Good morning! In today’s edition: “Naatu Naatu”, The Elephant Whisperers win Academy Awards; Centre opposes pleas in SC on same-sex marriages; Amitabh Kant at Idea Exchange; and more Big Story Oscars 2023: In big wins for India at the 95th Academy Awards, RRR song “Naatu Naatu” won the Oscar for Best Original Song, while Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga’s The Elephant Whisperers bagged the Oscar in the Best Documentary Short category. 👉 Head to indianexpress.com for live updates from the award ceremony. The central government has opposed the petitions seeking legal recognition of same-sex marriages in an affidavit submitted to the Supreme Court, which is set to hear the matter on Monday. The Centre has urged the top court to leave the issue to Parliament. Only in the Express In the latest edition of Idea Exchange, Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa of India during its presidency year, opens up about navigating the complex geopolitical and economic issues during the most turbulent period in the world and bridging the gap between the Chinese, the Russians and the West. Sviatoslav Andriiovych Yurash, a resident of western Ukraine, was 17 when he came to India to study at Calcutta University in 2013. He had to cut short his stint to join the anti-Russia movement after the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Now, Yurash is the youngest member of Ukraine’s parliament and is currently in Delhi. In a conversation with The Indian Express, Yurash remembers his time in Kolkata fondly. From the Front Page Ending a three-and-a-half-year drought, former Indian skipper Virat Kohli scored his much-awaited 28th Test hundred Sunday during Day 4 of the 4th Test between India and Australia. It was followed by a quiet, but emotional, celebration. A younger Kohli would have burst his lungs, strained his nerves and cursed out loud, but at 34, he has changed. At the same time, he has also made an important point, "The Kohli story is far from over." 
Virat Kohli kisses the locket as he celebrates scoring a century during the fourth cricket test match between India and Australia in Ahmedabad. (AP photo) Launching a no-holds-barred attack on Rahul Gandhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that “some people are putting Indian democracy on trial and insulting the citizens of the country”, in response to the former's recent remarks in London that were critical of the government. At Dharwad in poll-bound Karnataka, the PM asserted that no power in the world can damage the democratic tradition of India. 🔴 Four years after she recorded a historic win by defeating a member of the H D Deve Gowda family in Mandya Lok Sabha segment, actress-politician Sumalatha Ambareesh has announced her decision to back the BJP from now. With barely two months left for the Assembly polls, Sumalatha's move has come as a shot in the arm for the Karnataka BJP as it is desperately looking for local leaders of substance.
The Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha, a three-day annual meeting of the RSS' apex decision-making body, began with tributes to late Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav and other public figures. The Sangh paying tribute to Mulayam is significant as its cadre had held his then UP government responsible for opening fire on kar sevaks in Ayodhya at the peak of the Ram Mandir movement in 1990. Must Read As the European Union weans itself off refined petroleum products from Russia, Indian refiners are rushing in to fill the gap. Since this comes as Indian refiners snap up discounted Russian crude oil shunned by EU and other Western powers, analysts have pointed out a clear possibility of products refined from Russian barrels reaching the EU’s markets via India. In our Opinion section today, S Irudaya Rajan and Kuldeep Singh reflect on migration as a constitutional right in the backdrop of social media rumours in Tamil Nadu about attacks against migrants: “Stigmatising migrants and politics of scapegoating are psychological apparatuses used for political benefits — hence strong and committed political will and bureaucratic structures are required to reduce xenophobic and violent acts against migrants.” The Indian Space Research Organisation brought down a satellite in a controlled manner after its end of life, for the first time last week. How was the satellite brought down? Why did ISRO attempt a controlled re-entry? Anonna Dutt explains. And Finally…
🤐 Delhi Confidential: Rajya Sabha chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar may be hitting back at Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for claiming that microphones of Opposition members are turned off in Parliament, but Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla appears to believe in sending out subtle messages.
🎧 In today’s episode of the 3 Things podcast, we unravel the myth of afforestation, lack of transparency on the status of forests, and the dubious timber trail of Myanmar, as part of our investigation series in collaboration with the ICIJ. Until tomorrow, Ariba and Anandu Suresh 
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