NDTV TOP STORIES
1. As the government struggles to ramp up the production of Covid shots to meet its target of vaccinating all adults by the year-end, the supply of Bharat Biotech's Covaxin has been slowed down because the first few batches at the company's newest facility in Bengaluru were not of the right quality, a top government adviser says. 2. Maharashtra government relaxes the restrictions put in place to stem the spike in Covid cases, allowing malls, gymnasiums and salons to open up. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, too, eases several curbs in the city. The relaxations will not apply to 11 districts where the caseload continues to be high. These districts are Kolhapur, Sangli, Satara, Pune, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Solapur, Ahmednagar, Beed, Raigad and Palghar. 3. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will host opposition leaders for a breakfast meeting today to discuss the strategy to take on the BJP-led government in the remaining part of the monsoon session of parliament on issues being raised by opposition including alleged surveillance through Pegasus spyware. 4. Bihar Chief Minister and BJP ally Nitish Kumar adds his voice to the opposition demand for an investigation into the Pegasus scandal involving allegations that politicians, journalists, judges and others were targets of the Israeli spyware. 'Such things should not be done to disturb and harass people... The whole thing should be made public,' he says in remarks expected to add to the discomfiture of the BJP. 5. A day after dropping Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma's name from an FIR related to last week's boundary violence, Mizoram says it is dropping the case against officials of the neighbouring state, too. 6. A nine-year-old girl is allegedly raped and murdered and her body forcibly cremated by her attackers in Delhi. The police have detained a priest in the case along with three others and investigations are on. The locals are holding a protest in the area demanding justice. 7. Schools in Uttar Pradesh to resume classes 9 to 12 from August 16, but with 50 per cent attendance, according to an order issued by the state government.
