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SUNDAY

PATRICIA ESPINOSA Cantellano, Mexico's secretary of foreign affairs, arrives in New Delhi on a two day visit.

The aim of the trip is to prepare the ground for the Cancun summit later this year, as well as to strengthen bilateral relations between India and Mexico.

THE GROUP of ministers on Common wealth Games is likely to meet to review preparedness for the event, especially in the backdrop of the corruption cases that have recently surfaced.

MONDAY

INFLATION DATA for July is scheduled to be released.

The number will be an important signal on the kind of monetary policy action one can expect in the near future.

A CONGRESS delegation from Karnataka is scheduled to meet President Pratibha Patel against the state's antic slaughter Bill.

THE SUPREME Court will hear a petition to transfer 10 cases that have been filed in various high courts across the country challenging the All India Bar Examination, which has been proposed by the Bar Council of India.

The exam is scheduled to be held in the first week of December.

Last week, the apex court dismissed a similar petition filed by a Delhi University law student.

TUESDAY

THE BOMBAY Stock Exchange and Harvard Business School will hold a panel discussion on “Emerging Market Multi nationals: Growing Indian Firms in India and Beyond“.

WEDNESDAY

THE PARLIAMENTARY standing committee on science and technology is expected to submit its report on the nuclear liability Bill.

Though the report was due last week, the panel examining the controversial legislation had sought a week's extension.

THURSDAY

THE PUBLIC interest litigation on media coverage of the Aarushi murder case will come up before the Supreme Court after last week's controversial order gagging the media from reporting matters that were under investigation by the Central Bureau of Investigation.

PHD CHAMBER of Commerce and Indus try organizes a seminar on “New Tech neologies for Construction Industry“.

THE NINE DAY International Congress of Mathematicians, an assembly of the world's leading mathematicians, begins in Hyderabad.

A salient feature will be the announcement of the Fields Medal, considered the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize.
THE DEPARTMENT of industrial policy and promotion will release the food inflation data for the week ended 7 August. The index rose to 11.4% for the week ended 31 July.