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Here is the full list of allocation of portfolios of the Union Council of Ministers.
· Host: England
· Teams: 10 Teams
· Matches: 48 Matches Played
· Winner: England (1st Time Winner)
2nd: New Zealand
· Man of the tournament: Kane Williamson
· Most Runs made by: Rohit Sharma (648)
· Most Wickets taken by: Mitchell Starc (27)
· The final was played at Lord's in London, where England beat New Zealand on
boundary count (26-17) after both the match and the subsequent Super
Over finished as ties.
· P.V Sindhu became the first Indian player to win the historic Badminton World
Championship (BWF) gold by crushing Japanese Nozomi Okuhara in a dominating
one-sided final. In the titan clash, she won the gold with 21-7, 21-7 that lasted only
38 minutes.
· Sindhu finishes with her fifth medal at the world championships. In an earlier edition
of BWF, she had won Bronze in 2013, again Bronze in 2014, Silver in 2017 and again
Silver in 2018. And now in 2019 - GOLD.
Economy of India
· The country is classified as a newly industrialized country, and one of the G-20 major
economies, with an average growth rate of approximately 7% over the last two
decades.
· Maharashtra is the wealthiest Indian state followed by UP and Tamilnadu.
· India's largest trading partners are China, USA, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland,
Germany, Hong Kong, Indonesia, South Korea, and Malaysia.
· GDP is the monetary value of all the finished goods and services produced within a
country's borders in a specific time period.
· India's Nominal GDP ~2.972 trillion dollars. (2019)
· India's rank in world economies by size of GDP (nominal): 5th
India's rank in world economies by size of GDP (PPP): 3rd
· GDP Growth forecast for 2019-20: 7.0% by IMF, ADB and 7.5% by World Bank
· Electricity
· Steel
· Refinery products
· Crude oil
· Coal
· Cement
· Natural gas
· Fertilisers
The eight core industries of coal, crude oil, natural gas, refinery products, fertilisers, steel,
cement and electricity, which have a 40.27% weight in the Index of Industrial Production.
The output of coal, crude oil, natural gas and refinery products recorded negative growth in
July 2019.
These eight-core sector industries had expanded by 7.3 per cent in July last year.
During April-July, the eight sectors grew by 3 per cent compared to 5.9 per cent in the same
period previous year.
11. India has one of the fastest growing service sectors in the world with an annual growth
rate above 9% since 2001.