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. NEET, JEE | Supreme Court to consider review plea of Ministers of 6 opposition-ruled States
National Testing Agency (NTA) which conducts both the exams is holding JEE Main Exams from September 1 to September 6, while NEET exams will be held on September 13.
2. Chinese Foriegn Minister Wang Yi to attend online BRICS FMs meeting
Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi will participate in the virtual meeting of the foreign ministers of the five-nation BRICS grouping on Friday, a senior official announced in Beijing on Thursday.
3. Rajnath Singh to attend Shanghai Cooperation Organisation meeting in Moscow Rajnath Singh. File
The meeting will be attended by the Defence Ministers of the eight member nations.
4. Modi to interact with IPS probationers through video conference
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with IPS probationers through a video conference on Friday during the 'Dikshant Parade Event' at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel National Police Academy in Hyderabad.
5. Union Minister Jitendra Singh to address workshop on good governance during COVID-19
The workshop has been jointly conceptualised by the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG), Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) and Niti Aayog with the objective of knowledge dissemination of district-level good governance practices in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
6. Finance Commission to meet its economic advisory panel on Friday
Chairman N.K. Singh and the members of 15th Finance Commission will hold a day-long meeting with the Economic Advisory Council of the Commission on Friday, an official statement said. N.K. Singh, Chairman, Finance Commission. File
7. Heavy rain alert for Dehradun
In Uttarakhand, the Met department on Thursday issued a heavy rain alert for Dehradun for Friday.
8. Vodafone Idea board meeting on Friday to consider fund raising
The board will "consider and evaluate any and all proposals for raising of funds in one or more tranches by way of a public issue, preferential allotment, private placement, including a qualified institutions placement or through any other permissible mode and/or combination thereof...by way of issue of equity shares or by way of issue of any instruments".
9. CSK squad undergoes second test, likely to train from Friday
Deepak Chahar was among the two players to have tested positive last week and overall 13 members of CSK contingent were infected with the deadly virus, raising safety concerns ahead of the IPL beginning here on September 19.
10. Coronavirus | Latest numbers and developments A health worker collecting swab samples for coronavirus testing in Secunderabad on September 3, 2020.
The number of positive coronavirus cases reported from India now stands at 39,33,613 at the time of publishing this newsletter. The toll from the disease stands at 68,594.
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