ASSIGNMENT, 19th AUGUST , 2010

1. Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) president Mike Fennel to visit Karni Singh Shooting range at 7:30 AM.

2. Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) president Mike Fennel to meet Sports Minister MS Gill , CWG OC Chairman Suresh Kalmadi and Commissioner of Police. TIME TO BE CONFIRMED.

3. Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) president Mike Fennel to address a press conference at 5:30 PM at CWG Office . CONFIRMATION AWAITED.

4. Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in partnership with National Foundation for Corporate Governance (NFCG) is organizing a Summit on “CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY: REDEFINING PARTNERSHIPS” from 10:00 AM onwards at New Delhi. Arun Maira, Member, Planning Commission and R Bandyopadhyay, Secretary, Ministry of Corporate Affairs are addressing the Opening Session .

5. Dr Jong-Wha Lee, Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank, will address a press conference on KEY INDICATORS 2010 “THE RISE OF ASIA’S MIDDLE CLASS” from 10:30 AM onwards at            Connaught Hall, Oberoi Hotel, Dr. Zakir Hussain Marg.

6. FICCI and Ministry of Commerce & Industry are jointly organising a seminar on “WTO’S GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT AGREEMENT (GPA)” at 11:00 AM at  FICCI, Tansen Marg. D K Mittal, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry; Amar Sinha, Joint Secretary, Ministry of Commerce & Industry and Abhijit Das, Deputy Project Coordinator and Officer-in-Charge, UNCTAD India Programme will address the session.

7. IndiaCan (JV between Educomp & Pearson), organize the press meet to announce new program by ETEN CA, celebrating achievement of setting-up 100 centers across India in the last 2 years, to discuss business expansion plans at Hotel Ramada Plaza from 12:00 Noon onwards.

8. Spice Mobility and Qualcomm India organize a press conference to announce their business venture at 12:00 PM at Hotel Shangri La.

9. Minister for  Food Processing Industries, Subodh Kant Sahai, to address the visiting Taiwanese food processing business delegation at Convention Hall,  Ashoka Hotel, at 12:30 P.M.

10. On the occasion of the Golden Jubilee Celebrations of Photo Division, Vice President , M. Hamid Ansari, shall give the ‘Life Time Achievement Awards’ to Homai Vyarawalla, S. Paul,  K.G. Maheshwari and  Benu Sen at 6:00 p.m at Vigyan Bhawan, Hall No. 6.

11. Mamadou Tangara, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Gambia , will have Delegation Level Talks with Minister of State of External Affairs at 6:00 PM at  Hyderabad House .

12. 10-Member Hunan Puppet & Shadow group from China will perform at 7:00 PM at - Kamani Auditorium  in a function organized by ICCR.

13. Nina Pillai , Chairman Triveda Fine Arts ,  organizes an exhibition of paintings of Aslam Shaikh ‘Sacred Made Real’ which will be inaugurated by Dr. Karan Singh M.P. Rajya Sabha at The Nilgiri Room, The Oberoi, New Delhi from 7:00 PM onwards.

14. NOKIA orgainses a seminar on NOKIA TEJ at 7:30 PM at Crown Plaza Today , Phase 1 , OKhla

15. Ritu Walia Art,  organize  a celebratory toast to talented Avneesh Kumar at the launch of his photographs exhibition entitled, “The Light Comes Thru” at 8:00 PM at Rafaael's 294/2 Dhanmill Road, Chattarpur Pahari, Delhi.

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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