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1. Prime Minister Narendra Modi lays the foundation stone of Raja Mahendra Pratap Singh State University in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday. Uttar Pradesh Governor Anandiben Patel and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath were also present at the event. 2. On Monday evening, as her 11-year-old sister wages a losing battle against dengue at a government-run hospital in western Uttar Pradesh's Firozabad, where authorities face an outbreak of the virus, Nikita Kushwaha flung herself before the vehicle of a senior government official making an inspection. 3. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will travel to the United States to be part of the first in-person summit of the leaders of the "Quad" countries - Australia, India, Japan and the United States - that will be hosted by President Joe Biden next week, the centre on Tuesday confirms. 4. There is no wishing away masks even next year as the battle against Covid will require a studied combination of vaccines, effective drugs, and disciplined social behaviour, according to Dr VK Paul, a member of NITI Aayog, India's public policy think-tank. 5. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister claims that UP is safer now, as earlier daughters and sisters felt unsafe even cow weren't safe. 6. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday insists that the Biden administration had prepared for worst-case scenarios in Afghanistan as irate lawmakers accused the White House of presiding over a historic disaster. 7. Meanwhile, it is one of fashion's biggest events, the Covid delayed Met Gala takes place in New York.