Tamil Nadu will organise an Investment Road Show in Kochi, aiming to woo investors from Kerala. It’s a prelude to the Global Investors’ Meet scheduled for September 9 and 10 at the Chennai Trade Centre. Get ready to hit the dirt.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will formally launch the ₹98,000-crore Smart City and Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT) projects, which aim at transforming the urban infrastructure. Modi will announce the implementation guidelines for the two big-ticket projects at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi. Sweet-smart?

Mumbai will host the first Australian Alumni Careers Conclave today. The recruitment platform features a careers fair for experienced alumni from Australian universities. Likely to be participating are the Piramal Group, DBS Bank, Shoppers Stop, NCR Corporation, Worley Parsons, National Australia Bank and TCS. Mighty matey stuff!

President Pranab Mukherjee begins a two-day tour of Maharashtra during which he will inaugurate the golden jubilee celebrations of Bharati Vidyapeeth at Pune on Thursday.

The US State Department is expected to publish its 2014 Human Rights report — five days before the June 30 deadline for the Obama administration to wrap up negotiations with Iran over a nuclear deal, and 120 days past its federally mandated February 25 deadline for publication. The report may include details of human rights abuses in Iran, Cuba, Malaysia and Vietnam.

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