ASSIGNMENT , 7TH AUGUST , 2010

1. National Conference on Forestry Administration in Leftwing Extremism Affected Areas in which Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for the Ministry of Environment and Forests (Independent charge), Union Home Minister, P. Chidambaram, Union Minister for Tribal Affairs,  Kantilal Bhuria and Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission, Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia  will have interaction  with State Representatives from 9:00 AM onwards at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi-110003. NOT OPEN FOR MEDIA.

2. Planning Commission is organizing a “Multi-stakes-holder Retreat on Addressing India’s Nutrition Challenges at Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) NASC Complex, PUSA. Deputy Chairman Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia will Chair the opening session of the two-day meet at 9:00 AM . Minister for Women & Child Krishna Tirath and Minister for Tribal Affairs  Kantilal Bhuria will also participate.

3. Nitish Kumar , Bihar Chief Minister , to meet Prime Minister at 10:00 AM at & RCR.

          

4. The Vice President of India, M. Hamid Ansari will be the Chief Guest and will deliver the Convocation Address of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT, Delhi)  at 10.15 A.M. at Dogra Hall,  Indian Institute of Technology (IIT),  Hauz Khas, New Delhi.

5. CPM extended Politburo Meet at CPM HQ in Gole Market to begin from 10.30 AM.

6. M. Damodaran, Former Chairman, SEBI &  R. C. Bhargava, Chairman, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd will attend the 15th CONVOCATION of AIMA-Centre for Management Education at 3.00 P.M at Stein Auditorium, Habitat World India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi.

7. JD ( U ) National Executive meet at Mavlankar Hall.

8. To commemorate First National Mental Health Awareness Day Re: Mind India@Whole Mind India Foundation organizes a National Seminar on Nurturing Together New Compact for Total Mental Health from 4:30 onwards at JLN Auditorium, All India Institute of Medical Sciences.

9. Remembering one of the most respected Journalist of our time, Late Rajendra Mathur (former Editor Navbharat Times and Nai Dunia) on his 75th Birth Anniversary Rajendra Mathur Smriti Samiti and Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) organizes seminar on “INDIAN MEDIA IN THE 21ST CENTURY AND INDIA’S IMAGE” at 5:30 AM at ICCR, Azad Bhawan Auditorium, IP Estate, (Near ITO) New Delhi .   ALOK MEHTA, EDITOR IN CHIEF, NAI DUNIA , will be the moderator in which  Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Environment and Forests ,  Mani Shanker Aiyar, M.P., Ashok Bajpai, Chairman Lalit Kala Accademy and  Suresh K Goel, Director General ICCR will be expressing their views.

10. Sheila Dikshit , Chief Minister, New Delhi would inaugurate an exhibition of the Nirula Family Art Trust named ‘INDIA: IMAGINED IN THE PRESENT’ at Taj Mahal Hotel  Aftab & Diwan-i-khas Man Singh Road at 6:30 pm onwards .

11. Pakistani Singer Ustad Rahat Fateh Ali Khan will hold a press conference on VISA PROBLEM at Courtyard , Marriott , Sec 27, Sushant Lok , Gurgaon.

12. MUMBAI : Moneylife Foundation and MASTEK Foundation organizes  a seminar on personal finance  ‘HOW TO BE SAFE AND SMART WITH YOUR MONEY’   at 305, 3rd floor, Hind Service Industries Premises,  Off Veer Savarkar Marg, Shivaji Park, Dadar, Mumbai from  2.30pm onwards .

ON WATCH - RADAR & FORTHCOMING EVENTS

1.                  Shashi Tharoor - Sunanda wedding on Aug 17 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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