ASSIGNMENT , 17th AUGUST , 2010

1. Prime Minister Dr. manmohan Singh leaves for Leh at 8:00 AM to provide healing touch to the people of Ladakh .

2. Kapil Sibal, Union Minister for Human Resource Development, will be the Chief Guest on the 15th Foundation Day function of the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) at Auditorium, India International Centre, 40, Max Muellar Marg, Lodhi Road, at 10.45 a.m.

3. Dharmendra Prakash, Joint Development Commissioner, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises and  Anil Kumar, Deputy Director, Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises will launch the FICCI-MSME Intellectual Property Facilitation Centre (IPFC) at  11:00 AM at FICCI, Tansen Marg

4. Press Conference and release of report on ”FDI IN MULTI -BRAND RETAIL TRADE IN INDIA” at 12:00 Noon at  FICCI, Tansen Marg, New Delhi.The Press Conference will be addressed by Prof Pankaj Priya, Chairperson for Centre for Retail, BIMTECH, Jagdish Shettigar, and Dr H Chaturvedi, Director, BIMTECH.

5. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico , to meet Minister of External Affairs SM Krishna at 12:00 Noon at Hyderabad House.

6. Press Club of India Cordially invite you to the  launch of “Art of Choosing” By Sheena Iyengar at 4:00  p.m. At Press Club of India Conference Hall.

7. PVR bluO organizes the Press Conference of “Lafengey Parindey” at  PVR bluO, 4th Floor, Ambience Mall, Gurgaon from  4.00 pm with Deepika Padukone and Neil Nitin Mukesh.

8. Symposium Remembering Grierson at Sahitya Akademi, Conference hall,3 rd floor,Rabindra Bhavan, 35 Ferozshah Road,New Delhi from 4:30 PM onwards.

9. Jaime Nualart , Ambassador of Mexico to India organizes a Hi Tea with Mrs. Gloria Guevara Minister of Tourism of Mexico and Ambassador Patricia ESPINOSA Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico to  celeberate the bicentennial of the independence of Mexico and 60 years of Diplomatic Relations between India and Mexico from 5:00 PM onwards at Connaught Hall, Hotel The Oberoi Zakir Hussain Marg New Delhi
11. Penguin Books India launches  the book  SUPERPOWER? THE AMAZING RACE BETWEEN CHINA'S HARE AND INDIA'S TORTOISE   by Raghav Bahl (published by Allen Lane)  at 6.30 P.M. at Durbar Hall, Taj Palace, New Delhi  Panelists: Nandan Nilekani - Chairman, Unique Identification Authority of India M Damodaran - Former Chairman, SEBI , Bimal Jalan - Former Governor, RBI  and the author.

ON WATCH - RADAR & FORTHCOMING EVENTS

1.                  Shashi Tharoor - Sunanda wedding on Aug 22 at Sree Padmanabha Swami temple in thiruvananthapuram.

2.                  President ,  Pratibha Devisingh Patil will inaugurate the International  Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) at Hyderabad on 19th August 2010. 

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

4.                  The Akhil Bhartiya Gujjar Arakshan Sangarsh Samiti (ABGASS) would launch a fresh agitation in Rajasthan from August 29 if its demand of five per cent reservation to gujjars was not granted.

5.                  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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