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1. Out for a run, a Dhanbad district judge gets killed by an auto rickshaw. The bar association demands a CBI probe as it raises the matter in the Supreme Court. A special investigation team is formed to probe the case. A senior lawyer calls it a brazen attack on the judiciary. 2. India reports 43,509 cases of COVID-19 and 640 deaths in the last 24 hours. The daily positivity rate remains below 5 per cent at 2.52 per cent but it's Kerala that is contributing about 50 per cent of India's number. The Centre sends 6-member team from the National Centre for Disease Control to the state amid rising cases. There is going to be a lockdown in Kerala this Saturday and Sunday. 3. The United Kindfom scraps quarantine for fully vaccinated travellers from the US and the EU with the exception of France but India remains on the UK red list. Even fully vaccinated Indians are not welcome. 4. Assam Police team heads to Delhi to question this Mizoram Rajya Sabha MP K Vanlalvena who has threatened the Assam Police after the border firing. Police says it's probing a conspiracy angle. 5. The New York city decides to sweeten the Covid jab, any city resident getting a first dose will now get USD 100 at city-run vaccine centres. 6. Again for the eighth straight day, demanding the repeal of the new farm laws as well as a probe and a discussion into the Pegasus spyware controversy, the Rajya Sabha had to be adjourned minutes after the session began. Slogans are raised in both houses of Parliament.