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MONDAY:

FINLAND FOREIGN minister Alexander Stubb will be in India for a two day visit.
He is expected to hold discussions with external affairs minister S.M. Krishna on Finnish-Indian relations.

TRADE DATA for March will be announced. Exports are expected to post higher growth after almost a year of decline.

AXIS BANK Ltd and Max New York Life Insurance will announce their ban cassurance partnership.


THE FOURTH seminar in the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations-Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung monthly seminar series will be organized. The seminar will be delivered by Rajesh Chakrabarti, assistant professor, Indian School of Business on “Independent Directors and Firm Value: Evidence from a Natural Experiment“.

A Confederation of Indian Industry session on “Strengthening India Australia Trade Relations “ will be organized. Minister for commerce and industry Anand Sharma and Australia's trade minister Simon Crean will be chief guests at the session.

WEDNESDAY

A THREE-day meet of the core com mittee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist)--its apex decision-making body--will begin. The party leadership is likely to decide on the dates, location and participants for its “plenum“, a rare meeting of its senior leaders to prepare for next year's assembly elections in its bastion states of West Bengal and Kerala.

OVERSEAS PRIVATE Investment Corporation's (Opic) three-day global investment conference on renewable energy and clean technology will begin in New Delhi. Opic is a US government agency responsible for facilitating American private sector investment in emerging markets.

THURSDAY

A TWO-day Confederation of Indian Industry international conference on “Intelligent Urbanization--Smart Solutions for Inclusive and Sustainable Communities“ will be held. Planning Commision member Arun Maira, ministry of urban development secretary M. Ram achandran and lieutenant-governor of Delhi Tejendra Khanna will be chief guests at the session.

FRIDAY

PARLIAMENT'S BUDGET session is expected to conclude. The nearly three month long session, with a one-month recess in between, saw the passage of the Finance Bill and the Union Budget 201011 amid stormy protests from the the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Left and other parties demanding measures to combat rising prices.