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It is set to be a busy Tuesday with several events lined up for the day.

Firstly, the world will mark the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks. Meanwhile, the 2025 Nobel Prize for Physics will be announced today.

In India, Vice President C P Radhakrishnan will formally meet Opposition leaders in New Delhi. Russia will celebrate President Vladimir Putin’s birthday. Bangladesh will face England in their ICC Women’s ODI World Cup on October 7.

Here is all that is set to take place throughout the day.

Israel and the world to mark 2-year anniversary of October 7 attacks

Israel and the rest of the world will mark the two-year anniversary of the October 7 attacks today. Protests against Israel has been planned across the world for the day.

Two years ago on this day, Hamas attacked Israel with thousands of missiles, marking the beginning of the Israel-Hamas War. Heavily armed Hamas fighters breached the border using vehicles, motorcycles, and even paragliders, storming into Israeli communities near Gaza.

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More than 1,200 Israelis lost their lives in the attacks on October 7, 2023, while the Palestinian militant group Hamas took more than 250 people hostage. The hostage crisis immediately became a focal point of the conflict, with families across Israel desperately seeking information on their loved ones.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that the country was “at war” and vowed a massive response. Within hours, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) began retaliatory airstrikes against Hamas targets in Gaza, marking the beginning of a war that would last for months, causing tens of thousands of casualties on both sides.

Nobel Prize in Physics to be announced

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced today. Just a day earlier, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was announced.

The prize will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. As the selection process is highly confidential, the winners will remain a closely guarded secret until the official announcement.

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Last year, British-Canadian computer scientist, cognitive scientist and cognitive psychologist Geoffrey Everest Hinton won the prize along with American physicist and emeritus professor of Princeton University. Hopfield created an associative memory that can store and reconstruct images and other types of patterns in data.

Vice President to formally meet Opposition leaders

Vice President C P Radhakrishnan will be holding his first formal meeting within a month of his assuming charge as Chairman of the Rajya Sabha with some floor leaders of various parties on October 7. The move comes days ahead of the Winter session of the Parliament, which is likely to begin next month.

According to news agency PTI, he would meet the leaders in the evening.  Sources indicate his effort to foster better ties with opposition leaders includes meeting the floor leaders as a familiarisation exercise.

Vladimir Putin to celebrate 73rd birthday

Russians will celebrate the birthday of their President, Vladimir Putin, today. He was born in 1952 in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg. He is a former KGB officer who entered politics in the 1990s and quickly advanced under then-President Boris Yeltsin.

In 1999, he was appointed Prime Minister, and within months, assumed the presidency. Over the past two decades, Putin has consolidated power, reshaped Russia’s domestic politics, and positioned his country as a central player in global affairs.

ODI Women’s World Cup: England v Bangladesh

Bangladesh Women’s Cricket team will face the England team today at the ICC Women’s ODI World Cup league match in Guwahati. Bangladesh secured a seven-wicket victory over Pakistan, but England delivered a staggering 10-wicket thrashing to South Africa, dismissing them for just 69 runs.

From the England team, there will be Tammy Beaumont, Amy Jones, Heather Knight, Nat Sciver-Brunt, Sophie Ecclestone, Lauren Bell, and Sophia Dunkley. Meanwhile, Nigar Sultana, who doubles up as skipper and wicketkeeper, Rubya Haider, Nishita Akter Nishi and Sumaiya Akter will make up the Bangladesh team.

With inputs from agencies