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1. In an off-camera press interaction West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee minutes before her meeting with Sonia Gandhi says she is no astrologer and cannot predict who will lead the opposition. On Pegasus matter she says, 'My phone is already hacked, not able to speak to anyone'. 2. 'Shared values, freedom and equality our key and none of us have done enough' says US Secretary Antony Blinken during his India visit. 3. Pegasus rocks Parliament yet again, united opposition speaks to the media, says phone hacking is not just breach of privacy but treason, repeats demand for a discussion. 4. Basavaraj Bommai takes oath as Karnataka's new Chief Minister succeeding BS Yediyurappa who resigned on Monday. 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. 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.