# Right to life

• The supreme court on friday disagreed with the uttar pradesh government’s proposal to conduct a “symbolic kanwar yatra” amid the pandemic.

• Supreme court said fundamental rights of citizens across faiths and their right to life trumped religious sentiments.

• The central government also filed an affidavit agrreing that kanwar yatra cannot be permitted at a full scale.

# Gandhinagar station

• Prime minister Narendra modi on friday virtually inaugurated the redeveloped railway station in Gujarat’s capital Gandhinagar and a five star hotel above it.

• PM Modi also inaugurated the redeveloped Vadnagar railway station in his hometown in North Gujarat.

• In Ahmedabad, the prime minister also inaugurated a nature park, an aquatic gallery and robotic gallery at the science city.

# Delta variant

• A majority over 86% of the breakthrough infections after covid-19 vaccination have been caused by the Delta variant.

• In these breakthrough infections hospitalisation rate was 9.8% and fatality observed in 0.4% of cases.

• ICMR had collected 677 clinical samples of individuals who have been partially or fully vaccinated but contracted the infection.

# Assam’s cattle protection bill

• Assam’s budget for the 2021-22 fiscal aims to control cattle population through artificial insemination to ensure that upto 90% of the calves born are females and 10%% are males.

• The proposal follows the tabling of the assam cattle protection bill, which seeks to ban the transportation of cattle and sale of beef within 5 km of temples.

# Paytm IPO

• ONE97 communications, the parent company of digital payment services provider paytm, has filed a draft red herring prospectus (DRHP) with markets regulator SEBI for an Initial public offerings of 16000 crore rupees.

• The firm would issue fresh shares worth 8300 crores with a face value of rupee 1 each.