Daily News Monitor: 6 February 2020

HEADLINES:

1. Unemployment rate at 6.1% in 2017-18: Govt cites new survey in Rajya Sabha

2. Cabinet gives in-principle approval for setting up 13th major port

3. FM Nirmala Sitharaman introduces Direct Tax Vivad Se Vishwas Bill in Lok Sabha

4. Customs duty cut on thoroughbred horses to fetch big export & employment benefits

5. PM Modi asks for model act to resolve roadblocks in infra projects

6. Reserve Bank of India to get more powers over co-op banks

7. PM targets $5 billion defence exports over the next five years

8. Make in India, for India, for world: PM to defence manufacturers at DefExpo

9. Govt identifies 44 new areas for city gas distribution auctions

10. India slips to 40th position on International Intellectual Property Index

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