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manufacturing, communication and financial services, a United Nations trade report said. In South Asia, FDI inflows increased by 3.5 per cent to USD 54 billion, said the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) World Investment Report 2019. So, India attracted over 77 per cent of the total foreign direct investments that came to the South Asian region.
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#WorldInvestmentReport2019 #UNCTAD #SEZs #SouthAsia #FDI

Indian Medical Council Amendment Bill cleared
The Cabinet has approved the Indian Medical Council (Amendment Bill), 2019, and the Homoeopathy Central Council (Amendment Bill), 2019, both of which had lapsed in the 16th Lok Sabha session. Both the Bills are now set to be reintroduced in the upcoming Parliament session.
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#AmendmentBill #LokSabha #MCI #IndianMedicalCouncil #IMCAct
India’s rising role in Indo-Pacific region
In a significant indication of India’s rising profile, the 10-nation ASEAN on 3 November 2019 clearly appreciated New Delhi’s growing role in the Indo-Pacific region as the two sides, with a combined GDP of USD 5 trillion, vowed to further broadbase strategic ties and deal with major challenges like of terrorism collectively.
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#IndoPacificregion #nationASEAN #ASEANOutlook #NarendraModi

India, Uzbekistan sign three defence MoUs
India and Uzbekistan on November 3 signed three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) to enhance cooperation in military medicine and military education during the ongoing visit of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
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#Uzbekistansign #MoUs #RajnathSingh #BNKurbanov

IMF research for South Asia
Led by India, South Asia is moving towards becoming center of global growth and could contribute about one-third of the world's growth by 2040, according to a latest research by the International Monetary Fund.
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#IMFresearch #SouthAsia #FDI #globalgrowth #IMF


New map of J&K
Following the official bifurcation of the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir into the two Union Territories (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, the Survey of India has come out with new maps of India and Jammu and Kashmir region.
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#Newmap #UT #UnionTerritories #RemovalofDifficulties
States to get medical device parks
The government has given approval for setting up four medical device parks with a view to support Make in India initiative and provide world-class products at an affordable price for treatment.
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#CFC #AndhraPradesh #infrastructure #CommonFacilityCentre

100% FDI in coal mining
India’s move to allow 100 per cent foreign direct investment in coal mining is a “positive move” and a good policy enabler towards the country’s long-term ambition of producing 300 million tonnes of steel per annum.
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#FDI #NationalSteelPolicy2017 #environment #India #NSP

Black hole devour another
In a first, researchers have created simulations explaining how the largest of black hole mergers may have happened, showing one may have devoured another “in a ‘Pac-Man-like’ behaviour.”
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#Blackhole #RIT #gravitational #Earth #gas #space
Global Climate Risk Index 2020
India is the fifth most vulnerable country to climate change, according to a report released by Environment think tank, Germanwatch.
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#GCRI #COP25 #GlobalClimate #RiskIndex2020 #Germany

Parliament okays corporate tax cut
Parliament on 5 December 2019 approved the Taxation Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2019 that replaces an ordinance promulgated to cut the base corporate tax rate, with Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman stating that mining companies, software developers and book printers will not be eligible for the lower 15 per cent rate available for new manufacturing companies.
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#Parliament #corporate #tax #Amendment #NirmalaSitharaman #FDI

India, 6 others object to restrictions on services trade
India led seven countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) in objecting to some nations trying to bring in rules to erect barriers to services trade and cross-border movement of professionals through qualification and licensing requirements, and technical standards.
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#India #WTO #WPDR #restrictions #EuropeanUnion

India in World Malaria Report 2019
Seven states account for about 90% of the burden of malaria cases in India, according to the World Malaria Report 2019 released by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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#India #WorldMalariaReport2019 #WHO #malaria

Parker spacecraft unlocks solar mystery
NASA's Parker Solar Probe -- which has flown closer to the Sun than any spacecraft ever -- has beamed back the first observations from its close encounter with the Sun, revealing a "spectacular trove" of data about the solar wind and space weather, the US space agency said.
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#spacecraft #NASA #spacecraft #solarmystery #Sun #spectaculartrove
UK's Brexit election
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 13 December 2019 won the historic UK General Election as his Conservative Party crossed the 326-mark required for a majority in Parliament, marking a victory for his "Get Brexit Done" message and setting the UK on course to leave the European Union (EU) in the New Year.
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#UK #Brexit #BorisJohnson #election #British

Antenna of RISAT-2BR1
Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on 12 December 2019 undertook an operation to unfurl the antenna that was inside the radar imaging earth observation satelliteRISAT-2BR1, a day after it was launched from Sriharikota.
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#Antenna #RISAT #2BR1 #ISRO #PSLV #MOM #satellites

Renewable energy generating state
Tamil Nadu has overtaken Karnataka to become India's top renewable power generating state in FY20 (till October). Of the total renewable power generation in the country, nearly 17.2 per cent was from Tamil Nadu.
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#TamilNadu #FY20 #CEA #India #megawatt #SolarPolicy

E-Pharmacy rules
E-pharmacies, in recent years, have been able to fulfil unmet medical needs of the large Indian population by enabling access to affordable medicines to people in remote areas.
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#EPharmacy #DTAB #FDI #AIOCD #DISHA #PDPBill #DCC

FM in the world's most powerful women list
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, HCL Corporation CEO and Executive Director Roshni Nadar Malhotra and Biocon Founder Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw have been named among the world’s 100 most powerful women by Forbes.
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#FM #CEO #NirmalaSitharaman #HCL #PowerfulWomen #India
Chandrayaan-3 announced
ISRO on 1 January 2020 announced that the launch of country's third lunar mission, Chandrayaan-3 may happen next year and said four from the Indian Air Force have been selected for the ambitious Gaganyaan programme, whose astronaut training would commence soon in Russia.
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#Chandrayaan3 #ISRO #JitendraSingh #NASA #Vikram #IndianAirForce

India-Mauritius FTA nears finalisation
The proposed free trade agreement between India and Mauritius is nearing finalisation as both sides have concluded the negotiations for the pact, the commerce ministry said on 1 January 2020.
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#India #FTA #CECPA #FDI #Africa #finalisation

E-cigarettes decoded
Vitamin E acetate, a chemical used in many E-cigarettes, may be the causative agent for vaping related respiratory diseases, according to a study which strengthens the link between the compound and lung injury.
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#Ecigarettes #EVALI #CDC #VitaminE #ENDS #BAL

India, Pakistan exchange nuclear installations
Continuing a 29-year unbroken practice, India and Pakistan on 1 January 2020 exchanged a list of their nuclear installations under a bilateral arrangement that prohibits them from attacking each other's atomic facilities.
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#India #nuclear #Pakistan #installations #Attack
WESO report
Global unemployment is projected to increase by around 2.5 million in 2020 and almost half a billion people are working fewer paid hours than they would like or lack adequate access to paid work, according to the UN's International Labour Organization report.
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#WESO #Organization #ILO #SDG #humantalent #WESOreport

India in corporate commitments to SBT
India has ranked 5th among the countries surveyed for corporate commitments to science-based targets (SBT), ahead of Germany and Sweden, according to a report by a non-profit organization released in Mumbai.
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#India #SBT #CDP #DamandeepSingh #Mumbai

Indians most-trusting in climate science The global public overwhelmingly blames global warming on human activities with trust level declining in climate science, but Indians are the most trusting people in this regard, a new opinion poll showed on 21 January 2020.
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#Indians #WEF #SAP #NGOs #trusting #climatescience

India among top 10 FDI recipients
India was among the top 10 recipients of Foreign Direct Investment in 2019, attracting $49 billion in inflows, a 16 per cent increase from the previous year, driving the FDI growth in South Asia, according to a UN report released.
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#FDI #UNCTAD #India #GTIM #SouthAsia #GDP

SC refuses to stay poll bond scheme
The Supreme Court refused to order an interim stay on the electoral bond scheme but decided to hear the matter after two weeks.
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#SC #CJI #SuryaKant #ADR #NGO #RanjanGogoi
DefExpo 2020 inaugurated
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 5 February 2020 inaugurated the DefExpo, India's biennial military exhibition, which seeks to showcase the potential of the country to become a global defence manufacturing hub.
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#DefExpo2020 #NarendraModi #Goa #manufacturing #military


IIITs Laws (Amendment) Bill 2020
The Union Cabinet on 5 February 2020 gave its approval to confer the status of Institution of National Importance (INI) to five Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs).
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#IIITsLaws #Amendment #MTech #INI #NarendraModi

Proposal to allow 100% FDI in Air India
The government is working on a proposal to allow 100 per cent foreign direct investment in Air India as it moves ahead with disinvestment of the national carrier.
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#FDI #AirIndia #NRIs #SOEC #PIM #DPIIT


Bill to amend Aircraft Act introduced
The government on 4 February 2020 introduced a bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the Aircraft Act wherein the fine amount for violations will be hiked from Rs 10 lakh to up to Rs 1 crore.
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#Bill #AircraftAct #ICAO #BCAS #DGCA #LokSabha


U.N. takes no action against Myanmar
The U.N. Security Council on 4 February 2020 discussed the International Court of Justice’s order that Myanmar must do all it can to prevent genocide against the Rohingya Muslims, but failed to agree on a statement.
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#Myanmar #UNSecurityCouncil #Belgium #RohingyaMuslims


EU rejects Middle East peace plan
The European Union rejected parts of the new U.S. peace plan for the Middle East on 4 February 2020, saying the plan broke with "internationally agreed parameters", and any Israeli annexation of Palestinian land would be subject to challenge.
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#EUrejects #MiddleEast #peaceplan #DonaldTrumps # Palestinianland