Inspired by: http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=192077

Answer: (c)

Project JATAN

• Ministry of Culture has taken up project named ‘JATAN’ in collaboration with C-DAC, Pune for creating online digital repository of museum collections on national portal http://www.museumofindia.gov.in for museums.
• It has developed JATAN: Virtual Museum software which is used for creating the digital collections in various museums and digital archival tools that are used in background for managing the National Portal and Digital Repository for Indian Museums.

Inspired by: https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/a-little-over-200-years-ago-soldiers-at-vellore-fort-staged-indias-very-first-uprising-against-the-british/article28580104.ece

Answer: (b)

Vellore Mutiny

• The Vellore mutiny on 10 July 1806 was the first instance of a large-scale and violent mutiny by Indian sepoys against the East India Company, predating the Indian Rebellion of 1857 by half a century.
• The immediate causes of the mutiny revolved mainly around resentment felt towards changes in the sepoy dress code, introduced in November 1805.
• Hindus were prohibited from wearing religious marks on their foreheads while on duty, and Muslims were required to shave their beards and trim their moustaches.
• The mutiny started during midnight and by dawn the fort had been captured by them.
• The mutineers raised the flag of the Mysore Sultanate over the fort. They also declared Tipu Sultan’s son Fateh Hyder as king.

Inspired by: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/wage-issue-hits-indias-easternmost-tiger-reserve/article28710149.ece

Answer: (d)

Namdapha Tiger Reserve

• Namdapha, named after a river meandering through it, was declared as India’s 15th Tiger Reserve in 1983 with a core area of 1,808 sq km and a buffer zone of 177 sq km.
• Declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1972, it was elevated to a national park in the same year as it was made a tiger reserve.
• It is India’s Easternmost Tiger reserve.
• The tiger is one of 96 species of mammals found in Namdapha, which is divided into the Miao, Namdapha and Gandhigram ranges.
• The others include the endemic red giant flying squirrel, leopard, clouded leopard, snow leopard, Malayan sun bear, Asiatic black bear, hoolock gibbon, and capped langur.

Inspired by: National Data Quality Forum (NDQF)

https://www.civilsdaily.com/news/national-data-quality-forum-ndqf/

Answer: (d)

National Data Quality Forum

• The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR)’s National Institute for Medical Statistics (ICMR-NIMS), in partnership with Population Council, launched the NDQF.
• It will integrate learning from scientific and evidence-based initiatives and guide actions through periodic workshops and conferences.
• Its activities will help establish protocols and good practices of data collection, storage, use and dissemination that can be applied to health and demographic data, as well as replicated across industries and sectors noted a release issued by ICMR.

Answer: (a)

Option A stands the odd man out.

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