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E very student needs to memo-rise a microwave cake recipe,

which requires only a mug, fiveminutes of your time, and precise-ly no weighing of ingredients. Justwhisk everything together in yourfavourite mug, drop a choccie intothe middle, microwave and ping! –you’re ready to get stuck intochocolate heaven.

MELT-IN-THE-MIDDLEMUG CAKE

Your beginners’ bread-makingclass starts here, with a simple

sandwich loaf made from verybasic ingredients in just 20 minutesplus baking. You can make bigbatches of this and freeze loaves,so that you know exactly what’sgoing into your daily bread. Onceyou’ve mastered the basics, youcan start experimenting with dif-ferent shapes, sizes and add-ins.

CLASSIC WHITE LOAF

Got a frying pan? Then it’s timefor a fakeaway. The easy

dough for this pizza is made withflour and olive oil, and doesn’tneed kneading – just mix ittogether, roll it out, pop it in a frying pan and cook under a grillwith your favourite toppings.

FRYING PAN PIZZA

Pancakes are filling, frugal andfun to share. Step beyond lemon

and sugar and make them sweet orsavoury. Once you’ve whisked up thebatter and flipped your first pan-cake, you’ll realise how easy it is.

EASY PANCAKES

Some things just taste way bet-ter when you DIY rather than

order in or buy in a packet, andgarlic bread is high on that list. It’ssuper simple to make – not to men-tion cheaper – and once you’vebaked this beginners’ recipe, youcan try garlic bread nachos, cheesygarlic bread baked from a scratch,or garlic bread pizzas.

GARLIC BREAD

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NCERT updates The National Council of Education Re-search and Training (NCERT) has re-vised a chapter in its class XII politicalscience textbook to remove a portion on

the separatist politics in Jammu and Kashmir,and add the abrogation of Article 370, whichgave special status to the erstwhile state of J&Kby the Centre on August 5, 2019. The NCERThas revised the chapter inthe textbook, 'Politics inIndia Since Independence' for the academicsession 2020-21. While the topic, 'Separatismand Beyond' has been deleted from the chap-ter, the abrogation of Article 370 has beenincluded under the topic, 'Regional Aspira-tions'. The NCERT has also replaced the oldmap of Jammu and Kashmir in class XIIpolitical science textbook from this year.

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L ast year on August 5, the Centrehad revoked the special status

granted under Article 370 of theIndian Constitution to Jammu andKashmir, through an amendment inthe Parliament, and also scrappedArticle 35 A; the state was bifurcated into two union territo-ries — Jammu and Kashmir andLadakh

Plant-based

MEATproducts

WHAT: Bollywood couple Geneliaand Riteish Deshmukh have re-cently announced their plans tostart plant-based meat products,Imagine meats. Plant-based meatrefers to meat that are made pure-ly from the plant extracts, but repli-cate the taste, smell and the sizzleof animal meat.

TYPES : According to experts, plant-based meat can be in the form of aburger patty, nuggets, or even crum-bles and sausages.

HOW IS IT MADE: According to Be-yond Meat, one of the major companiescompeting in the plant-based meat busi-ness, plant-based meat products aremade by layering in plant-based fats,binders, fruit and vegetable-basedcolours and flavours, using a process ofheating, cooling and pressure to createthe fibrous texture of meat.

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Are you ready to try themeatless 'meat' trend? Pleaseshare your views attoinie175@gmail.com/times-nie175@gmail.com

E xperts say moving away from livestock andpoultry would reduce greenhouse gases.According to the International Livestock

Research Institute, livestock farming used 45% ofEarth's land surface and contributed to more than18% of global greenhouse gases in 2011. A 2018 reportcommissioned by Beyond Meat, and conducted by theCenter for Sustainable Systems at the University ofMichigan, compared the environmental impact of mak-ing a 4-ounce Beyond Meat burger with a similar beefproduct. The findings: Beyond Burger generated 90%less greenhouse gas emissions, required 46% lessenergy, and had far less impact on water andland use than the beef burger. (SOURCE: NYT)

IS PLANT-BASED MEAT BETTERFOR THE ENVIRONMENT?

A uthor Christian Cantrell'sshort story, 'Brainbox' isset to be adapted into a

science-fiction series for stream-ing platforms. The storytakes place after a climateengineering experimentfails, and casts the planet into asudden ice age. The world's mostpowerful nations are forced to

compete for the last remaininghabitable regions, along the equa-tor. As the surviving superpow-ers turn on each other, a young

weapons’ specialist isbrought in to create arevolutionary, self-repli-

cating, artificial intelligencearmy that will transform the fateof humanity.

Christian Cantrell's ‘Brainbox' toget sci-fi series adaptation

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S ony Pictures has indefi-nitely delayed the releaseof the upcoming roman-

tic comedy, ‘The Broken HeartsGallery’ owing to the coron-avirus pandemic. The forth-

coming movie, produced bysinger Selena Gomez, was earli-er scheduled to hit the theatreson August 7. According to Variety,the production house has not yetannounced the new release dates,however, they remain committed toopen the film on big screens.

F ears over the coronaviruswill see the Nobel prizebanquet cancelled for the

first time in over half a centu-ry, Swedish daily Dagens Ny-heter has reported. Nobel Prizewinners for 2020 will be an-nounced but the banquet, whichis always held on December 10,and normally draws around1,300 guests, will not go ahead."There are two problems. Youcan not gather that many peo-ple next to each other. And it isuncertain whether people cantravel to Sweden to the extentthey want," Nobel FoundationChairman Lars Heikensten said.

COVID IMPACT

PANDEMIC SEES NOBEL BANQUET CANCELLED FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 1956

A s a disaster man-agement initiative,Google has been

conducting an experiment us-ing subsea fibre optic cables to

detect earthquakes and tsunamisearly. Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai

shared the update on the Google exper-iment through a recent tweet, statinghow the experiment uses existing fibrecables to detect disturbances on theseafloor.According to Google, the tech-nique can enable much faster detec-tion of earthquakes and tsunamis.

‘GOOGLE'S BUILDING WORLD'S BESTEARTHQUAKE-TSUNAMI WARNING TECH’

➤ The last time the banquetwas cancelled was in 1956, inprotest against the SovietUnion's invasion of Hungary.➤ It was also cancelled dur-ing the World War-I and II➤The prizes for achieve-ments in science, literatureand peace were created andfunded in the will of theSwedish dynamite inventorAlfred Nobel, and have beenawarded, since 1901

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RELEASE OF 'BROKEN HEARTSGALLERY' DELAYED INDEFINITELY

C limate activist Greta Thunberg is set todonate one million euro ($1.14 million)prize to the organisations focused on the

environment and climate change. The 17- year-old Swede, who was named the winner of theinaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity,said,"all the prize money will be donated

through my foundation to different or-ganisations and projects, who are work-ing to help people on the front lines

affected by the climate crisis andecological crisis, especially in the

Global South". Meanwhile,Thunberg and three otheryoung climate activists havealso launched an appeal to theEU leaders to "face the climateemergency", in an open lettersigned by 150 scientists anda host of celebrities.

GRETA THUNBERG DONATES MILLION-EURO RIGHTS PRIZE TO GREEN GROUPS

ENTERTAINMENT

FOR A CAUSE

➤ This is not the first time that Greata has donated herprize money to organisations and the causes she supports.In April, after winning the Human Act Award, she said, shewould donate the $100,000 prize money to the UNICEF. TheHuman Act Award matched Thunberg’s donation with a fur-ther $100,000.

➤ Since starting a protest outside the Swedish parlia-ment in 2018, Thunberg has risen to global promi-

nence, becoming the figurehead for a seriesof school strikes by children around

the world

THE CLIMATE ACTIVIST

CLUES

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CLUESCLUES

Which planet has the longestday in our solar system?

CLUE 1: Like Uranus, it rotates in retrograde — the sunrises in the west and sets in the eastCLUE 2: It was the first planet beyond Earth visited by aspacecraft (Mariner 2 in 1962), and the first to be suc-cessfully landed on (Venera 7 in 1970).CLUE 3: It is the second-brightest natural object in thenight sky after the Moon.

ANSWER: VENUS. Scientists have identified 37 volcanicstructures on the planet that appear to have been recent-ly active — and probably still are today — painting the pic-ture of a geologically-dynamic planet, and not a dormantworld as thought. The research focused on ring-like struc-tures called coronae, caused by an upwelling of hot rockfrom deep within the planet’s interior, and provided com-pelling evidence of widespread recent tectonic andmagma activity on the Venus’s surface.

➥ This strike, approxi-mately 65 million yearsago in what is modernday Mexico, is thoughtto have led to a massextinction of more thanthree quarters of life onthe Earth, includingnon-avian dinosaurs

➥ The shower 800 mil-lion years ago, struckthe Earth just beforethe Cryogenian period,which saw an ice agebetween 720-635 mil-lion years ago

Planning to visit a salon, gym?

THIS IS WHAT DOCTORS HAVE TO SAYVisit a gym or a salon,

only if you are fit andhealthy. Do carry your ownsanitiser and tissue wipes toclean the chairs and gymmachines before using them.It would be better, if youavoid such places duringpeak timings. Be it a per-sonal trainer or a hair-dresser, insist that they weara face mask and sanitisetheir hands before servingyou. Avoid spending morethan half an hour in suchsurroundings. Try not totouch your face; wear a faceshield when visiting a gym.”

DR. MANJUSHA AGARWAL,

Global Hospital, Mumbai

In places, such as salons,gyms, restaurants and

banks, there is a likelihood ofphysical contact withstrangers, hence people haveto take strict precautions. Be-fore heading out, just askyourself a few questions, suchas whether you will be able tostay six- feet away from otherpeople, whether those aroundyou will be wearing a mask,or if the establishment thatyou plan to visit will be ca-pable of strictly enforcingsafety guidelines. Keep awayfrom localities that have alarge case load.

DR TUSHAU PRASAD,

Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai

SAFETY MANUAL

Massive meteor shower 'hit Earth andthe Moon' 800 mn years ago

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(Please try them under theguidance of your elders)

Agiant meteor show-er bombarded theEarth and theMoon 800 million

years ago, with more than 30times the force of the asteroidstrike that killed the di-nosaurs, a new research has

revealed. Japanese sci-entists examined theimages taken by theKaguya lunar orbiterand found that an aster-oid— at least 100 kilome-

tres in diameter —broke up and plu-nged into the Earth-

Moon System, havinga profound impact onlife on our planet.

The Kaguya missionwas launched in 2007and studied Earth'ssatellite in detail,including the darkside of the Moon andits magnetic field

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CBSE CLASS XII SYLLABUS