The government has tentatively listed 19 items of Legislative Business and two items of Financial Business for consideration during the winter session.
Farmers have started vacating their protest site at Singhu on Delhi-Haryana border, ending their year-long agitation. The Samyukt Kisan Morcha, the umbrella body of 32 farmers' unions, announced the formal decision to end the stir on December 9.
The meeting was also attended by Union minister Thawarchand Gehlot, Congress' leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and deputy leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha Anand Sharma.
Sources say Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan have agreed to a model of the proposed monetary policy committee (MPC).
In an interview to CNBC-TV18, Ashok Gautam, Senior Vice President & Head, Global Markets, Treasury, Axis Bank spoke about the mild correction in the rupee which closed today at 55.73 against the dollar.