Event to Watch- July 11

Controversy Return: Zakir Naik likely to return to India.

Kiren Rijiju, Minister of State of Home Affairs will launch SSB’s Intensive Refresher Training Programme for Border Out Posts.

World Population Day:J P Nadda, Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare will address a National Workshop on the theme "Jimmedari Nibhao, Plan Banao"  organized by MoHFW in collaboration with Jansankhya Sthirata Kosh on the occasion of World Population Day.    Time: 10 am at Vigyan Bhawan

RSS: Five daylong annual meeting of RSS's regional office bearers to begin in Kanpur. RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat, general secretary Bhaiyyaji Joshi and 41 regional pracharaks to chalked out strategy for the BJP in assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Punjab.

B P Sharma, Secretary Health, will launch Nationwide “Intensified Diarrhoea Control Fortnight (IDCF, 2016)” and will also release IDCF toolkit. Time: 5 PM at Nirman Bhawan


Gadkari in the US: On the US visit, India's Road and Transport Minister, Nitin Gadkari, to hold bilateral talks with the US Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx in Washington. Gadkari will witness Modal Presentations by Federal Highway Administration, US Maritime Administration and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Fate of Ritu Rani: Hockey India's executive board meeting to be held. All eyes on captain Ritu Rani. Formal announement of her exclusion from Rio olympic hockey team likely to be held.

Army Chief in Australia: Four-day visit of Army chief Gen Dalbir Singh to Australia to begin. During his Singh will be visiting important defence establishments of the Australian armed forces and is scheduled to meet a number of high ranking defence officials.

Offline Video: Facebook might allows users in India to take video offline on the mobile app

IPO of L&T Infotech to hit the capital markets to raise Rs 1200 cr

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits Ukraine to offer Canada’s support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and to deepen commercial ties between the countries.

The Farnborough International Airshow, a biannual showcase for the aviation industry, begins in southeastern England. The U.S. F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is among the aircraft making an appearance. In Farnborough through July 17.

CENTRAL BANKS: Kazakh rate decision, Bank of Israel minutes.

ECONOMY: U.S. labor market conditions index (June), Japan machinery orders (May), Romania CPI (June), Poland CPI (June), Russia budget balance (June), Italy industrial production (May).

Events to Watch-June 23

Dadri Ghost coming: A local court in Noida schedule to hear a petition seeking registration of an FIR against the family members of Mohammad Akhlaq, who was lynched nine months ago on suspicion that his family stored and ate beef at their house.


Two Wheeler on CNG: Launch of Pilot Phase of CNG for Two Wheelers by the Minister of State (I/C) for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of State (I/C) for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar. at 2PM, CGO complex IGL station


BREXIT: Britain votes in a referendum on whether to leave the European Union. First results about midnight with final results due on Friday

Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to inaugurate 3 rd National Standards Conclave

Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati, Minister of Civil Aviation at 9th International Conference and Awards on Civil Aviation & Tourism at 10 am Hotel Taj Mahal, Mansingh Road, New Delhi.

House Sales Number: Purchases of new U.S. homes probably declined in May to a more sustainable pace after surging a month earlier at the fastest rate since 2008, economists forecast the Commerce Department to report. 

CENTRAL BANKS: 
U.S. Federal Reserve annual bank stress tests Part I. 
Ukraine central bank to decide on rates, with policy makers probably cutting by a half point to 17.5 percent.

ECONOMY: 
U.S. jobless claims (weekly)
U.S. Markit manufacturing PMI (June preliminary)
U.S. leading economic indicators (May)
Euro-area PMIs (June)
Hong Kong balance of payments (1Q)
Taiwan industrial production (May)
Singapore CPI (May)
Israel unemployment (May)  
Poland unemployment (May)

ENERGY/COMMODITIES: 
U.S. Energy Information Administration natural gas inventory report 

June 22 -Event to Watch

ISRO to launch record Cartosat-2 series satellite & 19 co-passenger satellites 

Details- Beyond record, why this is important from strategic points of view. Read-

http://sputniknews.com/military/20160617/1041501807/india-space-satellite-military.html

Cabinet meeting scheduled to be take place in South Block, PMO

Agenda- Package for textile sector
              Spectrum auction proposal may get nod



Byelection in Anantnag to be held. CM Mehbooba Mufti in fray

Interactive Session with Ashok Lavasa, Secretary Finance, Ministry of Finance at 5.00 pm Venue- PHD House, New Delhi

Recognising talent: Uma Bharati & Sushma Swaraj to facilitate the officials of WAPCOS Ltd. Who were involved in the successful construction of Afghan-India Friendship Dam in Afghanistan. Habibat Centre at 6PM

Russian Gift: Press briefing by the Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas, Dharmendra Pradhan at 3 PM, Hotel Imperial

Ayurveda in AIIMS: Health J P Nadda, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare will inaugurate the “Centre for Integrative Medicine and Research (Yoga and Ayurveda)”12.30PM venue: AIIMS

Financial Literacy: Union Urban Development Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu alongwith Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha will inaugurate the Financial Literacy Camp at Talkatora Stadium



Motorola Moto G4 smartphone to be launched; will be available on amazon.com only

Huawei Honor 5C to launch the 4G model in the budget smartphone category

Max Ventures and Industries Limited (MVIL) will list & start trading on the NSE as well as the BSE. MVIL is one of the three new holding companies formed after demerger of the erstwhile Max India Limited,


Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, to speak at the World Bank

CENTRAL BANKS

Rate decisions in Colombia, Thailand and Mauritius.

ECONOMY: 

U.S. 

MBA mortgage applications (weekly), 

FHFA home-price index (April), 

Canada retail sales (April), 

Taiwan unemployment rate (May), 

Euro-area consumer confidence (June), 

South Africa consumer inflation (May), 

Turkey consumer confidence (June), real sector confidence index (May).

Israel’s leading ‘S’ indicator (May), 

Russia CPI (weekly); 

Ukraine industrial production (May), 

ENERGY/COMMODITIES: 

Bloomberg survey of analysts’ expectations on natural gas volume (weekly), 

U.S. EIA weekly Petroleum Status Report. 

Event to Watch- June 21

Yoga Day: As many as 57 Union ministers will take part in 2nd International Yoga Day programmes across the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing yoga in Chandigarh.

World Record in making: BJP Chief Amit Shah will be chief guest at Baba Ramdev yoga camp in Faridabad. Patanjali claims that many world records to be set up. Crowd expectation is more than 1 lakh. Time- 7.30am

Thinnest Laptop: HP is all set to launch the world's thinnest laptop Spectre

AP vs Telangana in Delhi: Union home ministry has called a meeting of officials from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana to break the deadlock over bifurcation of institutions.

Time up?: Pinjore’s Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT) factory workers likely to try to show black flags to PM Modi in Chandigarh to register protest against government decision to close down factory

'Make in India' Coach: Interview for selection of Indian cricket team coach to be held in Kolkata. 21 candidates in fray.

IPO: Mahanagar Gas (MGL) IPO to hit market. Company has set price band of Rs 380-Rs 421.

AirAsia will shut down its online systems on June 21 for 27 hours due to maintenance

Board Meeting of Federal Bank to be held

BREXIT: Bank of England is offering loans to banks to boost liquidity before the U.K. referendum. London

Egypt vs Saudi: Egyptian court to decide on legality of handing two Red Sea islands to Saudi Arabia. Timing to be determined, in Cairo.

CENTRAL BANKS: Interest rate decisions in Turkey, Morocco and Hungary.

ECONOMY: Brazil IPCA-15 inflation (June), Hong Kong CPI (May), Portugal house price index (1Q), ZEW German investor confidence (June), U.K. public-sector borrowing (May), U.K. factory orders (June), South Africa leading indicator (April), Israel manufacturing production data (April), Ukraine GDP (1Q, final), Ukraine retail sales (May).

ENERGY/COMMODITIES: American Petroleum Institute inventory report (weekly).

Event to Watch - June 20

Event to Watch

Chauhan in NIFT:  Former cricketer Chetan Chauhan to assume charge as the Chairman of National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT) at Hauz Khas, Delhi

PM in Chandigarh: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave Delhi around 9 pm for Chandigarh for the International Day of Yoga, to be observed on June 21. He will spend night in the Punjab Raj Bhawan. More than 30,000 people are expected to participate in the mass yoga event in the presence of Modi.

World Bank report on India: World Bank's India office to publish its bi-annual review and forecast of the economy-India Development Update June 2016-Financing Double-Digit Growth - 2 PM

Western Disturbance: Sanjeev Balyan, MoS for Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, will highlights the two year achievements of Veterinary Council of India at Krishi Bhawan. 12 noon

Mrs Irani at NCERT: Smriti Irani, Union Minister of Human Resource Development, & Shripad Yesso Naik, MoS, Ministry of AYUSH will be present at award ceremony of “National Yoga Olympiad” at Talkatora Stadium, New Delhi at 10am

Party under RTI?:The central information commission to hear a combined petition seeking six national political parties be brought within the ambit of the RTI Act.

Peeli Taxi Vs app based service: United Front of Transport Associations (UFTA), an umbrella body of autorickshaws, taxis, truck, gramin sewa and rural transport vehicles (RTVs), to take out protest rally from Samtha Sthal near Rajghat to Delhi Secretariat against the city government on various demands including abolition of parking fee from trucks, buses, and app based taxi services


Mobile Launch: Chinese company LeEco will start accepting pre-registration of its two latest handsets Le 2 and Le Max 2 .Registrations for Le 2 and Le Max 2 will begin on both Flipkart and LeMall

More Security:In order to enhance the security measures, the NSE will begin implementing Two factor authentication (2FA) for user of e-IPO web-based application. Two-factor authentication is a security process in which the user provides two means of identification from separate categories of credentials.

Market Watch

Facebook Inc. investors will vote at their annual shareholders meeting on a proposed new class of stock that will encourage founder & Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg “to remain in an active leadership role.” 11:00 PM 

Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda to speaks at Keio University in Tokyo. 

Chinese President Xi Jinping visits Warsaw for discussions on adding flights between Beijing and Poland, nuclear power and other bilateral issues.

Data release

Taiwan export orders (May), South Korea producer prices (May), Russia unemployment (May), retail sales (May), wages (May).

U.S. Department of Agriculture crops data (weekly), ICE weekly commitments of traders report for Brent, gasoil.

June 17,2015-Event to watch

Update

SEBI's interim board meeting
Agenda- Regulations for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) may be relaxed to woo real estate companies towards this product.
- mull introducing options in commodity market
- to discuss issues related to commodity derivatives market 
- Also consider amendment to portfolio management regulations to cater to offshore fund managers willing to relocate to India. 

Protest against Ola/Uber: Demonstration against Central & Delhi govt demanding full ban on Ola and Uber. Rally from Mata Sundri Gurudwara at 11 am

June 17, 2015

One more time Look East: Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-Chas to meet Prime Minister Narendra Narendra Modi to discuss overall defense and security cooperation


PM wants Probity, taxman says P for Provision(go for CBEC tweet): Revenue Secretary, Dr. Hasmukh Adhia alongwith Chairman, CBDT, Atulesh Jindal and Chairman, CBEC, Najib Shah will address a Press Conference after the conclusion of the two day ‘Annual Conference of Tax Administrators 2016’  at 6PM


Proud Moment: Inaugural flight of Indigenous fighter trainer aircraft HTT 40 to be witnessed by Defense Minister Manohar Parrikar at 9.15am in Bangalore. Press Interaction-9.50 to 10.50


Road Ahead: Special session court in Ahmedabad likely to pronounce quantum of punishment for the 24 convicts in the Gulberga Society massacre case

Household affairs can ask to Home Affairs: Union Minister of Home Affairs, Rajnath Singh, to address public meeting in outskirt of Dehradun. He will also meet city intellectuals.


Will you stop honking: Bombay High Court to hear a PIL seeking stringent rules to curb noise pollution in country's noisiest city Mumbai, declared by Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB


Udne do: Udta Punjab with one cut in theater


Give us some hope: Meeting of the Board of Directors of Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd to be held


Beyond the meeting, give some concrete: Nirmala Sitharaman & Korean Trade Minister to address Korea – India Industry & Infra Forum’ 9:30 AM, Hotel Taj Palace, S P Marg

June 15
Event To Watch



Cheaper Air Travel: Ashok Gajpati Raju & Ravishankar Prasad will brief media on cabinet decision in the National Media Centre

Fragrance in Delhi's heart: Venkaiah Naidu to inaugurate Delhi's second rose garden NDMC has developed a space exclusively for the fragrant flowers on Satya Marg, Chanakyapuri.

Govt feeling the price pinch: Union Consumer Affairs & Food Minister, Ram Vilas Paswan will flag off mobile vans for selling pulses at reasonable prices in Delhi and will interact media about the price situation of essential commodities at 1 PM

Real Estate in Arawali: National Capital Region Planning Board meeting to be held. Likely to decide on definition of forest. This will impact real estate developments in Aravali regions.


Pay Less for Excess: Reduced charges for excess baggage comes into effect for air travelers


Another Meet: Urban Development department secretaries of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Assam to attend two-day NITI Ayog workshop on water, waste water and solid waste management


Social media in rescue: Minister of Railways Suresh Prabhu will inaugurate/ launch following facilities/initiatives:-

• Flagging off of inaugural run of first time-tabled container train service from Domestic Container Terminal, Okhla (Delhi) and Whitefield (Bengaluru), by remote from Rail Bhawan
• Launch of liberalized comprehensive parcel leasing policy
• Launch of liberalized policy for parcel cargo express trains.
• Integrated (Facebook; Twitter) Social Media Platforms for grievance redressal.
• Announcement of implementation of policy allowing differently abled persons to avail concession while travelling without escort.

Diesel vehicle Ban in Focus: Minister of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises Anant Geete will hold a press conference on the achievement of his Ministry during the last two years at 5pm


Blood for Cause: DoPT  to encourage the employees of the Department to come forward for participation in Blood Donation Camp from 1100 hours to 1600 hours at Conference Room No.190, North Block.


Haryana government has called leaders of various associations and khap panchayats for talks


Hyve Mobile to launch its new android mobile phone at India Habitat Centre. 11 am