Here are the top stories we are covering this afternoon: After Centre’s Warning, Twitter Begins Blocking Accounts with ‘Khalistani’ Links But Adds ‘Free Speech’ Rider; ‘Welcome Your Emergence as Leading Global Power’: US Calls India an Important Partner in Indo-Pacific; Mutant UK Covid-19 Strain May Force Serum Institute to Tweak Vaccine Composition; Mumbai Cylinder Blast: 4 Injured After Explosion in Andheri, Fire Brigade on Spot; 1 Dead in Police Encounter After Liquor Smugglers Kill Constable in Kasganj, UP CM Orders Invoking NSA; A Smiling Munawar Faruqui’s First Instagram Post after Walking out of Jail is What Hope Looks Like; and ‘I’m Not a Cat’: Lawyer on Zoom Call Failed to Disable Filter, Twitter Trying to Solve the Meow-stery.