Important national events to look for today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely to address a meeting of BJP's national functionaries in New Delhi. Meanwhile, the 16th edition of India-US military exercise 'Yudh Abhyas' will culminate today at the Mahajan Field Firing Range in Rajasthan's Bikaner district. Here is a heads-up of the important national events to look for today.

• PM Modi to address BJP's national functionaries in Delhi
  

  Prime Minister Narendra Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a meeting of BJP's national functionaries today in New Delhi. Apart from the national office bearers, state in-charge and co-in-charge and state chiefs will participate in the meeting.

• Rajnath Singh to address BJP's Yuva Morcha convention in Tamil Nadu
  

  Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister and senior BJP leader Rajnath Singh will address the party's Yuva Morcha convention today in Tamil Nadu.

• India-US military exercise 'Yudh Abhyas' to culminate today
  

  India-US military exercise 'Yudh Abhyas'

The 16th edition of India-US military exercise 'Yudh Abhyas' will culminate today at the Mahajan Field Firing Range in Rajasthan's Bikaner district. The twelve-day long exercise began on February 8.

• Andhra's 4th phase of Gram panchayats polls to be conducted today
  

  Andhra's 4th phase of Gram panchayats polls

The fourth phase of Gram panchayat elections will be held today in Andhra Pradesh for 2,743 sarpanch and 22,423 ward member posts. The polling is scheduled in 16 revenue divisions, 161 mandals of 13 districts.

• Gujarat civic polls 2021: 6 municipal corporations to go to polls today
  

  Gujarat civic polls 2021

The municipal corporations of Ahmedabad, Surat, Vadodara, Rajkot, Jamnagar and Bhavnagar will go to the polls today. The counting will take place on February 23. Over 43,000 police personnel will be deployed for the polls.

• Two more working presidents of Karnataka Congress to take charge today
  

  Karnataka MLA Ramalinga Reddy and former MP R Dhruvanarayan

The former Minister and seven-time MLA Ramalinga Reddy and the former MP R Dhruvanarayan, who have been newly appointed as working presidents of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), will take charge today.

Both of them will take charge in the presence of KPCC president D.K. Shivakumar, Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah, and city legislators of the party.

• Rains, thunderstorms likely in south coastal Andhra today
  

  Rains likely in south coastal Andhra

Rains or thundershowers is very likely to occur at a few places over south coastal Andhra Pradesh today as a trough in low-level easterlies lies over the west-central Bay of Bengal and run from north Tamil Nadu coast to south Odisha coast at 1.5 km above the mean sea level.