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Andhra Pradesh retained its top position in the `ease of doing annual business ranking’ of States and Union Territories in 2019 while Uttar Pradesh jumped ten positions from the previous year’s performance to take the second position. Telangana slipped one position and is placed third.

In Northern India, Uttar Pradesh emerged as the top reformer, in Southern India it was Andhra Pradesh, in Eastern India it was West Bengal, in Western India it was Madhya Pradesh, in North East India it was Assam while amongst UTs, the top performer was Delhi, as per the index.

India’s COVID-19 tally of cases went past 41 lakh with a record 90,632 people being infected in a day, while 31,80,865 people have recuperated so far pushing the national recovery rate to 77.32 per cent on Sunday.

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