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1. Basavaraj Bommai takes oath as Karnataka's new Chief Minister succeeding BS Yediyurappa who resigned on Monday. 2. Pegasus rocks Parliament yet again, united opposition takes on the government, Rajya Sabha is adjourned. Protests and disruptions in Lok Sabha as well, though it carries on functioning. 3. Rahul Gandhi leads an opposition meet to crank up Pegasus heat on the government. 14 opposition parties, all plan to submit identical adjournment motions on Pegasus to force a discussion on the phone hacking scandal. 4. US secretary of State, Antony Blinken tweets India and the US, both believe in fundamental freedom, stays in India for a two day visit and meets civil society leaders ahead of his official meetings with the foreign minister. 5. India records 43,654 new coronavirus cases, 47 per cent higher than yesterday when fresh cases dips below 30,000 for the first time in nearly four months. The positivity rate stands at 2.51 per cent. 640 deaths take India's tally to 4.22 lakh. Kerala reports 22,129 new Covid cases in just one day. 6. The Union home secretary meets the chief secretaries of Assam and Mizoram along with the state DGPs as the state order continues to simmer. Six policemen of the Assam force have died. 7. At least 5 people have been killed, around 40 missing after a cloudburst in Kishtwar in Jammu and Kashmir. Rescue operations are underway. 7. Eighteen labourers, sleeping on the road in front of a bus they had been travelling in, are crushed to death after a speeding truck hit the bus in Uttar Pradesh's Barabanki district.