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1. This is round 3 of Prashant Kishore meeting Sharad Pawar and this is the third meeting within weeks with Mission 2024 in mind. 2. Assets worth Rs 9,371 crore belonging to fugitive businessmen Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi have been transferred by the Enforcement Directorate to state-run banks that will help them recover losses on account of the fraud. 3. Singed by his failed collaborations with Mayawati and the Congress, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today rules out any tie-up for the Uttar Pradesh election next year and says his party would join forces with like-minded smaller parties. 4. India reports 50,848 new COVID-19 cases and 1,358 deaths in a 24-hour period ending Wednesday morning. This is 19 per cent more than was recorded yesterday. India has reported over three crore cases since the pandemic began. 5. The Union Health Ministry announces that around 40 cases of the Delta plus variant, classified as a 'variant of concern', have been detected in India, and that most infections are from Maharashtra, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh. It added that the Delta variant as well as all Delta sub-lineages including Delta plus are classified as 'variant of concern'. According to sources, there are 21 cases in Maharashtra, six in Madhya Pradesh, three in Kerala, three in Tamil Nadu, two in Karnataka and one each in Punjab, Andhra Pradesh and Jammu. According to the government's advisory, Delta Plus cases have been found in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri and Jalgaon; in Palakkad and Pathanamthitta in Kerala; and in Bhopal and Shivpuri in Madhya Pradesh. 6. With two days of rain bookies predict a draw in WTC final but India New Zealand will press for the result in the final day of World Test Championship match is going on. 7. During these very tough months of the coronavirus pandemic and the deadly second wave in India, NDTV has been the No. 1 choice for television and online audience, findings of the very prestigious Reuters Institute at Oxford University say. The report by them shows NDTV 24X7 as the most-watched English news channel in India and NDTV online is the most-popular Indian news website. 8. The Nationalist Congress Party MP Supriya Sule has spoken out against the rape threats that journalist Rana Ayyub has received on Twitter after the UP Police booked her through an FIR for sharing a video of an assault of an elderly man in Uttar Pradesh's Ghaziabad.
