NEWS SCHEDULE

        National News Schedule for Thursday, December 12:

    
     NATIONAL:
    
     Parliament proceedings and related stories
        Other political developments and party briefings
        Union Cabinet meeting
        Culture and Tourism Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat's media briefing
    
    
    
     LEGAL
    
     SUPREME COURT
    
     *A special bench to hear pleas challenging validity of certain provisions of a 1991 law         that prohibits filing a lawsuit to reclaim a place of worship or seek a change in its         character from what prevailed on August 15, 1947. There are cross pleas as well.
        Plea of Shahi Masjid Idgah committee in a case related the Shrikrishna Janmabhoomi         dispute.
        Plea of former Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in a criminal case.
        Plea related to pollution in Delhi and NCR.
         Plea of gangster Arun Gawali in a criminal case
    
     HIGH COURT
     Bail pleas by Umar Khalid, Sharjeel Imam and others in UAPA case concerning Delhi         riots 2020.
        Plea by several BJP MLAs seeking a direction to place CAG reports related to liquor         duty, pollution and finance before the assembly
    
    
    
    
     NCR:
    
     *LG VK Saxena, CM Atishi at IP University event
         AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal's press conference
        BJP press conference*
    
    
     NORTH:
    
     *UP:Day ahead of PM's visit, CM Yogi Adityanath to visit Prayagraj
        Kumbh related stories
        Haryana:CM to chair district Grievance Redressal Committee meeting in Gurgaon
        Punjab: Updates related to ongoing farmers' protest.
        Rajasthan:Run for ‘Viksit Rajasthan’ on occasion of completion of one-year of             government in Jaipur.
        Mukhyamantri Rozgar Utsav Youth Conference in Jodhpur.
    
    
    
    
    
     SOUTH:
    
        *Assemblies of Karnataka, Telangana in session
            Kerala: CMs Vijayan and Stalin to attend inauguration of Periyar memorial at             Vaikom
            Tamil Nadu Rain updates
    
    
     EAST:
    
     * Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi and Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma to attend         inauguration of Badminton High-Performance Centre (HPC) at Kalinga Stadium.
        Mission Shakti supporting staff agitation related story.
        West Bengal: ISKCON Kolkata updates on Bangladesh developments
        Protests and rallies against attacks on Hindus in Bangladesh
        Bihar: CM Nitish Kumar to inaugurate padeatric cancer hospital in Patna
        Manipur: CM N Biren Singh to attend programme commemorating Nupi Lal or Women's         War
        Jharkhand:Assembly session
    
     WEST:
    
        Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav to address press conference in Bhopal on             completion of one year of his government.
        Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai to address press conference in Raipur on                 completion of one year of his government.
        Gujarat CM Bhupendra Patel to launch book in Gandhinagar on completion of two         years of his second term as chief minister.
        Situation in Maharashtra's Parbhani after violence following vandalism of Dr            Babasaheb Ambedkar's statue.**    

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