Top News Of The Day: India's Economy Shrinks In 2020-21 By 7.3%

Recording its worst-ever performance in over four decades, India clocked a negative growth of 7.3 per cent for 2020-21 while the fourth quarter of the fiscal showed a meagre rise of 1.6 per cent; The government on Monday faced several tough questions about its Covid vaccination policy, with the Supreme Court flagging "various flaws" in an inoculation drive criticised for differential pricing, shortage of doses, and lack of access from rural areas of the country; Bengal's top officer Alapan Bandyopadhyay retired as Chief Secretary today instead of reporting to the Centre, in a dramatic escalation of Mamata Banerjee's feud with Prime Minister Narendra Modi; and other top news of the day.