Five things to watch out for today

Walk-in bids will be made today to select two new IPL teams that will replace Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals, which are serving two-year suspension terms. The BCCI Working Committee had decided to replace CSK and RR following the report of the Justice Lodha Committee on the spot-fixing and betting scandal in IPL 2013.

Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj will be in Islamabad to attend a conference. This is the first significant engagement between India and Pakistan since the meeting between Modi Nawaz Sharif in Ufa in July this year,

Mercedes Benz India will launch a hatchback, the Mercedes Benz A-Class, on Tuesday. This will be its 15th launch of the year. Mercedes Benz launched the AMG GT S last month. Mercedes had launched the new generation Mercedes Benz A-Class just a couple of months ago and the company has decided to add its hatchback in the segment to compete against the growing competition.

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi is likely to visit the flood-affected parts of Chennai today. Torrential rains have left at least 245 people dead since October 1. Rahul will also meet party State leaders.

Google is expected to make a watershed quantum computing announcement on Tuesday. Google earlier this year entered a new deal with NASA and D-WAVE to continue its research in quantum computing. D-WAVE is a pioneer quantum computing company.