DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA BY UNNY POSTAL REGN. NO. JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2024, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES BUSINESS AS USUAL ● `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 JUNE 15-16: INDIA INVITED UTTARAKHAND: RAISES BORDER, ARMY Ukraine:Swiss planJunemeet, Russiapresence ‘soonerorlater’ PM: Terror spreads in weak govts... we enter homes to kill terrorists AVANEESH MISHRA DEHRADUN, APRIL 11 ‘Pegasus-like spyware’: Apple warns India users, 91 more countries SOUMYARENDRA BARIK NEW DELHI, APRIL 11 APPLE HAS sent a fresh round of threatnotificationstosomeof its users in India, along with 91 other countries, warning that theiriPhonesmayhavebeenpotentiallyattackedby“mercenary spyware” like the Israeli NSO Group’s controversial Pegasus malware. Apple has not attributed the attacks to any stakeholder, and, in fact, has also diluted the language of the notification. In the past, the company would alert users that “state sponsored” attackers may be targeting their iPhones. But, according to a changeinitspolicy,thecompany has now termed these attacks as “mercenary spyware” instead of “state-sponsored”. Last October, it had sent a similarnotificationtoOpposition leaders across parties — from Congress’s Shashi Tharoor to AAP’s Raghav Chadha to TMC’s CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 DESCRIBING PAST Congress-led government as “weak and unstable”whichfailedtocheckterror, Prime Minister Narendra ModisaidThursdaythat“Modi’s stronggovernment”was“killing terrorists after entering their homes (aatankwadiyon ko ghar mei ghus kar mara jata hai)”. He also said that because of his strong government, the Tiranga (Tricolour) was now a guarantee of safety even in war zones. Addressing a BJP rally in Rishikesh in Uttarakhand which will vote in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19, PM Narendra Modi with Uttarakhand CM Pushkar Singh Dhami in Rishikesh on Thursday. ANI Modiattackedthe Congresssaying the “Delhi royal family” – he was referring to the Gandhi CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION ATTACK IN UK After lookout notices for 15, NIA withdraws 3 over ‘mistaken identity’ MAHENDER SINGH MANRAL NEW DELHI, APRIL 11 MONTHSAFTERzeroinginon15 suspects,publiclyreleasing their photographs, and issuing lookout notices for them for alleged involvement in the violence at the Indian High Commission in London during a protest on March 19 last year, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has now determined that at least three persons from Punjab were INSIDE UKCYBER SECURITY CHIEFISITSNEW ENVOY TOINDIA PAGE 2 wrongly identified. The Ministryof Home Affairs (MHA) had issued Look Out Circulars (LOCs) against 15 people, who were identified from fivevideosof theviolence.These CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MaybenotonDayOnebutRussiahas tobethere,saysSwissForeignMinister ‘EID MUBARAK EVERYONE’ Actor Shah Rukh Khan greets fans gathered outside his residence on the occasion of Eid, in Mumbai on Thursday. PTI AMETHI AND RAEBARELI As Gandhis stall, voters warn: ‘Time gone when you could wave, win’ BJP's newly built offices buzz, Cong struggling to keep up MANOJ C G AMETHI, RAEBARELI, APRIL 11 IT IS a Sunday afternoon. Sitting with two colleagues and scrollingthrough DECISION his social media 2024 feed,Amethidistrict Congress president Pradeep Singhal says heisconfidentRahulGandhiwill againcontestfromtheseat.And, five years after he lost the family seat to the BJP's Smriti Irani, Singhal says: “He will win.” Barring the three, the district Congress committee office – VOTE SHARE (in %) Raebareli (2019) Sonia Gandhi (Cong) 55.8 Dinesh Pratap 38.36 Singh (BJP) Amethi (2019) Smriti Irani (BJP) 49.71 RahulGandhi(Cong) 43.86 more like a re-fashioned shop space– atGauriganjinAmethiis empty. There is a larger central Congress office next to it, but it isdeserted,justoveramonthbefore Amethi votes in the fifth phase, May 20. Singhal suddenly stops his social media scrolling as he chances upon the “massive turnout” for the nomination filing by a candidate in Banswara in Rajasthan. “Look at the crowd!” he exclaims. “He (the candidate) is on a camel.” HiscolleagueSarveshKumar Singh hesitatingly points out that the candidate Singhal mistook for the Congress nominee belongs to “some Adivasi party” (the Bharat Adivasi Party’s Rajkumar Roat). The two reluctantly return to the Amethi campaign. To questions as to why Rahul CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Jaipur SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, APRIL 11 ALMOST THREE months after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asked Switzerland to do so, the Swiss government Thursdayannounceditproposes to host a conference, at the level of heads of state, that “aims to provide a platform for a highleveldialogueonwaystoreacha comprehensive, just and lasting peaceforUkrainebasedoninternationallawandtheUNCharter”. The proposed dates are June 15and16attheBürgenstockhotel above Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland. This is timed to ensure maximum attendance — the G7 leaders’ summit will be held on June 13-15 in Borgo Egnazia in Apulia, Italy. Indiahasalsobeeninvitedfor the peace conference. The first outreach took place when Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis visited NewDelhionFebruary5, met External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and sounded out Delhi on the conference and India’s participation. This was followed up by Zelenskyy’s phone conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi in March and a visit by NewDelhi atthetable THE SWISS want India to be part of the peace process and Delhi will have to take a quick call on its participation at the highest level immediately after the June 4 poll results. India would want to be in the room — irrespective of the level of participation. The war and its course in the next 2 months will also determine India's next step. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to convey an invitation to India to attend the conference. The Swiss government said, “During President Zelenskyy's visitto Bernon January15, 2024, Switzerland and Ukraine discussed the next steps towards a comprehensive, just and lasting peaceinUkraine.AtUkraine'srequest, Switzerland agreed to hostahigh-levelconference…In June 2024, Switzerland will probably offer an opportunity to discuss different approaches to CONTINUED ON PAGE 2