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Daily Briefing: 62% voter turnout in 102 Phase One of Lok Sabha Polls; LSD 2 movie review; and more | Live News

Good morning! Get your weekend started with the top 5 stories from today’s edition: 🚨 Big Story From Jammu and Kashmir to Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra to Manipur, the first phase of polling in the Lok Sabha elections saw a voter turnout of around 62% until 9 pm in 102 constituencies across 21 states and Union Territories. It is also the phase with the largest number of seats in the seven-phase 2024 polls.  👉 Express Opinion Writing about the Iran-Israel war in today’s Opinion, Bernard Haykel asserts that without a resolution to Palestine’s statehood, there will be no peace in West Asia. “Spoilers against peace and stability, like Iran and the right-wing government in Israel, will take advantage of this chaos to achieve their maximal goals,” he says. 🎙️Express Interview The Indian Express catches up with Uddhav Thackeray, the man who is most in the spotlight in Maharashtra. He is seen to have borne the brunt of the political disruption, with the bulk of his MLAs migrating to the Shiv Sena led by Chief Minister Eknath …

Daily Briefing: Army probes into killing of three civilians, SBI’s ‘commissions’ for electoral bonds, NCERT’s textbook revision; and more | Live News

📬 Get this delivered straight to your inbox: https://indianexpress.com/newsletters/ Read this newsletter in a single page: Good morning! 🚨 Big Story The Army’s internal inquiries into the killing of three civilians, allegedly during interrogation by its personnel following a terror attack in J&K’s Poonch in December 2023 that left four soldiers dead, and into the operational gaps have found serious lapses in the conduct of 7-8 personnel. We delve into the findings of the inquiries. More than three months after they were picked up and tortured, nine of the 10 villagers who survived are yet to return to work, many still nursing their wounds. Here are their accounts. ⚡ Only in Express While demands for “commission” owed to the bank constituted a bulk of the correspondence between SBI and the Ministry of Finance on the electoral bonds scheme, the bank also sent alerts on “erroneous printing” of bonds and expected increase in sales ahead of elections. Here’s what the hundreds of pages of correspondence and emails — obtained by The Indian Express via a RTI …