Highest-ever temperature in Norwegian Arctic archipelago
times, without paying heed to the essence, people encourage certain things on social media “that are detrimental to the country”, he said.
“There are times when we forward things out of sheer curiosity. Despite knowing that it is wrong, we keep doing it. These days, wars are fought not just on borders, they are fought on many fronts simultaneously within the country too.
“And every citizen has to decide his or her role in that. We, too, should determine our roles, fully keeping in mind the soldiers fighting on the borders under the harshest of conditions,” he said.
The prime minister’s comments come as Indian and Chinese armies are locked in a standoff in Ladakh. Modi recalled late prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s Independence Day speech after the Kargil war and said it is relevant even today.
Vajpayee, he said, had then reminded the nation of Mahatma Gandhi’s mantra -- in the face of any dilemma, in order to decide what to do or what not to do, one must think of the poorest and the most helpless person of India; one must assess whether one’s deed will result in benefitting that particular person or not.
“Going beyond Gandhi-ji’s thought, Atal ji had said the Kargil war has given us another mantra. Before taking any important decision, we should think whether our step, our endeavour is befitting to the honour of the soldier who laid down his life in those remote mountains,” the prime minister as he played out a brief clip of Vajpayee’s speech.
Speaking on the coronavirus disease pandemic, the Prime Minister said India’s recovery rate – the proportion of recovered patients to the total cases -- is better compared to other countries and its case fatality rate is much less as well, but the threat of the
OSLO: Norway’s Arctic archipelago Svalbard on Saturday recorded its highest-ever temperature, the country’s meteorological institute reported.
According to scientific study, global warming in the Arctic is happening twice as fast as for the rest of the planet.
For the second day in a row, the archipelago registered 21.2 degrees Celsius in the afternoon, just under the 21.3 degrees recorded in 1979, meteorologist Kristen Gislefoss told AFP. Later in the aftdeadly virus is far from over.
“The threat of the coronavirus is far from being over. At many places, it is spreading fast. We need to be extra vigilant. We have to bear in mind that the coronavirus is as fatal today as it was in the beginning. That is why we have to be fully cautious,” he said.
“Over the last few months, the way the country fought against the coronavirus unitedly has proved many apprehensions wrong. Today, the recovery rate in our country is better compared to other countries. The mortality rate in the context of Covid-19 in our country is much less as well, compared to most countries,” the prime minister said.
“Of course, the loss of even one life is saddening, but India has also succeeded in saving the lives of lakhs of people,” the PM added. said.
“The reality is that the Modi ernoon however, at around 6:00pm local time, it recorded 21.7 degrees, setting a new alltime record. The island group, dominated by Spitzbergen the only inhabited isle in the northern Norway archipelago, sits 1,000 kilometres from the North Pole.
The relative heatwave, expected to last until Monday, is a huge spike of normal temperatures in July, the hottest month in the Arctic,
The Svalbard islands would normally expect to be seeing temperatures of 5-8 degrees Celsius at this time of year.
The region has seen tempergovernment and the BJP have launched an attack on democracy and the Constitution,” Maken added.
He said it is clear from the BJP’S “conspiracy” to topple the Rajasthan government that these “disruptive forces” want to make democracy a slave of the “Delhi Durbar” and a puppet in their hands.
The majority verdict is being murdered in Rajasthan and the public mandate crushed, the Congress leader said.
He said the most worrying aspect is that the Constitution and established constitutional traditions are being ruthlessly trampled by the BJP.
Maken said in a show of solidarity with the Rajasthan government, led by chief minister Ashok Gehlot, and for the protection of the Constitution and democracy, Congressmen will stage protests in a “Gandhian way” in front of Raj Bhawans across the country on Monday. atures five degrees above normal since January, peaking at 38 degrees in Siberia in midJuly, just beyond the Arctic Circle.
According to a recent report “The Svalbard climate in 2100,” the average temperatures for the archipelago between 2070 and 2100 will rise by 7-10 degrees, due to the levels of greenhouse gas emissions. Changes are already visible. From 1971 to 2017 between three and five degrees of warming have been observed, with the biggest rises in the winter, according to the report. nine of whom had qualified for the Olympics, would have been at the peak of their abilities right now, waiting for their turn in the ring at Tokyo. Instead, they are starting from scratch. “It is completely a different feeling to train again,” said Pooja, the Asian Championship gold medallist, who has qualified in the 75kg category. She now weighs 81kg. “It will take a month or two to return to good fitness levels.”
Just when the pandemic hit and sports came to a halt, the boxers were ready to hit the final phase of preparation of these long plan, the crescendo of physical and mental fitness which professional athletes call ‘peaking’. A state that allows athletes to push their bodies to its limit without breaking down and give their best performance in a major competition like the Olympics.
“Peaking is steering the training towards your best performance. An athlete plans his whole training towards the World Championships or Olympic Games. They manage to improve their performance by one or two per cent, in some cases up to three per cent, with good peaking,” said Nieva before the training camp restarted. It is the 1-3 per cent that makes the difference between a medal or nothing at all.
However, peaking can happen only when the body has been conditioned to a certain level. “What people don’t see is the remaining 98 per cent,” Nieva said. “Training is not a quick-fix. It is a constant process, so you have to set the foundation of the other 98 per cent before you care about the last two or three per cent.”
If the Olympics had gone to schedule, the boxers would have already gone through the toughest phases of training by June and started on the last lap of their programme by July.
Each sport is different, and so are their respective mechanics of peaking. Players in badminton have to be ready around the year as the calendar is packed with big tournaments. “We don’t have cycles in which we have to hit peaking stage only once or twice a year,” said Pullela Gopichand, India’s chief badminton coach. PV Sindhu is a great example of an athlete who peaks for the big tournament. She won the World Championships last year—her fifth medal at a major competition. “The last few cycles have been good for us, whether it was the Olympics or Commonwealth Games,” said Gopichand. “Every time we have had a big tournament, we have been able to peak with a certain formula where we’ve been focusing on things which need to be improved.”
One sport in which India was primed to deliver medals was shooting, with fifteen shooters making the cut for Tokyo. The shooters had followed an exacting regimen, appearing for multiple trials, and were ready for one last push when the outbreak happened. “We trained our shooters keeping in mind certain time frames. It is all about periodisation, and that has now gone for a toss,” said Shuma Shirur, the junior rifle programme coach.
Joydeep Karmakar, an Olympian and current coach of top shooter Mehuli Ghosh, said the big picture of the Olympics was always in mind as they prepared for different World Cups and World Championships.
Rushdee Warley, the CEO of JSW’S Inspire Institute of Sport, agreed that all athletes will need to recalibrate their programmes, and their will and commitment to succeed will be put to test.
“I think we will see a determined group of athletes, from all over the world, really wanting to prove a point,” Warley, an elite high performance coach, said. “The athletes and coaches are a resilient group of people.”