Prime Minister Narendra Modi will lay the foundation stone for an AIIMS hospital at Bilaspur in Himachal Pradesh and address a public rally there. Modi is also likely to formally inaugurate the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) at Dhaula Kuan in Sirmaur and lay the foundation stones for the permanent campuses of the Central University of Himachal Pradesh in Dharamsala and Dehra through a video link. The state goes to polls later this year.

Pro-independence groups and trade unions in Catalonia have called for a general strike in the northeastern Spanish region. Catalonia’s economic output is worth around a fifth of Spain’s total gross domestic product and the region has an economy around the size of that of Chile.Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy faces the country's biggest constitutional crisis in decades, with newspaper editorials saying the banned ballot - in which Catalan officials said 90 per cent of voters had chosen to leave Spain - had set the stage for a decisive clash between Madrid and the region.

BJP president Amit Shah will launch a 15-day statewide “padayatra” from Payyannur in Kannur district of Kerala to expose the ruling CPI(M)’s “red terrorism” and “political fascism” in the state. Besides Shah, Union ministers and other senior party leaders will also take part in the “janaraksha yatra”, to be led by state party chief Kummanam Rajasekharan.

RJD leader Lalu Prasad is set to appear for questioning before the CBI in connection with a corruption case. The case pertains to allegations that Prasad, as railway minister, handed over the maintenance of two hotels run by the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation, a subsidiary of the Indian Railways, in Ranchi and Puri to Sujata Hotel, a company owned by Vinay and Vijay Kochhar, in return for a prime plot of three acres in Patna through a benami company.

Motorola is likely to launch its much anticipated X series handset the Moto X4 - today. The phone was first showcased at an event in IFA, Berlin, earlier this year. The water-resistant, dual camera Android handset comes pre-loaded with Amazon's voice assistant Alexa.