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A huge flare up in Israel's war against Hamas. Gaza's largest refugee camp was hit by a series of powerful explosions on Tuesday, killing many people. All this at a time when WikiLeaks has published a document which describes an Israeli plan to depopulate all of Gaza pushing residents to the Northern Sinai in Egypt. On LRC, experts discuss where is this deadly war heading.

The Enforcement Directorate summoned Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the alleged liquor policy case. With three AAP ministers already in jail, and now the summons to the AAP chief, what's next for the party? Is there a plan B or is this going south?  We take on these questions on Left Right and Centre.

 

Minister of State, IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar speaks exclusively to NDTV on the latest Apple hacking alert flagged by several Opposition leaders. While calling the Opposition's charge bizarre, he said that Apple has to answer a series of questions and that the Centre takes rights to privacy seriously.   

Navy Chief Admiral Hari Kumar said that the Centre is making "every effort" to secure the release of eight Navy veterans who have been handed death penalty in Qatar. Can India bring them back - a special interaction with CDR KP Sanjeev Kumar (Retd).

 

Union Health Minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya today cited a report of the Indian Council of Medical Research and said that those who had suffered serious Covid should not overexert themselves for a year or two to avoid heart attacks.

Two women killed, over 50 injured in serial blasts in Ernakulum in Kerala. A 48-year-old man, Dominic Martin, who was earlier associated with the congregation has claimed responsibility for the blasts and surrendered before police in Thrissur. However, police have not yet confirmed his involvement in the explosion. Was it a lone-wolf attack or is there a larger plot. Watch Left Right & Centre.

India abstained from the UN's ceasefire resolution and did not vote in the UN General Assembly resolution that called for an immediate humanitarian truce in the Israel-Hamas war. Explaining their decision to abstain, India said that the resolution did not mention the October 7 Hamas attacks and that the UN needs to send a clear message against terror. The voting at UNGA comes at a time when Israel has announced expanding ground operations in Gaza. Is this India's balancing act?

Eight former officers of the Indian Navy have been handed death sentences in Qatar following allegations of spying for Israel. Calling the judgment "shocking", the foreign ministry said it would not comment much on the case given the "confidential nature of proceedings" but said that they will contest the case. The men have been in jail since August 2022. Granted consular access to them, New Delhi has been working to secure their release. The men went to trial in March.

The number of dead in Gaza is now at crisis levels, a fact made clear by the video of an Al Jazeera Palestine correspondent encountering the death of his family in Israeli bombing. The video has stunned people around the world. Israel's fight against Hamas terror versus the lives of innocent Palestinians appear to have no clear signs of a way out. Israel's ground offensive, though, has still not started in full earnest other than small incursions in the Gaza Strip.

Indian-American scientist Dr Ashok Gadgil, who was awarded the prestigious White House National Medal for Technology and Innovation, told NDTV that energy-efficient lighting has been saving billions of dollars in emerging economies. Dr Gadgil is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley, who has developed low­-cost solutions to some of the developing world's most intractable problems, including safe drinking water technologies, energy-efficient stoves, and ways to make efficient electric lighting affordable. He focuses on robust inventions that can be deployed as widely as possible, and together, his projects have helped more than 100 million people. On the infant-warmer innovation, Dr Gadgil said, "The function is to avoid infant deaths from hypothermia. Places where they often die don't have electricity. Our infant-warmer has reduced all neonatal deaths by a factor of three."