Neutral Machine Translation Technology
Google Translate will use a new ‘neural machine translation technology’ to translate between English and nine widely-used Indian languages, including Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati.
Tiger Dance or Bagha Nacha
- The biennial Thakurani Jatra festival of Berhampur, Odisha showcases the famous tiger dance or ‘Bagha Nacha’.
- During the 21-day-long Thakurani Jatra festival, several people, including children, get their whole body painted like a tiger as homage to Goddess Budhi Thakurani.
Skill University
- It is India’s first vocational and education training centre based on the Swiss Dual System.
- The Rajasthan-ILD Skills University (RISU) was established through a Bill passed in the State Assembly.
- The Rajasthan government appointed Commissioner (Skills, Employment & Entrepreneurship) Krishna Kunal as Registrar of the country’s first skill university at Jamdoli.
- RISU will foster skill training and employability of youth under the National Skills Qualification Framework.
Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD)
- Kyasanur Forest disease (KFD) or Monkey Fever is a tick-borne viral hemorrhagic fever endemic to South Asia.
- The disease is caused by a virus belonging to the family Flaviviridae, which also includes yellow fever and dengue fever.
- The virus has been detected in monkeys in parts of Bandipur National Park, Karnataka.
- Goa’s Directorate of Health Services has intensified their fever surveillance and precautionary measures for the Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), after a woman died of this illness.
- The symptoms of the disease include a high fever with frontal headaches, followed by haemorrhagic symptoms, such as bleeding from the nasal cavity, throat, and gums, as well as gastrointestinal bleeding.
