DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA 131 162 78 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Global tech outage hits many sectors, aviation bears brunt in India SOUMYARENDRA BARIK NEW DELHI, JULY 19 MANUAL CHECK-INS at airports leading to serpentine queues, handwritten boarding passes, delayed and cancelled flights, and the dead blue screen on Windowscomputers—adisruption in a major cybersecurity software tied to the Windows operating system and cloud service brought the world to a virtual halt on Friday. Thousands of businesses across multiple geographies, spanningsectorssuchasaviation, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E Faulty software ● update THE TECHNICAL downtime seemed to partly emanate from a faulty software update by US cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. The issue was specific to Falcon, one of its software products, embedded with Windows operating system. EXPLAINED, PAGE 13 Now, Haridwar cops ask eateries on kanwar route to display owner name AVANEESH MISHRA DEHRADUN, JULY 19 EVEN AS some BJP allies have questioned the order by the police in Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, directing eateries — including roadside carts — falling on the kanwar yatra route to display the names of their owners, EXPRESS NETWORK ‘RAJNITI HI AISI HAI’: ON THE GROUND IN MUZAFFARNAGAR ALLY, MINISTER CHIRAG PASWAN CRITICISES MOVE P 9 `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 E X P L A I NE D 103 REG.NO. MCS/067/2018 - 20 RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES 20/07/2024 ● police in Uttarakhand's Haridwar also issued similar directions on Friday. Both Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh are BJP-ruled states. While the BJP has defended the order, allies JD(U), RLD and Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) as well as senior BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi have CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 COMPLAINT AGAINST BENGAL GOVERNOR SC to look at immunity to Governors under Art 361 Set for launch, now on hold: Tale of two books by former Army Chiefs Publishers say MoD/Army officials Says Centre to be made party to petition, seeks A-G help too called the books back for clearance ANANTHAKRISHNAN G NEW DELHI, JULY 19 THE SUPREME Court on Friday agreed to examine the question of immunity to Governors from anykindof criminalprosecution, granted under Article 361 of the Constitution. The Bench, headed by Chief Justiceof IndiaDYChandrachud, West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose washearingapleafiledbyacontractual woman employee of West Bengal Raj Bhavan, who has alleged sexual harassment by Governor C V Ananda Bose. “The petition raises the issue as regards the interpretation of Clause (2) (of Article 361), more particularly when criminal proceedings would be construed to have been instituted in terms of thegoverningprovisionsof law,” the Bench, which included Justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, said. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 RITU SARIN & AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA NEW DELHI, JULY 19 ONEFORMERArmyChief’sbook is hanging fire for more than six months, another former Army Chief’s book, set to be launched on August 2, has been put on hold as the two publishers wait to hear from the Ministry of Defence. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Gen Naravane’s Four Stars of Destiny; (right) Gen Vij’s Alone in the Ring Bombay HC sets aside govt’s decision to UPSC files FIR against exempt pvt schools from RTE admissions IAS trainee: Faked ID OMKAR GOKHALE MUMBAI, JULY 19 IN A setback to the Maharashtra government, the Bombay High Court on Friday quashed and set aside its notification that exempted private schools within a one-kilometre radius of government or aided schools from fol- lowing Right to Education (RTE) Act quota admissions. The bench held that the impugned provision was “ultra vires (beyond legal authority) of RTE Act, 2009 and Article 21 of Constitution” and declared the notification issued on February 9 to be ‘void’. This would mean that self-financed and private schools will have to mandatorily set aside 25 per cent of seats for students from socio-economically backward sections, as was the case prior to the notification. The court also quashed and set aside circulars or communications issued by the government on March 6 and April 3 to implement its February 9 notification. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE PUNE, JULY 19 THE UNION Public Service Commission (UPSC) said Friday that it has registered an FIR against IAS probationer Puja Khedkarforallegedly“fakingher identity to fraudulently avail attempts beyond permissible Khedkar has also been issued a showcause notice limit” in the civil services examination. The Commission has CONTINUED ON PAGE 2