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Author: Hiren Dave

Wednesday 26 November 2014

26 NOVEMBER 2014: Prez Mukherjee unvils book on Indira Gandhi

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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