NDTV TOP STORIES
1. Mirabai Chanu ends India's 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49kg category to open the country's account. The 26-year-old lifts a total of 202kg to better Karnam Malleswari's bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. 2. At least 138 people have died in rain-related incidents, including multiple landslides, in Maharashtra. The deaths include 36 who died in a landslide in the coastal Raigad district, about 70 km from state capital Mumbai. 3. Real pictures of the damaged livelihood and property is beginning to emerge in flood affected Chiplun town of Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra. NDTV reports from ground zero. 4. The unusually heavy rainfall in the Konkon region of Maharashtra affects the Mumbai-Goa highway the most with the traffic coming to a standstill on the Mumbai-Goa highway. 5. India is likely to start vaccinating children by September, AIIMS chief Dr Randeep Guleria tells NDTV as he underlines that it will be an important move to break the chain of transmission. 6. India today adds 39,097 fresh COVID-19 cases over a 24-hour period, which is 10.6 per cent higher than yesterday. The country reports 546 deaths, taking the total death count to 4.20 lakh. 7. The CBI raids 40 locations across Jammu and Kashmir and Delhi, including the residence of senior JK IAS officer Shahid Iqbal Choudhary in Srinagar, in connection with the illegal sale of gun licenses.
