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Prelims Bits 26-04-2017

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April 26, 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.
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