Get your weekend started with the top 5 stories from today’s edition:
🚨Big Story
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The man who planted an IED at Bengaluru’s Rameshwaram Cafe on March 1 as well as the mastermind who planned the blast have been arrested by the National Investigation Agency (NIA) from West Bengal. According to sources the two men had been in the state for roughly three weeks — checking into small hotels and living under aliases — until their luck ran out.
👉Express Opinion
In today’s Opinion piece, Bhaskar Chakravorty writes about the employment crisis in India and why the solution may require reconsidering its bet on the service sector.
📰Big Picture
From a violent one-year conflict and directions by community leaders against contesting, to special voting booths for the thousands of internally displaced people and an absent election buzz. The Indian Express travels to Imphal and Churachandpur to find out how Manipur’s protracted crisis frames the challenge this Lok Sabha election.
🔍Express Explained
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Switzerland will host a peace conference in mid-June as the first step towards ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Shubhajit Roy delves into the Swiss history of mediation and also explains why for India this conference presents an opportunity to shape the conversation at the global high table.
🍿Movie Review
Imtiaz Ali has got his mojo decisively back with his film ‘Chamkila’,writes Shubhra Gupta in her movie review. “Diljit Dosanjh internalises Amar Singh Chamkila’s hard-scrabble life and pain, and distills it into his fine-grained performance, playing an artiste who lived and died by his beliefs,” she writes.
Top news on April 13, 2024 
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