstanding about NCDs andmeasures to improve our men-tal health.

03SCHOOL IS COOLTUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s not just a place where you get to learn Einstein’s Theory ofRelativity. It’s also a place where you can think beyond theclassroom. Hence we say, SCHOOL IS COOL!

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DPSG Sushant Lokjoined hands withEarth Sense RecyclePvt Ltd to dispose and

recycle the e-waste in autho-rised and scientific manner. Awalkathon was organised byDPSG Sushant Lok in associa-tion with Earth Sense RecyclePvt. Ltd. to create an aware-ness on e-waste managementon October 6 where 50 studentsand 20 teachers from the schooland 6 members from Earth Sense

Recyclers participated.The event was held at Tau

Devilal Biodiversity Park, Sec-tor 53, Gurugram. The stu-dents and teachers spoke to thepeople in the park makingthem aware about e-wastemanagement. They distributedseed pencils and informedthem about DPSG Sushant Lokbeing official e-waste collec-tion centre and how the citi-zens should participate in dis-posing the e-waste in a re-

sponsible manner and becomevigilant citizens.

E-waste awareness walkathon held

World Tourism Day is com-memorated each year onSeptember 27 across theglobe with a lot of zeal

and enthusiasm. This year thoughthe tourism sector has taken a back-seat but the onset oftechnology has madeit possible to take avirtual tour to anypart of the world di-rectly on our screenswhile sitting safely athome.

The students ofManav Sthali Glob-al Sc hool, DoubleStorey recognised andcelebrated the globaloneness with thisWorld Tourism Day. Adressed-up event for

children was organised along withan insightful virtual tour depictinghistorical and cultural heritage ofvarious Indian states and other coun-tries around the world. The teacherspresented interesting facts and in-

formative bits aboutthese nations.

It was a delight tosee children garbed inbeautiful native cos-tumes. They greetedeach other in differentlingos and proffered insome of the famous lo-cal delicacies from var-ious parts of the world.

Overall, the cele-bration proved to be apleasurable and en-riching experience forall the students.

World Tourism Day: Childrenlearn about new cultures

AANSHI GUPTA, class V, Rukmini DeviPublic School, Pitampura

VEENAM NAMA, class XI,Rukmini Devi PublicSchool, Pitampura

KASHIKA NAGPAL, classV, Rukmini Devi Public

School, Pitampura

NEIV MALHOTRA,class VII,Rukmini DeviPublic School,Pitampura

D iana Spencer was a philanthropist, a fashion icon, thePrincess of Wales; but most of all, she was the queenof our hearts.

With her unparalleled elegance andgrace, she stole everyone's hearts. She puther fame to good use — working for chari-ties, for innumerable causes like AIDSpatients, children's issues, an effort to banland mines, and so many more.

Lady Di cared for her people and wasnot afraid to show it. She broke down allthe barriers that held royalty back - shehumanised the idea of royalty - communi-

cating with citizens directly, making

an effort to know them. She made us realise that royalty was about being a queen

at heart, about caring for your people andempathising with them. It was about loveand benevolence. Thereafter, royalty wasmuch more than a throne and a crown.

Princess Diana is a shining beacon ofinspiration to me, because she tells me tofind the royalty within me - the benevolentqueen who works for worldly welfare, whounveils infinite kindness and love upon theworld. Perhaps Princess Diana was nevergiven the official title of 'Queen' but shedeserved the title she did get -'the People's Princess'.

Pia Oza, class X, SSPM's Sri Sri

Ravishankar Vidya Mandir,

Borivali EastPRINCESS DIANA

HOW TO DO PARVATASANA?The mountain pose.As the name sug-gests, it derivesthe benefitsfrom the qual-ities of a

mountain- stability, fixi-ty and strength. Thisposture has three varia-

tions to provide all-round stretch andtwist to spine. It is

a cultural Asanasfor lateral

1 Corrects minor postural defects of the spineand straightens the muscles of the back.

2 Stretches all the abdominal and pelvic mus-cles and loosens the hips.

3 Exercises the inactive waist zone, and helpsreduce belly fats and flabby abdomen.

4 Internal organs in the abdominal region getproper massage-improved blood circulation;viscera normally rest on the pelvic floor.

5 Prolapse (slipping down) of the uterus isimproved by providing natural support to theviscera.

6 Blood circulation in the vertebral regionimproves, and the efficiency of the nervescoming out of the vertebra is improved.

7 The unnatural curvature of the spine andminor displacements of the vertebrae are corrected.

PEOPLE’S PRINCESS

BENEFITS OF YOGA

Yoga should be practiced under the supervision of Yoga Guru. The views expressed in the above article are those of the author and the newspaper takes no responsibility for it.

(upward) stretch of the spine(classic pose). How to do par-vatasana? Let's see themethod-STARTING POSITION:Sit in Padmasana /Sukhasana, keeping thehands at their respec-tive sides. Chestthrown well forward,keep the neckstraight, theabdomen in normalcontour, the chindrawn in and eyesfocused on a singlepoint straightahead.CLASSICAL POSEMETHOD:Inhaling, in 3 sec-onds, raise both thearms together, fromtheir respectivesides, for anupward

stretch. Join the palms to eachother in this upward stretchedposition of arms. Either inter-lace the fingers or keep the

palms joined. Keep the handsclose to the respective ears,abdomen maintained in nor-

mal contour and backstraight. Avoid bendingthe arms at the elbowsand wrists, keepingthem stretched andstraight. Maintain thisfully stretched position(palms joined), for 6seconds, retaining thebreath (final position).

Returning to startingposition: exhaling, in 3seconds, first turn thepalm position outwardsand then, keeping thearms straight, bring it

down to thesides to com-plete 1 round.

Courtesy: The Yoga Institute The Yoga Institute was founded on December 25, 1918 by the founder, Shri Yogendraji. Itfound a permanent base in Santacruz, Mumbai, in 1948.

PA R V ATA S A N A

Fourth Global Weekfor Action on NCDs A

mmieArora ofDDeellhhii

PPuubblliicc SScchhooooll,Dwarka hasbeen awardedby the ‘WorldBook of Records’for being theyoungest RetroFemale Pianist.

She played 51retro songs in Hindi,English, Spanish andPortuguese in a spanof 3 hours 18 min-utes 32 seconds. She

was awarded by therenowned playbacksinger Udit Narayan,Bollywood lyricistSameer and themusic directorUsman Khan in aspecial ceremonyorganised onSeptember 18.

Ammie in ‘WorldBook of Records’

Taliban swept intoAfghanistan’s capitalwhen India was cele-brating Independence

Day, and was termed as the mas-sacre of democracy inAfghanistan. Government hadcollapsed and the embattledpresident escaped leading to theend of two decade US campaignto rebuild Afghanistan.

People have to relive Tal-iban’s brutal rule which was es-

tablished 20 years back. Theyenforced laws where TV, music,media and cinema were banned.Men were made to grow beardsand women had to wear the all-covering burkha also their rightto work has been snatched away.The whole nation is in turmoil,millions and millions of peoplewere gathered at the airport justto find one flight which wouldtake them away from this hor-ror. Their desire to leave the na-

tion compelled them to evenhang on the wings of the aircraftwhich lead several people to losetheir lives due to falling off fromsuch great heights. One of themajor fears is that the countrywill once again become a train-ing ground for terrorism.

Talibanis are feeding onthe nation tears, common peo-ple’s once peaceful life has beendisrupted again and theirdreams now are burning downin flames.

SRISHTI SREYA, class XII, St

Thomas School, Dwarka

Terror in Afghanistan

Once there was love,And there was hate.Hate ticked love,Who innocently tookthe bait.You see love lived in avillage of people,within and among.While hate was a paintin the lone forest’s palette.One day, hate called love,he asked for truce.But then he kicked outlove with scars and abuse.Hate now quickly befriended all,which led to love’shard and sad fall.Now hate lives in thevillage of people,among and within.It’s a world wherelove’s cast out,

and trust is a sin.Love wanders in hopehe watches silently.Once a place joy and green.Now painted in redand men all mean.Among them,lives one,with kindness in his heart.A small ray, strongerthan tenradiates gold, out andwithin.That one kind boy,more powerful than all,will lead to hate’s joyous fall.Things will recover,and love will prevail,When the little ray ofkindness, all will hail.Harita Baluja, class XII,GD Goenka Paschim Vihar

The Story of Love and Hate

Q1:For which of the following

sports is the term Ring not

used for ground/ space?

a. Boxing

b. Gymnastics

c. Ice Hockey

d. Baseball

Q2:How many medals has the

India men’s hockey team

won at the Commonwealth Games

till date?

a. 8 b. 6 c. 2 d. 5

Q3:Which of the followingteams have failed to win

even a single ODI?a. East Africa

b. Namibia

c. USA

d. All of the above

Q4:Which team bagged theFair Play Award in the

2021 IPL?a. Rajasthan Royals

b. Chennai Super Kings

c. Sunrisers Hyderabad

d. Punjab Kings

Q5:Cricketer Harshal Patelwon the Purple Cap and

Gamechanger of the Seasonaward in IPL 2021. Which otheraward did he win?

a. Orange cap

b. Most Valuable Player

c. Man of the match

d. None of the above

Q6:Which Indian playerbecame the highest

ranked badminton player in theworld in April 2018?a. Ajay Jayaram

b. H S Prannoy

c. Srikanth Kidambi

d. Sourabh Verma

Q7:Under which captain didthe Indian women’s hockey

team win 3 consecutive goldmedals in 3 years in differentevents?

a. Rani Rampal

b. Suraj Lata Devi

c. Varsha Soni

d. Madhu Yadav

Q8:Who are the current worldNo. 1 mixed doubles pair

in BWF World Rankings?a. Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan

b. Mayu Matsumoto and Wakana Nagahara

c. Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan

d. Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota

Photo: ANI

QUIZ TIME!

ANSWERS: 1. d. Baseball 2. c. 2

3. d. All of the above 4. a. Rajasthan Royals

5. b. Most Valuable Player

6. c. Srikanth Kidambi

7. b. Suraj Lata Devi

8. d. Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota

Harshal Patel

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by own.

Adam Gilchrist, Australian CricketerTUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 2021

Photo: ANI

With fours wins on the go, the team moves intoseventh spot while Roma remain on fourth

Juventus continuedtheir climb followinga disastrous start asMoise Kean’s first-halfgoal clinched a 1-0 win

over Jose Mourinho’s Roma.Wojciech Szczesny saved apenalty from Roma midfielderJordan Veretout just beforehalf-time as Juventus made itfour wins on the bounce, mov-ing up to seventh. “I like 1-0, asit’s a good result, especially aswe kept another clean sheet,”

Juve coach Massimiliano Alle-gri said. “Roma are a techni-cally good team, they have a lotof quality and caused us prob-lems early on, then we scoreda good goal and improved astime wore on.” Roma remainfourth but have lost three oftheir past five outings.

Atalanta have easy winAtalanta were easy 4-1 winnersagainst Empoli as they warmed

up to take onM a n c h e s t e rUnited at OldTrafford in the Champi-ons League on Wednes-day. Veteran Slovenianforward Josip Ilicic, re-called after sufferingfrom a combination ofa knee injury and de-pression, scored theopener, his first goal of theseason. Ilicic, 33, got his sec-ond with a rasping shot on26 minutes but Federico DiFrancesco pulled a goalback for the home side. Fourminutes into the secondhalf, Atalanta took a 3-1 leadwhen 19-year-old Empoli de-fender Mattia Viti scored anown goal before the visitorswrapped up the win whenColombian forward DuvanZapata got his 100th Serie Agoal. AGENCIES

Valencia falter as Barcelona navigate a storm for awinning start to the big week ahead

Buoyed by their stunning vic-tory over Bangladesh, Scot-land will be keen to keep thewinning momentum goingwhen they take on PapuaNew Guinea in the T20 WorldCup in Oman on Tuesday.Chris Greaves’ magnificent

all-round display, that saw him hit a 45 off 28deliveries before snaring two crucial wickets,helped Scotland notch a six-run victory overBangladesh in their opening clash, while debu-tants Papua New Guinea were handed a 10-wicket thrashing by co-hosts Oman in the tour-nament opener.

Scotland were in a spot of bother at 53 forsix before Greaves led a brilliant lower-orderfightback, stitching vital partnerships withMark Wyatt (51 runs) and Josh Davey (27 runs)to help his side set a respectable target.

BATTING COLLAPSEA CONCERN

The batting collapse up front will be a cause ofconcern for the Scots, four batters at the topfailed to go beyond the five-run mark with cap-tain Kyle Coetzer and Michael Leask scoringducks. They would need to take more respon-sibility going ahead.

The bowlers did well to keep the pressureon the opposition from the beginning and wick-ets at regular intervals sealed a memorable vic-tory for the Scots in the end.

However, despite ending on the winning sideskipper Coetzer conceded that the side is capa-ble of better performances. “We understandthat we have to play extremely well to beat sides.We certainly didn’t play to our full potential,”Coetzer said. A win on Tuesday will put Scot-land in strong position to head to the Super 12sstage.

On the other hand, Papua New Guinea, whowere hoping to end their 12-match losing streak

in white ball cricket, were completely out-played in all departments. Going ahead, notonly will they have to win against Scotland,they will also look to improve their net runrate which currently stands at -3.135.

The side will need to do some serious think-ing ahead of the next game. Barring skipperAssad Vala, who hit a half century and CharlesAmini’s (37), the PNG batters struggled and wereguilty of giving away their wickets in clusters.

It wasn’t a great outing for the bowling uniteither, the skipper used seven bowlers but nonecould trouble the opposition. They will have toregroup fast.

Looking ahead, Vala said “We just need tofocus on ourselves and not worry about Scot-land and Bangladesh at the moment, because itwas down to us that we didn’t do well today be-cause we didn’t execute our plans.”

Scotland captain Kyle Coetzer has said thatthe six-run upset win over Bangladesh cameabout because of a “lot of planning behind thescenes”, given that the side had barely playedany competitive games coming in and the pan-

demic leaving their preparations in a disarray.

BANGLA MUST WIN NEXTBangladesh, meanwhile, take on Oman in des-perate need of a win, and for skipper Mah-mudullah, it was their batting that faltered inthis encounter, with Mushfiqur Rahim’s dis-missal for 38 proving the crucial moment inthe match. Handed a rude shock in their open-er, Bangladesh will have to sort some self-con-fessed batting problems and play as per theirreputation. They came into the tournament asthe sixth-ranked team, which had beaten NewZealand and Australia at home. AGENCIES

Spurred by victory over Bangladesh, team will look to build

on win as they take on Papua New Guinea

Kyle Coetzer

ICC T20 WORLD CUP 2021

Namibia is making their debut in the tournament,

taking on 2014 winners Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi.

While Sri Lanka and Namibia may have contrasting

histories in the tournament, both will traverse

unchartered territory when walking onto the

ground at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium. As Namibia

end an 18-year wait to return to global tournament

action, Sri Lanka enters the First Round stage of

the 16-team tournament for the first time, and will

face a new challenge of high-pressure preliminary

action. To add intrigue to the match-up, the pair

face off for the first time in T20I cricket.

FORMER CHAMPS LANKA

FACE NAMIBIA

Group A’s fascinating balance offers plenty of

qualification hope for Ireland and the Netherl-

ands as they prepare for their opening ICC Men’s

T20 World Cup fixture in Abu Dhabi. Both teams

are talking a good game, and their aspirations of

making it into the second stage of the tourna-

ment are highly achievable, with each squad con-

taining more than enough to trouble pool

favourites Sri Lanka and fellow Group A hopefuls

Namibia. The Dutch arrive without much by way

of warm-up time for their strongest side. As for

Ireland, the full potential of the squad that has

travelled to the tournament is slightly uncertain.

Many of the golden generation, who established

the Irish as a white-ball force, particularly in 50-

over cricket, have now moved on to retirement

and coaching.

NETHERLANDS, IRELAND EYE

WINNING START

Ansu Faticame to ther e s c u eagain byscoring a

sensational goal and earning apenalty in a 3-1 victory over

Valencia as Barcelona got abig week off to a winning

start. Memphis Depay slam-med in the spot-kick and Phil-ippe Coutinho, who came onfor Fati, added a late third.

Ansu went off with Va-lencia still chasing an equ-aliser, an indication of howimportant he is for Wednes-day’s Champions League

game against Dynamo Kiev.Barca sit bottom of thegroup, so a victory over Kievis all-but essential.

Barca fall behindFor the third time in six

games, Barca were behind insidethe first five minutes.

Ansu was Barcelona’s bright-est spark. In the 13th minute, hewas clinical, squaring up two Va-lencia defenders before playinginside to Depay and bursting be-tween both of them. He took theball back, looked up and whippedthe ball from the left of the areaand inside the far right-hand post.

Gaya did well to preventSergino Dest tapping in at theback post but next Gaya hooked

his left foot around Ansu’s leftleg and while he touched the ball,the decision stood. Depay rifledin from the spot.

Ansu was replaced byPhilippe Coutinho and Valenciapushed, as Soler’s pull-back need-ed a crucial intervention by Ger-ard Pique. But Barcelona navi-gated the storm and as Valenciafizzled, they struck a third, Cou-tinho converting from closerange, before Aguero made hislong-anticipated debut. AFP

Photo: REUTERS

PERFECT NAPOLI RECLAIM TOP SPOT

Napoli returned to the top of Serie A

after Nigerian international Victor

Osimhen scored the only goal in a

hard-fought 1-0 win against Torino.

AC Milan had moved to the top of the

table after beating Hellas Verona 3-

2. But Napoli moved back to the

summit after Osimhen, who scored

for his country in a 2-0 win against

the Central African Republic in World

Cup qualifying last week, headed the

81st-minute winner. “It was the most

important goal of my career. I’m so

pleased. The atmosphere at the sta-

dium was incredible,” said the 22-

year-old Nigeria striker.

SEVILLA IN THIRD SPOT

Sevilla edged up to third in La Liga

after a second-half goal from Rafa

Mir was enough to give them a bat-

tling 1-0 win away at struggling

Celta Vigo. After being beaten by

Granada before the international

break, Sevilla got back to winning

ways with the kind of resilient,

determined performance they

delivered so often last season.

They edge ahead of Atletico Madrid

on goal difference, three points

behind early leaders Real Sociedad

with a game in hand. Celta sit 16th,

with seven points from their first

nine matches.

ANSU inspires BARCA to victory

Photo: GETTY IMAGES

AnsuFati

JUVE continue to climb

MoiseKean