India misses climate deadline: China and India are among the few countries that missed the UN’s extended deadline for submitting updated climate plans to be included in an assessment of progress towards the Paris Agreement goals ahead of COP26

Vaccine mismanagement: J&J withdraws proposal for speedy Covid-19 vaccine approval in India for its single shot vaccine

BJP’s ally demands probe: Bihar Chief Minister and BJP ally Nitish Kumar today added 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

New digital payments initiative launched: the government launches e-RUPI, a new person-specific and purpose-specific payments system

Police custodial death and Black Lives Matter in India: African man dies in police custody in Bengaluru; protests follow by 20 people from several African countries shouting slogans against the Bengaluru police and asserting that ‘Black Lives Matter’