National news schedule for Thursday, April 2: NATIONAL ****Parliament proceedings and related stories Political developments and party briefings**** LEGAL SUPREME COURT ****Suo motu matter concerning illegal sand mining in National Chambal Sanctuary and threat to endangered aquatic wildlife.

Suo motu case on difficulties faced by cadets, who are medically discharged from military institutes on account of disabilities suffered during training programmes.**** HIGH COURT ****ED plea to expunge the “unwarranted observations” made by the trial court against it by trial court while discharging former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, his deputy Manish Sisodia and 21 others in the liquor policy case.**** NCR *****CM Rekha Gupta at Delhi govt event Heavy police deployment in several areas on Hanuman Jayanti Aam Aadmi Party press conference**** NORTH ****UP:CM Yogi Adityanath to attend Akashvani Lucknow’s 89th foundation day function in Lucknow CM Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur, holds Janta Darshan, other programmes SP chief Akhilesh Yadav to address cadre in Lucknow Temples decked up for Hanuman Jayanti celebrations in Ayodhya, Varanasi and other cities Punjab:State BJP unit chief Ashwani Sharma press conference in Chandigarh.

Updates on grenade blast outside Punjab BJP office.

Rajasthan:DGP Rajiv Sharma to hold review meeting of Bikaner range.

Case against independent MLA Ravindra Singh Bhati in Barmer following controversy with folk artist over comment on social media.**** SOUTH ****Election- related stories Kerala: Priyanka Gandhi to attend election meetings in Thiruvananthapuram and Kollam districts Cong leader and former Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot press meet Defence minister Rajnath singh to attend veer sainik samman meet in Tamil Nadu: Campaign of leaders, Udhayanidhi Stalin and Vijay to file nomination (Tiruchi).**** EAST ****West Bengal: Election related updates Suvendu Adhikari to file nomination for Bhabanipur. Amit Shah to be present.

CM Mamata Banerjee’s rallies Assam:Poll campaign rallies Amit Shah at Kaliabor Rahul Gandhi at Bokajan and Titabor Nitin Gadkari at Palashbari and at Central Guwahati Odisha: Inauguration of Anganwadi Centre (AWC) Buildings, Deputy CM Pravati Parida to be present.

Odisha to celebrate “Ama Poshak Ama Parichaya Day”, promoting traditional attire.

Jharkhand: Weather related story WEST *****MoS Defence Sanjay Seth to flag off Indian Ocean Ship Sagar from Naval Dockyard, Mumbai Congress candidate for April 9 Ponda assembly bypoll in Goa, Ketan Bhatikar, to address press conference in Ponda **** PTI DV DV