The Uttar Pradesh State Law Commission has released the first draft of the bill aimed at population control and has sought public opinion by July 19; Tripura has become the first state in the northeast to have recorded a case of the Delta Plus variant; Union external affairs minister S Jaishankar said international travel on the basis of coronavirus testing is “good enough” and countries must stop discriminating on the basis of vaccine. All this and more news at 2 PM.