It is released by INSEAD business school in partnership with Tata Communications and Adecco Group.
It looks at 68 variables such as ease of ease of hiring, gender earnings gap, and prevalence of training in firms.
GTCI 2019 addresses the topic of entrepreneurial talent and global competitiveness.
Switzerland followed by Singapore, the US, Norway and Denmark were the top five on the list of countries.
China emerged as the best performer among the BRICS countries, with an overall position of 45th.
India has moved up one position to rank 80th on the 2019 Global Talent Competitiveness Index.
According to it, India's biggest challenge is to improve its ability to attract and retain talent.
However, India performed better than its lower-income peers when it comes to growing talent and access to growth opportunities.
Kurumba Painting
Kurumbas are the tribe who live in the mid-ranges of the Nilgiris or “blue-mountains”.
The Kurumba art is traditionally practiced by only either by the male members of the temple caretakers, or priest to the Kurumba village.
The women of the family contribute to the decorations at home in the form of borders around the door and windows and kolams on the floor.
The art are primarily ritualistic, describing various facets of tribal life.
Often it is painted on the outer wall of the temple and the house.
Eluthu paarai is an ancient 3000-year-old rock-painting site of Kurumbas in the Kothagiri region of the Nilgiris.
The rock art depictions in this site come under the category of ‘petrographs’ means “rock art”.
Rock engravings are called ‘petroglyphs’.
Pithora Paintings
The Pithora painting form is traditionally performed on walls inside the homes of the Rathvas tribe.
In times of difficulty, Rathva seek the guidance of Badva, the chief priest or shaman of the village.
Badva performs readings based on the skills he has acquired through ancestral schooling, and recommends undertaking a vow to paint Pithora in the home in order to gain a boon from Baba Pithora.
The person who undertakes the vow is known as Ghardhani, or in simple terms, home owner.
IAFTX 2019
Indian Africa Field Training Exercise (IAFTX)-2019 was held recently in Pune.
The joint training exercise is being conducted with more than a dozen African countries & India.
It aims at synergizing humanitarian mine action and joint peace operations.
