THURSDAY 8 JUNE 2017

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As global automakers compete to bring the first flying car to market, Czech pilot Pavel Brezina is trying a different tack: instead of creating a car that flies, he has made a “GyroDrive” –a mini helicopter you can drive.

CZECH’S ‘GYRODRIVE’

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GES raises awareness about seat belt safetyS

tudents at Gulf English School (GES) clicked photographs of them-selves in their cars wearing seat belts, as

part of the recently held school-wide competition on seat belt safety. The team comprising members of the Secondary School Student Council organised this competition to raise awareness about the importance of wearing seat belt when in a car.

They shared information about the competition in assem-blies across the whole school and spoke with eloquence and confi-dence while addressing both their peers and younger members of the school community. While sev-eral students took part in the competition, only those posing with class or form when wearing

seat belts received a special prize. According to statistics, driv-

ers and passengers aged 17-34 have the lowest seat belt-wear-ing rates combined with the highest accident rate. There is also evidence that people are less likely to use seat belts on short or familiar journeys — this puts them at serious risk of injury in a crash. Further, children below 10 years of age are not allowed to sit in the front passenger seat. If overruled, these are punishable by impris-onment from one month to three years or subject to fines of between QR10,000 to QR50,000 or both.

GES firmly believes that efforts like these will go a long way to instill discipline and help teens take informed decisions while on the road.

IIS teams bag CBSE clusters Taekwondo championship

In a recently concluded CBSE clusters Taek-wondo Championship, Ideal Indian School emerged as Champions winning both Boys

and Girls Categories. Five various Indian Schools participated in the tournament.

In the Boys category, Ideal Indian School Taekwondo team emerged “Overall Champi-ons” with 88 Points winning 10 Gold and 6 Silver medals. IIS Girls team also lifted the championship trophy winning 9 Gold, 4 Sil-ver and 1 Bronze medals.

Principal Syed Shoukath Ali presented the “Overall Championship Trophies” to the Ideal Indian School Boys and Girls Taekwondo teams and congratulated the teams for win-ning the championship. The teams were trained by Amazad Khan and Suman Panwar.

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As global automakers compete to bring the first flying car to mar-ket, Czech pilot Pavel Brezina is trying a dif-

ferent tack: instead of creating a car that flies, he has made a “GyroDrive”

— a mini helicopter you can drive.The engineer and owner of Nir-

vana Systems, a company producing motors for small flying machines, insists his vehicle is the first in the world authorised to operate both on roads and in the air.

“This is the only road certified flying vehicle I know about,” Brezina said in a hangar at the Pre-rov-Bochor airport in the eastern Czech Republic.

“Everyone is trying to make a high-speed car that can fly, but this is a different thing,” said the tall, bespectacled 51-year-old, who has

30 years’ experience as a pilot under his belt.

His GyroDrive vehicle is based on a gyroplane — a mini-helicop-ter — that uses a copter-style rotor to move up and down, and an aer-oplane-type “pusher propeller” to go forward.

Brezina’s company buys

gyroplane kits from a German firm, and then assembles and equips them with a system allowing the pilot-driver to switch between a petrol engine propelling the rotors and an electric engine that drives the wheels.

The two-seat GyroDrive has a maximum driving speed of just 40

kph and can take its crew of two on short drives to a petrol station or a hotel. It needs less than 100 metres to take off and reaches a top speed of 180 kph in the air. Its flying range is 600km.

After landing, the pilot only has to fix the main rotor blades along the axis of the GyroDrive and pull out a built-in licence plate to trans-form it into a road vehicle. Prices start at 1.5m koruna ($63,500), but they can reach four million koruna, depending on specifications.

‘Robust testing’ While Brezina is already plan-

ning to take his wife — also a pilot — and two children to London aboard GyroDrives, inventors worldwide are frantically working on prototypes of cars that fly.

In neighbouring Slovakia, the AeroMobil company says it has received dozens of orders from cus-tomers for a flying car expected to hit the market in 2020.

Czech ‘GyroDrive’ beats flying cars for hybrid licence

COVER STORYTHURSDAY 8 JUNE 2017 05“We want to build a vehicle that

will not only be able to fly and drive but also fulfil each technical and legal requirement,” says AeroMo-bil CEO Juraj Vaculik, touting “a robust testing programme”.

He said that AeroMobil initially plans to produce 500 units of its winged car, which uses a turbo pro-peller to get off the ground.

The AeroMobil is expected to reach a top ground speed of 160 kph and up to 360 kph in the air, with a flying and driving range of some 700km.

In mid-May, Japan’s Toyota also unveiled plans to launch a three-wheel flying car dubbed SkyDrive using retractable wings and drone technology.

The vehicle is expected to have a top flight speed of around 100 kph, hovering around 10 metres off the ground. It will have a top land speed around 150 kph.

Silicon Valley flying car startup, Kitty Hawk, reportedly backed by Google co-founder Larry Page, released a video in April of its air-borne prototype and announced plans for deliveries of a “personal flying machine” this year.

Other firms, including ride-sharing service Uber, also have

soaring ambitions for their flying car prototypes.

Not for everyone Brezina got the licence plates

for his GyroDrive in March, three

years after starting the project.For his first trip, he flew some

230 kilometres west to an airport on the outskirts of Prague, then drove downtown to have a cup of coffee in the Czech capital’s central

Wenceslas Square — and got stopped by the police on the way.

“Well, if you saw this driving through Prague, wouldn’t you stop it? I would,” chuckles Brezina, add-ing the police merely checked his papers and did a breathalyser test.

Brezina said he has already been safely flying gyroplanes all over Europe and beyond for the last seven years with a group of friends.

“I would liken it to a group of motorbikers, this is actually a 3D motorbike. We also travel to other continents where we rent gyro-planes,” he said.

Looking into the future, Brezina said he doubts GyroDrive will take over roads and airways.

“First, it requires a set of certain qualities to become a gyroplane pilot, and second, it’s not just about pushing a button. I think it will spread, but not on a mass scale.”

Co-financed by the Slovak gov-ernment, AeroMobil will not be everyone’s flying car either because of its eyewatering price tag of ($1.35m-1.7m) per unit.

It will rather serve as “some kind of a flying Uber service,” Vac-ulik said. “Our concept is that not many people would own this fly-ing car but many will be able to use it,” he added.

COMMUNITY / CAMPUS THURSDAY 8 JUNE 201706

ICC commemorates World Environment DayIndian Cultural Centre (ICC) con-

ducted programmes to commemorate World Environ-

ment Day at ICC premise. ICC had called for an Environ-

ment Day slogan competition, where participation was invited for students and adult community alike.

A function was conducted at ICC premise to mark the occasion, which was attended by Rajesh Kamble, Counsellor at Indian Embassy and coordinating officer of ICC in the presence of Milan Arun, President of ICC, ICC

Vice-President A P Manikantan, ICC General Secretary Juttas Paul and ICC Head of Counselor Serv-ice K S Prasad, representatives of affiliated organizations and schools. Saplings were planted at ICC premise during the program, which was attended by commu-nity leaders and students representatives.

World Environment Day was on June 5. Indian Cultural Centre has been conducting different events every year to mark the occasion.

QFIS Art Night draws huge crowdThe halls of Qatar Finland

International School were awash with colour recently

for their inaugural Art and Culture night. Students from across grades 0-7 had contributed their wonder-ful artwork to display for visitors to admire.

Sustainability was a key theme for the evening. Grade 2 made a map of Qatar from a range of bot-tle caps and grade 3 made musical instruments from recycled bottles. A special workshop was also con-ducted in the gym, using recycled materials in creative ways to make a stunning art installation.

A silent auction also created a stir, with many of the artworks find-ing a new home. It was an incredible success, raising money for the school library.

Visitors were entertained with special performances by the win-ners of the school’s talent show and teachers also displayed their mul-tiple talents in a choreographed performance of STOMP!

The Finnish curriculum places a great deal of importance on arts subjects as part of a holistic approach to education. From an early age, students are encouraged to express themselves in a variety of artistic mediums. Even students from the age of 6 are taught wood-work and sophisticated crafts

techniques. Minna Repo, pedagogical coor-

dinator for QFIS, was speaking to me about this topic:

“We value art, not just as a tool for self expression, but as a tool for life. Creative projects help students to think critically and solve prob-lems with innovative solutions. At QFIS, we strive to make learning more effective for students, and events such as the art night are a great showcase for our approach.

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Warwick Doha The lux-ury hotel, has created a host of exclusive offers

to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, including a special room package throughout the month, an authentic Arabic buffet with a Turkish Twist for Iftar and Sohour at L’auberge with a spe-cial area for kids to play and a two-hour special Spa package.

Warwick Doha’s new Turkish Executive Chef, Master Soner Kes-gin, has created a very special Arabic Iftar buffet with a Turkish

Twist! Offering our guests the deli-cious well-known Arabic dishes such as Ouzie and Jordanian Manssaf along with the exquisite Turkish dishes such as Kuzu Tandir and Hunkar’s Begendi.

Desserts are must in Ramadan, L’auberge buffet will include more than forty-five kinds of desserts, including the signature Turkish Baklava, Konafe, with melted cheese and authentic Turkish ftir filled with cream. Making L’auberge Iftar buffet the best Iftar experience ever in Doha.

Guests seeking a lighter meal, L’auberge brings to you a unique selection of delightful dishes, to be the perfect choice for Sohour. For those who are not observing the Ramadan fast, Warwick Doha Italian restaurant Carisma, will continue with its amazing offers and promotions during the entire month.

For larger groups wishing for a unique Iftar or sohour experi-ence, our banqueting team will create the perfect setting. For groups of 30 or more, the ballroom

will be transformed into an Ara-bic mirage with coloured table-cloth, antique lanterns and exquisite food for your private buf-fet. Throughout the Holy month of Ramadan, guests can relax and unwind at Warwick Doha with special room rates and family packages. As we believe that you deserve a very relaxed Ramadan.

Warwick Spa tailored a supe-rior package for you. Indulge your senses into a two-hour full body massage, hair & scalp ceremony and feet reflexology.

Warwick Doha celebrates Ramadan with special offers

Chaliyar Doha conducts World Environment Day

Qatar based environmen-tal organization Chaliyar Doha conducted various activities in Doha on June 5 as part of World

Environmental Day 2017. The day-long programme was

inaugurated by Indian Ambassador to Qatar P Kumaran by planting trees in Indian Embassy compound. Ambassador stressed the impor-tance of protecting environment and appreciated Chaliyar Doha’s initiatives in the field of Environ-mental protection. Later the day, various artists from Doha contrib-uted to paint a single large canvas with environment protection awareness paintings in correlation with the theme of World Environ-ment Day 2017, ‘Connecting People to Nature’.

The theme for World Environ-ment Day 2017, implores us to get outdoors and into nature, to appre-ciate its beauty and its importance, and to take forward the call to pro-tect the Earth that we share.

Indian Embassy second secre-tary KS Dhiman inaugurated the canvas painting program and envi-ronmental seminars at Malayalee Samajam.

During the seminar sessions, speeches were delivered on vari-ous aspects of environmental protection by ICC Gen secretary

Juttas Paul, ISC President Nilangshu Dev, Adukkala thottam president Ramla and Chaliyar Doha Ladies-wing president Muneera Basheer. Chaliyar Doha President Mashood Thiruthiyad chaired the program and Abdul Latheef Ferok delivered the welcome speech.

The programme put forward a resolution request to protect four major rivers from Kerala by grant-ing the same legal rights as a human being, meaning it must be treated as a living entity. The approach of granting legal

personality to these rivers will empower the environmental pro-tection activities and will ensure strong action against any environ-mental violations.

Chaliyar Doha has decided to take this ahead to the authorities to get implemented.

The artists who prepared the single large canvas painting were honoured during the programme along with the certificate and prize distribution for the winners of the painting competition.

KN Sulaiman Madani

delivered Ramadan message related with the Islamic view of environmental protection. Pro-gramme was concluded with Iftar party for all the participants and guests. Chaliyar Doha officials Hyder Chungathara, Kesavadas Nilambur, Haseeb Akod, Zameel Chaliyam, CP Shanavas, Naseer Beypore, Shahana Ilyas, Shalina Rajesh and Sheethal lead various events during the programme. Chaliyar Doha treasurer Siddiq Vazhakkad delivered vote of thanks.

HEALTH THURSDAY 8 JUNE 201708

Babies born to women who drank at least one artificially sweet-ened beverage per day during

pregnancy were more likely to be overweight or obese at age 7, a study has showed.

Childhood obesity is known to increase the risk for certain health problems later in life, such as diabe-tes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers.

“Our findings suggest that artifi-cially sweetened beverages during pregnancy are not likely to be any bet-ter at reducing the risk for later childhood obesity than sugar-sweet-ened beverages,” said Cuilin Zhang, from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).

According to researchers, as the volume of amniotic fluid — which sur-rounds the unborn baby in the womb

— increases, pregnant women tend to increase their consumption of fluids. To avoid extra calories, many preg-nant women replace sugar-sweetened soft drinks and juices with beverages containing artificial sweeteners.

However, the study, appearing in the International Journal of

Epidemiology, found that children born to women who drank sweetened beverages were 60 per cent more likely to have a high birth weight. At age 7, children born to mothers who drank an artificially sweetened bev-erage daily were nearly twice as likely to be overweight or obese.

Consuming a daily artificially sweetened beverage appeared to offer no advantages over consuming a daily sugar-sweetened beverage. Con-versely, women who substituted water for sweetened beverages reduced their children’s obesity risk at age 7 by 17 per-cent, the researchers observed. For the study, the team analysed data from more than 900 pregnancies that were com-plicated by gestational diabetes, a type of diabetes that occurs only during pregnancy.

Eating an egg a day can signif-icantly increase growth and reduce stunting by 47 percent

in young children, finds a study.“Eggs can be affordable and eas-

ily accessible. It can be a good source of nutrients for growth and development in young children and have the potential to contribute to reduced growth stunting around the world,” said lead author Lora Ian-notti from the Washington University in St. Louis.

The study, published in the journal Pediatrics, showed that those who ate one egg per day had a reduced prevalence of stunting by 47 percent and underweight by 74 percent. “We were

surprised by just how effective this intervention proved to be. The size of the effect was 0.63 com-pared to the 0.39 global average,” Iannotti said. For the study, the team included children aged six to nine months to be given one egg per day for six months, ver-sus a control group, which did not receive eggs.

Eggs are a complete food, safely packaged and arguably more acces-sible in resource-poor populations than other complementary foods, specifically fortified foods, Iannotti said. “Eggs seem to be a viable and recommended source of nutrition for children in developing coun-tries,” Iannotti said.

An egg a day may spurt growth in kids

Diet beverages in pregnancy may up child obesity risk

A drug used to treat nausea and vomiting in chemo-therapy patients can significantly help people suffering from sleep apnoea, new research has revealed.

Obstructive sleep apnoea is a condition where breath-ing is briefly but repeatedly interrupted during sleep. It occurs when the throat muscles fail to keep the airway open dur-ing sleep despite efforts to breathe. Researchers from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), had in a previous study, found that dronabinol — a cannabinoid agonist — held sig-nificant potential for treating sleep apnoea.

While a cannabinoid is any of a group of closely related compounds which include cannabinol and the active con-stituents of cannabis, an agonist is a substance which initiates a physiological response when combined with a receptor.

The new study showed that “six weeks of treatment by the highest dose of dronabinol (10 milligrams) was associ-ated with a lower frequency of apnoeas or hypopnoeas during sleep, decreased subjective sleepiness and greater overall treatment satisfaction”, said David Carley, Professor at UIC.

Sleep-related breathing disorders, especially obstruc-tive sleep apnoea, pose significant health problems. Individuals suffering from sleep apnoea have an increased risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, high blood pressure and Type 2 diabetes. In the study, presented at the SLEEP 2017 annual meeting in Boston, the participants received the drug once daily before bed for six weeks.

“At the present time, there are no approved drug treat-ments for sleep apnoea and there remains an important unmet need for fully effective and acceptable treatments of the disorder,” Carley said. “By providing a path towards the first viable obstructive sleep apnoea drug, our studies could have a major impact on clinical practice,” he added.

Anti-nausea drug may treat sleep apnoea

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I’m fasting for Ramadan, but life can’t slow downReem Akkad The Washington Post

Allow me to bring you into my world for a moment. I wake up every morning at around

3:45 to eat some food and drink as much water as I can stand. By 4:15 AM, give or take a few minutes, I will stop eating and drinking, and will begin a nearly 16-hour com-plete fast — no water, no food, not even gum. Then I’ll try to get a cou-ple hours of sleep before starting the rest of my day.

Fasting diets are all the rage these days, but I’m not doing this to lose weight, though I hope I will. I’m doing this because it’s the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. This is my challenge, and the challenge for hundreds of millions of others who are also fasting. But first, the basics. The fast lasts from dusk until sunset. If you live in South America, your fast will be as short as 10 hours. If you live in the northern parts of Asia, it can be as long as 21 hours. For me, living in Washington, it’s 16 hours.

Every year Ramadan is 10 days earlier than the previous year because it follows a lunar calendar. Eventually, when Ramadan falls during the winter and the days are shorter, my fast will be only 10 hours, like skipping lunch. But that won’t happen for another decade or so.

You don’t have to fast if you are pregnant, nursing, sick, traveling, or on your period. So if you see one of your colleagues who has been observing Ramadan walk in with a cup of coffee in her hand, don’t ask her why because now you know.

I’ve been fasting every year for the past three decades, with the exception of those years I was preg-nant or nursing. This is my first year

back after a two-year break. It’s not easy. But there are ways to make it more manageable. For tips, I spoke with nutritionist and dietitian Nour Zibdeh, who is based in Northern Virginia. She has developed an online workshop to help Muslims have a healthy month. An edited excerpt of our interview follows.

Q: Every morning I drink two cups of coffee to get my day started, and 3:45 AM is just too early to do that. What can I do to minimiSe the effects of caffeine withdrawal?

A: I love my coffee, too, and that is the hardest thing for me during fasting, or one of the hardest things for me. If you can sleep in, take a nap, because there will be head-aches. That’s basic chemistry. If you’re used to caffeine, there will be caffeine withdrawal headaches, and so you just have to take it a lit-tle bit easy that day and give yourself sometime to rest.

Q: So basically you’re telling me I just have to put up with the withdrawal and adjust?

A: I mean, I know some people who will take Excedrin, which has caffeine in it, at 3 in the morning. But then you’re just reinforcing unhealthy habits. If you are that

dependent that you can’t function without caffeine, this would be a good time to detox.

Q: Lack of water and dehydra-tion will also lead to headaches. I try to drink lots of water when I wake up in the middle of the night, but I don’t feel like that stays in my system for too long. So how should you make sure your body is sufficiently hydrated during these long summer days?

A: You break your fast at around 8:30 p.m., so you have around seven hours to hydrate. And if you need to drink eight to 10 glasses a day, then you just have to spread them out. Of course you’re not going to wake up every hour to drink. So usually at iftar (breaking of the fast after sunset), I will fill up my water bottle, so that’s about 16 ounces of water. And then between 9:30 and 11 p.m., drink three more cups, and right before you go to bed, drink more water. So you have to load up during iftar, and that’s actu-ally why you have to be smart about what you fill up on. If you eat water-melon or grapes or apples, these are things that are high in water, and will make you feel hydrated. Whereas if you eat fried food and dessert, then you just fill up with-

out water.Q: What foods should I avoid?A: Fried foods and sweets and,

for some people, spicy food. Because if you break your fast and you’re not used to spicy food, and your stomach has not been work-ing for 16 hours, and the first thing you hit it with is spicy kebab, or hot sauce or chutney, that will give you heartburn. I’m not opposed to sweets altogether. Even in Ram-adan, I recommend the 90/10 ratio rule: 90 percent of what you eat should be healthy, hydrating, nour-ishing. Then leave yourself room for three bites of something like desserts or fried foods.

Q: Breaking your fast with dates is a tradition. But is that what you would recommend from a die-titian’s perspective?

A: Yes, absolutely. Dates have fiber, potassium and magnesium in them. Potassium has electrolytes, so that helps with hydration. Dates also help you get your blood sugar back up after 16 hours of fasting.

Q: What about exercise?A: If you have been exercising

already, and you have a workout schedule, you go two or three times a week, you can probably maintain it. You definitely want to lower the intensity. If you’re going to work out while fasting, then I would rec-ommend working out at 7 or 7:30 PM, bring it down a notch and then you’ll be able to refuel an hour after your workout.

If you are sedentary, have a desk job, and don’t usually work out, it’s probably not the best time to start. You can go on walks before iftar if it’s not too hot or humid. That is a way to get your activity level up without overex-erting your body.

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Bonnie S Benwick The Washington Post

Obviously, Aristotle hadn’t snacked on deviled eggs when he proclaimed the

whole as greater than the sum of its parts. Egg-white vessels, end-less variations on yolk-based fillings and garnishes as simple or fussy as the occasion requires each bring their own charms to the party.

Dill relish, shallot and Dijon go into the filling; the secret to this more healthful version of deviled eggs is replacing half the mayon-

naise with nonfat Greek yogurt.6 servings (makes 24 halves)

Make Ahead: The eggs can be hard-cooked up to 1 week in advance; refrigerate in an airtight container and let the egg white halves come to a cool room tem-perature before serving.

The filling can be prepared a day in advance; store in a gal-lon-size zip-top bag (for potential piping). It’s best to fill the eggs the same day they are served.

Ingredients12 large eggs, hard-cooked

1/4 cup plain nonfat Greek yogurt

1/4 cup low-fat mayonnaise1 tablespoon minced shallot1 tablespoon dill relish2 teaspoons Dijon-style

mustard1 teaspoon white vinegar1/4 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon freshly ground

black pepperAleppo pepper, for garnish

StepsCut the eggs in half lengthwise.

Place the yolks in a food processor along with the yogurt, mayo, shal-lot, relish, mustard, vinegar, salt and

black pepper; puree until smooth.Make sure the egg white halves

have no trace of cooked yolks. (You may wish to slice a thin layer off the bottoms of each one, for stability.)

Spoon or pipe about a table-spoon of the filling into each egg white half. Just before serving, sprinkle each one lightly with Aleppo pepper.

Nutrition: Per filled half: 45 cal-ories, 3 g protein, 0 g carbohydrates, 3 g fat, 1 g saturated fat, 95 mg cho-lesterol, 80 mg sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugar.

Stuffed eggs

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Actress Shraddha Kapoor has begun her badminton training to play champion Saina Nehwal in an upcoming biopic. A sports lover, Shraddha has played football, basketball, handball and

badminton in her school days. But to get the nuances of the real life sports star right and alive on screen, Shraddha is being put through extensive training. She is being trained by a senior coach of the Prakash Padukone Academy, read a statement. The film, produced by Bhushan Kumar, will be directed by Amole Gupte and will start shoot end of 2017.

Actress Kriti Sanon, who will be seen playing a “tomboyish charac-ter” in the upcoming film “Bareilly Ki Barfi”, says it was a very fresh for her to play a character from Uttar Pradesh. Talking about the

role, Kriti said: “It’s a very tomboyish character. She is a girl living in Bareilly but doing things on her own terms. She is someone who is quite bratty and who questions the basic norms.” The 26-year-old actress says her charac-ter does break dance in the film, and has traits which make her different from other girls in Bareilly. “What I really like about the film is also the fact that every relationship is shown very nicely... Also, for me to play a UP girl was very fresh,” she added. “Bareilly Ki Barfi” is directed by “Nil Battey San-nata” fame director Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari. Slated to release on July 21 next year, it is a romantic comedy rooted in the subculture of the north Indian city Bareilly.

Aamir Khan’s blockbuster “Dangal”, which has earned over Rs1,000 crore in China,

has been described by a senior Chi-nese leader as a “great film” and an example of “cooperation among BRICS nations”.

In a meeting with a group of editors and journalists in Beijing for the BRICS Media Forum, Liu Yun-shan, a member of the Communist Party’s Politburo Standing Commit-tee, said “Dangal” was one of the most “successful and influential” films shown in China in recent years.

“India and its media should be proud of what the film has achieved... It is a great example of cooperation among BRICS coun-tries,” said Liu, adding that “we media people should give greater coverage to this film”.

“Dangal”, which released here as “Let’s Wrestle, Dad”, is about a determined father in a patriarchal

society, training his daughters to become world class wrestlers.

Aamir is one of the most popu-lar Indian actors in China and the media here has been writing about the phenomenal success of the movie as it has struck a chord with the Chinese, also a male-dominated society.

The movie has grossed more

than 1.2bn RMB, said Liu, who met select BRICS Media Forum dele-gates at the Great Hall of the People. That puts ‘Dangal’ — released on May 5 across around 7,000 screens in China — among the top foreign film grossers. “The Mermaid” is the highest-grossing movie (over 3m RMB) in China, followed by likes of

“Monster Hunt”, “The Fate of the

Furious” and “Furious 7”.In an earlier interview, Aamir

spoke about how overwhelmed he was with the response to the sports drama. “While we were hoping that

‘Dangal’ connects with the people of China, not in our wildest dreams we thought that this is the kind of connect we would have. It was unprecedented. We are pleasantly surprised,” said Aamir, whose “PK”,

“3 Idiots” and “Dhoom 3” also did well in China.

According to him, the reason it has become so huge is that the Chi-nese connected on an emotional level with the story, the characters and the moments.

“I have been reading their reac-tions on social media. They have been saying things like how the movie moved them... It made them realise what their parents went through. Many of them called up their parents and cried. It’s a very emotional reaction.”

Anupam Kher looks every bit of Manmohan Singh in the first look of a film adapta-

tion of Sanjay Baru’s controversial book “The Accidental Prime Min-ister: The Making and Unmaking of Manmohan Singh”, in which the veteran actor essays the former Indian Prime Minister.

Anupam released the first-look poster of the film yesterday. “To reinvent yourself as an actor is to challenge yourself. Looking forward to portraying Manmohan Singh in

‘The Accidental Prime Minister’,” Anupam tweeted.

The black and white poster shows the side profile of Anupam, dressed as Manmohan Singh — complete with a white beard and turban. The focus of the poster is, however, more on the silhouette of a woman — presumably Con-gress president Sonia Gandhi

— standing in the corridors of Par-liament House.

The deliberate placement of the silhouette near Aupam’s ear

portrays the numerous layers that were perhaps behind the persona and the role of Singh, who was crit-icised for rarely being verbal and taking actions on his own.

Directed by debutant Vijay Ratnakar Gutte, the memoir by Baru is expected to hit the screens in December 2018, just ahead of the next general election in 2019. Screenplay for the movie has been written by National Award win-ning director Hansal Mehta. Besides Anupam, rest of the cast is yet to be decided.

‘Dangal’ a film to be proud of: Top Chinese leader

Anupam Kher: Looking forward to play Manmohan Singh

Shraddha begins trainingfor Saina Nehwal biopic

To play UP girl in ‘Bareilly...’ was very fresh: Kriti Sanon

TECHNOLOGYTHURSDAY 8 JUNE 2017 13

Computer scientists have built a new tool that may enable them to detect fake profiles

on an adult content website — believed to be heavily targeted by

“catfishes” to befriend other users and gain more profile views.

The study found that 40 per-cent of the users lied about their age and nearly a quarter lied about their gender. Interestingly, women were more likely to deceive than men. “Adult websites are popu-lated by users who claim to be other than who they are, so these form perfect testing grounds for techniques that identify catfishes,” said Walid Magdy from the Uni-versity of Edinburgh.

“We hope that our development will lead to useful tools to flag dis-honest users and keep social networks of all kinds safe,” Magdy added. The study will be presented at the International Conference on Advances in Social Networks

Analysis and Mining in Australia. The researchers built their model on data retrieved from 5,000 ver-ified profiles on the website.

These profiles were used to train the model to estimate the gender and age of a user with high accuracy, using their style of writ-ing in comments and network activity. This enabled the models to accurately estimate age and gender of users with unverified accounts, and spot misinformation from fake accounts, the research-ers said.

Next time you send a mes-sage intended for your girlfriend mistakenly to

someone else on WhatsApp, just chill. You may have soon a five-minute window to revoke such misdirected messages.

According to WABetaInfo, a fan site that tests new WhatsApp features early, the mobile mes-saging platform has moved closer towards introducing a ‘Recall’ fea-ture. With this feature, the users will be able to recall or unsend texts, images, videos, GIFs, docu-ments, quoted messages and even status replies within a five-minute window, The Independent reported on Tuesday.

The messaging app will enable ‘Recall’ in version “2.17.30+” of the app. The current version of What-sApp is 2.17.190.

“WhatsApp has added in beta the possibility to edit messages that you

already sent. It is actually disabled by default and it’s under develop-ment,” an earlier WABetaInfo’s tweet read.

The users will be able to edit only recent messages and not the old ones. With 1.2 billion monthly active users, WhatsApp is available in more than 50 different languages around the world and in 10 Indian languages.

WhatsApp currently has 200 million monthly active users in India. The Facebook-owned platform is also believed to be considering bringing back the old contacts list that vanished with the arrival of ‘Sta-tus’, but only for iPhone users.

IANS

Technology giant Google announced a new educa-tional programme, designed

to teach children about internet safety issues such as phishing, inter-net harassment and passwords, the company said in a blogpost.

The programme — called “Be Internet Awesome” — includes a classroom curriculum and a video game called Interland.

“For kids to really make the most of the web, we need to provide guidance as they learn to make their own smart decisions online,” Pavni Diwanji, Vice President of the Engi-neering for kids and families, said in a Google blogpost on Tuesday.

“With school out and summer break giving kids more time to spend on the Internet, it’s a great time to introduce Be Internet Awe-some: a new way to encourage digital safety and citizenship,”

Diwanji added.The programme includes sec-

tions on how to limit sharing personal information with people online, avoid falling for scams or phishing attacks, creating strong passwords, and avoiding negative behaviour online as well as has a

“Be Internet Awesome Pledge” that the students can sign.

Interland, the accompanying video game, seems less like a train-ing tool and more like a sweetener that could get students interested in the material. Interland also uses a low-poly aesthetic that will be

familiar to Daydream virtual real-ity (VR) users.

The programme was devel-oped in collaboration with online safety experts like the Family Online Safety Institute, the Inter-net Keep Safe Coalition and ConnectSafely.

It includes a range of specific resources for kids, educators and parents, so everyone has the tools they need to learn and participate in the conversation.

The programme is compliant with International Society for Technology in Education standards, awarded to programs that promote a range of tech-savvy skills, said theverge.com on Tuesday.

“Be Internet Awesome” is the latest in Google’s string of educa-tional programmes, which range from promoting Chromebooks in the classroom to offering virtual reality field trips through Google Cardboard.

New Google programme may help kids fight trolls & hackers

New software tool may helpfish out fake online profiles

WhatsApp closer to introducing ‘Recall’ message feature

BABY BLUES

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE

In 2017, Shiv and Saira fall for each other and form an inseparable

connection. Until, Saira crosses paths with a reincarnated lover from

a previous lifetime who is determined to make her his lover again.Note: Programme is subject to change without prior notice.

NOVO — Pearl ROYAL PLAZA

MALL

LANDMARK

The Mummy (2D/Action) 10:00, 10:30, 11:00am, 12:00noon, 12:15, 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 2:20, 2:40, 3:10, 3:15, 3:40, 4:40, 5:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:15, 7:00, 7:20, 7:50, 8:20, 9:15, 9:20, 9:40, 10:30, 10:45, 11:40, 11:50pm & 12:00midnight Howard Love Craft And The Frozen Kingdom (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:00noon 2:00, 4:00 & 6:00pmThe Bleeder (2D/Drama) 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight Guardians of The Galaxy 2 (2D/Action) 11:00am, 3:45 & 8:30pm Stratton (2D/Action) 1:45, 6:30 & 11:15pm The Boss Baby (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00 & 4:00pm King Arthur:Legend of The Sword (2D/Action) 6:00, 8:30 & 11:00pm Gifted (2D/Drama) 10:30am, 3:00, 7:30pm & 12:00midnightAlien Covenant (2D/Action) 12:30, 5:00 & 9:30pmThe Mummy (3D IMAX/Action) 11:30am, 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 & 11:10pm

Howard Love Craft And The Frozen Kingdom (2D/Animation) 1:15, 4:00 & 9:00pm Raabta (2D/Hindi) 1:15, 2:45 & 10:30pm The Bleeder (2D/Drama) 3:30pm The Mummy (2D/Action) 8:30 & 10:30 & 11:00pm CIA: Comrade In America (2D/Malayalam) 1:15 & 8:30pm

Howard Love Craft And The Frozen Kingdom (2D/Animation) 1:15, 4:00 & 9:00pm Raabta (2D/Hindi) 1:15, 2:45 & 10:30pm CIA: Comrade In America (2D/Malayalam) 1:15 & 8:30pmThe Bleeder (2D/Drama) 3:30pm The Mummy (2D/Action) 8:30, 10:30 & 11:00pm

Howard Love Craft And The Frozen Kingdom (2D/Animation) 1:15, 4:00 & 9:00pm CIA: Comrade In America (2D/Malayalam) 1:15 & 8:30pmRaabta (2D/Hindi) 1:15, 2:45 & 10:30pm The Bleeder (2D/Drama) 3:30pm The Mummy (2D/Action) 8:30, 10:30 & 11:00pm

THURSDAY 8 JUNE 2017

VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER

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ASIAN TOWNGodha (Malayalam) 11:30pm CIA: Comrade in America (2D/Malayalam) 8:00, 10:30 & 11:00pm Rakshadhikari Baiju (Malayalam) 8:00 & 11:00pm

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ALL IN THE MIND

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October

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16:10 Liv And Maddie

17:05 Stuck In The Middle

17:30 Bunk’d 17:55 Bizaardvark 18:25 Alex & Co. 19:20 Binny And

The Ghost 19:45 Austin &

Ally 20:35 Cracke 20:40 Disney The

Lodge 21:05 Bizaardvark 21:30 That’s So

Raven 21:55 Star Darlings 22:00 Shake It Up 22:25 Sabrina

Secrets Of A Teenage Witch

13:45 Big Fish Man

14:40 Untamed China With Nigel Marven

15:35 Tanked17:25 Animal

Cops Houston

18:20 Animal ER19:15 Tanked20:10 Dogs/Cats/

Pets 10121:05 Animal

Cops Houston

22:00 Animal ER22:55 Untamed

China With Nigel Marven

23:50 Big Fish Man

00:45 Bondi Vet

13:05 How Do They Do It?

13:30 Storage Hunters UK

14:20 Gold Rush15:10 Treasure

Quest: Snake Island

16:50 Sacred Steel Bikes

17:40 Street Outlaws

18:30 How Do They Do It?

20:10 Storage Hunters UK

21:00 Gold Rush: Parker’s Trail

21:50 Rebel Gold22:40 Outback

Truckers23:30 Sacred

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Yesterday’s answer

Conceptis Sudoku: Conceptis Sudoku

is a number-placing puzzle based on a

9×9 grid. The object is to place the

numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so

that each row, each column and each

3×3 box contains the same number

only once.

ALLOSAURUS, ANKYLOSAURUS,

APATOSAURUS,

BRACHIOSAURUS,

CAMPTOSAURUS,

COMPSOGNATHUS,

CORYTHOSAURUS,

DEINONYCHUS, DIPLODOCUS,

EORAPTOR, HADROSAUR,

HETERODONTOSAURUS,

IGUANODON, ORNITHOLESTES,

PENTACERATOPS,

PLATEOSAURUS,

PTEROSAUR, SCELIDOSAURUS,

STEGOSAURUS, TRICERATOPS,

TYRANNOSAURUS REX,

VELOCIRAPTOR.