DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024, AHMEDABAD, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES BY UNNY Global tech outage hits many sectors, aviation bears brunt in India SOUMYARENDRA BARIK NEW DELHI, JULY 19 Woman alleges CEO of firm promoted by Jindal ‘groped’ her on flight ABHINAYA HARIGOVIND & AGGAM WALIA NEW DELHI, JULY 19 AWOMANhasallegedthatatop executive of a firm with links to NaveenJindal-promotedentities “groped”herwhiletheywereon a flight from Kolkata to Abu Dhabi. In response to her allegations,whichshesharedonX,MP andJindalSteelchairmanNaveen Jindal said he has ordered his team to investigate the matter. The accused, identified by the woman as Dinesh Kumar CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 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 EXPLAINED BUSINESS AS USUAL `6.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 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 14 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 REFERS TO ‘SABKA SAATH’ COMMENT Regular recruitment of teachers in UPSC files FIR against Gujarat to begin from August: Dindor BJP minority chief slams IAS trainee: Faked ID Suvendu: ‘New to party’ EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE P3 RITU SHARMA GANDHINAGAR, JULY 19 GUJARAT MINISTER for Primary, Secondary and Adult Education and Tribal Development, Kuber Dindorsaidthestategovernment wouldbeginregularrecruitments of around 24,700 teachers from August1.Inanexclusiveinterview THE EXPRESS INTERVIEW to The Indian Express, Dindor also highlighted the shortcomings with the Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK), a command and control centre set up by the state education department to improve academic performance of studentsbasedonlearningleveldata. He flagged how the results of the students were delivered a CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, JULY 19 THE NATIONAL president of the BJP Minority Morcha, Jamal Siddiqui,hasdismissedthecommentsof theparty’sWestBengal leader Suvendu Adhikari, who said the BJP should dissolve its minority wing. Speaking to The Indian Express,Siddiquialsosaidthatfor the BJP, ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’ remains an important guiding principle, contrary to what Adhikari said. “Maybe CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 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 Ahmedabad