The Ideas Page: India-US trade deal seals farmers’ slide — provider to poor relative 11 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2026 Journalism of Courage MuMbAI, lAtE CIty, 20 PAGES ₹5.00 l www.indianexpress.com DA I ly F R O M : A h M E DA b A D , C h A N D I GA R h , D E l h I , j A I P u R , kO l k AtA , l u C k N O W , M u M b A I , N AG P u R , PAt N A , P u N E , vA D O DA R A REg.NO. MCS/067/2018 - 20 RNI REgN. NO. 1543/57 118 OPPOSITION MPs SIGN NOTICE SUbMITTED TO LOK SAbHA SECRETARY GENERAL 111 139 Opp’s no-trust notice against him, Speaker to stay away until decision 172 74 Journalistgets yearinjailin caseofAdani defamation Press Trust of India Gandhinagar, February 10 THE MAGISTRATE court in Mansa, Gandhinagar, has convicted journalist Ravi Nair in a criminal defamation case and sentenced him to a year’s imprisonment and imposed a fine. The case followed a complaint filed by Adani Enterprises Ltd (AEL), the Adani Group's flagship company, alleging that Ravi Nair published and disseminated a series of tweets containing false and defamatory statements intended to damage the reputation of AEL and the Adani Group. AEL argued that the impugned tweets did not amount to fair comment or legitimate criticism but were designed to undermine the credibility of the company in the eyes of the public and investors. ThecourtheldthatAELhad successfullyestablisheditscase and found Ravi Nair guilty of criminal defamation. TMC did not sign, wanted to give Speaker more time to address Opp concerns Liz Mathew New Delhi, February 10 HOURS AFTER the Opposition gave notice for a no-confidence motion against him Tuesday, Speaker Om Birla, sources said, has decided not to chair Lok Sabha proceedings until a decision is taken on the notice. The notice, signed by at least 118 Opposition MPs, has been submitted to Lok Sabha Business as Usual By EP UNNY Gen shares publisher note saying book not out after Rahul’s remark on ‘lying’ Asad Rehman New Delhi, February 10 Last week, Speaker Om Birla suspended 8 Opp MPs. ANI FIlE Secretary General Utpal Kumar Singh. TheSpeakerhasbeenunder Opposition fire ever since he suspended eight MPs protesting in Lok Sabha and for stating later he had “credible information that several »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 parliament morE rEportS, pAGE 12 BREAKING HIS silence on the row over his unpublished memoir Four Stars of Destiny, former Army chief General M M Naravane (retired) Tuesdaysharedapostbypublishing housePenguinRandomHouse Indiainwhichitsaid“nocopies of the book — in print or digital form — have been published, distributed, sold or otherwise made available to the public”. Sharingthepublisher’sstate- Former Army Chief general M M Naravane’s unpublished memoir is at centre of storm ment, General Naravane said: “This is the status of the book.” Hope US deal won’t mean Delhi-Moscow ties suffer: Russia Divya A New Delhi, February 10 EXPRESSING CONCERN over the India-US trade framework and statements by US President Donald Trump about India committing to cut its import of Russian oil, Russia's DeputyForeignMinisterSergei Ryabkov told The Indian ExpressthatMoscowhopestheresult of the deal is “not that we (India-Russia ties) suffer”. The remarks by Ryabkov, who is in New Delhi for the first BRICSSherpasmeeting,comea day after Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said India's energy sourcingwouldbeguidedbynational interests. Edited excerpts from an interview: India and the US have express interview SERGEI RYAbKOV RuSSIAN DEPuty FOREIGN MINIStER agreed on a framework for an interim trade pact, which also refers to India’s dealings with Russia. What do you make of it? Well,Ihopetheresultofthis deal would not mean that we (India-Russia ties) suffer or »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ALLIANCE WITH SHIV SENA UbT For social media firms, content blocking time now cut to just 3 hours Soumyarendra barik New Delhi, February 10 THE GOVERNMENT’S newly notified regulatory framework for social media companies is a mixed bag for them: While the IT Ministry has diluted an earlier proposed requirement to display labels on content gen- erated through artificial intelligence (AI), social media companiesnowhaveastrictertimeline to take down problematic content — from the earlier 36 hours to just three hours. The IT Ministry Tuesday notified amendments to the Information Technology »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ‘Conspiracy in Ajit’s death’: Rohit BJP to take mayor’s seeks probe by foreign agencies post in Chandrapur amid Cong infighting Alok Deshpande appointed by the state government to probe the incident. RohitPawardemandedthat an independent third party agency such as the National Transportation Safety Board France’sBureauofEnquiryand Mumbai, February 10 NATIONALIST CONGRESS Party (SP) MLA Rohit Pawar on Tuesday alleged the possibility ofaconspiracyintheJanuary28 aircraft crash that killed Maharashtra’s then Deputy Chief MinisterAjitPawar,questioning thecompetenceoftheCrimeInvestigation Department (CID) »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Rohit Pawar at a press conference in Mumbai on Tuesday. GANESh ShIRSEkAR SUNETRA PAWAR TAKES CHARgE AS DEPUTY CM page 8 Ankita Deshkar Nagpur, February 10 CONGRESS INFIGHTING in Chandrapur has handed the BJP and Shiv Sena (UBT) an opening in one of the few municipal corporations where the party was in a position to claim the mayor’s post. Deep fac- tional divisions between the Vijay Wadettiwar and Pratibha Dhanorkar groups during the February 10 mayoral election paved the way for an unlikely BJP–Sena (UBT) alliance, with BJP corporator Sangita Rajendra Khandekar now set to become mayor in the first term. »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Scan to watch the magic unfold! BISCUITS