Welcome to The Morning Filter, your guide to the busy news day ahead. We hope you are staying safe. Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today:
1. FM to meet heads of banks, NBFCs on loan recast today Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a review meeting with heads of banks and NBFCs on Thursday for smooth and speedy implementation of the one-time debt recast for resolution of COVID-19 related stress in bank loans.
2. PM Modi to address leadership summit of US India Strategic and Partnership Forum Prime Minister Narendra Modi will deliver key note address to the third leadership summit of US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) today.
3. Jitan Ram Manjhi announces return to NDA ahead of Bihar polls Sources in the JD(U) said that the HAM chief may meet Nitish Kumar Thursday before modalities are decided.
4. High Court permits Parsis to pray at community temple today The Bombay High Court on Wednesday allowed the Parsi community in Mumbai to offer Farvardiyan prayers at the Doongerwadi tower of silence here for a day on Thursday after the Maharashtra government denied permission for the same.
5. Metro Rail-Bengal government meeting today over resuming services The Metro Railway authorities will hold a meeting with West Bengal government officers on Thursday on modalities for running trains maintaining social distancing and other COVID-19 prevention protocol, an official said.
6. Maharashtra Governor to meet VCs of universities over final-year exams Maharashtra Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari will hold a meeting with vice-chancellors of non- agricultural universities on Thursday to discuss the issue of final-year examinations in the backdrop of a Supreme Court verdict, an official said on Wednesday.
7. Meghalaya to urge UGC seeking extension of Sept. 30 deadline for holding final year exams The Meghalaya government willwrite to the UGC on Thursday seeking extension of holding final year undergraduate and postgraduate exams from September to next month as students are not mentally prepared for the evaluation due to COVID-19 pandemic, Education Minister Lahkmen Rymbui said.
8. Rains lash parts of Rajasthan The Met has warned of heavy rainfall in isolated places of Bundi, Chittorgarh, Dungarpur, Tonk, Rajsamand and Udaipur in east Rajasthan and in isolated areas of Jodhpur, Pali and Nagaur district till Thursday.
9. Beijing to permit international flights after 6 months Beijing, which banned all international flights from March 23, on Wednesday announced plans to resume direct international flights beginning Thursday, signalling that the pandemic has been contained in the city.
10. Coronavirus | Latest numbers and developments The number of positive coronavirus cases reported from India now stands at 38,48,934 at the time of publishing this newsletter. The toll from the disease stands at 67,508.
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