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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Mar 11, 2020

Second Patient Cured of HIV, Say Doctors

A man from London became the second person in the world to be cured of HIV, doctors say.
Adam Castillejo is still free of the virus more than 30 months after stopping anti-retroviral therapy.
He was not cured by the HIV drugs, however, but by a stem-cell treatment he received for a cancer he also had.
The donors of those stem cells have an uncommon gene that gives them, and now Mr. Castillejo, protection against HIV.
In 2011, Timothy Brown, the "Berlin patient" became the first person reported as cured of HIV, three and half years after having similar treatment.

MSDE Launches Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship (MGNF) in IIM-Bengaluru

Union Minister for Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey initiated Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship programme (MGNF) in the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bengaluru in Karnataka. This fellowship is a part of SANKALP (Skills Acquisition and Knowledge Awareness for Livelihood Promotion) programme of the ministry to boost skill development at the district level.
MGNF is an initiative of the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE) which is implemented by IIM Bangalore in collaboration with State Skill Development Missions (SSDMs).
Under the pilot project, IIMB will train 75 graduates for two years in preparing the District skill plan. Graduates from 75 districts in Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Karnataka and Meghalaya are chosen for the training.
-The two-year comprises of classroom sessions at IIM Bangalore with mentorship of Fellows while in district.

Mar 08, 2020

Kerala to Launch Digital Literacy Drive

Setting a model for the entire country, Kerala is all set to launch a massive total digital literacy campaign to ensure that the benefits of the state's surge as an inclusive knowledge-based society reaches the grass roots level.
The drive, powered by the Kerala State IT Mission under the Department of Information Technology and Kerala Literacy Mission, is titled as 'I am also digital.'
It would be carried out in people's participatory model by roping in resource persons and instructors from the society itself down to the civic ward level across the state.
The programme aims at building capacity of the whole society to enjoy benefits of digital technology including a spectrum of online services and educate people about the cyber security issues in the context of the spurt in cybercrime.

Mar 07, 2020

Female Labour-force Participation in India Declines

Female labour-force participation in India declined from 34 per cent in 2006 to 24.8 per cent in 2020.
According to the UNGC (United Nations Global Compact) India study, India is the only country among the 153 surveyed countries where the economic gender gap is larger than the political gap.
The study found that raising women's participation in the labour force to the same level as men can boost India's GDP by 27 per cent.
Gender stereotypes and lack of infrastructure has traditionally sidelined women from core manufacturing functions. As a result, not many are able to reach leadership roles.
Globally, 38.7 per cent of employed women are working in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, but only 13.8 per cent of landholders are women.

Mar 06, 2020

IIT-Delhi Signs MOU with ZTE Telecom India

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT-Delhi) entered into a collaboration with ZTE Telecom India private limited for offering scholarships to undergraduate students. Under this ZTE Telecom India Scholarship three new students of undergraduate course will be offered Rs. 1 lakh per year for four years.
The scholarship will be awarded to the needy bright student from low income family who get selected in IIT for four years of his/ her undergraduate course.
The MOU was signed between ZTE India CEO Yan Xiao and Professor Sanjeev Sanghi Dean Alumni Affairs and International Relations at Board Room IIT Delhi in the presence of other senior Professors of IIT Delhi and officers of ZTE India.

Mar 05, 2020

Scientists Indentify Two Types of Coronavirus

Scientists in China said they had found that two different types of the coronavirus could be causing infections.
The researchers, from Peking University's School of Life Sciences and the Institut Pasteur of Shanghai under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, examined a limited range of data and said follow-up analyses of larger data sets are needed to better understand the virus's evolution.
The preliminary study found that a more aggressive type of the coronavirus associated with the disease outbreak in Wuhan accounted for about 70% of analysed strains, while 30% was linked to a less aggressive type.
The prevalence of the more aggressive virus decreased after early January 2020.

IIT Bombay, Delhi among Top 50 Engineering Colleges

A subject-based ranking by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), known for its influential ranking of global educational institutions, which assesses varsities on around 50 subjects from art and design to engineering and management, sees Indian institutions, predictably, doing better in science and engineering.
The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) at Bombay, Delhi, Kharagpur, and Madras all appear in the top 100 in the engineering and technology ranking. IIT-Bombay topped the list with the 44th rank, followed by IIT-Delhi (47), IIT-Kharagpur (86) and IIT-Madras (88).
In natural sciences, there are no Indian institutions in the top 100. Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay is the top Indian institute and ranked 108, followed by Indian Institute of Science (IISc) at 111, IIT-Madras (195), IIT-Delhi (207), Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (232) and University of Delhi (251).

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