| 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. Dilli Chalo | Farmers to start march from Shajahanpur on Sunday The farmers will start the march with tractors from Shahjahanpur through Jaipur-Delhi Highway at 11 a.m. Farmers groups picketed toll plazas in 165 locations across the country, allowing toll free movement of vehicles on major national highways on Saturday. 2. Bihar BJP to launch campaign in support of new farm laws from Sunday BJP Bihar unit president Sanjay Jaiswal said he and Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad will start the campaign from Bakhtiarpur Assembly constituency in Patna district. 3. 6th phase of DDC election in J&K on Sunday Over 7.48 lakh voters to decide fate of 245 candidates. 4. KCR in Delhi, plans to meet other Ministers, including Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, on Sunday Telangana CM met Modi on Saturday.  Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Saturday. 5. Karnataka State transport corporations employees strike Deputy Chief Minister Laxman Savadi, who holds the transport portfolio, said the government would make arrangements to rope in private operators from Sunday. 6. Chennaiyin FC brace up for stiff NEUFC challenge Former champions Chennaiyin FC face a tough task when they take on NorthEast United FC in an Indian Super League match at Vasco on Sunday. 7. Gunmen attack school in northern Nigeria, kidnap scores of students The Nigerian military had located and exchanged fire with gunmen who kidnapped scores of secondary school students in northwestern Katsina State, according to a statement from the President on Saturday. 8. Coronavirus | Latest numbers and developments The number of positive coronavirus cases reported from India now stands at 98,57,230 at the time of publishing this newsletter. The death toll from the disease stands at 1,43,081. 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. Click here to get it in your inbox. | 
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