The editorial Page: lost and found — an ‘a’ for india’s long game 8 MOnDAy, SEPTEMbER 7, 2026 JournalisM of Courage kOLkATA, LATe CITy, 16 PAgeS ₹6.00 (₹12 in north east states, ₹20 in Andaman) 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 Happening today lThe Supreme CourT is scheduled to hear a plea seeking regulatory guidelines to control the ‘unpredictable fluctuations’ in airfares and ancillary charges imposed by private airlines in India. lJ&K’S firST international film festival begins in Srinagar. Over 130 films from 40 countries will be screened during the fourday event. Among the unique experiences will be a floating screen installed on Dal Lake for audiences seated on shikaras. Track These and more on www.indianexpress.com Business as Usual by EP Unny world page 10 Nepal Toll HiTs 1,344 as 5,000 remaiN missiNg pm, LG, rAhuL expreSS Grief; Cm SAyS No oNe wiLL be SpAreD ‘Hostel’ collapse near DU: Five dead, students feared trapped Bengal teen has narrow escape: No water supply, so went to friend’s house 7 of 10 pulled out of rubble critical; rescue ops on Alok Singh, Drishti Jain, Sakshi Chand, Sophiya mathew & Tabshir Shams New Delhi, September 6 AT LEAST five people were killed after a five-storey building used as a private hostel for students collapsed in Satya Niketan opposite Sri VenkateswaraCollegeinDhaulaKuanon Sundayafternoon,officialssaid. Tenotherswerepulledoutof the rubble and admitted to AIIMS Trauma Centre, police said.Sevenofthemwereincritical condition. Past midnight, rescueteamswerecontinuingto search for survivors at the site. Thebuilding,whichhoused an establishment called Hostel Daze, was allegedly owned by a resident of Gurgaon named Hari Ram, police said. Hari Ram, along with his brothers AnandBansalandAzadBansal, owns several plots and buildings around the building that collapsed, sources said. An FIR under Sections 105, 290, and 125(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS), relating to culpable homicide, negligenceduringconstruction or repair of buildings, and rash andriskyactthatendangerslife »CoNTiNueD oN pAGe 2 India, China Corps Commanders hold talks at LAC meeting point in Arunachal Commander of Spear Corps meets China counterpart at Wacha-Damai Amrita Nayak Dutta New Delhi, September 6 sana Varash, a first-year Ba student of motilal nehru college rescue operations underway at the site of the incident in satya niketan, sunday. AbhInAv SAhA A 10-sec video, a scramble to save stranger: ‘he’s alive, get him out’ Drishti Jain & pragynesh New Delhi, September 6 DARKNESS ALL around, a shaking camera, debris pressing down. On Sunday evening, at least seven people showed up at the site of the building collapse at Satya Niketan in South Delhi, drawn by a 10-second clip shot »CoNTiNueD oN pAGe 2 a student who was pulled out of the debris. PTI Tabshir Shams New Delhi, September 6 FIFTEENMINUTESbeforethe buildingturnedtorubble,Sana Varash, a first-year BA student of Motilal Nehru College, was inside it. The 18-year-old, from Falakata in Alipurduar district of West Bengal, was among the many students living in the building.Hewassharinga“tworoom set” on the third floor. Sittingonafootpathoutside the AIIMS metro station, waiting for news of his friends being treated at the Trauma Centre, Varash recalled that when he woke up around noon »CoNTiNueD oN pAGe 2 INDIA AND China were conducting Corps CommanderleveltalksinArunachalPradesh Sunday amid reports of recent tensions in the Taksing area of the Upper Subansiri district. LtGeneralGirishKalia,commander of the Army’s III Corps, alsocalledtheSpearCorps,with itsheadquartersatRangapahar nearDimapurinNagaland,was meeting his Chinese counterpart and other officers. The talks were being held at theWacha-Damaibordermeeting point on the Indian side to address ongoing issues along the LAC in the area. Wacha is India’seasternmostborderpersonnel meeting point, located in the Kibithoo sector in Arunachal Pradesh. The Indian Express first reported on Saturday about the holding of Corps Commanderlevel talks folllowing multiple meetings between local commanders of the two sides in recent weeks to resolve issues. According to sources, Indian troops continue to remain de- E. explained First such meeting in recent months This is the first senior military commander-level talks between India and China in recent months amid tensions along the LAC in Arunachal Pradesh. Tensions between Indian and Chinese troops along the LAC are typically resolved through meetings between the local commanders. ployed in large numbers in the area to prevent any escalation. Whatmakesthetalkssignificant is that it is the first senior military commander-level talks between India and China in recent months amid tensions alongtheLACinArunachalPradesh. These talks follow a meeting in Beijing on August 25 betweenNationalSecurityAdvisor Ajit Doval and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi who are the specialrepresentativesofthetwo countriesfortheboundarytalks. Moreover, Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to attend the BRICS summit in New Delhi on September 12-13. Xi last visited India in October 2019 when he travelled to »CoNTiNueD oN pAGe 2 express special ISRO responds to staff Hospital in Nepal questions: Ecosystem heals flood injured expanding, pvt sector with a helping hand — won’t shrink our role from Express readers Anonna Dutt New Delhi, September 6 THE INDIAN Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday said that it will continue to remain India’s principal institution for advanced space research, and that the participation of the private sector is not about reducing its role. This comes a day after The Indian Express reported that key employee associations of the space agency have written to its chairperson V Narayanan questioningthedirectionofthe organisation’s privatisation driveanditsimplicationforthe existing workforce, and the agency’s future role. The Indian Express report published on sept 6 In a statement on Sunday, the ISRO said that the opening up of the space sector, the Indian Space Policy 2023, along with progressive FDI policy, is aimed at creating a larger, stronger,andgloballycompetitive Indian space ecosystem. »CoNTiNueD oN pAGe 2 ‘Working together, combining resources, talent, scale, we think India and Canada can be world beaters’ ChriSTopher CooTer, CAnADIAn hIgh COmmISSIOner p 14 DEvAnSh TAShI MITTAL TObgyAL express in Nepal Rasuwa (Nepal), September 6 IN THE corridors of the light yellow-coloured building sit dozens of local residents, some waiting for their monthly vaccine, one waiting to get a knee injury looked at, another to get the dentist’s help with an aching tooth. Welcome to Jibjibe Rural Hospital, situated on a hilltop in Rasuwa, a district in Nepal on the border with China that was among the hardest hit in the devastating flash floods that swept through the region late last month. This neighbourhood primary medical centre generally acts as the first pitstop for The Jibjibe rural hospital in nepal’s rasuwa district was among the healthcare facilities that received critical medical equipment bought from donations to The Indian express citizens’ relief Fund in the aftermath of the april 2015 earthquake. TAShI TObgyAL nearbyresidentswitheveryday ailments,vaccinations,routine »CoNTiNueD oN pAGe 2 l she dIed In duBlIn on augusT 31 Mitha’s love story carried Bharatanatyam across Partition, kept it alive in Pakistan THE LIFE and times of Bharatanatyam exponent Indu Mitha, who passed away in Dublin at 97 last week after a brief illness, page 1 came with numerous twists and turns. The kind that seemasthoughliftedoffapageturner. Except that Indu’s story isn’t fiction. In 1951, four years after the bloody Partition, a 22-year-old anchor Indu moved back to karachi in 1951 and married a Pakistani army officer, aboobaker osman mitha. InSTAgrAm/ TehreemA_mIThA Indu, daughter of a BengaliChristianphilosophyprofessor, Gyanesh Chandra Chatterjee, whose family had moved to Delhi from Lahore after Partition, decided to move to Karachi against her parents’ wishes and married a Pakistani army officer, Aboobaker Osman Mitha. The two had met at her uncle’s house party shortly after Partition. A few days later, he saw her again. “I took one look, and my heart turned over… I knew this was the girl I mustmarry,”wroteMithainhis memoir years later. ICA/D1350(23)/2026 Suanshu Khurana New Delhi, September 6 »CoNTiNueD oN pAGe 2 Kolkata
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