| 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: Cinema halls, entertainment parks, and swimming pools are to open, and States have been given the flexibility to decide if they wanted to open schools from October 15. - Bihar Assembly polls | Nominations begin for the first phase
71 of the total 243 seats will go to polls in the first phase; nominations close on October 8. - Election Commission hold press conference on Bihar today evening
The Election Commission on Wednesday removed Bihar Excise Commissioner B. Karthikey Dhanji from the post before the State Assembly polls, while the seven-member poll panel headed by CEC Sunil Arora heard representatives of political parties on arrangements for conduct of elections during COVID-19 pandemic. - Congress to continue meeting on Bihar polls
Congress on Wednesday held internal deliberations on seat-sharing arrangements, candidates for Bihar polls. - Chandrasekhar Rao to hold meeting on strategy on inter-State water issues
 K. Chandrasekhar Rao The Telangana Chief Minister has convened a meeting on Thursday with officials of the Water Resources Department to discuss the strategy to be adopted at the apex council meet convened by the Centre on October 6. - West Bengal BJP top brass to meet Amit Shah on Thursday
The organisational restructuring of BJPs central unit sparked discontent in the Bengal unit as senior leader Rahul Sinha, who was dropped as national secretary, expressed his anger over being left out. The number of positive coronavirus cases reported from India now stands at 63,03,418 at the time of publishing this newsletter. The toll from the disease stands at 98,751. Morning Filter will return tomorrow. Follow up on the day’s biggest stories and get concise analysis by The Hindu with the Evening Wrap newsletter. | 
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