eye MCS/204/2020-22RNINO.MAHENG2002/21899 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Now Playing MUMBAI,LATECITY MARCH3,2024 Will the Berlinale showing spell good tidings for India’s independent filmmakers? 16+4PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ‘LOW-KEY, LOW-RISK’ OUTREACH 128 158 70 PUNJAB'S EDUCATION A RED initiative appears in today’s edition of The Indian Express . This page is an initiative of the marketing solutions team of The Indian Express Group and contains content paid for by advertisers. This page should be read as an advertisement. INSIDE With new envoy and National Day function, Pakistan reaches out SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, MARCH 2 ASTHEnewciviliangovernment of Pakistan Muslim LeagueNawaz (PML-N) and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), backed by the Pakistan Army, takes shape, moves are afoot in Islamabad to start a “low-key and low-risk'” engagement with New Delhi, The Indian Express has learnt. The two sides have not had CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ● Wait &watch until May INDIA will wait until mid-May for the LS polls to end. This gives it space to assess the SharifZardari government, backed by the Army and facing questions of legitimacy. Pak’s commitment to tackling terror will also shape the next steps. Blast probe tracks CCTV footage of suspect’s route BENGALURU, MARCH 2 A DAY after the blast at the Rameshwaram Cafe in Bengaluru on Friday, police are scanning footage from scores of CHOUHAN TO CONTEST, PRAGYA NOT IN LIST BJP first list for LS polls names 195, PM Modi to fight from Varanasi again CCTVcameraslocatedinthepath that the suspect took — to arrive at the cafe and to leave hurriedly —topickupleadsonhisidentity. Nine people were injured in the blast. A man wearing a cap, glasses CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 RS MPs Bhupender Yadav, Mansukh Mandaviya, Rajeev Chandrasekhar to contest for LS Mix of old, new; social justice is the big message LIZ MATHEW DAY AFTER 9 INJURED IN BENGALURU CAFE JOHNSON T A SHARAD, AJIT PAWAR SHARE STAGE P 4 E EXPLAINED 100 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM CONTINUITY AS well as change, along with some social justice messaging. Thisis what theBJP’s first list of 195 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections signals, striking a balance between the old guard and new faces, while balancing social representation on caste and gender lines. If Union Minister Rajnath Singh, the party's only pre-2009 national leader who is still prominentonthenationalstage, VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, MARCH 2 NEW DELHI, MARCH 2 WITH NO CHANGES in constituencies of top leaders, the Bharatiya Janata Party Saturday announced it would field Prime Minister Narendra Modi once again from Varanasi, Home Minister Amit Shah from Gandhinagar, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow. Thefirstlistof 195candidates released by the party, however, made some drastic changes — in Delhi, it has fielded only one of PM Narendra Modi and Bihar CM Nitish Kumar in Aurangabad on Saturday. PTI REPORT,PAGE6 its sitting Lok Sabha MPs from the five announced, i.e., Manoj Tiwari,fromnortheastDelhi,and replaced Union Minister CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MORE REPORTS P 6 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT Pakistan-bound ship from China stopped at Mumbai port on N-cargo suspicion EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE MUMBAI, MARCH 2 INDIANSECURITYagencieshave stoppedaKarachi-boundshipat Mumbai’s Nhava Sheva port on suspicion that it contained a dual-useconsignmentthatcould be used for Pakistan’s nuclear andballisticmissileprogramme, officials said on Saturday. The consignment has been seized. The ship had originated from The consignment has been seized. PTI China’s Shekou port and was heading towards Karachi. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Centre signs pact with Tripura govt, Tipra Motha for tribal rights DEBRAJ DEB AGARTALA, MARCH 2 AHEAD OF the Lok Sabha elections, the Union government on Saturdaysignedatripartiteagreement with the Tripura government and The Indigenous CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 P6 THE EXPRESS INTERVIEW