Good morning! The Big Story Breaching the inflation target set by the RBI, retail inflation rose to 6.30 per cent in May—a six-month high—on the back of rising fuel and food prices. And rising global crude oil and commodity prices are expected to push up inflation further in coming months. From the Front Page Another locally manufactured Covid vaccine could be available in the country soon as Novavax, a US-based company partnering with India's Serum Institute, announced that its vaccine candidate showed 90.4 per cent efficacy in late-stage trials. While the company said it would prioritise low- and middle-income countries, it still has its eyes set on high-income countries where it hopes its vaccine would be used as a "booster" dose. Today marks one year of the Galwan Valley incident and Chinese troops are still on the Indian side of the Line of Actual Control. Negotiations between the two sides have hit a stalemate after disengagement at Pangong Tso four months ago. Now, China has suggested negotiations at the level of Division Commanders — an offer that the Indian side is said to be considering. The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) is headed for an imminent split with five of the party MPs rebelling against the sixth—Ram Vilas Paswan’s son and the party’s national president, Chirag Paswan. Of the five MPs, two are related to the Paswan family—Hajipur MP Paras is Ram Vilas Paswan’s younger brother and Samastipur MP Prince Raj is Paras’s nephew. Must Read A J&K activist may have been jailed for speaking his mind during a public meeting held by one of the advisors of Jammu and Kashmir Lt Governor Manoj Sinha. The J&K police in its report quoted the activist as saying "...what expectations can I have from officers who are outsiders?" Kerala’s rebel Catholic nun Lucy Kalapura, who hit headlines by taking on a Bishop allegedly accused of raping a nun, was told to vacate her convent after the highest judicial authority in the Catholic Church in the Vatican, the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, rejected her appeal against the dismissal. However, Lucy said she will not vacate the convent and would "seek justice in the Indian legal system". The Centre’s affidavit before the Supreme Court explaining its May 28 notification—to delegate to local authorities its power of granting citizenship to members of the minority communities from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan—refers to how senior Congress leader and Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot had time and again urged the Centre to make similar delegations in the past and how the government acceded to the requests. And Finally... A celebrity online chess event to raise funds for a charity ended up being marred by a bizarre controversy involving Kamath, the founder of Zerodha, a unicorn stock brokerage firm. The 34-year-old beat former world champion Viswanathan Anand. But Kamath later admitted that he had external help. Until tomorrow, Leela Prasad G  | 
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