| 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. Union Cabinet approves President's Rule in Puducherry President's assent awaited. 2. Toolkit case: Court seeks police response on Shantanu Muluk's anticipatory bail plea Additional Sessions Judge Dharmender Rana, who granted bail to Disha Ravi, directed police to file reply to Muluk's bail application and posted the matter for arguments on Thursday.  Shantanu Muluk. File 3. Varavara Rao seeks HC nod for cash bonds in lieu of sureties for bail Senior advocate Anand Grover told a bench of Justices S.S. Shinde and Manish Pitale on Wednesday that the process of obtaining sureties was slow. It directed Mr. Grover to file an application for the same and mention it for urgent hearing on Thursday morning. 4. Lok Sabha Speaker to address Meghalaya MLAs Om Birla will address members of the Meghalaya Assembly as part of his two-day visit to the state beginning on Thursday. 5. Narendra Modi visits Puducherry today All schools in Puducherry would be shut on Thursday in view of diversion of traffic for the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to participate in a government function and a BJP public meeting, said the Directorate of School Education. 6. U.K. judge to rule on Nirav Modi extradition case today The 49-year-old is expected to appear via videolink from Wandsworth Prison in south-west London at Westminster Magistrates’ Court, where District Judge Samuel Goozee is set to hand down his judgment on whether the jeweller has a case to answer before the Indian courts. 7. Nadda to launch poll manifesto crowdsourcing campaign in West Bengal on Thursday  BJP national president J.P. Nadda, at the party meeting in Madurai on Jan 30, 2021 He will also address a conference of the intelligentsia, among his other engagements during a daylong stay in the poll-bound state, BJP's national media in-charge Anil Baluni said. 8. Playoff hopes over, Jamshedpur and Bengaluru look to end season on a high With their playoff hopes over and one final game to go, Jamshedpur FC and Bengaluru FC will be aiming to end their Indian Super League campaign on a winning note when they face each other in Vasco on Thursday. 9. Jyoti Gulia stuns world champ to enter quarters of Strandja Memorial Boxing Tournament in Sofia She will take on Romania's Perijoc Lacramioara in her quarterfinal bout on Thursday. 10. Coronavirus | Latest numbers and developments The number of positive coronavirus cases reported from India now stands at 1,10,46,451 at the time of publishing this newsletter. The death toll from the disease stands at 1,85,502. 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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