Top News Of The Day: India Crosses 1 Lakh Mark In Daily Covid Cases

With 1,03,558 fresh Covid cases, India has seen the biggest-ever daily surge; Home Minister Amit Shah paid last tribute to the security personnel killed in action in an anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh on Saturday; Dassault, the manufacturer of Rafale jets, paid one million euros to a middleman in India just after the India-France deal for 36 Rafales was signed, a French publication has reported; The Maharashtra government and Anil Deshmukh, who stepped down from the post of the state's home minister today, have decided to approach the Supreme Court to seek cancellation of the CBI probe against him in a corruption case; other top stories.