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1. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear today a batch of petitions, including those filed by the Editors Guild of India and senior journalists N Ram and Sashi Kumar, seeking independent probe into the alleged Pegasus snooping matter. As per the cause list uploaded on the apex court website, a bench comprising Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justice Surya Kant will hear nine separate pleas on the issue related to reports of alleged snooping by government agencies on eminent citizens, politicians and scribes by using Israeli firm NSO's spyware Pegasus. 2. London: Fully vaccinated Indians flying to the United Kingdom will no longer need mandatory 10-day hotel quarantine as India has been moved from the country's 'red' to 'amber' list. Under Britain's traffic light system for international travel, returning from amber list countries means 10-day quarantining at home or any place of one's choice. 3. Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Narottam Mishra among those airlifted by the Indian Air Force helicopters in flood-hit Datia district of Madhya Pradesh. Mr Mishra got stuck in a flood-affected village of Datia district where he had gone to help stranded people. 4. Assam ministers Atul Bora and Ashok Singhal to reach Mizoram today to initiate talks with Mizoram for the first time since July 26 clash at the two state's border that left six Assam policemen dead and over 45 injured. Eight to 10 people from Mizoram were also injured. 5. Delhi government criticises the Lieutenant Governor for holding a meeting on COVID-19 directly with officials 'behind the back of an elected government'. A tweet by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to this effect is likely to aggravate rocky ties between the Aam Aadmi Party government and Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal over blurry lines on how best to run the national capital. 6. Kerala government announces an easing of the lockdown curbs, imposed in the state in view of the spread of COVID-19.