Good morning, The Big Story On Day 1 of the world’s largest coronavirus inoculation drive, 1.91 lakh people received vaccine shots across the country, but it wasn't without a few minor glitches. Mumbai suspended the drive for two days till glitches in the CoWIN app are ironed out. And several in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab and West Bengal did not turn up despite being eligible to receive the vaccine. Only in the Express Meet some of the first recipients of the Covaxin and Covishield vaccines — from a health officer in a remote Arunachal district to a community worker in Naxal-hit Dantewada. P Chidambaram writes on farm laws — "Please notice the irony: the government that rammed the Bills through the Rajya Sabha without a clause-by-clause discussion or vote should offer a clause-by-clause discussion on the streets of Singhu!" 
A covid vaccination team gets a warm welcome at a hospital in New Delhi. (📸 by Amit Mehra) From The Front Page A farmers’ organisation has urged the Supreme Court to reconstitute the four-member committee appointed by the court, saying its members have already taken positions in favour of the farm laws. The body wants someone like a retired judge, and its president or presidents of other farmers bodies participating in the protests.
Instant messaging platform WhatsApp announced late on Friday that it was delaying the implementation of its recent privacy policy changes, which triggered a global backlash, to May 15, instead of the scheduled February 8.
Must Read The build up to the Australian Open got off to a rocky start on Saturday, after three tested positive on two chartered flight ferrying players and coaches to Melbourne for the season-opening Grand Slam tournament. While the organisers quickly confirmed that none of the three positive tests belonged to players, everyone on board both the flights — including 47 tennis players — have been forced into two weeks of hotel quarantine.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) set up by the Yogi Adityanath government to probe cases related to the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Kanpur has claimed to have collected evidence of murder and arson from a house in the district’s Naubasta area where two people were killed and set ablaze.
The BJP, which has launched an aggressive poll campaign in West Bengal, is all set to take out Rath Yatras with a message of “parivartan” (change) in the state ahead of the elections, sources said. The party will take out five Rath Yatras that will cover all 294 Assembly constituencies, starting February. 
ICYMI And Finally... If the farmers behind the ongoing agitation at Delhi’s borders have taught us one thing, it is that Bollywood got it wrong all along. From films about village life in the ‘50s, doused in poverty and deprivation, to ‘60s films about shehri babus visiting the picturesque gaon to romance ghagra-clad belles — we draw an agrarian map of post-independence Hindi cinema to see how classic Bollywood tropes have failed the country’s farmers.
Inside Track: The rivalry between the Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech became open knowledge after the heads of both took veiled digs at each other publicly, forcing the PMO to intervene. But it is still unclear how Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin got clearance in the first place.
Until tomorrow, Leela Prasad G and Rahel Philipose | 
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