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Latest LIVE news updates: The two-day GST council meeting kicked off in Chandigarh with a packed agenda. The Council is unlikely to consider states’ demand for status quo on a two-year extension of compensation as official data suggests that revenue shortfall for states has narrowed in FY22.

India on Tuesday reported 11,793 new Covid cases, taking its tally to 43,418,839. With 27 more Covid-related deaths, India's toll reached 525,047. A total of 9,486 people recovered from Covid-19 infection in the last 24 hours, taking the tally of cured cases to 42,797,092. India's recovery rate now stands at 98.57 per cent while death rate is unchanged at 1.21 per cent. India on Monday administered 1,921,811 vaccine shots, taking the total count of Covid vaccination to 1,973,143,196. 

Senior leaders of Congress and NCP met Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Monday after the Supreme Court directed the CM not to disqualify the rebel MLAstill July 11. "We are alliance partners. We will sit together and discuss things," state Congress chief Nana Patole said after meeting CM Thackeray at his residence. 

Atleast 16 people died and 56 were wounded after a Russian missile struck a shopping mall in the central city of Kremenchuk, Ukraine, reported AFP. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy earlier had said there were 'over a thousand civilians' in the mall where the missile hit as the city had a pre-war population of 220,000.