New Delhi, Oct 16 : The Winter Session of parliament will begin on Friday. The session will have 24 sittings spread over 36 days till November 21.
During the sitting, 71 legislative, two financial and one non-legislative items have been identified to be taken up.
Sixteen bills would be introduced, including the Prevention of Corruption Amendment bill, the Representation of the People, second amendment bill, the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education bill and Prevention of Money Laundering amendment bill.
Parliamentary Affairs Minister Vayliar Ravi said, the opposition parties have been requested to cooperate with the Government in completing the listed business during the session.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday instructed all Central educational institutions (CEIs) to fill the vacant seats in Other Backward Classes category from among the general category candidates by October 31. This comes as a blessing in disguise to the general category students, who had missed admission to premier institutes like IIM by a whisker, as they will get another opportunity to secure a seat in there dream institution.
Burdened by the allegations of sabotaging industrialization and progress in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee visited Delhi to shift the responsibility for the loss of the Nano plant for Singur to others. 
The Election Commission, ostensibly, is a divided on the issue of holding polls in Jammu and Kashmir and has maintained silence on the issue. This seems to have piqued the political parties causing their outburst at the commission.
New Delhi - South Africa on Wednesday said it supported civil nuclear cooperation with India and agreed to sell it uranium, more than a month after the Nuclear Suppliers' Group lifted an embargo on nuclear commerce with New Delhi.
New Delhi, Oct 15 : The BJP today accused the UPA government of attempting to abuse and hurt Hindu sentiments by stating in the Supreme Court that there was no proof of Ram Sethu being a place of worship.
