1. PM Modi to make major worldwide address to India Global Week in UK
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will make a major worldwide address, expected to focus on India's trade and foreign investment prospects, at India Global Week 2020 organised in the UK.
Modi, who will connect remotely to the event pitched as one of the biggest international events on India's globalisation, is likely to lay out numerous investment and manufacturing opportunities that India has on offer as the world emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
2. PM to interact with NGOs of his Lok Sabha constituency
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with representatives of Varanasi-based NGOs to discuss their efforts towards food distribution and other assistance rendered during the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
During the lockdown, more than a hundred organisations in Varanasi distributed almost 20 lakh food packets and two lakh dry ration kits through the food cell of the district administration, as well as through individual efforts. Modi represents Varanasi in Lok Sabha.
3. GoM meeting to review COVID-19 situation today
With the number of coronavirus cases zooming past the 7-lakh mark in India, the Group of Ministers (GoM) will hold a meeting to take stock of the COVID-19 situation in the country at the Nirman Bhawan here on Thursday.
4. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh likely to unveil 6 critical bridges in Jammu & Kashmir
Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will unveil six critical bridges constructed by the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) in Jammu & Kashmir on Thursday, sources said.
The Defence Minister will unveil four bridges in Akhnoor sector and two in Jammu-Rajpura area constructed at a cost of Rs 45 crore. "All bridges are around 300 to 100 metres approximately," said a senior Defence Ministry officer.
5. HRD minister to discuss post-COVID-19 education model
Minister of Human Resource Development (HRD) Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will have a live interaction on ‘transforming the COVID-19 threat into a new model of education.’ He will go live through social media platforms today. The event is being hosted by ASSOCHAM.
6. Delhi HC to take up COVID-19 testing for mentally ill homeless people
The Delhi High Court is likely to ask the Centre and the Delhi government to respond to a petition seeking directions to issue guidelines for COVID-19 testing of mentally ill homeless people in the Capital.
7. Delhi HC to hear Pinjra Tod activist's plea against police
The plea by JNU student Devangana Kalitha alleges that the probe agency was selectively leaking, to the media, certain information regarding allegations against her and the evidence allegedly collected against her.
The high court on June 10 had restrained the police from issuing any statement or circulating information regarding allegations and any evidence collected against Kalitha.
Kalita, who was arrested on May 23, is lodged in Tihar Jail under judicial custody in a case associated with violence in old Delhi's Daryaganj area during protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in December last year.
