Current Affairs 22nd May 2017

Current Affairs 22nd May 2017 - Important Points

• International Day for Biological Diversity celebrated worldwide on - 22nd May 2017
• Mumbai Indians beat Rising Pune Supergiant to win - 2017 IPL
• New technique to help deaf-blind IS -'watch' TV

Current Affairs 22nd May 2017 - Details

International Day for Biological Diversity celebrated worldwide on - 22nd May 2017

The International Day for Biological Diversity was celebrated globally on 22nd May 2017 with the theme “Biodiversity and Sustainable Tourism”. The theme was selected as it coincides with the observance of 2017, which is the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development, and also to contribute to ongoing initiatives like the Sustainable Tourism Programme.

Important Highlights

• The observance of the day focuses to raise awareness of the important contribution of sustainable tourism to economic growth and to the conservation of biodiversity.
• While the diversity in ecosystems, species and landscapes plays a huge role in attracting tourism and promoting economic growth, a well-structured tourism sector can help reducing threats to wildlife population and in turn maintain and enhance the biodiversity through the revenue obtained from tourism.

Mumbai Indians beat Rising Pune Supergiant to win - 2017 IPL

Mumbai Indians defeated Rising Pune Supergiant by 1 run to clinch the tenth edition of the Indian Premier League on 21st May 2017. It is the third time that the Mumbai Indians grabbed the IPL winner title. After this win, Mumbai Indians becomes the first team to win three IPL titles. Man of the match is Krunal Pandya.

Interesting Facts

• The Mumbai Indians is a franchise cricket team of the Indian Premier League.
• The franchise is owned by Reliance Industries, through its 100% subsidiary IndiaWin Sports.
• The team bagged its first IPL title in 2013 by defeating Chennai Super Kings by 23 runs in the final. 
• They won their second IPL title on 24th May 2015 by defeating the Chennai Super Kings by 41 runs in the final.
• The Indian Premier League founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is a professional Twenty 20 cricket league in India.

Do you know?

The IPL became the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on YouTube in 2010.

New technique to help deaf-blind IS -'watch' TV

Universidad Researchers Carlos III de Madrid have invented a technique that types Braille in real time and helps deaf-blind people "watch" television without intermediaries. The technique developed under "PervasiveSUB Project" compiles all the subtitles of television channels and sends them to a central server which forwards them to smartphones or tablets.

Important Highlights

• The compiled data from smartphones/tablets are sent to the Braille line of the deaf-blind person through an app that makes it possible to control the speed of the subtitles that are captured directly from the TV broadcast in perfect synchronisation.
• Spanish broadband financed the PervasiveSUB project and telecommunications provider Telefonica.
• Arancha DAaz-Llado, director of Telefonica's Sustainable Innovation, in a statement, said, "At Telefonica, we endeavour to become a more accessible company and that way contribute to equal opportunities for everyone, although we still have a long way to go, the new inclusive technologies and the digital revolution are the best means to  help us get there".
• The tests had great success and the technology has already been implemented on all of the national and regional Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) channels in Madrid.
•  The research team is now providing this service free of cost to anyone who needs it.