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.
The 31-year-old Arif, who hails from Tangmarg of Baramulla district (Jammu & Kashmir), achieved the qualification in the final FIS Qualification being held in Dubai.
Tamil Nadu has become the first State in the country to get its own ‘forensic DNA profile search tool’, developed by the State Forensic Sciences Department. On Saturday, Chief Minister MK Stalin launched the facility and handed it over to the state police chief.
The tool will come in handy for gathering profiles of victims of human trafficking; identifying missing children; tracking criminals from other States, unidentified bodies, profiles of history-sheeters, and people who die in natural disasters.
The Union Health Ministry said it had unveiled a feature that allows third party entities such as travel agencies, offices, employers to verify an individual’s vaccination status.
This, it stated, would obviate the need for a physical vaccination certificate.
The feature, as it is called, was enabled on the CoWIN [cowin.gov.in] digital platform on Saturday. It could be accessed by clicking on the “Share your vaccination status” sub-link.
A new tree species of the genus Cryptocarya spotted in Edamalakkudy in Idukki district has been named after a tribe from the locality.
‘Cryptocarya muthuvariana’ has been named so to honour the Muthuvar tribe and as it was discovered in their neighbourhood, researchers responsible for the identification said.
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BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has been appointed as the Chairman of the ICC men’s Cricket Committee, the game’s governing body said on Wednesday.
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Paying tributes, PM Modi said Birsa Munda, popularly known as Dharti Aaba, fought against the ideology that wanted to erase the identity of the tribal society of India.
She was a forward thinker and one of the post-Independence writers who wrote about women, and showed them in a new light — as strong, independent individuals