Karnataka First

As part of the MoU, Amazon will train and on-board MSMEs from the State on Amazon Global Selling, its exports programme, enabling them to sell their Made in India products globally to customers in over 200 countries.

Indian young leader Alina Alam is among 20 extraordinary young individuals from 18 countries who have been announced as finalists for this year’s Commonwealth Youth Awards.

The awards recognise outstanding Commonwealth young people whose projects are transforming lives in their communities and helping to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Allan Ignatius Sequera of Jain University bagged the first rank with i-Nature Gold Medal in the Master of Science (Animation) MSc category.

Bharath Gyan Vigyan Samithi (BGVS), a civil society group for the promotion of primary education, healthcare and women’s empowerment, has donated books worth ₹ 70,000 to public libraries.

A two-day Aero International webinar 2021 on the theme ‘Advanced Frontier Technologies for Aerospace and Defence’ will be held from January 29.

For artist Indu Antony, embroidery is a meditative process. So one day, when she decided to sew a strand of hair onto a piece of cloth, it just felt right. Having arrived at a medium she could express herself with, the artist who delves into subjects that are connected to memory, stitches with hair on paper, cloth and even photographs.

Special breed of worm used for vermicompsting A special breed of worm – Eudrilus eugeniae – also called ‘African Nightcrawler’, is used for the vermin composting process.

This earthworm species is native to tropical West Africa …

Sixty-four-year-old Jogati Manjamma, the first transwoman who was appointed as chairperson of Karnataka Janapada Academy has been awarded the Padmashri.

10-year-old Veer Kashyap from Bengaluru, studying in Army Public School, New Delhi, will receive the Pradhan  Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2021 for excellence in the field of innovation.