India reported its worst one-day spike with over 9,300 coronavirus cases in 24 hours. 68 per cent of all active cases are from 5 states; while fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya has exhausted his appeals against extradition to India, the British High Commission said there is a legal issue that needs to be resolved before Vijay Mallya can be brought back to India; Congress is in crisis ahead of the Rajya Sabha elections as 6 Gujarat MLAs resigned; builders in Telangana are flying labourers to the state to work on unfinished projects; industrialist Rajiv Bajaj in a conversation with Rahul Gandhi said the economy has been decimated. The government has flattened the GDP instead of the infection curve.
