10 trade unions are going on strike today. INTUC, CITU and AITUC said they did not find the two rounds of meetings with the ministers, headed by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, fruitful as the government did not offer any tangible solution to their demands. Banking services may be hit.
Madhu Koda’s plea to summon former PM Manmohan Singh in a coal block allocation case is to be heard today. The former Jharkhand CM also sought summoning of energy secretary Anand Swaroop and mines secretary Jai Shankar Tiwari.
UAE’s foreign minister Shaikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan leads an 80-member delegation on a two-day visit to India to give shape to bilateral relations between the two countries. They will attend the meeting of the India-UAE Joint Commission on Technical and Economic Cooperation.
World Coconut Day 2015, themed ‘Coconut for Family Nutrition, Health and Wellness’, will be celebrated in Vijayawada today. The Coconut Development Board has said that around 500 farmers from coconut-growing States are expected to attend the function.