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The Supreme Court Monday asked the CBI to file weekly reports before the Jharkhand High Court on the status of the probe into the death of Dhanbad Additional Sessions Judge Uttam Anand. It said the HC Chief Justice would monitor the investigation.

“Taking into account the gravity of the matter, we deem it appropriate to direct the CBI to file a report before the High Court of Jharkhand every week and we further request the Chief Justice of the said High Court to monitor the investigation,” a bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana and Justices Vineet Saran and Surya Kant said.

The court also expressed its dissatisfaction at the probe report filed by the CBI, saying it had no mention of the reason or motive behind the incident.

Opposing the Centre's move to place the "anti-people" Electricity (Amendment) Bill, 2020 in Parliament, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday shot a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, urging him to refrain from proceeding with the legislation. She requested the PM "to ensure that a broad-based and transparent dialogue on the subject is opened up at the earliest". "I write this letter to re-lodge my protest against the Union Government's fresh move to place the much-criticised Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, in Parliament. It was proposed to be moved last year, but many of us had underlined the anti-people aspects of the draft legislation, and at least I had detailed out all the salient pitfalls of the Bill in a letter to you on June 12, 2020," she wrote. Banerjee had written to Modi on June 12 last year, expressing outrage over the draft Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020, which, she, said, was an attempt by the Centre to "destroy" the country's federal structure.

A combination of Covishield and Covaxin could not only be safe but elicits better immune protection and the adverse effects were no different as a same vaccine regimen, ICMR's analysis of a "serendipitous" Covid-19 vaccine-mix in Uttar Pradesh shows.

The study examined 18 individuals in UP who inadvertently received Covishield as the first jab and Covaxin as the second. Researchers compared the safety and immunogenicity profile of this group with two groups of individuals who received either Covishield or Covaxin.

"The findings suggest that immunisation with a combination of an adenovirus vector platform-based vaccine followed by an inactivated whole virus vaccine was not only safe but also elicited better immunogenicity," the pre-print of the Indian Council of Medical Research study published in MedRxiv says.

Former chief minister and Leader of Opposition in the Karnataka Assembly, Siddaramaiah, asked the state's BJP government to not get into "petty politics" with its attempt to change the name of Indira Canteens, which are named after former Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi.

On Saturday, BJP general secretary CT Ravi sparked a row when he asked Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai to change the name of Indira Canteens, a flagship programme launched during the previous Congress government to provide ready-to-eat food to economically disadvantaged people.

Opposing CT Ravi's statement that Indira Canteens should be renamed as Annapoorna Canteens, Siddaramaiah took to social media saying, "It has been tradition to name roads & govt buildings after National leaders."