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COMMANDMENTS OF APJ KALAM First and foremost, I will love teaching.
Teaching will be my soul. Teaching will be mylife's mission.
For pplaying healers...Insecurities,doubts, confusion,inner demons — allof these hound us in ourteenage years. Teachers play best counsellors and help us in the healingprocess. Thank you for connecting with uswhenever we need you and working on uslike an artist moulding clay. RITHIKA MR, class X A, Gitanjali
Devashray, Secunderabad
For hhand-hholding...Thank you teachersfor holding ourhands till the timewe are ready to
open the gate to thereal world... Dear
teachers, you had faith in us even when wewere losing faith in ourselves. We willremember your motivating words foreverand work towards it.ANUPAMA SHARMA, class XII, Indus ValleyPublic School, Noida
For bbrightening oourdays...Thank you teach-ers for making usstronger. Youbrighten our days.Your passion is inspir-ing. We salute you for yourpatience, and for being gentle with us.Our heartfelt gratitude for understandingand helping us from time to time withouteven thinking twice.KOVELA KARTHIKEYA, class VIII, Canary
the School, Hyderabad
For sspreading happiness...It is not aboutbeing a perfectteacher but about
being a happy per-son. We are fortunate
to have teachers who walk into theclassroom with a smile and a treasuretrove of life stories. There is no betterlesson to learn than real life examples.RAKSHIT DUBEY, class VIII, Zebar School
for Children, Ahmedabad
For bbeing ccharacterbuilders...Be it any subject ormatters that cloudyour judgement in
teenage years,teachers often are sav-
iours. We salute you teachers for identify-ing our weaknesses and at the same time,not making us feel silly about it. Thank youfor identifying our strengths. SHIVIKA SINGH, class VI, CMSGomtinagar, Lucknow
For mmaking llearningfun ffor uus...You have one ofthe toughest jobs,of making learningfun for us, and yougive it your 100 percent to ensure that eventhe weakest students succeed in life.Thank you for helping us grow and treating each of us as special andgrooming us for future roles.PRAKRITI SHAH, class X, Podar
International School, Mumbai
For bbeing oour protectors...Teachers invest timein creating an environment of safety and security.We salute them for giving us a gentle and secured learningenvironment. ANANYA KAMBOJ, class X, Vivek HighSchool, Mohali
The Austrian capital Vienna hasretained its ranking as theworld’s most liveable city,according to an annual report
from the Economist. Vienna once againcame ahead of Melbourne — which hadheld the top ranking for seven years untillosing it to Vienna in 2018 — according toa report by the Economist IntelligenceUnit (EIU). The top two were followed bySydney, Osaka and Calgary. Vienna —known for its convenient public transport, refreshing Alpine tap waterand varied cultural life — scored 99.1points out of 100, as it did last year.
Each year, the EIU gives 140cities scores out of 100 on arange of factors such as living standards, crime, culture, transport infrastructure, access to education and healthcare, aswell as political and economicstability
crowned ‘most liveablecity’ for second year
5Chandrayaan-2 completessecond de-orbitingmanoeuver successfully: Isro
The second de-orbiting ma-noeuver for
Chandrayaan-2 space-craft was performedsuccessfully in thewee hours of Wednes-day, informed IndianSpace Research Or-ganisation (Isro). Theduration of the ma-noeuver was 9 sec-onds. With this ma-noeuver, the requiredorbit for the VikramLander to commenceits descent towardsthe surface of theMoon is achieved.
The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraftwill be the first Indian expedi-tion to carry out a soft land-ing (a soft landing is any typeof aircraft, rocket or space-craft-lander landing that doesnot result in damage to thedestruction of the vehicle oranything on board) on thelunar surface. This missionwill make India the fourthcountry after the US, Russia,and China to conduct a softlanding on the Moon
SPACE
Salman Rushdie’s tragicomic nov-el ‘Quichotte’ is among six titlesfrom around the world to be
named on the shortlist of the 2019 Book-er Prize for Fiction, released in Londonon Tuesday. The 72-year-old formerBooker Prize winning British Indiannovelist has also won the Booker ofBookers for ‘Midnight’s Children’ dur-ing anniversary celebrations of the pres-tigious literary award.
1 Each of the shortlisted authorswill receive £2,500
and a specially-bound edi-tion of the book. The 2019Booker Prize winner willbe announced on October14 at an awards ceremonyat London’s Guildhall, with
a winning prize of£50,000
2 Last year’s winnerwas Northern Irishwriter Anna Burns for
‘Milkman’, which has soldaround 546,500 copies inall formats since the award
3 The BookerPrize for
Fiction, firstawarded in1969, is open to writers ofany nationality, writing inEnglish and published in theUK or Ireland
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This year, he is shortlisted alongside anotherformer winner, Margaret Atwood, besides LucyEllmann, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma,and Elif Shafak. The shortlist was selectedfrom 151 submitted books published in the UKor Ireland between October 2018 andSeptember 2019
Rohit Sharma to launch‘Rohit4Rhinos’ campaign
Fifa on Tuesday unveiled theofficial emblem of the22nd edition of the Fifa
World Cup, which is sched-uled to be hosted in Qatar.Flashed on big screensand projected onto landmarks worldwide, the2022 Qatar World Cup logowas revealed with a design that reflects boththe tournament’s compactinfrastructure and winterschedule. Fifa said the designalso draws “inspiration froma traditional woollen shawl,’’ awinter garment reflecting the World Cup being played in November and December 2022 to avoid the fierce summer heatin June and July, when the tournament is usually played.
Using the colours of the Qatari flag, the white emblemis set against a maroon background. The swoopingcurves of the emblem represent the undulations ofdesert dunes and the unbroken loop depicts both thenumber eight and the infinity symbol. The eight repre-sents the number of stadiums that will host the footballtournament while the infinity symbol reflects the inter-connected nature of the event
Cricketer Rohit Sharma islaunching the Rohit4Rhi-nos campaign, in part-
nership with the WWF India andAnimal Planet, to help buildawareness for the need to con-serve the Greater One-HornedRhinoceros or the Indian Rhino.In a campaign launching on An-imal Planet to commemorateWorld Rhino Day on September22, Rohit has pledged to do hisbit to save the “vulnerable”species from extinction.
Of the estimated 3,500Indian rhinos left in theworld, 82 per cent arefound in India. Oncefound abundantly acrossthe Indus, the Gangaand the Brahmaputrariver basins, the animalis now found only inselect pockets in Assam,West Bengal, Bihar andUttar Pradesh.
“It is our duty as co-inhabi-tants of this planet to tryand protect other speciesthat walk this planet, along-side us. The future is in ourhands and we should dowhatever we can to ensurethat our children are able toenjoy the rich bio-diversitythis world has to offer” Rohit Sharma
At 490 Kmph, Bugatti Chiron is now thefastest car in the World
Bugatti, known for its exotic hy-percar lineup, just broke thetop speed record of being the
fastest hypercar. This record was pre-viously held by Koenigsegg Agera RS,which, ironically, it had snatched fromBugatti Veyron 16.4 Super Sport, sometime back. The modified Chironclocked a mind boggling speed of490.48 kmph, trumping the Agera RS’record by more than 40 kmph.
The modification on the car included a long-tailaero concept that made this car 25 cm longer thanthe current Chiron Sport. It even removed the pas-senger seat to make it a dedicated one-seater.Backed by a quad-turbo W16 8.0-litre engine, thefastest car produced a whopping 1,578 PS of powerduring the run. The vehicle was built in coopera-tion with Ballarat and Michelin
The Hypercar is a design concept cardeveloped by energy analyst AmoryLovins at the Rocky MountainInstitute, USA. This vehicle wouldhave ultra-light construction with an aerodynamic body using advancedcomposite materials, among other designs
CARS
Facebook rolls out face recognition, kills tagging option
I n a relief for 2.41 bil-lion users, Facebookis rolling out Face
recognition feature to all.It will replace the earli-er “Tag Suggestions” settings that notified you,if someone uploaded a photo and automaticallytagged you in it. Peoplewho are new to Facebookor who previously had the“Tag Suggestions” settingwill have the face reco-gnition setting by defaultand will receive infor-mation about how itworks.
If you have face recognition turnedon, FB will notify you if someoneuploads a photo of you, even if youaren’t tagged. In December 2017,Facebook introduced a new settingfor some people called face recognition. People who still havethe tag suggestions setting willbegin to see a notice in their NewsFeed. The notice will include infor-mation about the new features andoptions to learn more about howFacebook uses face recognition
TECHNOLOGY
Qatar 2022 World Cuplogo unveiled
SPORTS
The national capital has dropped by sixplaces to rank 118th on the list.Mumbai also fell two places since lastyear to rank 119th. The EIU said declinein Mumbai’s rank was mainly due to adowngrade in its culture score. NewDelhi has fallen in the index because ofdowngrades to its culture and environ-ment score (read pollution) as wellas fall in the stabilityscore owing to ris-ing crime rates
E-commerce firms go green, promiseto eliminate single-use plastic E-commerce firm Amazon India said it aims to eliminate single-use plastic from its packaging byJune 2020 as part of its sustainability efforts in the country. Flipkart too promises to honourthe green move, which comes after PM Modi urged all to shun single-use plastic in the country
Amazon India will intro-duce ‘paper cushions’ thatwill replace plastic dunnagelike air pillows and bubblewraps across its fulfilmentcentres (FC) in India. Thisenvironment-friendly andfully-recyclable packagingsolution has already beenlaunched in select ware-houses and will be extended
across all Amazon FCs inthe country by year-end Flipkart had last weeksaid it has reduced itsusage of single-use plasticby 25 per cent across itspackaging value chain, as itaims to move towards 100per cent recycled plasticconsumption in its supplychain by March 2021
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Salman Rushdie’s ‘Quichotte’ on Booker Prize 2019 shortlist
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