Morning Filter: Congress to meet on Parliament strategy

1. President to confer awards for work towards empowering persons with disabilities President Droupadi Murmu will confer national awards for outstanding work towards empowerment of persons with disabilities on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Saturday. In a statement, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment said the awards will be handed over to individuals, institutions, organisations and state/district, etc., for their outstanding achievements and work towards the empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. 2. Top Cong leaders to meet to evolve strategy for Parliament winter session Top Congress leaders will hold deliberations on Saturday on the party’s strategy to corner the government during the Winter session of Parliament starting December 7. Sources said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, chief whip of the party in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh and party’s chief whip in Lok Sabha K Suresh will meet at the residence of former party chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday evening to evolve the strategy. 3. PM Modi wraps up his Gujarat campaign, addresses 31 rallies Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed over 31 rallies and led three big road shows in Gujarat wrapping up on Friday his campaign for the BJP in the assembly polls as the party looks to maintain its uninterrupted winning streak there since 1995 in a triangular contest involving the Congress and the AAP. Campaign for the second phase of polling ends on December 3. 4. Relief and worry as major Chinese cities ease COVID curbs Further easing of COVID-19 testing requirements and quarantine rules in some Chinese cities was met with a mix of relief and worry on Friday, as hundreds of millions await an expected shift in national virus policies after widespread social unrest. 5. RBI DG to speak at IBA’s tech conference on Saturday RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Shankar will address 18th Banking Technology Conference on Saturday. The event will be organised by Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on the theme ‘Future of Digital and Analytics in Banking’. 6. Coal ministry plans to hold series of investors conclave on commercial mine auction The coal Ministry said it plans to hold a series of investors’ conclave at several locations across the country. The Ministry has already organised such conclaves at Indore and Mumbai which saw very good participation from the prospective bidders which shows the enthusiasm among bidders with regard to the ongoing commercial coal mines auction. 7. Malaysia PM Anwar to helm finance ministry Malaysia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that he would also serve as the country’s finance minister, retaking a cabinet role he first held 30 years ago. He named Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Fadillah Yusof - two coalition partners - as co-deputy prime ministers. 8. Drop in COVID alertness could create deadly new variant: WHO Lapses in strategies to tackle COVID-19 this year continue to create “the perfect conditions” for a deadly new variant to emerge, the World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. With the peak of the pandemic behind, countries worldwide are starting to loosen the reins on surveillance, testing and vaccination for the disease which has claimed more than 6 million lives so far. 9. Obama heads to Georgia as Warnock seeks big early vote advantage Georgia voters have cast more than 1 million ballots ahead of the December 6 US Senate runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, with Warnock looking to juice an apparent Democratic head start in early voting with a visit on Thursday from Barack Obama. 10. Indian shuttlers confirm 5 medals at Badminton Asia Junior Championships Indian shuttlers Unnati Hooda, Gnana Dattu, Anish Thoppani along with a couple of doubles pairs marched into the semifinals to assure country of five medals at the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships 2022 in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Friday. The doubles pairs of Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Saraswat, and Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas PV also confirmed medals for India apart from the above mentioned singles trio. 11. FIFA world cup 2022 schedule for the day Round of 16 matches: Netherlandsvs USA - 8.30 pm; Argentina vs Australia - 12.30 am (Dec. 4) [logo] The Morning Filter 03 DECEMBER 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]( Dear reader, We have now made it easier for you to manage your The Hindu newsletter subscriptions in one place! 1. Visit [The Hindu newsletters page]( 2. Click MANAGE tab and then click LOGIN / SIGN UP 3. If you don’t have an account with The Hindu, please click SIGN UP OR If you already have an account with The Hindu with this email ID, please login using the email ID Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today 1. President to confer awards for work towards empowering persons with disabilities President Droupadi Murmu will confer national awards for outstanding work towards empowerment of persons with disabilities on the International Day of Persons with Disabilities on Saturday. In a statement, the Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment said the awards will be handed over to individuals, institutions, organisations and state/district, etc., for their outstanding achievements and work towards the empowerment of Persons with Disabilities. 2. Top Cong leaders to meet to evolve strategy for Parliament winter session Top [Congress leaders will hold deliberations]( on Saturday on the party’s strategy to corner the government during the Winter session of Parliament starting December 7. Sources said Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, leader of the Congress in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, chief whip of the party in Rajya Sabha Jairam Ramesh and party’s chief whip in Lok Sabha K Suresh will meet at the residence of former party chief Sonia Gandhi on Saturday evening to evolve the strategy. 3. PM Modi wraps up his Gujarat campaign, addresses 31 rallies Prime Minister Narendra[Modi addressed over 31 rallies]( and led three big road shows in Gujarat wrapping up on Friday his campaign for the BJP in the assembly polls as the party looks to maintain its uninterrupted winning streak there since 1995 in a triangular contest involving the Congress and the AAP. Campaign for the second phase of polling ends on December 3. 4. Relief and worry as major Chinese cities ease COVID curbs Further easing of COVID-19 testing requirements and [quarantine rules in some Chinese cities]( was met with a mix of relief and worry on Friday, as hundreds of millions await an expected shift in national virus policies after widespread social unrest. 5. RBI DG to speak at IBA’s tech conference on Saturday RBI Deputy Governor T Rabi Shankar will address 18th Banking Technology Conference on Saturday. The event will be organised by Indian Banks’ Association (IBA) on the theme ‘Future of Digital and Analytics in Banking’. 6. Coal ministry plans to hold series of investors conclave on commercial mine auction The coal Ministry said it plans to hold a series of investors’ conclave at several locations across the country. The Ministry has already organised such conclaves at Indore and Mumbai which saw very good participation from the prospective bidders which shows the enthusiasm among bidders with regard to the ongoing commercial coal mines auction. 7. Malaysia PM Anwar to helm finance ministry Malaysia’s newly appointed Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said that he would also serve as the country’s finance minister, retaking a cabinet role he first held 30 years ago. He named Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and Fadillah Yusof - two coalition partners - as co-deputy prime ministers. 8. Drop in COVID alertness could create deadly new variant: WHO Lapses in strategies to tackle COVID-19 this year continue to create “the perfect conditions” for a deadly new variant to emerge, the World Health Organization’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Friday. With the peak of the pandemic behind, countries worldwide are starting to loosen the reins on surveillance, testing and vaccination for the disease which has claimed more than 6 million lives so far. 9. Obama heads to Georgia as Warnock seeks big early vote advantage Georgia voters have cast more than 1 million ballots ahead of the December 6 US Senate runoff between Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and Republican challenger Herschel Walker, with Warnock looking to juice an apparent Democratic head start in early voting with a visit on Thursday from Barack Obama. 10. Indian shuttlers confirm 5 medals at Badminton Asia Junior Championships Indian shuttlers Unnati Hooda, Gnana Dattu, Anish Thoppani along with a couple of doubles pairs marched into the semifinals to assure country of five medals at the Badminton Asia U-17 & U-15 Junior Championships 2022 in Nonthaburi, Thailand on Friday. The doubles pairs of Arsh Mohammad and Sanskar Saraswat, and Bjorn Jaison and Aathish Sreenivas PV also confirmed medals for India apart from the above mentioned singles trio. 11. FIFA world cup 2022 schedule for the day Round of 16 matches: Netherlandsvs USA - 8.30 pm; Argentina vs Australia - 12.30 am (Dec. 4) Today’s Best Reads [[Reverberations from a blast in Mangaluru] Reverberations from a blast in Mangaluru]( [[FIFA World Cup 2022 | South Korea beats Portugal 2-1 to qualify for last-16] FIFA World Cup 2022 | South Korea beats Portugal 2-1 to qualify for last-16]( [[Gujarat Assembly polls | Congress absorbed slave mentality by working with British before Independence, say PM Modi] Gujarat Assembly polls | Congress absorbed slave mentality by working with British before Independence, say PM Modi]( [[Taking healthcare down to the last family] Taking healthcare down to the last family]( Copyright @ 2022, THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD. 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