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Googles 1,000 language AI model

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Large tech firms are competing to develop and implement AI-based language models. Google is developing a model that can support the 1,000 most spoken languages of the world, the company revealed at its AI event this month. To investigate the potential of such a vast project, Google is also working on an AI language model which can support around 400 languages. The company claimed this model had the largest language coverage among existing speech

models.

Archaeological Survey Of India Illuminates 100 monuments in Tri-color To Celebrate the Achievement Of 100 Crore Covid-19 vaccinations

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

As India reached the historic milestone of injecting 100 crores COVID vaccinations in one of the world’s largest and fastest vaccination drives, the Archaeological Survey of India of the Ministry of Culture is illuminating 100 monuments in tri-color around the country.

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The lighting is being done as a show of respect and gratitude to the corona fighters who have tirelessly

helped to fight against the covid pandemic.

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India Internet Governance Forum (IIGF) Will Be Conducted On 8-11 November

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The India Internet Governance Forum’s (IIGF) curtain-raiser session ended with an insightful look into India’s digital transformation path. The event is a warm-upprecursor for the India Internet Governance Forum (IIGF), which will

be held from November 8th to 11th, 2021, and will be conducted by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, NIXI, and the Multistakeholder Group.

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Empowering India via the Power of the Internet is the theme of the IIGF 2021. The event will feature interesting conversations on India’s digitization journey.

The three plenary sessions on the themes of India and Internet: India’s

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Digital Journey and Global Role, , Access & Quality High-speed Internet for All, and Cyber Norms and Ethics in Internet Governance will be the highlight of the event.

Union Cabinet Approves PM GatiShakti National Master Plan to Boost the Economy

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

The approved the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan on 21 October, which includes a multi-modal connectivity implementation, monitoring, and support mechanism.

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On October 13, Prime Minister Narendra Modi unveiled a Rs 100 lakh crore national master plan for multi-modal connectivity, with the goal of developing Infrastructure to lower logistic costs and improve the economy.

Its goals include lowering logistic costs, increasing cargo handling capacity, and shortening turnaround times.

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Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has approved the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan, which includes the institutional framework for implementing, monitoring, and supporting multimodal connectivity.

Dame Sandra Mason Elected Has First Ever President Barbados

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Barbados has elected its first president, removing Queen Elizabeth as the country’s head of state as it prepares to become a republic. Dame Sandra Mason, 72, will be sworn in on November 30, the country’s 55th anniversary of independence from the United Kingdom.

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Dame Sandra has been governor-general of Barbados since 2018. She was the first woman to serve on the Barbados Court of Appeals.

Last year, the government stated its intention to become a republic.

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Gen-Next Democratic Network

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

India is set to host young leaders under the new initiative called Gen-Next Democratic Network on 25 November.

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The Initiative was planned by (ICCR) and will happen in November.

This is hosted for 5 to 7 young people under 35, invited from 75 different democratic countries from the ruling, opposition and other key parties.

The event will be inaugurated by Om, Brila, Lok Sabha speakers and will begin on 25 November.

The ICCR is trying to build relations with Gen Next of 75 countries, who will become future leaders of their countries.

Through this, the young mind will gain a comprehensive idea of the rich democratic culture in India.

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They will also go to at least one state with ICCR.

Gen-Next Democratic Network was launched in the wake of India taking a lead role in the geopolitics

of democracies.

India, US, UAE, And Israel – A New Quad

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

India, the US, UAE, and Israel formed a new Quad of sorts, with their first foreign Ministers meeting on 18 October.

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The meeting happened between External affairs minister S Jaishankar, US secretary of state Antony Blinken from Washington, Israeli foreign minister Yair Lapid from Jerusalem, UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan from Abu Dhabi.

This meeting is the first to bring four countries together on a single platform, which is a part of Indias efforts to build new plurilateral and

multilateral partnerships, which focuses on cooperation in security, connectivity, and energy.

India, Israel, and the UAE have risen to trilateral cooperation, especially in trade and , after the US negotiated Abraham Accords in August 2020 between two West Asian countries.

Milestone by E-shram Portal

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

Affairs:The registration of unorganized workers has accelerated nationwide. More than 10 million people are registered on the e-shram portal.

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Bihar, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are on the front lines.

Common Service Centres play a vital role in facilitating registration, and nearly 68% of registrations are done through CSC

First ever concentrate step towards producing a complete Database of the unorganized employees

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from different sectors like construction, clothing manufacturing, fishing, gig and platform work, street vending, domestic work, Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture and allied, transport region and so on

According to the 2019-20 Economic Survey, there are an estimated 380 million unorganized workers (UW) in the country who will register on this portal in a targeted manner.

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Longest Expressway of the World Between Delhi and Mumbai

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

This 1,380-kilometer 8-lane highway-passing through Rajasthan, Haryana, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh & Gujarat-will reduce travel time between cities to 12 hours.

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It will be open in 2023. The eight-lane controlled expressway can be expanded into a twelve-lane expressway according to the traffic volume. It is planned to plant more than 2 million trees and shrubs along the highway. The highway is the first in Asia and only the second in the world to include animal overpasses, allowing for unrestricted wildlife mobility.

12 states, Union territories have implemented 10 per cent reservation for economically weaker sections: Government

June 14, 2024 by rawan239

About 12 states andUnion territorieshave implemented 10 per cent reservation to economically weaker sections, while no information regarding implementation ofEWSreservation in the remaining states or UTs is available, the government said.

According to available information, Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Karnataka, Jharkhand,Maharashtra,Mizoram, Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, Goa, Assam, Andhra Pradesh and Telengana have implemented 10 per cent reservation to EWS, minister of state for social and empowermentPratima Bhoumiksaid in a written reply inLok Sabha.

She said the department of personnel and training (DoPT) monitors the progress in filling up of backlog vacancies reserved for SCs, STs and OBCs with 10 ministries or departments having more than 90 per cent of employees of the central government.

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to the data provided by her, 14,366 out of 28,345 Vaccines reserved for SC remain unfilled while 12,612 of 22,016 vacancies for STs remains unfilled. About 15,088 of the 28,562 vacancies forOBCremain unfilled.

This Planetarium challenge was launched with the aim of bringing together the tech firms and Start-ups, that are based out of India, with the potential to build an indigenous planetariums system Software.

This system software must be built by using latest technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and Merged Reality (MR).

This challenge has been Inspired by the Chandrayaan launches. Prior to the launch, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) had conducted the ISRO Quiz Competition-2019 in collaboration with MyGov. In the quiz, several schools, parents and enthusiastic mentors actively participated.