Thursday, March 12, 2026 Journalism of Courage NEW DElhI, lAtE CIty, 22 PAgES ₹7.00 (₹8 RAIPuR, ₹15 SRINAgAR) 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 , lu 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 for all humankind Chief Guest SHRI NARENDRA MODI HON’BLE PRIME MINISTER OF BHARAT Guest of Honour FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA Justice JK Maheshwari Shri Ashwini Vaishnaw Judge, Supreme Court of India Union Minister of Railways, I&B Electronics & IT Shri Piyush Goyal Mr. Stuart Smith Hon. Babajee Balkrishna Member of Parliament, Mauritius Member of Parliament New Zealand Dr. Lena Gumnior Justice Sanjeev Sachdeva Chief Justice, High Court of Madhya Pradesh Member of Parliament New Zealand Mr. Sriram Natarajan Mr. Dan Carden Mr. K.V. Subramanian Fmr. Chief Economic Advisor Govt. of India Ms. Shivani Raja Member of Parliament United Kingdom Prof. Shilpa Bhupathiraju Shri Sujeet Kumar Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Bharat Dr. Ashok Kumar Mittal Mr. Ashwajit Singh Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha Founder & Managing Director IPE Global 12 13 14 Mr. Puneet Chhatwal CEO, Taj Hotels Resorts & Palaces Mr. Varun Dubey Mr. Abhijit Chavda Founder & CEO Superhealth Historian & Content Creator MARCH 2026 Dr. C. Raj Kumar Mr. Vikrant Shrotriya Managing Director & Corporate VP Novo Nordisk India Mr. Dilip Cherian Dr. Geetha Manjunath Founder, CEO & CTO NIRAMAI Health Analytix Mr. Aditya Goyal Mr. Bharat Kaushal Mr. Gaurav Gupta Mr. KB Kachru CSO, Bhago Mobility Executive Chairman, Hitachi India Founder & CEO, Gabit President, South Asia, Radisson Hotel Group CEO GalaxEye Mr. Pankaj Chadha Executive VP & Head Marine Platforms, Equipment and Systems L&T Dr. Prakriti Tayalia Mr. M V Reddy Joint Managing Director Astra Microwave Products Limited H. E. Mahishini Colonne IIT Bombay India Mr. Sanjay Nekkanti CEO & Co-Founder Gnani AI Director NIOT CEO & Co-Founder Avataar AI Mr. Pranjal Sharma Author, Geostrategic & Foreign Policy Expert Shri Guneet Monga Film Producer Prof. Bijesh Kumar Biswal Dr. M Srinivas Director AIIMS Delhi Mr. Ridhi Khosla Jalan Interior Designer & Content Creator Mr. Arunoday Singh Thinker O-Health Mr. Yash Thakker Gaming Creator Mr. Claudio Cajado Grp Capt Prasanth Balakrishnan Nair Member, Nigerian Senate Member, Chamber of Deputies of Brazil Gaganaut Prof. Xufeng Zhu Amb. Bhaswati Mukherjee Founder & CEO FourLion Capital Mr. Luke Coutinho Mr. Ankit Modi Dr. Souvik Maiti Mr. Nitin Guru Managing Principal CP Kukreja Architects Managing Partner & Head Novo Holdings Asia Pacific Mr. Anirudh Sharma CEO Digantara Mr . Amar Nagaram Mr. Rikant Pittie Mr. Munish Gupta Co-Founder Ease-My-Trip Managing Editor & Chairman, PIO TV Mr. Amber Nigam Founder & CEO Rx One Care Pvt. Ltd. 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JUSTICE SURYA KANT Deputy Speaker National Assembly of Bhutan Chief Minister of Delhi Member of the Senate Chile Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Bharat Mr. Arjun Bajaj Founder Vantage Influence Prof. Alexander Evans Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Smt. Priyanka Chaturvedi Prof. Omar Besbes Mr. Aron Shaviv Global HeadKearney Advanced Mobility Institute Former Mayor Bharat Metropolitan City, Nepal Columbia Business School Columbia University Mr. Francisco Chahuán CHIEF JUSTICE OF INDIA SHRI BABURAM BHATTARAI Mr. Sangay Khandu Smt. Rekha Gupta Chief Minister of Rajasthan Mr. Malcom Byrne Ms. Renu Dahal Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Bharat Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma Member of Dáil Éireann Ireland Dr. Malte Kaufmann Shri Sudhanshu Trivedi Member of Parliament United Kingdom Dr. Christian Gasparic Ms. Shira Loewenberg Director, Asia Pacific Institute, AJC NEW DELHI Shri.Vivek Tankha Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Bharat Mr. Ugyen Lama Member of the Bundestag Germany Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, Bharat Shri Nayab Singh Saini Member of Parliament Bhutan Member, National Assembly Armenia Amb Harsh Vardhan Shringla Dr. Jitendra Singh HON. FREDRIK REINFELDT Guest of Honour 36TH PRIME MINISTER OF NEPAL FORMER PRIME MINISTER OF SWEDEN Union Minister of India of Science & Chief Minister of Haryana Technology & PMO Ms. Tsovinar Vardanyan Member of the Senate Argentina Member, Norwegian Parliament Member of Parliament New Zealand Member of Parliament, Lok Sabha, Bharat Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs, Bharat Mr. Himanshu Gulati Ms. Rachel Brooking Shri Manish Tewari Founder, Director & CEO, Molbio Diagnostics SUMMIT 2026 Ms. Alicia Fregonese Member, Chamber of Deputies Member, of Argentina U.S House of Representatives Mr. Tangi Utikere Shri Manohar Lal Khattar Minister of Law and Justice, Bharat Mr. Enrique M. Goerling Lara Mr. Sergio Capozzi Member, Chamber of Deputies Argentina Rep. Rich McCormick Member of the Bundestag Germany NXT Shri Arjun Ram Meghwal Minister of Commerce and Industry Government of India Guest of Honour Guest of Honour HON. SCOTT MORRISON Mr. Bradley Jardine Schwarzman Scholar Tsinghua University Mr. Geetesh Singh Former Indian Esports Athlete