Good Morning! Here are the top stories from today's edition 🗳️Decision 2024 Saturday marks the voting day for 57 parliamentary constituencies across eight states and a Union Territory, concluding the extensive seventh phase of the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. This wraps up the second-longest election cycle since 1951-52. 👉Follow our live blog to catch all the latest updates from polling booths across the country. Meanwhile, with elections drawing to a close, all eyes will shift to the exit polls which will start emerging soon after the voting period officially ends.So, how close were the exit polls in the past two general elections, 2014 and 2019, which were both won by the Narendra Modi-led BJP by huge margins? Read here 🚨Big Story India's real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew by a surprise 7.8 % from January to March, leading to a full-year growth rate of 8.2 % for the 2023-24 financial year. This marks the third consecutive year of over 7 % growth. Check out our full report to learn which sectors of the economy contributed in boosting the GDP numbers. 🔍Big Picture With another round of excavations set to begin in a few months at Purana Qila, Adrija Roychowdhury writes on how the ASI hopes to settle a question that has baffled and divided scholars and historians – is the 16th-century fort built by Humayun the site of the capital of the Pandava brothers in the Mahabharata? ⚡ Long Read Cops had been on the trail of a 19-year-old man for killing a 52-year-old man and his 8-year-old son in Jabalpur. Two months later, the man walked into the police station, just a day after his 15-year-old "girlfriend" was caught by the police. Read about a teen love story that ended in twin murders and a two-month police chase. 🍿Movie Review In her review of Janhvi Kapoor & Rajkumar Rao-starrer Mr and Mrs Mahi, Indian Express’ Shubhra Gupta says that the film gives us a rom-com nestled in India’s favourite sport, which in turn is nestled in the tropes of the family-entertainer movie. “There’s no one better than Rao in playing a regular guy with no special talent, and Kapoor is quite capable of filling up a character,” she writes. Until next time, Aradhana Kalia
