Daily News Monitor: 16 October 2019

HEADLINES:

1. India halved its poverty rate since 1990s, says World Bank

2. Govt considering to have larger blocks to attract investments: Minister Pralhad Joshi

3. IMF cuts India's growth forecast to 6.1 per cent

4. Cabinet to consider splitting GAIL, pipeline business not to be sold before 2022

5. More on plate: Flipkart take a bite of food retail market; up against Amazon, BigBasket and Grofers

6. India's Nayara sending fuel to Rosneft in return for Venezuelan oil: Report

7. India is 102 in Hunger Index of 117 nations, undoing decade of improvement

8. India asks OPEC not to cut oil production; seeks better commercial terms

9. Allow self assessment of developing country status, 45 nations insist

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