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1. Navjot Sidhu meets with 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. 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. Long queues for vaccines for a common man but BJP MP Pragya Thakur gets vaccinated in her house. 5. Back in Antigua and Barbuda after being jailed in neighbouring Dominica, fugitive jeweller Mehul Choksi says he was "permanently scarred" and blames Indian law enforcement agencies for trying to kidnap him. 6. Hollywood actor and producer Mindy Kaling who has created the popular Netflix series Never Have I Ever speaks to NDTV along with the main actor Maitreyi Ramakrishnan.