The National Women’s Parliament will be inaugurated by Prime Minister Modi at Pavitra Sangamam on the outskirts of Vijayawada city in Andhra Pradesh capital region Amaravati on today. The Dalai Lama will attend the inaugural session of the three-day event, themed “Empowering Women—Strengthening Democracy”.

A special CBI court will announce its order in the Vijay Mallya loan default case today. All the accused are employees of IDBI and KFA. This is a case where IDBI employees allegedly gave ₹900 crore loan to KFA despite its low credit rating.

The Public Accounts Committee is likely to meet Finance Ministry officials today. The panel is likely to seek the Finance Ministry’s views on demonetisation and banks’ bad debts. It will most likely submit the demonetisation impact report in the second phase of the Parliament session.

Prime Minister Modi is to hold a rally in Haridwar today. Party candidates in the polls as well as sitting MLAs have been asked to ensure a huge turnout at the rally, the first in the city after Modi became the Prime Minister.

JD(S) has started preparing for the 2018 Assembly election well ahead of its rivals and the party is organising a convention of its zilla and taluk Panchayat members in Bengaluru on February 10, to draw up its poll strategies. The convention would identify potential party candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls.