** Kerala’s NORKA Roots to sign memorandum of understanding on nursing jobs in Germany

Achim Burkart, Consul General of Germany in Bengaluru, and NORKA-Roots CEO K. Harikrishnan Namboothiri will sign the MoU in the presence of Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Thursday

NORKA Roots will ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Federal Employment Agency, the German government agency in charge of recruitments, on Thursday, opening up possibilities for nurses from the State in the German health-care sector.

** IPI honours for NDTV, The Week teams

Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi of NDTV, Lakshmi Subramanian and Bhanu Praksh Chandra of The Week get Award for Excellence in Journalism

The IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism-2021 has been given jointly to Sreenivasan Jain and Mariyam Alavi of NDTV and Lakshmi Subramanian and Bhanu Prakash Chandra of The Week.

** Ace mountaineer from Uttarakhand becomes first woman president of Indian Mountaineering Foundation

She has been honoured with the Arjuna award for her achievements in the field of mountaineering.

Noted mountaineer from Uttarakhand Harshwanti Bisht has earned the distinction of being elected the first woman president of the Indian Mountaineering Foundation (IMF).

** Enthralling story of ruby-studded stirrups

The Collector donated a pair of gold stirrups, studded with rubies, to Goddess Meenakshi, who had saved his life.

Refusing to go back to England after superannuation, Rous Peter spent his last days in Madurai.

As per his wish, he was interred at the St. George’s Church.

Madurai

** For the first time, India has more women than men

Parents in India have historically favoured sons over daughters.

India has more women than men for the first time on record, according to government data that also showed a slowing birthrate in the world’s second-most populous nation.

Parents in India have historically favoured sons over daughters, who are often considered burdensome and costly due to the tradition of wedding dowries.

* Bengaluru Teacher Mehreen Mushtaq Wins Global Award In Artificial Intelligence

Mehreen Mushtaq Shamim, a teacher from Bengaluru’s Delhi Public School has bagged an award in Artificial Intelligence (AI) at the Intel AI Global Impact Festival.

She was selected as one of the four winners of ‘AI impact shapers: Teachers with innovative AI teaching learning practices’. Mehreen has been teaching AI in DPS East for nine years now. The CBSE curriculum had introduced AI as a subject for classes 9-12 in 2019.