Shallowfake
A shallowfake video of the US Vice President has gone viral.
- Shallowfake – Refers to altered media (pictures, videos and voice clips, etc) created with conventional and affordable technologies without the help of AI technology.
- Also called as – Cheapfake.
- Deepfakes – Deepfakes are synthesized images, videos, and other media created by the Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Exercise Gagan Shakti
Exercise ‘Gagan Shakti’ conducting at Pokhran
- Exercise Gagan Shakti – Indian Air Force is conducting its biggest exercise called Gagan Shakti
Eurasian Economic Union (EEU)
India and EEU bloc officials held talks to formally start negotiation for Free Trade Agreement (FTA).
- EEU – An ambitious project for economic integration in the former Soviet region.
- Objective – To create a common market much like the European Union (EU)
- Established by – Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Union
- Signed in 2014 in Astana (now Nur-Sultan)
- 5 Members Countries – Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia.
Tarawih
Muslims across the world gear up for tarawih after the crescent moon is seen in several Indian cities recently.
- Tarawih – Voluntary prayer that involves reading long parts of the Quran during the Islamic month of Ramadan.
- Performed following the evening’s final daily prayer (Isha)
- Origins of this prayer can be traced back to the last year of the Prophet Mohammed’s life.
Octopus doctrine
Conflict between Israel and Iran taking newer heights.
- Octopus doctrine – Covert operations targeting the enemy ‘at its head’
- Termed by former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as operations that “Hit the octopus at its head, not just at its tentacles”.
- Though this doctrine has a special focus on Iran but it also extends to other hostile countries in the regions such as Iraq, Palestine, Syria etc.