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1. The Madras High Court in a significant development directs the Election Commission to provide detailed information on cases filed during the 2019 Lok Sabha and the 2021 Tamil Nadu elections. The court has expressed concerns over the seemingly superficial nature of the cases registered, noting that they appear to be for statistical purposes only, with little to no prosecution taking place. This comes in response to a petitioner who accused of bribing voters in 2011, seeks to have the case quashed due to the final reports being filed only after a decade. 2. Karnataka cash hauls ahead of polls. Karnataka's stunning list of cash seizures. We are talking about the FST seizes cash, drugs ahead of the polls. 3. Social media platform X announces it withheld some posts in India containing political speech from elected politicians, political parties, and candidates for office after the country's election commission ordered their takedown. Elon Musk-owned X has said it disagreed with the election commission's orders. We call on the Election Commission to publish all of its takedown orders going forward, adds X. 4. Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde assured Salman Khan and his family this afternoon when he met them today, two days after shots were fired outside the actor's Bandra home, noted screenplay writer and actor Salman Khan's father Salim Khan tells NDTV. What would have happened had somebody got harmed. There is no guarantee. The entire family has protection, which is a good thing, he says, adding, 'We have no fear. The date of death is fixed'. 5. The International Monetary Fund has raised India's growth projection to 6.8 per cent from its January forecast of 6.5 per cent citing bullish domestic demand conditions and a rising working-age population. With this, India continues to be the fastest-growing economy in the world, ahead of China's growth projection of 4.6 per cent during the same period. 6. A war of letters has broken out in Delhi over alleged shortfall in water supply. Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena writes an open letter to Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in jail in connection with the liquor policy case, alleging AAP minister Atishi was using the death of a woman in a fight over fetching water for 'narrow political goals'. Atishi has dismissed the charge in a letter addressed to the Lt Governor and termed his missive 'unfortunate' and 'may be intended for optics'.