The Editorial Page: Dear Gen Z, join the system. Change happens in mundane politics 12 ThUrSdaY, JUNE 4, 2026 Journalism of Courage mumbAi, lAte city, 22 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 fOREIGN NATIONAlS wERE fROM lIbERIA, NIGERIA, MOzAMbIqUE, bANGlADESh 110 138 171 Capital inferno: 21 killed in hotel — 12 foreign nationals Most victims patients of nearby hospitals; hotel owner arrested 80 SURAT ACCIDENT Police collect samples for DNA tests as victims not identified yet Alok Singh, Sakshi Chand, Pragynesh & Gayathri Mani New Delhi, June 3 Kamal Saiyed Bardoli, Surat June 3 A DAY after seven persons, including four women, were killed and several injured after two maharashtra state road TransportCorporation(msrTC) buses collided and one caught fire near Bardoli town in Gujarat’s surat district on Tuesday, police are yet to identify majority of the deceased, most of them likely from maharashtra. As of Wednesday evening, only the body of Ghanshyam raju Barkale, who was the driverofthebusthatcaughtfire and hailed from Jalgaon in maharashtra, could be identified. The bus was bound for surat from Jamer depot in Jalgaon. The other bus was said to be travelling from surat to Dhule. With the bodies severely charred,theBardoliruralpolice on Wednesday took blood samples of four individuals, »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Two foreign nationals hang from a window as fire engulfs the building on Wednesday. AP TWenTY-onepeople,including 12 foreign nationals, were killed in a fire that destroyed a ground-plus-five-storey building operating as a bed and breakfast (B&B) establishment in malviya nagar in south Delhi on Wednesday morning. police said the foreign nationals belonged to Liberia, nigeria, and mozambique in Africa, and Bangladesh. most of them were medical tourists who had come to India for treatment,orwereaccompanying patients. The hotel, called Flourish staysB&B,islocatedinanarrow lane in hauz rani, diagonally acrossthestreetfrommaxhospital in saket. senior police officers said there were 26 rooms intheestablishment,morethan four times the maximum permissible number of six. most or all rooms in the building are believed to have beenoccupiedatthetimeofthe fire. The building had only one entry and exit. It allegedly did nothaveano-objectionCertificate from the Fire Department. Thetragedy,amongthebiggestfiredisastersofthepastfew decades in Delhi, came four days after a building undergoingillegaladditionscollapsed »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Business as Usual By EP UNNY INSIDE Page 7 no Fire noc, B&B had 26 rooms against Permit For six Bangladesh to nigeria: Far From home, agonising wait and search Suryakumar removed Fresh tariffs of 12.5% on as captain of T20 team India proposed by US Devendra Pandey Mumbai, June 3 Three monThs after he led IndiatotheT20WorldCuptitle on home soil, suryakumar Yadav has been removed as the captain and is unlikely to find a place in the team for the short- estformat.Thiscomesaheadof the tours of Ireland and england starting later this month. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), in consultation with the team managementandselectioncommittee, will appoint a new captain »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ravi Dutta Mishra & Akash Mandal New Delhi, Mumbai, June 3 The Trump administration Wednesdayproposed12.5%tariffs on India and 53 other countries, including China, the uK andJapan,afteraunitedstates Trade representative (usTr) trade investigation under section 301 of the us Trade Act of 1974 declared that these countries have failed to impose a legal prohibition on “importationofgoodsproducedwholly or in part with forced labour”. »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Mumbai