Daily Briefing: INDIA v NDA in Maharashtra, Jharkhand; the new MAGA; and more

What’s astatine involvement today?

For the BJP, the results volition find however the enactment fared successful the conflict of cognition aft its underwhelming show successful the Lok Sabha elections. On the different hand, a nonaccomplishment successful some states, oregon astatine slightest successful Maharashtra, volition springiness mode to the cognition that Lok Sabha results were a reflection of a inclination that is, by and large, continuing — a decision that whitethorn person far-reaching consequences for the party.

Today is also cardinal for the Congress as good arsenic the different determination parties successful the INDIA bloc, who are looking to propel the ‘BJP is connected a decline’ narrative. A nonaccomplishment successful some states, particularly successful Maharashtra, volition enactment a bigger question people connected the INDIA bloc’s unity. Since the Lok Sabha results, leaders of the INDIA bloc person not been seen unneurotic — adjacent for perfunctory photograph ops — contempt the confederation existing connected paper.

PS: Catch the latest updates connected Maharashtra and Jharkhand throughout the day. Later today, we volition besides beryllium decoding the canvass results live.

Only successful Express

“That the Goa work assemblage has outpriced itself and not bothered to stay competitory with comparable planetary tourer destinations is undeniable.”

In our Opinion pages today, Coomi Kapoor writes astir the ‘desi tourist’ successful Goa, reflecting connected the reasons down the state’s tourism woes.

Express Explained

State-of-play: “If you and I don’t person trust, past the countries cannot person trust,” a elder Chinese authorities authoritative told The Indian Express past week. The authoritative was referring to the spot shortage betwixt India and China implicit the past four-and-half years of the borderline standoff successful Ladakh. As some countries determination to repair ties, the messages from Beijing and New Delhi have convergences and divergences. 

In Sports

The New MAGA: Donald Trump is ‘Making America Golf Again’ and the greens astir the satellite are buzzing. Politicians are dusting disconnected their clubs to enslaved with the golfer president-elect and the pros are hopeless to play a circular oregon 2 with him. But it is the superior golfers who are seeking the urgent involution of Trump, and his virtual running-mate Elon Musk. They privation the 2 to extremity the long-standing stand-off that threatens to disagreement the planetary golfing landscape.

Movie Review

In her latest glowing review, Shubhra Gupta volition springiness you FOMO for not having watched Payal Kapadia’s ‘All We Imagine As Light’, which she describes arsenic “a lyrical ode to working-class Mumbai and pistillate friendship”.

That’s each for today.

Until Monday,

Ayesha Jain