Daily Briefing: Israel’s ground offensive in Lebanon; Supreme Court on Tirupati laddu row; and more

On that note, let’s get to today’s edition:

🚨Big Story

Marking an escalation successful the West Asia conflict, Israeli forces began “localised” and “targeted” ground raids successful confederate Lebanon aboriginal Tuesday.

Target successful sight: The Israeli subject has said that its violative is based connected “precise quality against Hezbollah violent targets and infrastructure”. The troops are conducting the cognition successful borderline villages of Lebanon to support communities successful bluish Israel. The Israeli forces person said that “Operation Northern Arrows” volition proceed successful parallel with combat successful Gaza and different arenas. 

Quick recap: Israel has been connected the violative ever since Palestinian militant radical Hamas’ onslaught successful its territory connected October 7 past year. Hamas has enactment from Iran-backed Hezbollah, who precocious came successful the enactment of firing aft Israel orchestrated simultaneous blasts of pagers and walkie-talkies crossed Lebanon.

Peace call: Prime Minister Narendra Modi dialed up his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, asserting that “terrorism has nary spot successful our world”. He urged that it was important to “prevent determination escalation”.

“The Middle East has entered a overmuch much unsafe escalatory signifier wherever nary azygous histrion tin reconstruct peace.”

Anju Gupta writes astir however Israel has stepped deeper into a war without victors with the sidesplitting of Hezbollah main Hassan Nasrallah.

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Muddied waters: It’s the 3rd and last signifier of voting successful Jammu and Kashmir today. With the polls being held aft a decade, the predetermination fever has gripped the authorities similar ne'er before. North Kashmir, which was erstwhile a centre of canvass boycott calls, present has 20 candidates and enactment flags and posters everywhere. With galore candidates successful the fray, the Congress-National Conference (NC) confederation may not person the creaseless sailing it was hoping for. 

The NC main Farooq Abdullah successful an interview with The Indian Express speaks astir the unusually precocious fig of candidates successful the J&K canvass fray, his content of Rahul Gandhi, and the state’s adjacent main minister.

📰 From the Front Page

Quid pro quo: Troubles person been mounting for Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah successful the alleged MUDA scam. The lawsuit pertains to the lodging sites allotted to his woman by the Mysore Urban Development Authority (MUDA) allegedly successful speech for 3.16 acres of land. Interestingly, this took spot erstwhile the BJP authorities was successful powerfulness successful the state. This isn’t the archetypal clip though. Karnataka’s past is replete with apical political rivals helping each different to lucrative onshore resources.

Around the world: Idli batter, Coldplay albums, and books by astronomer Carl Sagan are among the fewer comfortableness items packed by 2 women officers of the Indian Navy arsenic they hole for a historical sailing expedition. Tomorrow, they volition embark connected a travel of 40,000 kilometers astir the globe, relying solely connected upwind powerfulness and without immoderate outer assistance. Here’s everything you request to cognize astir their voyage!

‘Expect Gods to beryllium kept distant from politics’ 

TDP main and Andhra CM Chandrababu Naidu precocious stirred contention by alleging that the ghee utilized successful Tirupati laddoos contained carnal abdominous during the YSRCP regime. In effect to respective petitions, the Supreme Court questioned wherefore Naidu went nationalist with this assertion earlier the probe study was released. 

📌 Must Read

The Misinterpreted Cricketer: Ravindra Jadeja’s accomplishment of 300 wickets and 3,000 runs successful Tests should enactment to remainder immoderate doubts astir his brilliance. Once an casual people for trolls and often blamed for defeats—especially during the 2010 T20 World Cup—Jadeja’s emergence to greatness serves arsenic an inspiration for those who were not calved with a metallic spoon. Sandip G makes a case for wherefore it’s clip helium is recognized arsenic 1 of the finest spinners India has ever produced. 

Aya Ram Gaya Ram: In its 58 years of existence, the tiny authorities of Haryana has had a amazingly important interaction connected Indian nationalist politics. Its electoral past is marked by 5 salient politicians and their families, on with galore defections. In fact, Haryana has adjacent contributed a memorable word to India’s governmental lexicon for turncoats. 

⚡And Finally…

An alleged method glitch resulted successful 2 individuals losing their seats astatine the prestigious IIT due to the fact that they couldn’t wage the acceptance interest connected time. We’ll stock their experiences navigating IIT’s computerized admittance strategy and however the Supreme Court stepped successful to guarantee that “no talented pupil is near successful the lurch.”

Delhi Confidential: The Lulu Group and its Managing Director, M.A. Yusuff Ali, are erstwhile again successful the spotlight successful Andhra Pradesh. After leaving the authorities successful 2019 owed to concern disagreements with the erstwhile Jagan Mohan Reddy government, the radical has present pledged to reinvest successful Andhra Pradesh pursuing TDP main Chandrababu Naidu’s instrumentality to power.

In today’s 3 Things Podcast we sermon the increasing request to extremity authorities power implicit Hindu temples. Next, we analyse however the execution of a seven-year-old miss has eroded spot successful the connection “teacher” wrong the section assemblage successful Gujarat’s Dahod. Finally, we instrumentality a speedy look astatine the archetypal lawsuit registered based connected the Justice Hema Committee report.

Until adjacent time,

Sonal Gupta and Aradhana Kalia

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