In Photos: India This Week

From West Bengal Assembly elections to Holi celebrations amid a COVID-19 surge, here’s a glimpse of India this week.

A man with physical disability undergoes thermal screening, as he arrives to cast his vote during the second phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, in Nandigram, on Thursday, 1 April.

(Photo: PTI)

A man with physical disability undergoes thermal screening, as he arrives to cast his vote during the second phase of West Bengal Assembly polls, in Nandigram, on Thursday, 1 April.(Photo: PTI)

Devotees offer prayers at Sacred Heart Cathedral Church on the occasion of Good Friday, in Jalandhar on Friday, 2 April 2021. (Photo: PTI)

People celebrate Holi as they gather in large numbers, amid a countrywide spike in coronavirus cases, in Prayagraj on Monday, 29 March.(Photo: PTI)

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee arrives at a polling station during the second phase of West Bengal Assembly election, at Boyal in Nandigram on Thursday, 1 April.(Photo: PTI)

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting as part of the election campaign ahead of Tamil Nadu Assembly polls, in Madurai, on Friday, 2 April.(Photo: PTI)

The fourth batch of three Indian Air Force (IAF ) Rafale fighter jets landed on Indian soil late on Wednesday night, 31 March, after taking a direct ferry from Istres Air Base France.(Photo: Indian Air Force/Twitter)

Doctors wearing PPE kits take selfies while on COVID duty on the occasion of National Doctors Day, outside the Government Medical Hospital in Amravati, Maharashtra, on Tuesday, 30 March.(Photo: PTI)

Passengers undergo thermal screening at Patna junction, amid a surge in COVID-19 cases, in Patna, on Tuesday, 30 March.(Photo: PTI)

A medic administers the first dose of COVID-19 vaccine to a beneficiary during the third phase of inoculation drive, at a government hospital in Jalandhar, on Saturday, 3 April 2021.(Photo: PTI)

West Bengal Minister for Power and TMC candidate from Bhawanipore constituency Sovandeb Chattopadhyay (L) seeks blessings from an elderly woman during his door-to-door election campaign for state Assembly polls, in Kolkata, on Friday, 2 April 2021.(Photo: PTI)