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On Left, Right & Centre: After Sonia Gandhi tells her aides she will resign as interim Congress chief after the letter row, is the stage set for a stormy Congress Working Committee meet on Monday?

After years of denial, Pakistan has named terrorist Dawood Ibrahim as a resident of Pakistan and included him in the list of terrorists on whom financial sanctions have been imposed. But despite the admission, the question remains - will Pakistan follow up or is this just an eyewash to appease the global terror funding watchdog Financial Action Task Force (FATF)?

Punjab has logged over 36,000 COVID-19 cases with more than 900 deaths. With record number of new cases in 24 hours, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh has announced a major clampdown across the state. DK Tiwari, Principal Secretary Medical Education & Research, Punjab, tells NDTV, "Out of 8,19,000 samples collected, nearly 36,000 tested positive. That is about 4.4% and is still within the control limits. The chief minister has also announced measures to control Punjab's doubling rate keeping in mind the state's health facilities in private and government sectors."

Facebook representatives have been asked to meet the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology following a controversy over disruptive content from BJP and right-wing leaders that were allowed on the social media site. The panel, headed by senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, will hear the Facebook representatives on September 2. The notice came in the middle of a battle within the Standing Committee, with BJP MP Nishikant Dubey calling for the removal of Mr Tharoor from the post of the panel chief.

Delhi's Health Minister Satyendar Jain tells NDTV that it is "difficult to say that herd immunity is here". "Different experts have different opinions but Delhi is moving towards it," he said. The national capital recorded 1,215 fresh cases of coronavirus on Thursday, taking the tally to 1.57 lakh, while the death count from the disease mounted to 4,257, authorities said.

The Supreme Court today ruled that there must be a CBI probe in the death of Sushant Singh Rajput. The big question is: Will there be justice for the late Bollywood star? Shobhaa De, Columnist and Novelist, tells NDTV that from the time the controversy started, it was very obvious a political game was being played.

In the US, as the Democrats have a major convention where they officially nominate Joe Biden to run for the US Presidency, we focus on his running mate - Kamala Harris. On the show, two US citizens of Indian origin who are extremely closely involved in the election tell us about what Kamala Harris means for us.

The release of the film Gunjan Saxena - The Kargil Girl has sparked a controversy. While Gunjan Saxena is credited as the first woman aviator in a combat zone in the film, Sreevidya Rajan has now said that she was the first. Vishnu Som speaks to Gunjan Saxena about this controversy, who says that while she stands by the film and her inputs in it, it is unpleasant to go through the current controversy.

The release of the film Gunjan Saxena - The Kargil Girl has sparked a controversy. While Gunjan Saxena is credited as the first woman aviator in a combat zone in a film, Sreevidya Rajan has now said that she was the first. Vishnu Som speaks to Sreevidya Rajan about this controversy, who says that the misunderstanding was brought about by an Air Force media event back in 1999. While she bears no ill-will towards Gunjan Saxena, she says she had to set the record straight, and wants to inspire young women to look at the Air Force as a career option.

'Life cannot be stopped,' said the Supreme Court, while giving go-ahead for NEET and JEE exams. Some say that this is a great move for students who have prepared for their exams, and one must find a way to live with the virus. While other argue that students should not be expected to put themselves at risk, and write exams amid a global pandemic. Is it unfair to ask students to put themselves at risk? Vishnu Som discusses on Left, Right & Centre.