Morning Filter: New Year at the India-China border

1. Arunachal, Assam governors to celebrate New Year at India-China border Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brig (Retd) Dr B D Mishra and his Assam counterpart Jagadish Mukhi will celebrate the New Year with locals and army jawans at the India-China border on Saturday. 2. National Film Archive of India to restore Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi The Pune-based National Film Archive of India (NFAI), on the occasion of the great auteur’s birth centenary year (Ray was born in May 1921), has started the process of restoring Ray’s films under the auspices of the National Film Heritage Mission (NFHM) and top of the list is Pratidwandi. 3. Education ministry to launch 100-day Reading Campaign on Saturday Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will be launching a 100 days Reading Campaign ‘Padhe Bharat’ on Saturday to improve learning levels of students, according to officials. 4. Tour of Rashtrapati Bhavan, Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum closed The tour of the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum will remain closed from Saturday, as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19. 5. Sri Lanka to ink three new lease agreements to develop Trincomalee oil tank farm with India As per the new deal, 14 tanks currently operated by Indian Oil Corporation subsidiary Lanka IOC will be leased to the company for 50 years, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila told a media conference on Friday. Further, 24 tanks will be given to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), while 61 will be developed in a joint venture, with CPC holding 51 % stakes, and Lanka IOC, the remaining 49 %. The lease agreements are expected to be signed in the coming weeks, following Cabinet clearance. 6. ATM usage beyond permissible free transactions to become expensive from Saturday Using ATMs beyond the permissible free transactions for cash as well as non-cash purposes will cost more from Saturday. 7. Disruptions warned as post-Brexit customs rules kick in Beginning Saturday, importers must make a full customs declaration on goods entering the UK from the EU or other countries. 8. New laws take effect across U.S. on abortion, policing, taxes Minimum wage increases, animal protections, police accountability, cutting and increasing taxes are all part of a series of new laws taking effect across the country on Saturday, the first day of 2022. 9. France urges green habits with new car ads, bans on plastic Starting from Saturday, leeks and carrots, tomatoes and potatoes, apples, pears and about 30 other items will no longer be sold in plastic. Instead, they should be wrapped in other materials like carton. Morning Filter will return tomorrow. Follow up on the day’s biggest stories and get concise analysis by The Hindu with the Evening Wrap newsletter. [logo] The Morning Filter 01 JANUARY 2022 [The Hindu logo] Welcome to the Morning Filter newsletter, your guide from The Hindu on the major news stories and events to follow today. [[Arrow]Open in browser]( [[Mail icon]More newsletters]( Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today 1. Arunachal, Assam governors to celebrate New Year at India-China border [FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2020, file photo, an Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Kashmir. India and China have stationed tens of thousands of soldiers backed by artillery, tanks and fighter jets along the de facto border called the Line of Actual Control in the Ladakh region]  Arunachal Pradesh Governor Brig (Retd) Dr B D Mishra and his Assam counterpart Jagadish Mukhi will celebrate the New Year with locals and army jawans at the India-China border on Saturday. 2. National Film Archive of India to restore Satyajit Ray’s Pratidwandi The Pune-based National Film Archive of India (NFAI), on the occasion of the great auteur’s birth centenary year (Ray was born in May 1921), has started the process of [restoring Ray’s films under the auspices of the National Film Heritage Mission]( (NFHM) and top of the list is Pratidwandi. 3. Education ministry to launch 100-day Reading Campaign on Saturday [File photo of Minister of Education Dharmendra Pradhan] Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan will be launching a 100 days Reading Campaign ‘Padhe Bharat’ on Saturday to improve learning levels of students, according to officials. 4. Tour of Rashtrapati Bhavan, Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum closed The tour of the Rashtrapati Bhavan and the Rashtrapati Bhavan Museum will remain closed from Saturday, as a precautionary measure against the spread of COVID-19. 5. Sri Lanka to ink three new lease agreements to develop Trincomalee oil tank farm with India [ Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa. ] As per the new deal, 14 tanks currently operated by Indian Oil Corporation subsidiary Lanka IOC will be leased to the company for 50 years, Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila told a media conference on Friday. Further, 24 tanks will be given to the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC), while 61 will be developed in a joint venture, with CPC holding 51 % stakes, and Lanka IOC, the remaining 49 %. [The lease agreements are expected to be signed in the coming weeks, following Cabinet clearance.]( 6. ATM usage beyond permissible free transactions to become expensive from Saturday Using ATMs beyond the permissible free transactions for cash as well as non-cash purposes will cost more from Saturday. 7. Disruptions warned as post-Brexit customs rules kick in Beginning Saturday, importers must make a full customs declaration on goods entering the UK from the EU or other countries. 8. New laws take effect across U.S. on abortion, policing, taxes Minimum wage increases, animal protections, police accountability, cutting and increasing taxes are all part of a series of new laws taking effect across the country on Saturday, the first day of 2022. 9. France urges green habits with new car ads, bans on plastic Starting from Saturday, leeks and carrots, tomatoes and potatoes, apples, pears and about 30 other items will no longer be sold in plastic. Instead, they should be wrapped in other materials like carton. [underlineimg] Morning Filter will return tomorrow. Follow up on the day’s biggest stories and get concise analysis by The Hindu with the Evening Wrap newsletter. 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