NDTV TOP STORIES
1. Madhya Pradesh set a national record on June 21 by administering 17.42 Lakh COVID-19 vaccines but now many vaccine beneficiaries in Madhya Pradesh allege that they have received COVID-19 vaccination certificates without getting even a single dose of the vaccine. As per rules only 18 and above can get the jab, but 13-year-old Vedanta Dangre, who lives in the Housing Board Colony of Tila Jamalpura in Bhopal is also vaccinated atleast as per government records, the only difference the message says he is 56 years old ! 2. Navjot Singh Sidhu — one of the chief detractors of Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh — will meet Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Delhi today, his team has said. The cricketer-turned-politician, who has met the three-member committee formed by party chief Sonia Gandhi to resolve the infighting in the Congress ahead of next year's assembly polls, had sought a meeting with the Gandhis. 3. Twitter has removed from its website a wrong map of India that showed Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh as a separate country after a backlash. The map displayed in the 'Tweep Life' section of Twitter's website showed JK and Ladakh outside India. The distorted map was flagged by a Twitter user and generated many angry reactions and demands for action. 4. The Tamil Nadu government urges the Centre to revise the 75:25 allocation format of Covid vaccines to government and private institutions and demands that 90 per cent of the doses be given to the state-run facilities. The daily coronavirus tally of Chennai has been hovering around 500 for a few days now. But with the Delta variant accounting for 90pc of the cases in Chennai between mid April and early May, authorities are worried. 5. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announces eight new schemes to boost an economy ravaged by Covid, with a special focus on health and tourism. The measures include Rs 1.1 lakh crore loan guarantee scheme for the Covid-affected and an additional Rs 1.5 lakh crore under the Emergency Credit Line Guarantee Scheme that was launched as part of Atmanirbhar Bharat package last year.
