Pakistan Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry will visit India today to attend the ‘Heart of Asia’ regional conference where he will meet his Indian counterpart S Jaishanker. The Heart of Asia-Istanbul Process was established in 2011 as a platform to discuss regional issues including security, economic cooperation and peace in Afghanistan.

Officials from the Ministry of AYUSH will today visit Chandigarh to hold meetings with officials of the Punjab and Haryana administration on preparations for International Yoga Day scheduled to be held on June 21. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take part in the event.

Varanasi’s popular musical event, the Sankat Mochan Sangeet Samaroh, is scheduled to open today. Amitabh Bachchan, Pandit Jasraj, Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Kavita Krishnamurti, Bhajan Sapori, Soma Ghosh, Anup Jalota, and Ghulam Ali are among the artistes expected to perform.

Kingfisher Airlines head Vijay Mallya is to submit details of his overseas assets to the court in a sealed envelope today. He has revealed that the net estimated current value of the overseas assets owned by him, his wife and children aggregate to ₹780 crore.

The US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s two-day meeting will begin today. The US central bank is expected to keep interest rates steady at the meeting, though economists in a poll held firm to their expectations for a rate hike in June and then another by the end of this year.

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