Current Affairs - National

Eurasia Group reported that India is one of the world's top geopolitical risks for 2020. The political risk consultancy India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi was listed as the fifth biggest geopolitical risk of 2020.

The World Bank (WB) has lowered India's GDP growth to five per cent for the fiscal year 2020-21 from its earlier estimated six per cent.The lowered GDP forecast comes a few days after the country's statistics office pegged growth in the current fiscal at five per cent, which is the lowest in 11 years.WB's January 2020 Global Economic Prospects report said a "lingering" credit weakness emanating from non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) is one of the key reasons for the downgrade.Its projection for India GDP in 2021-22 has also come down to just 5.8 per cent, indicating that economic recovery could take longer than expected.

The government has set a fresh deadline for the completion of the world's highest railway bridge that connects Kashmir to the rest of India by December 2021. It is the most challenging project in the post-independent history of the Indian Railways.

Seven students from Jammu Division have been selected for the 3rd edition of the Pariksha Pe Charcha 2020 programme which will be held on 20 January 2020. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be interacting with the students from across the country at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi.

Census India 2021 will begin on 1 April and will end on 30 September 2020. The Census will be conducted through a mobile phone application. The move aims to move away from the traditional pen and paper.