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MONDAY
THE FEDERATION of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Ernst and Young will launch their latest report titled `Indian Infrastructure--Paving the way for India's growth'. Union minister of road transport and highways Kamal Nath will deliver the inaugural address.

AFGHANISTAN PRESIDENT Hamid Karzai will arrive in India for a two day visit with the aim of carrying forward the sequence of high level interaction between the two countries to strength en bilateral strategic relations.

JAMSHYD GODREJ, chairman and man aging director of Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Co. Ltd, and Bala V. Balachandran, honorary dean of Great Lakes Institute of Management will launch the company's global executive MBA programme in energy management at ITC Grand Central, Mumbai.

THE GOVERNING council meeting for the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), is scheduled to take place at the Cricket Center, Churchgate, Mumbai.

THE CONFEDERATION of Indian Indus try and department of industrial policy and promotion to hold the annual intellectual property awards 2010 on World Intellectual Property Day in New Delhi. Commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma will be the chief guest.

A DAY long seminar on developing an ecosystem for UID, or unique ID, implementation, sponsored by the National Institute for Smart Government will be held in Delhi.

THE Supreme Court on 26 April will hear the issue of limestone mining by Lafarge Umiam Mining Pvt. Ltd in Meghalaya. The apex court on 5 February,
While hearing a petition by 21 local tribal and the Shella Action Committee, a nongovernmental organization, had stayed the mining operations.
TUESDAY
INDIAN INSTITUTE of Public Administration,
in collaboration with the World Bank, will organize a three day regional (South Asia) workshop in Delhi on the theme--“Towards more open and trans parent governance in South Asia“.
Right to Information leaders from across the region--Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives,
Afghanistan and India--will participate in the workshop.
THE left party to sponsor a nationwide bandh against inflation and the economic policies of the Congress led United Progressive Alliance government.
The agitation will comprise 13 parties other than Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party.
Leaders of these 13 parties have also said they will move a cut motion to seek roll back in the hike in prices of petrol,
diesel and fertilizer on the same day.
VOTING ON the cut motion moved by Left parties is expected to take place on Tuesday,
apart from voting on the demand for grants.
WEDNESDAY
A TWOday summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation begins in Thimpu,
Bhutan. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will travel to Bhutan for a meeting of this eight nation bloc. The regional grouping comprises India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal,
Sri Lanka, Maldives and Afghanistan.
THURSDAY
Fifteen political parties are expected to submit their responses to a show cause notice by the Election Commission of India for not furnishing their expense statements for the Lok Sabha election 2009.
The parties--which include the main Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party,
the Rashtriya Janata Dal, Janata Dal (Secular),
All India Forward Bloc among others --were issued notices on Friday.