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• UP, Karnataka, Bihar top the list in fortnightly Covid tests
• 3 lakh get vaccinated on Day 12, five states account for 79%
• India sees less than 12k new cases, 50% of them in Kerala
• Covaxin neutralises UK strain: Biotech
• 20% of informal workers still jobless: Study
• MHA, aviation min to decide on global flights
• Red Fort 'flag-hoister' Jugraj’s parents flee Punjab village
• Route cause: How SKM lost plot to raiders on R-Day eve
• Govt sitting on judge picks for 1.5 years, says SC on HC vacancies
  The Supreme Court on Wednesday slammed the Centre for chronic delay in processing names sent by high courts and forwarding them to the SC collegium for recommending suitable ones for appointment as judges of HCs, which are functioning with 40% vacancies even while groaning under huge pendency.
• Top court stays HC skin-to-skin ruling in sex assault case
  The Supreme Court on Wednesday took just two minutes to stay a Bombay high court order, which had acquitted a man of charges under the Pocso Act on the specious logic that groping a 12-year-old girl without removing her clothes was not sexual assault though it convicted him under the IPC provision for outraging her modesty.