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1. Probe agency Enforcement Directorate or ED has attached assets worth about Rs 4 crore in connection with its money laundering case against Maharashtra's former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh and others, officials say. 2. Health and citizens' Right to Life is paramount, the Supreme Court says as it asks the Uttar Pradesh government to re-consider holding even a 'symbolic' Kanwar Yatra in view of the COVID-19 threat. 'All other sentiments whether be religious is subservient to this basic fundamental right ' the court says. 3. Stopping a third wave of COVID-19 cases is a 'priority', Prime Minister Narendra Modi tells the chief ministers of six states during a virtual interaction, and calls on them to step up efforts to follow the centre's 'test, track, treat and teeka (vaccinate) system to contain the virus. 4. A trip to Delhi by Karnataka Chief Minister, BS Yediyurappa, coinciding with the two-year anniversary of his fourth term, has revived speculation that it will involve discussions on a change of leadership in the state. 5. Navjot Sidhu meets Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi in Delhi, a day after a dramatic escalation in the party's Punjab crisis with a flurry of meetings between rival factions as a peace formula appeared to be a non-starter. 6. In a significant and welcome ruling, a Haryana court rejects the bail plea of a 19-year-old man arrested this week for allegedly making hate speeches - he allegedly made comments urging the abduction and killing of girls from a particular religious community at a gathering attended by Haryana BJP spokesperson and Karni Sena president Suraj Pal Amu. 7. An Indian journalist Danish Siddiqui is killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan.