The US is the biggest economy in the world now and is projected to be maintain that leadership in 2019 as well. However China’s economy is growing faster and the country is catching up fast with the US. Click to enlarge Source: The World’s Top 10 Largest Economies, Focus Economics In addition to China, the emerging …
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Tourism is one of the major industries in many countries. Europe leads the world in tourist arrival numbers. A few facts about global tourism are: International arrivals grew by 7% in 2017 to 1.3 billion people. International Tourism receipts exceed $1.3 Trillion. Europe received the most arrivals at about 671 million followed by Asia-Pacific and …
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Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci is known not only as a great painter but also a great inventor. His voracious curiosity for knowledge and science led him to learn and master a variety of subjects. Recently I came across an article on “The To-Do List” he used to maintain around the 1490s. Unlike most to-do lists …
The media plays an important role in democracies. However bias in the media distorts their work. Some tend to have a right-wing agenda with the coverage while other lean towards the left. Some are neutral. A very few are extreme left or right basically spreading lies and fake news on a daily basis confusing the …
Mumbai Maersk is one of the world’s largest container ships owned by Maersk, the Danish shipping giant. Recently the ship was loaded with an astonishing 19,038 Containers at Tanjung Pelepas Port in Malaysia. The ship is on its way to Rotterdam in Europe. According to a news report, the ship beat all previous world records with the loading …
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