After six days of intense protests, no breakthrough has been achieved in talks between the Centre and the agitating farmers; Second round of talks between the government and farmers will take place on Thursday; a Chennai volunteer whose allegations of adverse effects from the Oxford vaccine trials have led to a 100-crore lawsuit by Serum Institute of India (SII), lost an American job and has found it difficult to do even simple tasks, his wife has said; Urmila Matondkar, an actor-turned-politician who had quit the Congress last year, has joined the Shiv Sena; and other top news of the day.