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It’s Thursday (March 13), and a lot is lined up for today.
Greece’s Constantine Tassoulas, will be sworn in as head of state today. US President Donald Trump will host NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte for a meeting in Washington.
In India, I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and EAM S Jaishankar will meet ambassadors and heads of missions in India to apprise them of the first World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES).
Here’s a quick look at big headlines today.
NATO’s Mark Rutte meets Trump at White House
US President Donald Trump will host NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte for a meeting in Washington on Thursday.
The meeting comes after he urged Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskyy to “find a way” to repair his relationship with Trump after their heated exchange at the White House.
Swearing-in of new Greek president
Greece’s parliament elected its former speaker, Constantine Tassoulas, as the country’s president on Wednesday, approving the conservative government’s nominee for the largely ceremonial role.
He will be sworn in as head of state today.
Vaishnaw, Jaishankar to brief foreign envoys on WAVES summit
Information & Broadcasting Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will meet ambassadors and heads of missions in India on Thursday to apprise them of the first World Audio Visual and Entertainment Summit (WAVES) scheduled to take place in Mumbai in May.
The government is pitching WAVES as a global gathering of leaders from the media and entertainment sector, an event that could be compared with the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos.
Piyush Goyal’s talk with industry and export council over US tariffs
Days after holding talks with his US counterpart in Washington, Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal has called a meeting with the export councils and trade representatives starting Thursday.
The meeting will discuss the impact of US tariffs on Indian exports and the widening of the trade deficit observed for the month of January.
No Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha sittings
The Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha will not have their sitting on March 13, the eve of Holi, following a decision taken by the business advisory committees of both Houses on the matter.
The two houses have already declared a holiday on March 14, 2025, for Holi.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s visit to Bangladesh
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be visiting Dhaka from March 13 to 16 on the invitation of the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh Muhammad Yunus.
The invitation was reportedly handed over by Khalilur Rahman, High Representative of the Chief Adviser on the Rohingya Issue and Priority Matters, during his meeting with the Secretary-General on February 7 in New York.
In court today
Calcutta HC to hear plea on foreign nationals contesting Bengal elections
Bombay HC hearing over copy-paste bank orders declaring accounts fraud, asks Anil Ambani to approach RBI
NTA’s CUET PG begins
The National Testing Agency’s (NTA) Common University Entrance Test (CUET) Postgraduate (PG) Exams will start today.
The tests are being held from March 13 to April 1 in the form of a computer-based test (CBT) Mode.
The exam will be administered in three shifts of the day.
IEA publishes monthly oil report
The International Energy Agency will publish its monthly Oil Market Report on Thursday.
The report provides data on production, consumption, refining, inventories in OECD countries and other things.
A day to remember
Birth anniversary of first businesswoman to head organisation of ship owners Sumati Morarjee
Birth anniversary of Derek O Brien
Birth anniversary of Colombian footballer Andres Escobar
Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more in 1993
Harvard College was named after clergyman John Harvard in 1639
William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781
India’s Missionaries of Charity chose Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader in 1997
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