The Commerce Ministry will hold consultations with a cross-section of people including academia and trade over two days on issues such as agriculture, services and e-commerce ahead of the WTO mini ministerial in March. India will firm up its stand after inputs from stakeholder consultations.

The World Congress on Information Technology 2018 opens in Hyderabad today. The event, organised for the first time in  India, is being jointly hosted by Nasscomand the Telangana government. The theme for the WCIT 2018 is Amplify Digital: Disrupt the Core.

Prime Minister Modi will arrive in Mysuru where he will flag off the Palace Queen Humsafar Express between Mysuru and Udaipur, besides dedicating the electrified Mysuru-Bengaluru railway line to the nation. He is also all set to address a public meeting in Mysuru later in the day.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, who is on a two-day visit to Saudi Arabia, will hold a meeting with the Saudi Minister of Trade and Investment to discuss bilateral issues.

A two-day conference on agriculture will open today in New Delhi. The aim of the conference, “Agriculture 2022 – Doubling Farmers’ Income” is to identify various critical issues relating to agriculture and farmers’ welfare and finding appropriate solutions. The focus will be on the human element of this primary sector, that is, the farmer.

 

 

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