Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is to visit India on Saturday. This will be the first high-level visit by a Chinese official since the country scuttled India's application at the NSG citing procedural issues in June. Both sides would discuss issues of bilateral importance, including the recent NSG fiasco.

Maharashtra and the Indian Railways will on Sunday ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for laying the Karad-Chiplun railway line, crossing the Sahayadri mountain range. The ambitious project aims to connect the western coast with the central part of the country. It will be the first project to connect the Konkan railway with the Central Railway. Karad is between Central Railway's Pune and Miraj junctions. Miraj is major junction for transporting goods to south as well as towards Hyderabad.

The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana scheme will be launched in West Bengal on Sunday. Under the scheme five crore LPG connections are to be provided to eligible BPL households with a support of Rs1,600 per connection in the next three years. PMUY was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, on May 1.

Come Sunday farmers in Maharashtra will be able to sell their produce to consumers directly with the state government launching weekly markets so as to weed out middlemen. These markets will be organised only for selling fresh vegetables and fruits. The first such weekly market would be held at Vidhan Bhavan on Sunday, where farmers and women's self-help groups would be able to sell their produce.

The Himachal Lokhit Party (HLP), formed by BJP dissidents ahead of assembly polls in February 2012, is likely to merge with the BJP and a formal announcement in this regard would be made at a rally in Kullu on Sunday.

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