# Bhartiya janta party

• BJP president JP Nadda on Wednesday effected a major organisational rejig of the parliamentary board, the highest decision making body in the party, and the central election committee that goes into candidate selection.
• Former chief ministers BS Yediurppa and Sarbanand Sonowal are among those newly elected.
• Former BJP president and Roads and Highway minister Nitin Gadakri has been dropped from the parliamentary board. Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj singh Chauhan has also been dropped.
• The board in its previous form had five vacancies due to the passing away senior leaders Arun Jaitley, Sushma swaraj, Ananth kumar and two others.

# Rohingya

• Hours after minister of Urban Development Hardeep singh Puri tweeted that all Rohingya illegal migrants from Myanmar living in a camp in Delhi will be shifted to flats, the ministry of home affairs issued a strong denial.
• The home ministry also said that it had issued orders that the Shanty town where the rohingya’s were now living in be designated a detention centre, pending the deportation of all of the illegal immigrants.
• The MHA has directed the government of Delhi to ensure that the rohingya illegal immigrants will continue at the present location.

# Srilanka

• Srilanka’s tourism officials, conscious of the dire need to shore up their country’s economy, plan to attract a greater number of Indian tourists.
• Indian tourists constitute the single largest segment of foreign tourists in Srilanka.
• Srilanka’s tourism department has offered special packages like Murugan Shiva shakti trails.

# Rice production

• The Union agriculture ministry released on Wednesday the fourth advanced estimates of production of major agricultural crops for 2021-22.
• The ministry said the production of foodgrains in the country is estimated at 315.72 million tonnes, which is higher by 4.98 million tonnes than 2020-21.