Ø Prime Minister Narendra Modi will hold
bilateral meetings with all SAARC leaders, except Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz
Sharif, on the sidelines of the summit. Exactly
six years to the day since the 26/11 Mumbai attacks, Mr. Modi will meet
Bhutan’s Prime Minister Tshering Tobgay, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh
Hasina, Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, Sri Lankan President Mahinda
Rajapksa, and Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen. But no meeting is scheduled
with Mr. Sharif. The Indian and Pakistan leaders will, however, come
face to face at the SAARC inaugural session, again during a joint call on Nepal
President Ram Baran Yadav and for a third time at a banquet hosted by Nepal
Prime Minister Sushil Koirala.
Ø A special court here dealing with the coal block
allocation cases asked the Central Bureau of Investigation why former Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh
was not questioned as a prosecution witness in a case involving erstwhile Coal
Secretary P.C. Parakh and Adiyta Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla.
Ø Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Manipur
on November 30 to lay the foundation stone for the national sports university
and attend the closing function of the State-sponsored Sangai festival.
Later he will go to Nagaland capital Kohima to participate in the Hornbill festival.
No official meeting has been planned as yet with Congress Chief Minister Okram
Ibobi Singh. BJP sources here said Mr. Modi was also likely to inaugurate the
newly constructed building on the party office campus.
Ø Book: The Dramatic Decade: The Indira Gandhi Years by Mr. Pranab Mukherjee tells
the story of the 1970s – considered a turning point in the political and
economic evolution of India, dotted as it was with the India-Pakistan war,
internal Emergency, economic reforms and political upheavals.
Ø Amid concerns by environmentalists and bird
lovers, the Maharashtra government will spend around Rs 800 crore to minimise
the damage caused to Sewri mudflats in Central Mumbai, better known for housing
flamingos during their annual migration in Mumbai.
Ø A new bird species discovered more than 15
years after it was first seen on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi has been
named after late ecologist and ornithologist Navjot Sodhi. A mottled
throat and short wings distinguish Muscicapa sodhii , the newly
named Sulawesi streaked flycatcher.
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