1)Odisha’s famous tiger dance losing its charm:= Tiger Dance or Bagh Nach is the Famous Tribal Folk Dance of Odisha.
Thakurani Jatra is a famous Biennial Festival that takes place in Berhampur in Odisha.
2)PM to inaugurate India's longest bridge in Assam on May 24.
This Bridge will be over the Brahmaputra River. The bridge will connect Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and is 9.15 kilometre long.
The Name of the Bridge is Dhola-Sadiya Bridge.
3)India has released its Latest Joint Military Doctrine:-
i)Important thing to note is that Surgical Strikes have been added as one of the Possible Responses of India in case of Terrorist attacks.
The “Joint doctrine of Indian armed forces” prepared by the Headquarters integrated Defence Staff.
The first joint military doctrine was released in 2006.
4)Wikipedia launches news service:= Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media called WikiTribune.
WikiTribune will focus on “evidence-based journalism”.
WikiTribune aims to tackle the epidemic of fake news and misinformation by using crowd-sourcing — or the broad online community of journalists and others as fact checkers.
5)NITI AAYOG Favours tacing Agricultural Income in the Draft 3 Year Action Plans :-
Background:=
NITI Aayog which was set up in December 2014 after abolishing the Planning Commission, will now come out with a 15-year vision document (Vision 2030) that is to be supplemented by a seven-year strategy and three-year action plans.
These 3 Year Action Plans are actually replacing the earlier 5 Year Plans of the Planning Commission.
Recently the Draft of 3 year action Plan was unveiled.
NITI Aayog has suggested that agriculture income be brought under the purview of personal Income Tax in a bid to curb tax evasion.
Reason:- Non-agricultural entities sometimes use the blanket relief to evade taxes.
At Present :- “All agricultural income is currently exempted from Income Tax regardless of its size".
6)Google unveils neural translation technology:-
Google Translate will use a new ‘neural machine translation technology’ to translate between English and nine widelyused Indian languages, including Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati.
Probable Question From This ?:-
i) Which of the Following organisation has started Neural Translation Technology for Indian Languages?
Options : a)Google b)Facebook c)Twitter d)World Linguist Organisation
ii) Which of the Following Languages are included in the Google's New Neural Translation Technology?
i)Hindi ii)Odia iii)Sanskrit iv)Kannada
Options:=
a) i and iii b) ii and iv c) i, ii and iv 4) i and iv
7)Chetan Bhagat faces plagiarism charges :-
A city Based Author Anvita Bajpai has claimed that Chetan Bhagat has copied story for his novel One Indian Girl.
What is Plagiarism:- Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.
Questions For Today ?
1) What is Mission 41K?
2)What is Project Saksham?
Thakurani Jatra is a famous Biennial Festival that takes place in Berhampur in Odisha.
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| The Hindu |
2)PM to inaugurate India's longest bridge in Assam on May 24.
This Bridge will be over the Brahmaputra River. The bridge will connect Assam and Arunachal Pradesh and is 9.15 kilometre long.
The Name of the Bridge is Dhola-Sadiya Bridge.
 |
| Indian Express |
3)India has released its Latest Joint Military Doctrine:-
i)Important thing to note is that Surgical Strikes have been added as one of the Possible Responses of India in case of Terrorist attacks.
The “Joint doctrine of Indian armed forces” prepared by the Headquarters integrated Defence Staff.
The first joint military doctrine was released in 2006.
 |
| The Hindu |
4)Wikipedia launches news service:= Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media called WikiTribune.
WikiTribune will focus on “evidence-based journalism”.
WikiTribune aims to tackle the epidemic of fake news and misinformation by using crowd-sourcing — or the broad online community of journalists and others as fact checkers.
5)NITI AAYOG Favours tacing Agricultural Income in the Draft 3 Year Action Plans :-
Background:=
NITI Aayog which was set up in December 2014 after abolishing the Planning Commission, will now come out with a 15-year vision document (Vision 2030) that is to be supplemented by a seven-year strategy and three-year action plans.
These 3 Year Action Plans are actually replacing the earlier 5 Year Plans of the Planning Commission.
Recently the Draft of 3 year action Plan was unveiled.
NITI Aayog has suggested that agriculture income be brought under the purview of personal Income Tax in a bid to curb tax evasion.
Reason:- Non-agricultural entities sometimes use the blanket relief to evade taxes.
At Present :- “All agricultural income is currently exempted from Income Tax regardless of its size".
6)Google unveils neural translation technology:-
Google Translate will use a new ‘neural machine translation technology’ to translate between English and nine widelyused Indian languages, including Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Hindi, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Gujarati.
Probable Question From This ?:-
i) Which of the Following organisation has started Neural Translation Technology for Indian Languages?
Options : a)Google b)Facebook c)Twitter d)World Linguist Organisation
ii) Which of the Following Languages are included in the Google's New Neural Translation Technology?
i)Hindi ii)Odia iii)Sanskrit iv)Kannada
Options:=
a) i and iii b) ii and iv c) i, ii and iv 4) i and iv
7)Chetan Bhagat faces plagiarism charges :-
A city Based Author Anvita Bajpai has claimed that Chetan Bhagat has copied story for his novel One Indian Girl.
What is Plagiarism:- Plagiarism is the "wrongful appropriation" and "stealing and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions" and the representation of them as one's own original work.
Questions For Today ?
1) What is Mission 41K?
2)What is Project Saksham?
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