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1. Seven European Union countries - Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Greece, Estonia, Ireland, and Spain - and Iceland and Switzerland have cleared the Serum Institute of India's Covishield amid travel pass row. 2. India records 48,786 fresh Covid infections, 6 per cent higher than yesterday. The total number of deaths are nearing the 4 lakh-mark. The country has recorded 3.04 crore total cases so far. 3. On Doctors' day the Prime Minister Narendra Modi thanks doctors in his address. 4. Health Minister Harsh Vardhan versus state leaders on the issue of vaccine supply. He says it's up to states to ensure that vaccines are available. 5. The price of non-subsidised LPG is 834.5 per cylinder in Delhi and Mumbai, and 850.5 in Chennai, the highest. 6. Sivasagar MLA Akhil Gogoi is released from jail today as a special NIA court cleared him and his three associates of all charges under UAPA for their alleged role in the violent anti-CAA agitation in Assam in December 2019. 7. Maharashtra is "at the centre of the Kurukshetra battle", fighting on multiple fronts like Covid and corruption investigations, the ruling Shiv Sena says in a stinging editorial that takes digs at the BJP, its former partner. 8. Heat wave in Delhi for a third day. The temperature is 7 degrees above normal. The monsoon is stalled, no movement since June 19.
