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CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  Choice & conversion News: SC verdict on Akhila/Haldiya case Behind news: Entrusted with adjudicating whether her conversion to Islam and marriage to a Muslim man were voluntary acts, the Supreme Court has embarked on a roving inquiry into whether Hindu women in parts of Kerala are being radicalised. Inexplicably, the court has sought inputs from the National Investigation Agency (NIA), tasked with tackling terrorism, to probe the circumstances of the 24-year-old’s conversion and marriage even before it heard her out. Kerala HC v/s SC The question before the court was the correctness of the Kerala High Court’s decision to annul her marriage. The High Court did not question her conversion to Islam, only suspecting the veracity of her sudden claim that she…

CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  Gorakhpur deaths not due to lack of oxygen, says panel. News: The deaths of children and others at the Baba Raghav Das Medical College Hospital in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, were not caused by a shortage of oxygen supply, a three-member Central government committee said on Wednesday. Beyond news: The Central government panel visited the hospital, amid allegations that a private contractor stopped supplying oxygen, resulting in the death of many children. The team looked at deaths between August 1 and 6 and then between August 7 and 12. The BRD Hospital had previously maintained that of the 34 babies who died at the neo-natal intensive care unit, 12 died of encephalitis. The hospital, in its statement, said there had been a “drop…

CLICK HERE TO SEE DATE WISE CURRENT AFFAIRS  How Artificial Intelligence is reshaping art and music   The project is part of a growing effort to generate art through a set of AI techniques that have only recently come of age Called deep neural networks, these complex mathematical systems allow machines to learn specific behavior by analyzing vast amounts of data. Logic Behind AI: By looking for common patterns in millions of bicycle photos, for instance, a neural network can learn to recognise a bike. This is how Facebook identifies faces in online photos, how Android phones recognise commands spoken into phones, and how Microsoft Skype translates one language into another. What next? These complex systems can also create art. By analysing a set of songs, for instance, they can…