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It is set to be a busy Wednesday with several events lined up for the day.
Firstly, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take stock of progress in diverse aspects of the India-UK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and meet his UK counterpart in Mumbai today. Meanwhile, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced in Stockholm, Sweden, today.
In India, PM Modi will inaugurate the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) today, while a team of the Election Commission of India (ECI) will visit Bengal to review the preparedness of SIR in Bengal. Pakistan will face Australia during the ongoing 2025 ODI Women’s World Cup.
Here is all that is set to take place throughout the day.
PM Modi to meet Keir Starmer in Mumbai
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be meeting his UK counterpart Keir Starmer in Mumbai today. He will also take stock of progress in diverse aspects of the India-UK Comprehensive Strategic Partnership and initiatives in key pillars of trade and investment.
This marks Starmer’s first visit to India after taking over as prime minister. Both leaders will engage with businesses and industry leaders on opportunities presented by the India-UK Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) as a central pillar of the future India-UK economic partnership, reported news agency Press Trust of India.
Nobel Prize in Chemistry to be announced
The winners of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be announced today in Stockholm, Sweden. This is the third day of the Nobel Week, which began with the announcement of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday (October 6).
The award is granted by the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet, and the name of the laureate is revealed at a highly anticipated press conference. Last British artificial intelligence researcher and entrepreneur, Demis Hassabis, won the award along with American biochemist and computational biologist David Baker and John Jumper.
PM Modi to inaugurate Navi Mumbai Airport
Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA) on October 8. Located in Ulwe, Navi Mumbai (about 37 km from South Mumbai), the new 1,160-hectare NMIA has launched its first phase with Terminal 1. This terminal alone boasts an annual capacity of 20 million passengers and 0.8 million metric tonnes of cargo.
Initially, the flights will operate between 8 am and 8 pm, at least in the first month. As per reports, the airport has four terminals and two parallel runways, but initially, only one runway will be in operation. An additional investment of Rs 30,000 crore by the Adani Group is planned for the second phase of expansion, the preliminary design for the second terminal of which is now in progress.
ECI team to visit West Bengal for SIR review
A team of the Election Commission of India will visit Bengal to review the preparedness of SIR in Bengal. The team, led by Deputy Election Commissioner (DEC) Gyanesh Bharti, is set to visit North 24 Paraganas, East Medinipur, Bankura and Jhargram, reported Economic Times.
Barti will hold a high-level meeting with all the DEOs through video-conferencing “to discuss and review the progress of various pre-revision activities.” The video conferencing will be presided over by Chief Electoral Officer - West Bengal Manoj Agarwal.
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More Shorts2025 ODI Women’s World Cup: Australia v Pakistan
The Pakistan Women’s Cricket team will clash with the Australian team in the 2025 ODI Women’s World Cup today. While Australia has emerged as one of the strongest players in the World Cup, Pakistan has been struggling to survive.
For Australia, the match against New Zealand in Indore became a one-sided contest, largely due to Ashleigh Gardner’s match-winning century, which compensated for the poor performances of Alyssa Healy, Beth Mooney, and Annabel Sutherland.
On the other hand is Pakistan, whose lack of depth in batting and absence of quality middle-order batters has seen the team manage two 100-plus scores so far in the tournament, with stalwarts like Sidra Amin, Fatima Sana and Muneeba Ali struggling.
With inputs from agencies
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