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1. As protests force multiple adjournments in Parliament, farmers are holding a parallel Kisan Sansad at Jantar Mantar in the capital to demand rollback of the three newly enacted farm laws. 2. In solidarity with agitating farmers, Rahul Gandhi and other Congress MPs and Akali leaders protest against the new farm laws in front of the Gandhi's statue in the Parliament premises. 3. 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. 4. 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. 5. India reports 41,383 new Coronavirus cases and 507 deaths in the last 24 hours but vaccinations are down to just 22.7 lakhs. 6. Massive floods after a dam breach in Chiplun in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. The MP tells NDTV 5,000 people need emergency evacuations, this after markets, bus stations and railway stations are all submerged. 7. Chaotic scenes and protests over both the new farm laws as well as the Pegasus scandal forcing the adjournments in the Parliament.