The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has nearly 3.2 million Indians, as of September 2017, spread across the kingdom, accounting for the largest population of the Indian passport holders out of the country. This is more than half of the six million that were estimated Indian migrants in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Oman. Almost 70 per cent of the Indians are blue collar workers in Saudi Arabia. Of them, the rough estimates suggest, nearly 74000 are women employed as the domestic labourers, nursing aides, doctors and the teachers. Most of the Indians to the Saudi Arabia come from Telangana, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, UP and the Punjab. Over the years some of the women domestic helps have brought home tales of the ill treatment and the harassment. Last year in June, 29 year old Dhatchayani Uma Shankar broke her back reportedly after attempting to escape her abusive employers in Dammam in the eastern Saudi Arabia, only a month after joining the work. 6 months prior to this, another Indian maid Kasthuri Munirathinam lost an arm in an alleged bid to flee her employers.

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Gross Domestic Product is basically measure of total income of nation and output for given period of time which is usually a year. It is used by economists to measure the relative wealth and prosperity of different nations along with the measure of overall growth or decline of economy of nation. The most used way to calculate expenditure approach. Due to the slowing of GDP growth for five straight quarters, a worrisome feature of growth slowdown is that the sectors with high potential to absorb labor force have seen a sharper dip reducing growth of the employment. There have been low labor intensity and low share in overall input in most of the sectors that grew fast. This ultimately suggests that slower growth of economy could also have shaved off employment growth in the economy. In last two quarters, three sectors have grown faster than GDP, transport, trade, communication and services related to broadcasting, electricity, gas, water supply and other utilities and public administration, defense and other services.

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The present generation learners are digital natives who have rightly said subscription to digital natives who have rightly said subscribed to digital citizenship by opening email accounts, registering on Facebook and posting their thoughts on blogs, and participating in debates and discussions taking place on digital platforms like Twitter. Teaching this generation of students could be quite a challenge for a digitally naïve teacher. Though it might apparently seem that teachers are left clueless and at a disadvantage, the willingness to learn new things can help them gain a foothold in the digital world.

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Early investments are helpful in fulfilling your goals in your life. It is necessary to invest at the early stage of your life in order to live your life comfortably. One can see normally people start investing once get marry or have kids without realizing that they are already late in world of investment. Once you start earning you might be able to invest properly as your investment capacity may not be too good. However this should not stop you from investing. The first few years of investment at the beginning of your career can have a great impact on your future creation. One can normally start earning at the age of twenty something even with debts of college or low income. It is well said that the uncertainty is the only thing that is certain in our lives. Money is your all time requirement whether it is your job or any other happening in your personal life. It is for sure that economy of the world has been more dynamic and well connected to each other than before. If there is crisis in one part of the world it affects other countries and also the markets all around the world. Having the habit to invest can help you to be prepared for the facing the problem arisen due to these money related factor or any financial crisis in your life. Mutual Funds are the great investment options and a proper discipline can be brought in the routine of your investment process of your life.

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In the present world, a large amount of the focus is on the digitalisation and the government is taking a large amount of the steps in the collaboration with the RBI to make things happen in the direction of the digitalisation. One of the very common and one of the oldest examples of the dependency of the people on the technology is the presence of the ATM’s. No doubt the ATM’s have been a major pillar in the support of the digitilisation and in supporting the growth among the people but a large amount of the frauds also takes place in this regard. One of the most common incidents that have been reported is that the owner of the debit card is having his or her card with himself or herself but certainly he or she receives a message that says some amount of the money is debited from the account and the owner is shocked as he or she has not withdrawn or spent any amount of the money ant where. The customers goes to the respective bank and get the card blocked so that any further type of this type of the transaction cannot take place but what about the transactions that have already taken place? If the bank had paid the due attention to the first complaint and blocked the card immediately and given you an alternative card, the damage could have been contained.

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