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1. Amid the ongoing Monsoon Session of Parliament, farmers will hold a protest at Jantar Mantar today, demanding the scrapping of new agricultural laws. Delhi Police on Wednesday permitted farmers to hold a demonstration at Jantar Mantar demanding the scrapping of agricultural laws. Security has been tightened at the Singhu border where farmers will gather today from different protest sites and head towards Jantar Mantar. 2. IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw scheduled to make a statement on the Pegasus Spyware Phone Hack Case in Rajya Sabha today. 3. Israel's NSO, the developer of military grade spyware Pegasus which has allegedly been used by multiple nations for snooping on politicians, judiciary, officials, activists and journalists, has said it will no longer respond to media enquiries. The expose by 17 news organisations across the world since Sunday, it said, was a 'planned and well-orchestrated media campaign lead by Forbidden Stories and pushed by special interest groups'. 'NSO will thoroughly investigate any credible proof of misuse of its technologies, as we always had, and will shut down the system where necessary,' a spokesperson said. 4. Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee calls for the opposition to unite against the BJP, pointing to the 'threat' posed to democracy by what she called a 'surveillance state' in the aftermath of the Pegasus scandal. Her nephew Abhishek Banerjee is in Delhi today. 5. Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa appeals to his colleagues in the BJP to not indulge in protest and indiscipline, amid pressure over exit rumours after a meet with Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week. 6. Supreme Court to hear today the appeal filed by Delhi Police against the Delhi High Court's order granting bail to Asif Iqbal Tanha, Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita in the Delhi Riots conspiracy case. 7. After Europe, China now faces killer floods. 25 people have so far died in the floods in China as parts of it get one-third of its annual rain in one hour.