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1. Anyone over the age of 18 can walk in to the nearest vaccination centre to get registered on the CoWIN digital platform and be inoculated against COVID-19, the Union Health Ministry has said. It is not mandatory to pre-register online or book an appointment to get the vaccine, the government has said, as it seeks to increase the pace of vaccinations and tackle the 'vaccine hesitancy' it has blamed for the slow rollout of vaccines in parts of the country, including rural areas. 2. West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar arrives in New Delhi late on Tuesday night, hits out at Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stating that none of the state government officer or minister has visited the sites where post-poll retributive violence took place. Speaking to ANI in New Delhi, he says that he wrote a letter to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over post-poll retributive violence but no state government officer, minister or chief minister has gone to the spots. On Monday, West Bengal BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, along with 50 MLAs had called on Governor Dhankhar and submitted a memorandum over the post-poll law and order situation in the state. 3. Twitter and several journalists have been named in an FIR in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad over "flaring communal sentiments" after an elderly Muslim man alleged that he was assaulted on June 5. While the man, Abdul Samad, claimed in a video that his beard was cut off and he was forced to chant 'Vande Matram' and 'Jai Shri Ram' after the accused took him away to a forested area and locked him up in a hut, police have ruled out any 'communal angle'.