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[email protected] CURRENT EVENTS AND ANALYSIS CONTENTS Topic Page No. ECONOMY MACROVIEW OF INDIAN ECONOMY: Core Sector Contracts by 5.2 Per cent 1 Multiple Factors Slowing Indian Economy : Raghuram Rajan, former RBI Governor 1 Government Should Reverse Cuts on Corporate Taxes: Abhijit Banerjee 2 India’s Growth Rate Projected at 6 Per cent in 2019-20 by World Bank 3 India’s Growth Rate Projected at 6 Per cent in 2019-20: IMF 4 India Should Work on Contract Enforcement and Land Digitalisation: World Bank Chief 5 MONETARY POLICY Repo Rate Reduced to 5.15 Per cent 6 INFRASTRUCTURE Telecom: Supreme Court Rules in Favour of Government on Definition of Adjusted Gross Revenue (AGR) 6 Union Cabinet Approves Revival Plan of BSNL and MTNL 7 AGRICULTURE 20 th Livestock Census Released 8 INDIA & WORLD ECONOMY India & WTO India’s Status as a ‘Developing Country’ Challenged in World Trade Organisation 9 Global Reports: India Ranks 63 in World Bank’s Doing Business Report-2020 10 India Ranks 68 in Global Competitiveness Index 2019 11 Miscellaneous: Nobel Prize in Economics 12 NATIONAL POLITY Privacy: WhatsApp Security Breach Raises Concerns over Privacy 15 SOCIAL SECTOR: EDUCA TION: IIT Delhi Launches ‘Endowment Fund’ 16 SOCIAL ISSUES: National