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.
