https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ow876O3aoIc FDI- Foreign Direct Investment 1.Foreign Direct Investment or FDI is a major driver of economic growth and is largely a matter of private business decisions. FDI inflows of…
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RSTV: RCEP and India
http://https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGvN2uqNGoo&list=PLVOgwA_DiGzpWrMV__M9_rHINn7PzABlM&index=9&t=0s 1.Recently, 7th Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) ministerial meeting was held at Bangkok, Thailand in which member countries reviewed RCEP negotiations.The joint statement issued after the meeting mentioned that…
The State of the World’s Children -UNICEF
The State of the World’s Children -UNICEF For the first time in 20 years, UNICEF’s flagship report examines the issue of children, food and nutrition, providing a fresh perspective on…
Water Budgeting in India
India is now the largest user of groundwater worldwide, pumping out 25% of all the groundwater extracted in the world.Water budgeting is the latest effort to solve an increasingly chronic…
Zero Budget Natural Farming
Relevance:Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman thrust zero budget natural farming into the spotlight in the first Budget speech of the 17th Lok Sabha earlier this month, calling for a “back to…
Nobel Prize for Medicine
US researchers William Kaelin and Gregg Semenza and Britain's Peter Ratcliffe were awarded Nobel Prize for Medicine for study on hypoxia. The Nobel Prize for Medicine was awarded as they established…
RSTV-‘Blue Revolution’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaHFT9Iyg2k 1.Vice President recently inaugurated the Aqua Aquaria India 2019.The theme for the 2019 edition was “To take Blue Revolution to India's hinterland”. It is the largest aquaculture exhibition in…
RSTV-Rising Oceans,Sinking Cities
RSTV Summaries => (The Big Picture)-Rising Oceans,Sinking Cities https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQnUmopftow 1.This RSTV Summary is about an IPCC Report that says that The Earth could witness a dramatic decline in fish stocks,…
Particles Accelerator to reveal 2000 year old secrets
A bid to decipher Roman-era scrolls carbonised in the deadly eruption of Mount Vesuvius has led to the discovery of a Particle Accelerator to reveal 2000 year old secrets. Researchers…
Bio-restoration of Sunderbans
A new technology called 'Bio-restoration' developed by Indian scientists for ecological restoration is helping in revival of mangroves degraded due to rising sea levels, climate change and human intrusion in…