ASSIGNMENT , 16th JUNE , 2010

1.      Dr. Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy  , will launch the guidelines for two schemes under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission at 11:00 AM at Hotel Ashok (Convention Hall), New Delhi. Dr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Bharatsinh Solanki, Sachin Pilot, will also grace the occasion.

2.      Chief Secretaries of MANIPUR & NAGALAND to meet Home Secreary GK Pillai. TIME NOT CONFIRMED.

3.      Mr. Òscar Pujol Riembau (Director of the Instituto Cervantes Nueva Delhi) addresses a Press Conference at 11:00 AM at Instituto Cervantes 48, Hanuman Road, Connaught Place to announce the forthcoming day long Family Day at the Spanish Fiesta 2010 - on Saturday, June 19th, 2010.

4.      Dr Anil Kakodkar, Former Chairman, DAE will participate in the Roundtable and deliver the keynote speech at a IDSA-Pugwash Roundtable organized by Indian Pugwash Society at Room # 005, IDSA at 11:00 AM. Roundtable is on  “PROSPECTS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT IN INDIA : CONSTRAINTS AND CHALLENGES”.

5.      Aamir Khan would join the launch of Samsung's new iconic mobiles with Ranjit Yadav, Director - Mobile & IT, Samsung Electronics , at a Press Conference from 12:30pm onwards at Ballroom, The Oberoi Hotel.

6.      Briefing by MEA  Spokesperson on visit of External Affairs Minister to Republic of Korea at 1:45 PM at XP Briefing Hall, Shastri Bhavan

7.      The Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit will meet Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia to finalize Annual Plan 2010-11 of the State. The meeting will be held in Committee Room No.122, First Floor, Yojana Bhawan at 3.30 P.M.

8.      The Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Women and Child Development Krishna Tirath will address the Press at the Conference of State Ministers/Secretaries at 4.30 PM at Hall No. ‘C’, Vigyan Bhawan Annexe, Maulana Azad Road, New Delhi.

9.      Lt. Gen. Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe, Vice President of the Republic of Botswana , will visit National Small Industries Cooperation and Medium Enterprise at NSIC Bhawan, Okhla Industrial Estate at 5:00 PM.

10.  Lt. Gen. Mompati Sebogodi Merafhe, Vice President of the Republic of Botswana , will be meeting the Vice President at  6, Maulana Azad Road at 7:30 PM.

ON WATCH - RADAR & FORTHCOMING EVENTS

1. Free Cardiac Health check up camp for PRESS CLUB Members and their  families  on 10th July (Saturday) & 11th July 2010 (Sunday) From 10 a.m. to 2.00 p.m. at Conference Hall , Press Club of India.

2. Premiere of Raavan in London on June 16‎

3. An Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) may meet on June 17 to consider freeing petrol prices from government control and possibly giving limited autonomy to oil firms to price diesel closer to market rates.

4. Group of Ministers on Bhopal Gas fiasco will meet on June 18 in New Delhi.

5. Bollywood star  Manisha Koirala to tie the knot with Nepali businessman Samrat Dahal on June 19.

6. Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and Commerce Minister Anand Sharma will be attending the US-India CEO Forum on June 22 in Washington.     

7. Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad will be in Washington and Atlanta from June 23 to 25 for the US-India Health Dialogue.      

8. Minister of State for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chavan is scheduled to be in Washington on June 24 and 25 for the US-India Science and Technology Forum, Crowley said.          

9. A glittering ceremony to receive the Queen’s Baton Relay will take place at the Wagah / Attari Border post on Friday, 25 June 2010 from 8:00am onwards.

10. IPL Governing Council to meet on June 25 in Mumbai. ‎

11. Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao will meet her counterpart Salman Bashir in Islamabad on June 26 on the sidelines of the meeting of SAARC Home Ministers.

12. Chidambaram will visit Islamabad on June 26 where he will meet Interior Minister Rehman Malik and get a briefing on the trial in Pakistan of the 26/11 plotters and investigations into the attack.

13. S M Krishna will visit Islamabad on July 15 for talks with his Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureishi.

14. Women’s hockey World Cup 2010 to be held in Rosario, Argentina, from Aug 29 to Sep 11.

15. The Congress Yatra, to commemorate the 125th year of Congress' foundation, will culminate on November 10 with a rally of party President Sonia Gandhi at Allahabad.

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FIFA  UPDATE :

DAY	MATCH	TIME	SCORE
16th JUNE	Honduras Vrs Chillie	5:00 PM	H
	Spain Vrs Switzerland	7:30 PM.	H
	S.Africa Vrs Uruguay	12:00 Midnight	A
15th JUNE	New Zealand Vrs Slovakia	5:00 PM	F 1-1 DRAW
	Ivory Coast Vrs Portugal	7:30 PM	G 0-0 DRAW
	Brazil Vrs North Korea	12:00 Midnight	G
14th JUNE	Holland Vrs Denmark	5:00 PM	E  2-0 Holland
	Japan Vrs Cameroon	7:30 PM	E  1-0 JAPAN
	Italy Vrs Paraguay	12:00 Midnight	F  1-1 DRAW
13th June	Algeria Vrs Slovenia	5:00 PM	C 1-0 SLOVENIA
	Serbia Vrs Ghana	7:30 PM	D 1-0  GHANA
	Germany Vrs Australia	12:00 Midnight	D 4-0 GERMANY
12th June	South Korea Vrs Greece	5:00 PM	B 2-0 S. KOREA
	Argentina Vrs Nigeria	7:30 PM	B 1-0 ARGENTINA
	USA Vrs England	12:00 Midnight	C 1-1 DRAW
11th June	Uruguay Vrs France	12:00 Midnight	A 0-0 DRAW
11th June ,	South Africa Vrs Mexico	7.30 PM	A 1-1  DRAW