eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE With the river by my side AHMEDABAD, LATECITY June8,2025 Travelling on a river makes one acutely aware of the ceaseless flow of time 12+04(EYE)PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT CBC 46101/13/0009/2526 Nari Shakti’s Spirit of Entrepreneurship gets Wings With over 35 crore loans, nearly 70% beneficiaries of Mudra Yojana are women LAMMY MEETS PM, JAISHANKAR Trade to terror, India and UK flag deeper ties Delhi won’t accept equivalence of perpetrator and victim: Jaishankar EID, JAMA MASJID SHUBHAJIT ROY Children celebrate after prayers on the occasion of Eid al-Adha at Jama Masjid in New Delhi on Saturday. Praveen Khanna AFTER MEETING visiting UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy Saturday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that Indiafollowsapolicyof “zerotolerance against terrorism” and expects its partners to understand that Delhi will never “countenance” the equivalence of perpetrators and victims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who met Lammy as well, said:“PleasedtomeetUKForeign Rahul’s attack on EC doesn’t match poll data, officials say bid to ‘defame’ VALLABH OZARKAR, DAMINI NATH & RITIKA CHOPRA NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, JUNE 7 Khairul Islam, 51, was detained on May 23 SUKRITA BARUAH GUWAHATI, JUNE 7 TWO WEEKS after he was detained from his home and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh by security forces, 51-year-old KhairulIslamcelebratedEidwith his family in Assam’s Morigaon districtafterhewasbroughtback and handed over to his family. “There are no words for the thoughtsthatweregoingthrough my head during those two days that I was in Bangladesh. I was fearful, I was not sure if I would ever be able to come back to my family,”hetoldTheIndianExpress, speaking from his home. Islam, a former government school primary teacher, had been declared a foreigner by a Foreigners Tribunal in 2016. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LEADER OF Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s attack on the Election Commission, in a piece in The Indian Express Saturday, reiterates allegations he has made in the past and contradicts Maharashtra Assembly election data the poll panel has released. A scrutiny by The Indian SPECIAL TO THEEXPRESS By DEVENDRA FADNAVIS RAGA: REJECTED BY PEOPLE,NOW HE REJECTS PEOPLE’S MANDATE PAGE 7 Express of his allegations and data around each shows that AMONG SITES FOR DHARAVI RELOCATION At Deonar dumping site, toxicology indicators four times safety limit: Study PRATIP ACHARYA MUMBAI, JUNE 7 EVEN AS the Deonar dumping ground, in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs, is among the areas earmarkedforrelocationof Dharavi residents, a waste characterisation study commissioned by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) shows that the level of toxicology indicators at the landfill is up to four times thepermissiblelimitsprescribed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Thestudyanalysedthelevels of Biochemical Oxygen Demand CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Gandhi’s criticism selectively citesrecords,ignorescrucialcontext and, in one case, even draws a connection where none exists. Chief ElectionCommissioner GyaneshKumarwasunavailable for comment. However, a senior EC official said: “After losing the match, blaming the referee has becomestandardpractice.These allegations are absurd and a bid to defame the poll body. ECI has responded to INC on 24 December 2024 on the same CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PM Narendra Modi with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Saturday. PTI GOVT & POLITICS BEHIND PAKISTAN’S APPOINTMENT TO UNSC COMMITTEES PAGE 7 Onboard Shukla’s mission: Study to enable diabetes patients travel to space ANONNA DUTT & AMITABH SINHA NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 AMONG the studies and experiments that will keep India’s Shubhanshu Shukla and other astronauts on Axiom-4 mission busyduringtheirtwo-weekstay in space expected to launch June 10, is one aimed at enabling diabetic people to travel into space. Asof now,insulin-dependent diabeticpatientsarenotselected CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E EXPLAINED Assam man ‘pushed into Bangladesh’ back home in time for Eid NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 Worse than ● sewage THE HIGH levels of BOD, COD and TDS indicate that the water and soil at the dumping ground are even more contaminated than Mumbai's untreated sewage with a recorded BOD level of 100 mg/litre. A CPCB report had earlier said that Deonar is among the top 22 methane hotspots in the country. Vaishno Devi pilgrims, engineer heading home: On Day 1, Katra-Srinagar train has 530 on board ARUN SHARMA KATRA, JUNE 7 Passengers in the Vande Bharat train in Srinagar, Saturday. PTI ON SATURDAY morning, when the first Vande Bharat train with 530 passengers on board soundedthewhistleatShriMata Vaishno Devi railway station here, it marked the beginning of a journey to Kashmir through variousengineeringmarvelsand three major geological thrust zones—Reasi,MurrieandPanjal. An electrically propelled engine hauled eight coaches of Vande Bharat on a historic trip from Katra to Srinagar railway station, a distance of 189 km, at 8:10 am sharp. Of this, 78 km falls between Banihal and Srinagar, and 111 km between Katra and Banihal. Nearly97kmof this111kmis through 27 tunnels, while CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Detained in Doha for ‘unknown reasons’: Six months on, techie’s kin seek govt help Amit’s company has extended logistical support to his parents to travel to Doha ADITI RAJA VADODARA, JUNE 7 A PANEER paratha made by his mother and an English version of the BhagvadGitahandedover by his parents to “help find courage” in the darkest hour are the straws of hope that 45-yearold Amit Gupta — the Region Headof TechMahindraforQatar Amit Gupta was allegedly detained in Qatar in January. and Kuwait — has been grasping at, over six months after he was allegedlydetainedbyauthorities in Qatar in January for “unknown reasons”. His parents have travelled from Vadodara to Doha, camping there since May this year, to provide ‘moral support’ to their son, even as the anguish continuesforthefamilyseekingjustice. Retired ONGC employee JP Gupta (73) and his wife Pushpa (65) have been granted weekly half an hour in-person meetings with Amit, who remains confined in “a room without windows” at an undisclosed detention center in Doha since January. When they first met Amit on their arrival in May, the Guptas said he “cried like a child”. JP Gupta says, “Since he was taken into custody on January 1, he has not been informed till date what are the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ahmedabad