Road transport minister Nitin Gadkari inaugurates India’s first automated vehicle testing centre in Nashik. The much-awaited facility, which was scheduled to open by 2013, is expected to make an impact on roads and vehicular safety.

Honda will roll out a hightech street bike. Up for launch is the street version of its RC213V, at the Catalunya MotoGP round in Barcelona. Touted as the world’s first superbike that marries the technology of a professional racing bike to a street vehicle, the RC213V prototype was the star attraction at the 2014 EICMA motorcycle show in Milan where it was first showcased.

Bank of Canada will release its financial system review, where it talks about what dogs the economy. The country’s economy contracted in the first quarter, hit by cheaper prices for oil, a major Canadian export.

Test of will is what awaits openers Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan: Can they consolidate their sparkling tieup and post a mammoth total? The action continues on the second day of the India-Bangladesh Test match at Fatullah.

Uranus plays peekaboo with Earth. It will disappear behind a very large, obnoxious interloper at 12 pm Pacific Daylight Time. The ‘photobombing’ of Uranus by the moon will only happen over Australia and won’t be seen from Europe or North America. The rest of the world is luckier, though: they will see Uranus close to the crescent moon in the eastern pre-dawn sky.

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