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Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat’s Morbi today where more than 140 people were killed

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Gujarat’s Morbi today where more than 140 people were killed when a suspension bridge collapsed into the Machchhu river. The Gujarat Chief Minister’s Office announced that Mr. Modi would visit Morbi on Tuesday afternoon.

A layer of eye-stinging smog lingered over Delhi on Monday as its air quality neared the ‘severe’ zone with stubble burning accounting for 22 per cent of the city’s PM 2.5 pollution. It is likely to remain ‘severe’ to ‘very poor’ for next six days, officials said.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will host the 21st Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) via video link on Tuesday, the foreign ministry said. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will represent India at a virtual meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (CHG) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation today. The CHG meeting, which is held annually, focuses on the trade and economic agenda of the bloc and approves its annual budget.

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge will walk with Rahul Gandhi in the ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ in Hyderabad on Tuesday. MR. Kharge will reach Hyderabad in the afternoon and join Mr. Gandhi in the evening leg of the Yatra, senior party leader Jairam Ramesh told reporters.

India’s first Digital Rupee pilot project will commence today with nine banks, including SBI, HDFC Bank and ICICI Bank, issuing the virtual currency for transactions in government securities. “...the first pilot in the Digital Rupee - Wholesale segment shall commence on November 1, 2022,” the RBI said in a statement.

Denmark’s election today is expected to change its political landscape, with new parties hoping to enter parliament and others seeing their support dwindle. A former prime minister who left his party to create a new one this year could end up as a kingmaker, with his votes being needed to form a new government.

A sub-Bharat Jodo Yatra, seeking to cover a distance of 2,250 km, was started by the Congress in Bhubaneswar on Monday, while a similar march would be flagged-off in Assam on November 1. Besides the main 3,570-km Kanyakumari to Kashmir yatra, the Congress is organising several sub-marches in states from where the main yatra will not pass.