Saturday, October 14

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for setting up four sewage treatment plants in Patna as part of the government’s bid to curb Ganga water pollution. The STPs of a total capacity of 140 million litres daily (MLD) are estimated to cost Rs 738.14 crore. Ten more STPs of a total 479.4 MLD capacity have been sanctioned to be set up on hybrid annuity mode at various places in three Ganga basin states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal as the government goes about cleaning the river.

Nokia 8 will be available in India starting October 14. Priced at Rs. 36,999, it comes in four colours – Polished Blue, Tempered Blue and Steel. Nokia 8 in Polished Copper will be available a few weeks after the launch. It will be available across key mobile retail outlets across the country including Croma, Reliance, Sangeetha Mobiles, Poorvika, BigC (among others) and our online partner Amazon.in.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which organises the Oscars, will hold a special meeting to discuss sexual harassment allegations against producer Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein has been suspended from the British film academy BAFTA.

A knock-out berth already booked, European powerhouse France would look to end their group engagements with an all-win record when they take on Honduras in the Group E match of the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Guwahati. France have already qualified for the round of 16 after two consecutive wins and sit atop the group points table. They began with a 7-1 mauling of minnows New Caledonia and then beat Japan 2-1 in a tricky match. In the other match, Japan will look to return to winning ways against debutants New Caledonia and grab a knockout berth in a Group E fixture of the FIFA U-17 World Cup to be played in Kolkata. Having shifted base to the iconic venue for the group stage climax, Japan will look to make short work of the debutants.

Sunday, October 15

Austria will hold its parliamentary elections. Conservative Sebastian Kurz will become one of the world's youngest leaders if he becomes Austrian chancellor. His Austrian People's Party has been in power, always as part of a coalition, since he was five months old. The migration crisis has played into the hands of the far-right Freedom Party. After Austria took in more than 1 per cent of its population in asylum seekers in 2015, heightening many voters' concerns about jobs and security, support for the FPO grew. Its candidate came close to winning last year's presidential runoff. But when the OVP picked Kurz as its new leader in May, that catapulted the party to first place in the polls from third, dislodging the Freedom Party-led by Heinz-Christian Strache from a top spot it had held for more than a year.

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