NEWS SCHEDULE

    National news schedule for Monday, August 18:
    
    NATIONAL
    *Parliamentary proceedings and related stories
        Meeting of opposition leaders on their vice presidential candidate
        RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at a book launch event
        Astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla's meeting with PM Modi
    Other political developments and party briefings. *
    
    
    
    
     LEGAL
    
    
     SUPREME COURT
    
     Plea raising a range of issues including ad-hoc appointment of DGPs in some states.
        Pleas concerning money laundering probe against Tamil Nadu-run liquor retailer TASMAC         over alleged corruption in grant of wine shop licences.
         Plea seeking directions to Centre and others to implement a dedicated victim                 compensation scheme exclusively for child victims of crime.
        Plea concerning recruitment of visually impaired people in judicial services
        Plea by AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi challenging Delhi HC order refusing to quash         a defamation case against them
    
    
     HIGH COURT
    
     Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit's plea challenging trial court order dismissing his criminal         defamation complaint against former chief minister Atishi and AAP MP Sanjay Singh.
        MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh's plea to modify order allowing him to attend Parliament in-custody         by paying travel expenses *

    NCR
    CM Rekha Gupta at an event
         Aam Aadmi Party press conference
         Yamuna water level updates

    NORTH
    CM Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur
        Vidhan Sabha Speaker Satish Mahana to hold press conference
        Rajasthan:Last flight of IAF MiG 21 aircraft at Nal airport in Bikaner
        Grand finale of Miss Universe India 2025 at Jaipur.
        CM's review meetings for UDH and sports departments
        Haryana:Chief minister Saini to chair meeting of Public Works Department in Chandigarh.
        Punjab: CM Bhagwant Mann to inaugurate a sub-divisional hospital in Chamkaur Sahib.         Himachal Pradesh:Monsoon session of assembly

    SOUTH
    *Karnataka Assembly session

    EAST
    
    *Bengal:SSC stir: proposed rally by a faction of Eligible Teachers' Forum
        Cabinet meeting
        Suvendu Adhikari press meet
        IIT Kharagpur foundation day programme
        Odisha:BJD’s farmers’ rally at Bargarh.
         Health update of BJD president Naveen Patnaik
         Follow up on viral video involving Puri girl burning to death.
        Tripura:Pradesh Congrees president to address press:1 pm.
        Bihar: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's Voter Adhikar Yatra' in Aurangabad and Gaya.             Gandhi to address a public meeting in Gaya in the evening.
        Arunachal:One-day special session of assembly to commemorate 50 years of its existence.
        Nagaland:NSF sit in protest on eviction on illegal immigrants from NE.
        Meghalaya:Pro-ILP groups sit in demonstration for eviction of illegal immigrants
        Jharkhand: IMD issues yellow alert of heavy rains for parts of state from Aug 21

    WEST
    
    *Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai to inaugurate BJP office in Bhilai, Durg
        Supreme Court Justice Surya Kant to inaugurate European-South Asian arbitration boot         camp at Rashtriya Raksha University in Gandhinagar
        Maharashtra CM Devendra Fadnavis to receive Raghuji sword, brought from London, at             event in Mumbai
        BEST credit society election in Mumbai; MNS and Shiv Sena-UBT jointly contesting poll*
    
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(This story has not been edited by THE WEEK and is auto-generated from PTI)