Issue 512 Children's Cup of News and Knowledge 25 July 2022

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President Ram Nath Kovind addresses the nation on his last day in office
President Ram Nath Kovind addressed the nation on the eve of his last day in office on Sunday. He said, "I

was elected as the President through your (the citizens') elected people's representatives...I want to

express my heartfelt gratitude to all of you and your public representatives." President-elect Droupadi

Murmu will take oath as the President on Monday.

9 girls, 9 boys top ISC Class 12 exam

What's the significance of July 25 in the history of

with 399/400 marks, list released Presidents of India?

As many as 18 students, including nine
President-elect Droupadi

boys and nine girls, jointly secured the All

Murmu will take oath as

India Rank 1 in ISC Class 12 examinations.

the first tribal woman

The 18 students got 399/400 marks

President of India on

(99.75%). Out of the 18 students, seven

Monday, July 25. The date
are from Uttar Pradesh, six from West
is historically significant

Bengal, three from Tamil Nadu and one

because almost all Indian

each from Maharashtra and Haryana. Presidents took oath on

July 25 even without any

Secure future of students who

written rule about it. The

returned from Ukraine: TN CM tells PM four Presidents who are

exceptions to this trend

are- Rajendra Prasad,

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan,

Zakir Husain and

Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.

Man dresses up as 'Yamaraja' to protest against bad

roads in B'luru
A man dressed up as 'Yamaraja' on

the Anjanapura road in Bengaluru

to protest against potholed roads

Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin has written to PM

in the city. The man, associated

Narendra Modi, requesting Centre to secure

with the Changemakers of

the future of medical students who returned

Kanakapura Road, alleged that

from Ukraine. "[Tamil Nadu] has been...urging

officials have been ignoring the

you...to accommodate [them] in India or

roads of Anjanapura for more than

in...universities abroad," he wrote. Centre 10 years. The organisation said

recently told Lok Sabha there's no permission

these damaged roads have become

from National Medical Commission to

a deathtrap for the daily

accommodate Ukraine-returned students in

commuters.
local colleges.

Entrance tests for Class 10, 12 in Delhi govt schools to be held on July 25
MP records highest tiger deaths this year, Maharashtra on second
India reports 20,279 new COVID-19 cases, active cases reach 1,52,200
Agnipath recruitment exam for IAF conducted amid tight security
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Toppr.com Founder Zishaan Hayath buys
Govt believes scientific knowledge can be met

property in Mumbai for ₹41 crore: Report by gazing at sky: Chidambaram

Toppr.com Founder Zishaan Hayath has reportedly

bought a 4,000 sq ft sea-facing apartment in

Bandra, Mumbai, for ₹41 crore. Toppr.com was

acquired by BYJU's last year. As per a report, the

apartment is located on the 13th floor of the

Rustomjee La Fontaine on Turner Road. While the

building has 15 floors, only eight of them are

habitable.

Congress leader P Chidambaram has criticised the

BJP-led Centre for raising the GST on scientific

equipment needed by research institutions and

universities "from 5% to 12-18%". "The government

perhaps believes that all the scientific knowledge

that we need can be gathered by gazing at the sky

and re-imagining our past," Chidambaram said.

World's oldest known male panda 'An An' dies

aged 35
An An, the world's oldest male giant panda under

human care, was euthanised on Thursday at the

21-yr-old Indian yoga teacher holds scorpion

age of 35, a Hong Kong theme park said. The park
pose for 29 minutes to break world record said his age was equivalent of 105 years for

Yash Mansukhbhai Moradiya, a 21-year-old Indian

humans. An An and Jia Jia, the world's oldest

yoga teacher based in Dubai, has broken the

female giant panda who died in 2016 at 38, were

Guinness World record for the longest time to hold

gifts from Chinese government.
the scorpion position. He held the scorpion pose (or

vrschikasana) for 29 minutes and four seconds,

shattering the previous record of four minutes and

47 seconds. The scorpion pose is an advanced yoga

position
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UKRAINE SAUDI ARABIA

Ukraine strikes bridge on Russian supply
120-km long 'sideways' skyscraper to be built for

route in Kherson $1 trillion in Saudi Arabia

Ukrainian missile strikes hit a bridge on a
Saudi Arabia is planning to build a $1 trillion

Russian supply route in the Russia-occupied

sideways skyscraper stretching over 120 km, which

Kherson region on Saturday, a Ukrainian official

will house five million people, a report by the Wall

said. "This is not yet the liberation of Kherson,

Street Journal has said. Pictures of what the mirrored

but a serious preparatory step in that direction,"

skyscraper called 'Mirror Line' will look like have also

the official wrote on Facebook. A Russia-

been shared online. It will have a suspended sports

installed official said that though the bridge was

complex, a marina to moor yachts etc.
hit, it was still usable, TASS reported.

CHINA
SRILANKA
Massive sandstorm hits parts of China, causes

1,000 artefacts missing from Sri Lankan

darkness in towns; pics go viral
Prez, PM's homes: Police Pictures and videos have gone viral on social media

Over 1,000 valuable artefacts from Sri Lanka's

showing a massive sandstorm hitting parts of China

Presidential Palace and Prime Minister's official

and causing darkness in towns. In the pictures, the

residence are missing after protesters occupied

sandstorm can be seen enveloping buildings and cars

these premises earlier this month, police said on

and blocking the sun. In some towns of Qinghai

Saturday. Notably, the Department of

province, visibility dropped to less than 200 metres,

Archaeology does not have a detailed record of

South China Morning Post reported.
artefacts at Presidential Palace, a local report

said. Special investigation teams have been

formed to probe the matter.

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SpaceX breaks its annual record with 32nd

Powerful laser that can be used to 'draw in the

rocket launch of 2022 air' created by Chinese scientists

Elon Musk’s SpaceX on Friday broke its record for

the number of rockets launched in a year. While the

company managed 31 launches in 2021, it aims to

launch 52 missions in 2022. SpaceX's 32nd launch

of 2022 on Friday deployed 46 Starlink satellites to

low-Earth orbit. Notably, SpaceX so far has

launched nearly 3,000 Starlink satellites to space.

Scientists from China claim to have developed

Novel sensor allows the detection of

a device that can be used to "draw in the air

Alzheimer's 17 years in advance without using paper and ink". The device uses

ultra-short laser pulses to strip electrons off

air molecules and turn them into light. In a

demonstration, the scientists created

characters using the laser which were visible

from any angle and could be "touched".

A mysterious red glow over the Atlantic Ocean

leaves a pilot baffled

Now, a research team at the Ruhr-Universität

Bochum has developed a new sensor that is able to

identify signs of Alzheimer's disease in the blood up

to 17 years before the first clinical symptoms appear,

according to a press release by the institution. The

device detects the misfolding of the protein

The images show an almost frightening red glow

biomarker amyloid-betta that causes characteristic

that cannot be explained. This did not stop people

deposits in the brain. A simple blood test to reveal

from commenting on the thread with their own

the risk of developing the disease "Our goal is to

thoughts on what the phenomenon may be.

determine the risk of developing Alzheimer's

"Maybe fishing vessels have never clustered so

dementia at a later stage with a simple blood test

much to concentrate so much light? Three possible

even before the toxic plaques can form in the brain,

scenarios. 1. Fish populations down to small

in order to ensure that a therapy can be initiated in

concentrations. 2. Chinese fishing boats have

time," says Professor Klaus Gerwert, founding

fished out the Pacific and are now factory fishing in

director of the Centre for Protein Diagnostics (PRODI)

the Atlantic. 3. Atlantic-based fishing boats have

at Ruhr-Universität Bochum. His team joined forces

adopted China's factory fishing strategy. None of

with a group at the German Cancer Research Centre

these are good outcomes. Good luck to those fish,"

in Heidelberg (DKFZ) headed by Professor Hermann

said one Redditor.

Brenner.
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65-yr-old Mindtree Co-founder Subroto
Tesla planning same-hour service for cars
Bagchi to complete his DU degree 40 yrs later using Formula 1 techniques
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Saturday tweeted that the

company is aiming at providing same-hour services

for its vehicles. Musk tweeted, "Excited to work with

Tesla Service to enable same-hour service as often

as possible! Applying Formula 1 pit crew techniques

to Teslas." Earlier in 2015, Tesla had hired F1

veteran Kenny Handkammer as Global Director of

Service Innovation.

With Delhi University permitting former students to

complete their degree exams as part of its

centenary programme, 65-year-old Subroto

Bagchi, Co-founder of Mindtree, tweeted he is a

"student again" and will complete his only

"unfinished task". Bagchi said that he was enrolled

in the Law Faculty in 1978 but couldn’t complete

his degree as he had to leave Delhi. May shift business from Zomato, Swiggy if

commissions rise: Domino's

79-yr-old Ashok Soota launches his 3rd

startup, aims to take it to IPO in 5 yrs

Entrepreneur Ashok Soota, 79, has launched his

latest venture Happiest Health, which he aims to

take to IPO in five years. Soota worked at Wipro

from 1985 to 1999, after which he quit and co-

founded rival company Mindtree Limited, bringing

it to an IPO in 2007. He then founded Happiest

Minds Technologies in 2011, which had its IPO in

2020.

Jubilant FoodWorks, which runs the Domino's and

Dunkin' Donuts chain in India, has said that it will

consider taking some of its business away from

Zomato and Swiggy, if their commissions rise

further. The company was responding to the

Competition Commission of India, which is

investigating the alleged anti-competitive

practices of Zomato and Swiggy.

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Dutch rider Lorena Wiebes wins first
Chess Olympiad: Preparations on, test tournament held
stage of women's Tour de France CHENNAI: Chess fever is well and truly on in Chennai with just

four days to go for the 44th Olympiad. As the countdown for

the chess extravaganza continues, a test event was held on

Sunday to assess the preparedness for the tournament. Also, a

few thousand people took part in an Olympiad special run

organised in the city today ahead of the prestigious

tournament. State Ministers including Ma Subramanian, T M

Anbarasan and P K Sekar Babu among others were present at

the event.

PARIS: Lorena Wiebes of the

Netherlands lived up to expectations as

she won the opening stage of the

women's Tour de France and claim the

first yellow jersey of the resurrected

race on the Champs Elysees on Sunday.

The DSM rider, the pre-stage favourite,

timed her sprint to perfection to beat

her compatriot Marianne Vos and

Belgian Lotte Kopecky of Italy, who

were second and third, respectively. For

the first time in 33 years and after a

long campaign, Tour de France

organisers ASO have granted the top

female professionals an official multi-

stage race.

Fencer Bhavani Devi loses in Cairo

Manipur’s only gold-medalist at Sub-Junior Boxing

World Championships Nationals, Joyshree Devi, nurtures Olympic dream

Joyshree Devi couldn’t be any happier when she first got to

know that this year’s Sub-junior Girls and Boys National Boxing

Championships would be held at the Inspire Institute of Sports

(IIS) in Bellary, Karnataka.

Training there since 2018, the girl from Manipur went on to win

the only gold medal for Manipur in the meet after she earned a

commanding 5-0 victory against Haryana’s Hanshikha in the

60kg final. Moreover, she was also won the Best Boxer award in

the girls’ section.

CAIRO: India's top-ranked fencer

Italy's Stano wins men's 35km race walk at World

Bhavani Devi bowed out in the second

Athletics Championships EUGENE: Massimo Stano earned

round of senior women's individual

Italy their first gold medal at this

sabre event at the Fencing World

year's World Athletics

Championships here on Wednesday. Championships after he won the

Bhavani gave a tough fight to her

men's 35km race walk on Sunday.

German opponent Larissa Eifler before

Stano, the 20km race walk Olympic

going down 12-15. The 28-year-old

champion, crossed the line in a time

from Chennai made history at the

of 2:23:14, finishing one second

Tokyo Olympics by becoming the first

ahead of silver medallist Masatora

Indian to compete in the sport at the

Kawano, while Sweden's Perseus

Games. Karlstrom completed the podium.

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