NATIONAL SCHEDULE

    National news schedule for Thursday, February 29:
    
    NATIONAL:
    
    * Union Cabinet meeting
         Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Mauritius counterpart Pravind Jugnauth to jointly inaugurate projects in Mauritius via videoconferencing
         Bill Gates at IIT Delhi event
         Union minister Smriti Irani and Bill Gates at an event
         BJP Central Election Committee meeting
         Other political developments and party briefings
         Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at UP International Trade Show *
    
    LEGAL:
    
    SUPREME COURT
    
    * A five-judge Constitution Bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud to deliver its judgement on a plea seeking reconsideration of its 2018 order which held that the stay granted by a lower court or high court in civil and criminal cases will automatically expire after six months unless extended specifically.
         A nine-judge Constitution Bench headed by CJI DY Chandrachud to hear pleas to decide a vexed legal question whether royalty paid by mine operators to the Centre is a form of tax or not.
         SC to hear a plea of Vedanta group firm against the closure of its Sterlite copper unit at Tuticorin in Tamil Nadu.
         SC to hear pleas of journalist B G Verghese and lyricist Javed Akhtar seeking direction for a probe by an independent agency into alleged fake encounter cases.
         SC to hear a plea of Vikas Yadav who is serving life imprisonment in the 2002 Nitish Katara murder case. *
    
    HIGH COURT
    
    * HC to hear a petition by the Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights against alleged freezing of its funds.
         HC to hear bail plea by 'United Against Hate' founder Khalid Saifi in a UAPA case linked to the 2020 Delhi riots. *
    
    NCR
    
    * Delhi Assembly session
         AAP press conference *
    
    NORTH
    
    * Himachal Pradesh developments
         Protesting Punjab farmers to announce next course of action
         Allahabad High Court hearing on maintainability of petition seeking 'removal' of Shahi Idgah mosque in Mathura
          Haryana Assembly speaker's press conference in Chandigarh
          Uttarakhand Assembly session *
    
    EAST
    
    * West Bengal: BJP dharna in Kolkata over incidents of Sandeshkhali - Day 2
          BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari to visit Jeliakhali village in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali.
          West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a programme at Jhargram             NASA scientist Swati Mohan at BITM
          West Bengal Education Minister Bratya Basu's press conference
         Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment Ramdas Athawale to address a press conference in Assam
         Opposition United Forum, Assam to march to Raj Bhavan in Guwahati to submit a memorandum against proposed CAA notification rules
         Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to virtually inaugurate EDI enablement of Land Customs Stations of NE in Assam
          Jharkhand: Cabinet meeting
         Assembly sessions in various states
          Odisha: President Droupadi Murmu's visit *
    
    WEST
    
    * PM Narendra Modi to inaugurate and lay foundation stones of various projects in Madhya Pradesh via video link at 4 pm
         Mumbai court to pass order on interim bail plea of businessman Naresh Goyal in money laundering case
         Bombay High Court to hear CBI's plea against Netflix documentary series on Indrani Mukerjea, accused of killing her daughter Sheena Bora.
          Goa CM Pramod Sawant to launch "One-time settlement scheme" of GST department, in Porvorim at 11 am
          Assembly sessions in Gujarat and Maharashtra *
    
    SOUTH
    
    * Karnataka Assembly session and cabinet meeting *

(This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)