Ø Maharashtra Governor K. Sankaranarayanan, who was transferred to Mizoram, chose to
resign from office later in the day. He is the latest UPA-appointed Governor to
quit office. Gujarat Governor O.P. Kohli will hold additional charge as
Maharashtra Governor.
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| K Sankarnarayanan |
Ø Taking stock of military capability building
along the China border, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley today visited the Behrampore military station in Murshidabad that will be part of the new Mountain Strike
Corps being raised there.
Ø Over 4.5 lakh candidates appeared for the Civil
Services Preliminary Examination across the country on Sunday, weeks after
hundreds of candidates staged protests demanding scrapping of the Civil Services
Aptitude Test (CSAT).
Ø The estimated investment flow into each of the two
National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NIMZ) coming up in Chittoor and Prakasam districts
is expected to be around Rs.30,000 crore and the employment potential about
three lakh. The Government of India (GoI) has accorded in-principle approval
for setting up two National Investment and Manufacturing Zones in the two
districts in an extent of 5,000 to 6,000 hectares. The concept of National
Investment and Manufacturing Zones is part of the National Manufacturing
Policy, which aims to increase the share of manufacturing sector in the GDP
from 16 per cent to 25 per cent, according to Socio-Economic Survey 2013-14
Ø Google is building the largest storage of
information in human history — a knowledge base that autonomously gathers and
merges data from across the web to provide unprecedented access to all facts
about the world. The search giant is building Knowledge
Vault, a system that stores information so that
machines as well as people can read it. Google’s existing knowledge base relies
on crowdsourcing to expand its information. However, humans could only
take it so far so Google decided to automate the process and started building
the Vault by using an algorithm to automatically pull in information from all
over the web using machine learning to turn the raw data into usable pieces of
knowledge. The vault has pulled in 1.6 billion facts to date, of which
271 million are rated as “confident facts.” Google’s model ascribes a more than
90 per cent chance of these being true.
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