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1. Vaccination figures across the country dropped to 54.22 lakh on Tuesday after Monday's record 88 lakh, throwing up questions on whether such large scale vaccination is sustainable. The trouble spot appeared to be supply and there were allegations that some states, including Madhya Pradesh, had hoarded vaccine doses for days to achieve 'Magic Monday'. Of the top 10 states which administered the most doses, seven happen to have BJP governments. To meet the centre's target of fully vaccinating all adults by the end of this year, 97 lakh vaccinations need to be carried out per day. The current supply situation raises questions on whether the target will be met. 2. The grounded Jet Airways will take to the skies in its new avatar by the end of this calendar year. On a day when the company's revival plan was approved by the National Companies Law Tribunal, a top consultant working on the airline also said that its new routes will be decided within the next 90 days. 3. A meeting on Tuesday at veteran politician Sharad Pawar's house, which drew outsized attention over reports of Third Front manoeuvres ahead of the 2024 polls, featured eight parties including Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party and the Left. The Congress was missing. Former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha said he had asked Sharad Pawar to host the gathering of his outfit Rashtra Manch to 'debate current events'. "The meeting was called by Yashwant Sinha, not Sharad Pawar, this was not a political meet," stressed Majeed Memon, a leader of Mr Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party and a founding member of the Rashtra Manch. 4. The Delta plus variant, a new mutant version of the Delta strain first detected in India, has been found in 22 cases in Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh and is a 'variant of concern', the government says in a warning to these states. 5. Twenty-one cases of the Delta Plus Covid variant, the mutant version of the Delta variant that unleashed the devastating second wave of the pandemic, have been found in Maharashtra so far, state health minister Rajesh Tope says. 6. Jammu and Kashmir's People's Alliance for Gupkar Declaration, led by veteran politician Farooq Abdullah, says they will attend a meeting this Thursday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
