Top News Of The Day: PM Modi Reviews Covid Situation As Cases Surge

India has entered the third year of the fight against "one of the biggest epidemics in 100 years", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this evening after he held a meeting with Chief Ministers to discuss the unprecedented spike in Covid infections. Distressing visuals have surfaced of multiple passengers trapped in the debris after a train accident in North Bengal. 12 coaches of the Guwahati-Bikaner Express train derailed near the Maynaguri town of Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal today. The Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh today lost a third minister and backward caste leader, Dharam Singh Saini, who had earlier hotly denied that he was quitting the BJP.