DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2024, PUNE, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `6.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 Modi Sarkar ki Guarantee Government of india CBC 22201/13/0119/2324 Empowering youth through skilling Training of 1 crore 50 lakh youth under PM Kaushal Vikas Yojana, employment opportunities created Scan for more information Hamara Sankalp Viksit Bharat SENA VS SENA IN MAHARASHTRA ALLIES TMC, DMK, NCP MAY STAY AWAY TOO ‘ShindeSenaisrealparty’:Speaker dismissesalldisqualificationpleas Uddhav Thackeray calls it ‘murder of democracy’, plans to move apex court PM Narendra Modi at the inauguration of Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Gandhinagar on Wednesday. PTI World looks at India as an important pillar of stability: PM Modi Greenmobilitytochips,VibrantGujarat getsoverRs2lakhcrininvestmentpledge SOHINI GHOSH, PARIMAL DABHI & LEENA MISRA GANDHINAGAR, JANUARY 10 FROM RENEWABLE ENERGY to greenmobilityandsemiconductors,topcorporatesledbySuzuki Motors and the Adani Group pledged investments worth Rs 2,38,200 crore in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the inaugural session of the tenth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS) on Wednesday. Held after five years, the summit,themedasa‘gatewayto the future’, was pitched by the government as the “first in Amrit Kaal”. Addressingindustrycaptains after inaugurating the tenth edition of the summit in Gandhinagar, Prime Minister Modi said, “People across the world can keep doing their analysis, but it is my guarantee that this (India among top three world economies) will happen.” ThosepresentincludedTataSons Chairman N Chandrasekharan, Reliance Industries CMD CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 THE WORLD 66 94 114 80 MALDIVES,CHINA SIGN20PACTSAFTER MUIZZU-XIMEETING AMIDDIPLOMATIC ROWWITHINDIA PAGE 16 EU carbon tax: India flags risk of trade info getting compromised RAVI DUTTA MISHRA NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 INDIA HAS FLAGGED concerns relating to sensitive and confidentialtradedataof itsexporters getting compromised while complying with the European Union’s Carbon Border AdjustmentMechanism(CBAM) — the world’s first system that imposes carbon emission tariffs oniron,steel,aluminiumandcement, among other such items importedintothe27-nationbloc. Indianmanufacturingexports in sectors such as steel, oil refining and cement align extremely favourablywithglobalcostcompetitivenessbenchmarksandthe CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 VALLABH OZARKAR & OMKAR GOKHALE BUSINESS AS USUAL MUMBAI, JANUARY 10 IN A setback to the Shiv Sena faction led by Uddhav Thackeray, more than one-and-a-half years after the party split into two, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar on Wednesday declaredthattheopposingfaction led by Chief Minister Eknath Shindewas“therealpoliticalparty”. Narwekar, however, dismissed all 34 petitions, filed by both sides, seeking the disqualification of 54 MLAs belonging to rival factions. “This is murder of democracy bytheSpeaker...Wewillapproach the Supreme Court against the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 BY UNNY Six takeaways from the Speaker’s ruling – Shinde edge to Uddhav challenge PAGE 1 ANCHOR Suchana Seth was arrested for allegedly killing her 4-yr-old son PAVNEET SINGH CHADHA PANAJI, JANUARY 10 CONVERSING WITH Goa police in Konkani, a four-hour traffic jam on the way to Bengaluru, and the excuse of a quick washroombreak--thecabdriverwho wasferryingSuchanaSethtoher destination told The Indian Express how he managed to take her to the police station without arousing suspicion. Seth, a Bengaluru-based CEO of a tech start-up, is accused of killing her four-year-old son in a Goa hotel. She was caught from MONTHS AFTER the Election Commission (EC) decided to hand over the Shiv Sena's original name and symbol to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led party faction, Maharashtra Assembly Speaker Rahul Narwekar's ruling Wednesday that the “real Shiv Sena” at the time of split in the party on June 21, 2022, was the Shinde group, the Shiv Sena (UBT)'s chief and ex-CM Uddhav Thackeray may SPEAKER’S VERDICT FULL COVERAGE PAGE 5 CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 RELATED REPORT PAGE 11 Congress dilemma THE CONGRESS in 2019 welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on the case, but was caught in a political dilemma over the invitation. A section felt it should not “give legitimacy” to the BJP-RSS project but another worried about the electoral fallout in the Hindi heartland. MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 MUMBAI, JANUARY 10 ARGUINGTHATtheconsecration ceremony of the Ram Temple in Ayodhya on January 22 was “clearly an RSS-BJP event”, the Congress Wednesday “respectfully declined” the invitation extended to its leaders Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust to attend what it calledtheinaugurationof an“incomplete temple”. Among INDIA partners, the CPI(M) was the first to declare thatitsgeneralsecretarySitaram Ministers and MLAs come out of the Vidhan Bhavan after the Speaker’s verdict on Wednesday. Sankhadeep Banerjee have to go for a final battle to the people’s court in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, which will CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Yechury,whoreceivedaninvitationfromtheTrust,wouldnotattend the event. With the Congressannouncingitsdecision CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 BJP SAYS IT SHOWS WHAT INDIA BLOC THINKS ABOUT SANATAN DHARMA P 9 NY court asks US Govt to show proof IITs build consensus on not declaring of Gupta’s murder-for-hire charge top pay packages in placement report EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, JANUARY 10 A NEW York Court has ordered the US government to respond to a motion filed by Nikhil Gupta’s lawyers, seeking material relating to the charges against him. Gupta has been accused by the US authorities of plotting to kill Khalistani separatistGurpatwantSinghPannun. “On January 4, 2024, defense counselfiledamotionto compel productionof discovery,requesting that the Court enter an order directing the Government to begin providing defense counsel with discovery material. The Court hereby directs the Government to file a reply to the Motion to Compel within three daysof thedateof thisorder,”US District Judge Victor Marrero said in the order on January 8. InNovemberlastyear,theUS Department of Justice, in an indictment filed in a federal court in Manhattan, claimed that an Indian official was working with Gupta, an Indian citizen, in the foiled plot to kill Pannun. Gupta, 52, has been charged withmurder-for-hire,whichcarries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison, and conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 IIT-Bombay revises Rs 1 cr-plus offer count from 85 to 22 nualpackagesintheirplacement reports, focussing on mean and median salary figures instead, The Indian Express has learnt. ThisconsensusemergedduringarecentmeetingoftheAllIITs Placement Committee (AIPC), where discussions included the IIT-Bombay placement report from last week which claimed DEEKSHA TERI & PALLAVI SMART NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, JAN 10 IN VIEW of “pressure” on students during placement season, the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are consideringnotdisclosingthehighestan- `` India's Top Potential Training Institute for IAS Jai Jawan over 85 offers surpassing an annualpackageofRs1crore.Inacorrigendum issued on Wednesday, IIT-Bombay, while citing a “technical error”, revised the number ofRs1crore-plusoffersinthefirst phase of placement to 22. On January 4, IIT-Bombay had announced that the first CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 " Jai Kisan INTERVIEW GUIDANCE PROGRAMME CSE - 2023 Offline/Online Meet to Former Chairman of UPSC through ‘‘ Mentorship Program ’’ st ( One-to-one Session : 21 Jan. 2024 ) with Prof. D.P. 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