The editorial Page: We have a model investment treaty. and are losing billions because of it 8 FRIDAY, OCtOBER 2, 2026 Journalism of Courage mumbaI, laTe cITy, 18 PageS 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 EXPRESS exclusive COURSE CORRECTION CONVEYED IN WRITING, AND AT MEETING WITH STATE CEOs 130 158 197 77 Business as Usual By EP UNNY ‘Left out’ voters: EC orders special drive in 20 states where SIR over Form 6, changes to which the two ECs had red-flagged, will be re-entry route for those deleted, without the SIR question Vallabh Ozarkar & Ritika Chopra Mumbai, October 1 Under fire over the scale of deletionsfromvoters’listsinthe nationwide Special intensive Jointpollspanel shelvesvisitto SCfor‘informal discussion’ Deeptiman Tiwary & Damini Nath New Delhi, October 1 The JoinT Parliamentary Committee examining the one nation, one election Bills Thursdaycancelledavisittothe Supreme Court scheduled for october 6, days after an agenda circulated among its members said the panel would hold an “informal discussion” with the Chief Justice of india and other »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 revision(Sir)exercise,theelection Commission of india (eCi) has directed the 20 states and Union Territories where the exercise has been completed to run a “special drive” to enrol voters“leftout”oftherolls,The The Indian Express report published on September 23 IndianExpresshas learnt. The instruction was conveyed in writing on September 29 and repeated at a video conferencewithallstateChiefelectoral officers (Ceos) Thursday. itcomesastheCommission faces intense scrutiny over the 13 crore names struck off draft rollsin30statesandUnionTerritories, and a week after an investigation by The Indian Express (September 23) showed »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 8 students from Pune He saved us from a 9/11: coaching centre drown PM leads praise for flydubai’s Indian pilot off Diveagar beach Express News Service Injured Machchhar airlifted to UAE, envoy meets him Mumbai, Pune, October 1 eighT STUdenTS from a private coaching institute in Pune drownedintheseaduringapicnicatdiveagarbeachinraigad district Thursday, police said. The eight students — all 16year-old boys — have been identifiedasTanmaydattatray Wahile, Sumit Bharat Ahire, Pranav ramdas Bansode, Kaivalya Satish Wasankar, rajveer yuvraj Wahile, yash Kiran Wankhede, Soham Tukaram Bhandwalkar and Kaustubh Sandeep daund. in a press note, the district administration said that the Divya A Two of the deceased, Tanmay Wahile and Sumit Ahire group of 48 — 25 boys, 17 girls and six teachers — from Winners Academy in Alandi, Pune,wereatthebeachatdighi Sagari, diveagar, on a picnic. Located around 170 km from Mumbai,diveagarisfamousfor its beach and historic temples. »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 New Delhi, October 1 A dAy after indian pilot Smit Machchharfoughtoffaco-pilot who attacked him and allegedlyattemptedtocrashaflydubai aircraft headed to Tel Aviv from dubai, Prime Minister narendra Modi praised the pilot Thursday and said he had prevented a “9/11” — a reference to the 2001 terror attack in the US when al-Qaeda terror- Smit Machchhar recovering, smiling, says Indian envoy. PTI ists hijacked and crashed passenger aircraft. The government said Machchharwasgravelyinjured »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 more reports, p 11, 14 ₹5.00 l www.indianexpress.com