DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2024, KOLKATA, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES `6.00 (`12 IN NORTH EAST STATES & ANDAMAN) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 Modi Sarkar ki Guarantee Government of india CBC 22201/13/0119/2324 Empowering youth through skilling Training of 1 crore 50 lakh youth under PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana, employment opportunities created Scan for more information Hamara Sankalp Viksit Bharat ALLIES TMC, DMK, NCP LIKELY TO STAY AWAY TOO SENA VS SENA Callingit‘BJP-RSS’event,Congto skipRamtempleopeningonJan22 PM Narendra Modi at the inauguration of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. PTI World looks at India as an important pillar of stability: PM Modi Greenmobilitytochips,VibrantGujarat getsoverRs2lakhcrininvestmentpledge SOHINI GHOSH, PARIMAL DABHI & LEENA MISRA GANDHINAGAR, JANUARY 10 FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY to greenmobilityandsemiconductors,topcorporatesledbySuzuki Motors and the Adani Group pledged investments worth Rs 2,38,200 crore in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inaugural session of the tenth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) on Wednesday. Held after five years, the NY court asks US Govt to show murder-for-hire proof against Nikhil Gupta EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 A NEW York Court has ordered the US government to respond to a motion filed by Nikhil Gupta’s lawyers, seeking material relating to the charges against him. Gupta has been accused by the US authorities of plotting to kill Khalistani separatistGurpatwantSinghPannun. “On January 4, 2024, defense counsel filed a motion to compel production of discovery, requesting that the Court enter an order directing the Government to begin providing defense counsel with discovery material. The Court hereby directs the Government to file a reply to the Motion to Compel within three days of the date of this order,” US District Judge Victor Marrero said in the order on January 8. summit,themedasa‘gatewayto the future’, was pitched by the government as the “first in Amrit Kaal”. Addressingindustrycaptains after inaugurating the tenth edition of the summit in Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Modi said, “People across the world can keep doing their analysis, but it is my guarantee that this (India among top three world economies) will happen.” ThosepresentincludedTataSons Chairman N Chandrasekharan, Reliance Industries CMD BJP hits back: Shows what INDIA bloc thinks about Sanatan Dharma After dithering for two weeks, Cong clears air before Rahul yatra on Jan 14 Congress dilemma MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 ARGUINGTHATtheconsecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 was “clearly an RSS-BJP event”, the Congress Wednesday “respectfully declined” the invitation extended to its leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to attend what it calledtheinaugurationof an“incomplete temple”. Among INDIA partners, the CPI(M) was the first to declare thatitsgeneralsecretarySitaram Yechury,whoreceivedaninvitation from the Trust, would not attend the event. With the THE CONGRESS in 2019 welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on the case, but was caught in a political dilemma over the invitation. A section felt it should not “give legitimacy” to the BJP-RSS project but another worried about the electoral fallout in the Hindi heartland. VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 Congress announcing its decision to stay away, other Opposition parties in the INDIA group such as the Trinamool CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 HITTINGOUTattheCongressfor declining the invitation extended to its leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, Sonia Gandhi and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for the January 22 temple consecration ceremonyin Ayodhya,theruling BJP on Wednesday said the opposition party's move was yet another evidence of what it thought of Sanatan Dharma. BJPspokespersonNalinKohli said,“Congresstooknostepsover the last few decades for a temple inAyodhya.Theydeniedtheexis- RAVIK BHATTACHARYA KOLKATA, JANUARY 10 At present, Darjeeling zoo has 14 snow leopards — 7 males, 7 females. Officials attribute it to unique breeding programme that involves using expansive gene pool, monitoring. Express CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 PAGE 1 ANCHOR Suchana Seth was arrested for allegedly killing her 4-yr-old son PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA PANAJI, JANUARY 10 India's Top Potential Training Institute for IAS CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 RELATED REPORT PAGE 8 BUSINESS AS USUAL INAsetbacktotheShivSenafaction led by Uddhav Thackeray, more than one-and-a-half years after the party split into two, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Wednesday declared that the opposing factionledbyChief MinisterEknath Shinde was “the real political party”. BY UNNY CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 RELATED REPORTS highest since the launch of the breedingprogrammeatPadmaja NaiduHimalayanZoologicalPark (PNHZP),alsocommonlyknown as Darjeeling zoo. The announcement was made by the World Association forZoos andAquariums(WAZA) —aglobalallianceof regionalassociations, national federations, zoos, and aquariums — on its social media handle. “Thisisgreatnewsandanim- Jai Jawan menserecognitionfromaninternational body, like the WAZA. It indicatesandsignifiesthesuccess ofourconservationbreedingprogramme. Darjeeling Zoo has the only conservative breeding programmeforsnowleopardsinthe entire country. Apart from snow leopards, we have conservative breeding programmes for red pandas, mountain orals and pheasants at the zoo,” Saurabh CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 " Jai Kisan INTERVIEW GUIDANCE PROGRAMME CSE - 2023 Offline/Online Meet to Former Chairman of UPSC through ‘‘ Mentorship Program ’’ st ( One-to-one Session : 21 Jan. 2024 ) with Prof. D.P. 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Speaking to The Indian Express, he said that around 11 pm on Shinde, Thackeray MUMBAI, JANUARY 10 `` NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, JAN 10 Cab driver shares trip details: Cop phone call, locating police station CONVERSING WITH Goa police in Konkani, a four-hour traffic jam on the way to Bengaluru, and the excuse of a quick washroombreak--thecabdriverwho wasferryingSuchanaSethtoher destination told The Indian Express how he managed to take her to the police station without arousing suspicion. Seth, a Bengaluru-based CEO of a tech start-up, is accused of killing her four-year-old son in a Goa hotel. She was caught from NEARLY FOUR decades after Darjeeling zoo began a conservation breeding programme, it now has the world’s largest numberof snowleopardsincaptivity —14 in total with 7 males and 7 females. Among them, there are six cubs from three mothers, the DEEKSHA TERI & PALLAVI SMART IN VIEW of “pressure” on students during placement season, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are consideringnotdisclosingthehighestannualpackagesintheirplacement reports, focussing on mean and median salary figures instead, The Indian Express has learnt. ThisconsensusemergedduringarecentmeetingoftheAllIITs Placement Committee (AIPC), where discussions included the IIT-Bombay placement report from last week which claimed over 85 offers surpassing an annualpackageofRs1crore.Inacorrigendum issued on Wednesday, IIT-Bombay, while citing a “technical error”, revised the number ofRs1crore-plusoffersinthefirst phase of placement to 22. VALLABH OZARKAR & OMKAR GOKHALE Darjeeling zoo success story: It has world’s largest number of snow leopards in captivity Dr. G.C. Srivastava IAS (Retd.) 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