Maldivian Foreign Minister Mohamed Asim who is in India on a three-day visit will call on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today. The visit of Asim, who is also Maldivian president’s special envoy to India, comes amidst reported strain in bilateral ties over a number of issues, including signing of an FTA between the Maldives and China.
Officials of the GST Council are set to meet today to discuss steps to boost GST revenue collections. In November, the GST collection was at Rs 80,808 crore, down from a peak of over Rs 94,000 crore in July.
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will inaugurate the women industrial cluster developed by the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board and District Industries Centre over 50 acres at Thandavapura Industrial Area or Thandya Industrial Area in Nanjangud taluk. Over 118 industrial plots have been formed at the park and provisional allotment letters will be given to women entrepreneurs by Siddaramaiah on Thursday.
The Ahmedabad bench of the NCLT is likely to hear IFCI's insolvency case against the Anil-Ambani-led Reliance Naval and Engineering Ltd. Reliance Naval has refuted the charge saying that there are no merits in the application filed by IFCI before NCLT “as it is an unsecured creditor”.