Those over 45 are now allowed to get vaccinated for COVID-19; coronavirus infections in India crossed the 70,000 mark in a day for the first time since October last year; West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee faces a fight to the finish from Nandigram in this assembly election; Pune reports over 8,000 COVID-19 cases in a day, the highest one-day spike anywhere in India; the centre has rolled back interest cuts on small savings schemes, saying the earlier "orders were issued by oversight"; Pakistan has made a U-turn on plans to allow limited imports of sugar, cotton and wheat from India after a political backlash against the move.
