Prelims Bits 26-04-2017

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.