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1. India crosses 2.5 crore Covid vaccinations in a day for the first time on Friday as the government raced to deliver a record on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's birthday. 2. ndia needs to build on the momentum of Friday's record-breaking vaccination and consider having weekly days to push the drive aggressively, Dr Randeep Guleria, chief of Delhi's All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) tells NDTV. 3. Food delivery apps like Zomato and Swiggy will collect five per cent GST, or Goods and Services Tax, from consumers instead of the restaurant they pick up orders from, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman says on Friday evening after a meeting of the GST Council in Lucknow. 4. Th epower tussle in Punjab intensifies. Congress MLAs call for a legislative party meet today. 5. The Char Dham Yatra in Uttarakhand begins on Saturday after its prolonged suspension due to COVID-19. A day after the Uttarakhand High Court vacated its stay on Char Dham Yatra, the state government on Friday issued a detailed SOP to start the yatra from Saturday with strict adherence to COVID-19 norms. 6. A top general admits the United States had made a "mistake" when it launched a drone strike against suspected ISIS terrorists in Kabul, killing 10 civilians including children instead during the frenzied final days of the US pullout from Afghanistan last month. 7. France on Friday recalls its ambassadors to the United States and Australia for consultations in a ferocious row over the scrapping of a submarine contract, an unprecedented step that revealed the extent of French anger against its allies.