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1. High drama continued in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha for the third straight day of the monsoon session, as Trinamool MP Shantanu Sen snatched Electronics and Information Technology Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw's Pegasus papers. 2. Amnesty denies rumours behind the statements coming earlier that they do not stand by project Pegasus. Amnesty says we stand categorically behind our findings. 3. While the Parliament is on, farmers hold their own Kisan Sansad at Jantar Mantar. Today was day 1 of the Kisan Sansad with 200 farmers in attendance. 4. Income tax raids conducted at the offices of the Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, which has the largest circulation in India. Dainik Bhaskar was at the forefront of reporting on the scale of devastation in the second wave of Covid in April-May. The newspaper's reports exposed the extent of the crisis, reflecting in bodies of Covid victims floating in the river Ganga and washing up on the banks of towns in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, or buried in shallow graves by the river. Now the government of India says agencies do their job, no interference. 5. China rejects the World Health Organisation's plan for a probe into the origins of the coronavirus. China calls the WHO's plan to audit its labs arrogant and unscientific. 6. Massive floods after a dam breach in Chiplun in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Local markets, bus stations and railway stations are all submerged.