| 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. PM to address rally at Kolkata's Brigade ground on Sunday BJP leaders said that their rally would have the presence of several prominent personalities from the cultural world of West Bengal, including actor Mithun Chakraborty.
2. Amit Shah in Tamil Nadu and Kerala on Sunday A party statement said he will also address the valedictory function of the BJP's "Kerala Vijay Yatra" in Thiruvananthapuram, besides attending several programmes in the two southern States.
3. Reconstructed flyover in Kochi to be opened on Sunday: CM  The Palarivattom flyover in Kochi, closed for reconstruction since May 2019 within three years of its commissioning, would be reopened on Sunday, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has said.
4. Varavara Rao discharged from hospital, say sources Poet and activist Varavara Rao, an accused in the Elgar Parishad-Maoist links case, was discharged from Nanavati Hospital on late Saturday night, sources said.
5. Tamil Nadu Assembly elections | Congress reaches pact with DMK, settles for 25 seats  The Congress will contest in 25 Assembly seats and in the byelection to the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha seat that fell vacant after the death of H. Vasanthakumar. It will also get one Rajya Sabha seat.
6. Sindhu enters Swiss Open final; Srikanth, Satwik-Chirag lose in semis The second seeded Indian will take on top seed and Rio Olympics gold medallist Carolina Marin in the summit clash on Sunday.
7. Srinu Bugatha, Sudha Singh aim to attain Olympic qualifying mark in New Delhi Marathon India's top long-distance runners Srinu Bugatha and Sudha Singh will be aiming to attain the Tokyo Olympics qualifying mark during the sixth edition of the Ageas Federal Life Insurance New Delhi Marathon to be held in New Delhi on Sunday.
8. India's WC preparation to finally begin with home series against South Africa  The Indian women's team will finally get to shake off the rust after 12 months of no international cricket and start their ODI World Cup preparation with the five-match series against South Africa beginning in Lucknow on Sunday.
9. Coronavirus | Latest numbers and developments The number of positive coronavirus cases reported from India now stands at 1,12,10,278 at the time of publishing this newsletter. The death toll from the disease stands at 1,59,155.
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