Daily Briefing: Delhi poll verdict today; Yoga’s big flex; Mrs movie review; and more

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On Friday, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) chopped involvement rates by 25 ground points, taking the benchmark repo complaint to 6.25 per cent. The determination of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC)—first clip nether the caller RBI politician Sanjay Malhotra—was unanimous, marking the archetypal repo complaint chopped successful astir 5 years. 

Why did the RBI chopped the repo rate? The main crushed down the cut is to stimulate economical maturation by making borrowing cheaper for individuals and businesses, which volition pb to accrued spending and investment.

What does it imply? This argumentation shift reflects the cardinal bank’s response to evolving economical conditions and its committedness to fostering maturation portion managing inflation. The argumentation sheet has estimated the GDP maturation astatine 6.7 per cent and projected retail ostentation astatine 4.2 per cent for the fiscal twelvemonth 2025-26.

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Big Picture: Yogasana has a large flex. Earlier, it was confined to homes, parks, and communities, but now, the authorities recognises it arsenic a competitory sport. As yoga transforms into a medal athletics successful clip for India’s bid to big the 2036 Olympics, Nihal Koshie travels to the National Games astatine Almora, wherever young athletes propulsion disconnected the astir intolerable postures.

Non-identical ‘spin’ twins Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel person cricket skills that are labelled similarly. But that’s similar confusing herb condiment for ketchup. They person the same font, but Jadeja is italicised, writes Sandeep Dwivedi. “It needs an adept oculus and chemoreceptor for nuance to admit the quality betwixt the all-format multi-skilled Indian cricketers” – a lawsuit successful constituent is the ongoing England series.

📰 Express Explained

‘Dunki’ from India to US: After implicit 100 undocumented Indian immigrants were deported from the United States connected Thursday, the illegal “dunki” routes are backmost successful the spotlight. You indispensable person past heard astir it erstwhile Shah Rukh Khan’s 2023 comedy-drama by the aforesaid sanction made rather a buzz. Now, the past agelong of the perilous way is the 3,140-km borderline separating the US and Mexico, which has fencing that the migrants leap across.

The archetypal measurement from India is to scope a Latin American country. Most agents past instrumentality their clients to Colombia. From here, determination are aggregate routes to Mexico: 1 done the unsafe Darién Gap forest, different done San Andres, and the comparatively easier 1 done Europe. Any of them tin debar the wood but not the risks astatine each turn.

✍️ Express Opinion

India and the AI race: India has 4,20,000 AI professionals, a unit larger than galore nations’ tech sectors. Now, Amitabh Kant, India’s G20 Sherpa, believes that with the gathering blocks of a caller tech superpower, the country’s “story is 1 of a billion-plus radical fundamentally reimagining its integer architecture successful little than a decade.” But a foundational pillar, successful his view, that demands urgent attraction is hardware—the backbone that ensures the systems present unmatched efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

🍿Movie Review

Mrs Shubhra Gupta writes it is simply a near-faithful remake of Jeo Baby’s terrific ‘The Great Indian Kitchen’. For those who haven’t watched the Malayalam original, this Sanya Malhotra-starrer has capable merit, adjacent if it seems much of a sanitised messiness successful parts. It uses the societally acceptable honorific for the cleanable wife, who volition not importune connected a Ms, adjacent arsenic she struggles with keeping her dreams alive. “This is conscionable the benignant of movie which should beryllium made mandatory viewing for couples,” Gupta writes.

Until adjacent time

Vibha B Madhava