The Reserve Bank of India will issue new Rs 500 and Rs 2,000 notes starting today. The new Rs 500 note will feature the Red Fort and the new Rs 2,000 note will feature Mangalyaan. This follows the government’s decision to demonetise the old Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes in a bid to tackle black money and circulation of fake currency in the system.

The Supreme Court is hear the plea of Sunita Narain, Director, Centre for Science and Environment, over rising pollution in Delhi. Earlier, Narain told the court that there has been no effective implementation of the directions issued by it last year. Narayan wanted the court to monitor the implementation of its directions. The court was also given a report by the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority for NCR on the state of air pollution in the national capital.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is to inaugurate the two-day Economic Editors’ Conference (EEC-2016) in the Capital on Thursday. The main objective of the meeting is to apprise mediapersons about the major policy initiatives, achievements and future road map of different ministries of the government. About 75 economic editors from across the country, including from Andaman and Nicobar, Jammu & Kashmir, and Manipur, would participate in the conference.

A Parliamentary panel has called telecom operators along with the Department of Telecom and sector regulator TRAI for a meeting on Thursday to discuss the call drop issue. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, headed by BJP MP Anurag Thakur, has called members of industry body COAI and Reliance Jio separately. Reliance Jio, also a member of the Cellular Operators’ Association of India, has blamed the industry body for promulgating views of mainly incumbent telecom operators — Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular.

The HRD ministry has convened a meeting of all MPs on November 10 to elicit their opinions and suggestions on formulating the National Education Policy, as the subject is a national agenda and not a political one, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar has said. The NEP has five pillars of accessibility, equity, quality, affordability and over all accountability.

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