A court will deliver its order on the investigation report in a coal block allocation case involving Rajya Sabha MP Vijay Darda. Last month, the CBI filed the report in the case involving AMR Iron and Steel. The court had held on January 30 that the former minister of state for coal, Santosh Bagrodia, secretary HC Gupta and section officer LS Janoti had illegally helped AMR.

Parliament’s monsoon session begins today, and is expected to be a stormy affair with the Congress and other parties set to rock the floor over a slew of controversial issues, including the Vyapam scam and the Lalit Modi row.

The National Green Tribunal will hear a petition on the Great Indian Bustard, an endangered bird species found mostly in Rajasthan. The ‘wing-versus-windmill’ petition alleges that the habitat of the endangered bird has been disturbed due to windmills set up within one km of the national highway in the Desert National Park, Jaisalmer.

Hyundai will launch its SUV Creta, which has received over 10,000 pre-bookings. The Korean auto major’s mass-market five-seater will compete with its peers from Mahindra & Mahindra, Renault, Nissan, Ford, and Tata Motors.

The Supreme Court will resume hearing on States’ plea to return to them power of remission to at least release convicts who have completed over 20 years of their sentence. A Constitution Bench of the SC had refused to lift its order staying State governments from releasing life convicts, including Rajiv Gandhi’s killers, on remission of sentences.

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