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<p><strong>Breaking News LIVE Updates: </strong>Hello and welcome to the live blog of ABP Live. Please follow this space for all the breaking news and latest updates from India and around the world.</p> <p><strong>Haryana Assembly Session From Today</strong></p> <p>Spurious liquor deaths and sexual harassment of several schoolgirls in Jind and Kaithal among a host of other issues would be on the Opposition's agenda during the Haryana Assembly's Winter Session slated to begin Friday.</p> <p>The state song ("Rajya Geet") of Haryana will also be launched during the session.</p> <p>Security measures for the session were reviewed again on Thursday in the wake of Wednesday's Parliament security breach incident.</p> <p>Speaker Gian Chand Gupta held an emergency meeting to review security measures with officials concerned and issued orders to install cameras in the visitors' gallery with immediate effect. The process of installing cameras continued till late evening.</p> <p>According to an official statement, a detailed set of instructions has also been given on issuing entry cards to visitors who come to watch the assembly proceedings. Visitors cannot carry items like pens, mobile phones and black clothes inside the visitors' gallery.</p> <p>"No one will be allowed to stand there and those on security duty will ensure this," said the statement.</p> <p>Apart from the chief minister, his deputy, the speaker and the Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, security personnel of no minister or MLA will enter the assembly building complex.</p> <p><strong>BJD To Hold State Executive Meeting Today</strong></p> <p>The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) will hold its state executive body on Friday, a party leader said.</p> <p>Chief Minister and BJD President Naveen Patnaik will preside over the State Executive Body meeting here at the party's state headquarters 'Sankha Bhawan'.</p> <p>Around 80 leaders including MPs, MLAs, ministers, party functionaries and newly joined 5T (transformational initiative) and Nabin Odisha Chairman V K Pandian will attend the meeting.</p> <p>The crucial meeting will be held before the BJD's 27th Foundation Day on December 26.</p> <p>"The office-bearers of BJD student, youth and women wings will also participate in the state executive body meeting," said party&rsquo;s senior vice president Debi Prasad Mishra at a press conference here. However, Mishra did not reveal the agenda of the meeting.</p>

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