Teaching Current Affairs Quiz: 16 October 2026

The Digital India BHASHINI Division, which works under the Digital India Corporation in the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, built the models jointly with IISc Bengaluru, and the speech corpus used for training was developed at the institute SPIRE Lab.

At Neyveli the mineral forms from marcasite in the lignite substratum through sulphide oxidation, and it records short-lived wet, acidic and oxidising conditions of the kind believed to have produced sulphates on Mars.

The correct answer is the Sangeet Natak Akademi, the national academy for music, dance and drama, which created the Yuva Puraskar in 2006 for artists up to the age of 40 and has conferred it every year since at a ceremony reserved for young performers.

The correct answer is Kozhikode, the city in Kerala where Vice-President C. P. Radhakrishnan inaugurated the festival and where he also released a book and gave away an award.

The release describes Sourashtra as a minority Indo-Aryan language spoken predominantly by the Sourashtra community in Tamil Nadu, which makes it unusual: it is an Indo-Aryan tongue surviving inside a state whose major language, Tamil, is Dravidian.

The laser Raman spectrometer used for the work is supported under the DST-FIST programme at that department, and the research team was led by Dr. Sajin Kumar K. S., who is the Project Coordinator of DST-FIST.

The correct answer is 106 young artists, drawn from music, dance and drama, who will be given the award for the two years taken together at the New Delhi ceremony.

The correct answer is P. R. Rajendran, on whom the Vice-President conferred the Sarga Kesari Award in recognition of his contribution to the fine arts.

The models built by BHASHINI and IISc Bengaluru use this architecture and generate Sourashtra speech directly from written text.

Gypsum was identified there and also in the Tiruchirappalli Badlands, a semi-arid geological and palaeoclimatic terrain in Tamil Nadu, and both places therefore qualify as Martian analogue sites for the study of past water activity.

Alongside the purse, every awardee receives a Tamrapatra, the copper plaque that carries the citation, and an Angavastram, the ceremonial shawl presented at the function.

The correct answer is Sangha Noottandile Akshara Mudrakal, the book released by the Vice-President at the festival in Kozhikode.

The corpus is listed there as the SPICOR TTS 3.0 Sourashtra Corpus and offers more than 28 hours of gender-balanced Sourashtra speech data developed at IISc Bengaluru, with content in both the Sourashtra and the Tamil script.