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The last day of the work week is going to be a busy one.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is set to visit Russia on Friday (March 7) for the annual foreign office consultations, a meeting to review ties between the two countries.
US President Donald Trump will host the crypto sector’s top players at a White House summit today.
Greece’s centre-right government faces a no-confidence vote today over a deadly train disaster in 2023.
Here are the big headlines for today:
Vikram Misri on two-day visit to Russia
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri is set to visit Russia on March 7 for the annual foreign office consultations between the two countries to review the overall relationship.
He is also expected to meet members of the top Russian leadership during his day-long visit.
Trump to host crypto elites at White House
US President Donald Trump will host the crypto sector’s top players at a White House summit today.
Silicon Valley investor David Sacks, the president’s “crypto czar,” will meet with members of a Trump working group and notable inventors, CEOs, and investors to develop policies that will boost the growth of the cryptocurrency business and give it the legitimacy it has long desired.
Twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, founders of platform Gemini, with reports that Brad Armstrong of Coinbase and Michael Saylor, the boss of major bitcoin investor MicroStrategy, will also be in attendance.
Greece government to face no-confidence vote
Greece’s centre-right government faces a no-confidence vote today over a deadly train disaster in 2023.
The development comes after lawmakers from the main opposition, the centre-left PASOK party, and from leftist parties submitted a censure motion against PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ government during a parliamentary debate on the disaster on Wednesday.
First firing squad execution in 15 years in the US
Brad Sigmon , 67, convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s parents in 2001, is scheduled to be executed on Friday at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia.
He will be the first US firing squad death in 15 years.
PM Modi’s event at NAMO MERI in Silvassa
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will attend the public meeting for inauguration of the new 450-bed hospital of National Modern Medical Education and Research Institute (NAMO MERI) in Silvassa today.
Doctors, community health officers, ASHAs, anganwadi workers and multipurpose workers are expected to attend the event.
EAM S Jaishankar returns to the UK
On Friday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar returns to the UK to inaugurate a new Consulate General of India in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
He will then make his way to Manchester to open another new Indian Consulate in the northern England city on Saturday.
Omar Abdullah to present J&K Budget
Jammu and Kashmir CM Omar Abdullah, who also holds the finance portfolio, will present the Budget for the first time in seven years.
The budget session is scheduled to run until April 11.
Crucial court hearings
Delhi court hearing against Jagdish Tytler in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case
Supreme Court hearing over mechanism for citizens to flag misleading ads
Yasin Malik to virtually appear in Jammu court from Tihar
Delhi court to pass order on Engineer Rashid plea to attend Parliament
Rahul Gandhi on two-day visit to Gujarat
A month ahead of the All-India Congress Committee’s (AICC) April session, the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, is expected to visit Gujarat today.
He is expected to plan the party strategy for the 2027 assembly elections in the state
Amit Shah to flag off CISF coastal cycle rally
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is expected to flag off a 6,553 kilometre-long cycle rally of the Central Industrial Security Force that will traverse the country’s western and eastern sea shores to mark the 56th raising day of the paramilitary force.
A total of 125 cyclists of the force, including 14 women, will begin the ‘cyclothon’ from Gujarat and West Bengal simultaneously today.
Siddaramaiah to present Budget 2025-26
Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah will present his 16th Budget on Friday.
Following the budget announcement, a detailed discussion will be conducted, after which the Chief Minister will respond towards the end of March.
Chinese FM Wang Yi presser
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi will hold a press conference on the sidelines of the third session of the 14th National People’s Congress.
He is set to answer questions of journalists from home and abroad on foreign policy and external relations.
A day to remember
Birth anniversary of West Indies cricketer Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
Birth anniversary actor Anupam Kher
Birth anniversary of tennis player Ivan Lendl
Birth anniversary of politician Ghulam Nabi Azad
Birth anniversary of surgeon Sharad Vaidya
Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for the telephone in 1876
A bomb blast in Varanasi left 28 people dead in their wake and the terrorist group Lashkar e Taiba took responsibility for them in 2006
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