| Welcome to The Morning Filter, your guide to the busy news day ahead. We hope you are staying safe. Here are the latest updates and the big news stories to follow today:
1) Coronavirus | latest numbers and developments
The number of positive coronavirus cases reported from India is 6,49,892 with the death toll at 18,670.
2) ICMR aims to launch indigenous COVID-19 vaccine by August 15
Experts say, however, that such a timeline may not be realistic and that a viable vaccine candidate could take till 2021.
3) BJP State units to make presentation before PM on COVID-19 welfare works
BJP general secretary Arun Singh said that other top party leaders, including its president J.P. Nadda and Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh and Nitin Gadkari among others, will join the exercise, which will be virtual and broadcast live on the party's digital platforms on Saturday.
 Prime Minister Narendra Modi. File
4) Coal India Limited union strike, day 3
Strike hit coal production, dispatches for 2nd day, say unions.
5) June 30 Vizag gas leak: committee appointed to probe the mishap expected to submit report on Saturday
A sum of Rs. 50 lakh each will be paid as compensation to the kin of the two workers who died in the gas leak incident in the Sainor Life Sciences unit at the Pharma City near Visakhapatnam on June 30.
6) Heavy rains lash Mumbai, more in store on Saturday, says Met Office
The IMD has predicted that intermittent moderate to heavy rain/showers was very likely in Mumbai over the next 24 hours, with "possibility of very heavy to extremely heavy rain at isolated places".
 A man holds on to an 'open manhole' sign as a bus moves through a waterlogged street at Parel in central Mumbai following heavy rain on July 3, 2020.
7) Nepal Communist Party's 45-member Standing Committee meets on Saturday to decide PM Oli's fate
The future of Nepal Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli will be decided at a crucial Standing Committee meeting of the ruling communist party on Saturday, party sources said on Friday, amidst growing demand for his resignation.
8) Boris Johnson calls for "safe and sensible" behaviour as bars, pubs set to reopen in U.K.
U.K. PM urged people to act "safely and sensibly" as the coronavirus lockdown restrictions are set to further ease up in England to allow bars, pubs and restaurants to reopen from Saturday.
 Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street, London.
9) Japan's J-League set to resume play in stadiums without fans
All 18 teams open play on Saturday. The season was stopped in February after only one round of matches.
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