Pre-session all-party meetings over weekend
The Hindu
Prime Minister Modi, senior leaders of political parties to attend v on Sunday
Customary, pre-session meetings have been lined up for the weekend before the start of the winter session of Parliament on November 29. Speaker Om Birla will be calling a meeting of floor leaders of various parties in the Lower House on Saturday while Rajya Sabha chairperson M. Venkaiah Naidu shall do the same for the Upper House on Sunday.
An all-party meeting called by the Minister For Parliamentary Affairs will be held on Sunday morning, which will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and senior leaders of all political parties represented in Parliament.
Prime Minister Modi is expected to attend a BJP parliamentary core committee meeting on the same day and an NDA leaders’ meeting.
A crowd comprising farmers, researchers, professors, students, and horticulture enthusiasts thronged the ICAR-Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR), Hesaraghatta, Bengaluru, on Friday for the inaugural ceremony of the Triphal Diversity Show which showcased 300 mango, 100 jackfruit, and 100 banana genotypes in collaboration with ICAR-National Research Centre for Banana, Tiruchirappalli.
The State government on Friday constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT), headed by Additional Director-General of Police, Manish Kharbikar of the Economic Offences division of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to probe the alleged multi-crore scam in the government-run Maharshi Valmiki Scheduled Tribes Development Corporation.
The Deputy Commissioner and the Election Officer for Dakshina Kannada Lok Sabha constituency M. P. Mullai Muhilan said here on Friday that over 600 staff will be involved in the counting of votes cast in the April 26 elections, at the counting centre at the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka, Surathkal, on June 4.