DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● POSTAL REGN. NO. JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, JULY 20, 2024, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 COMPLAINT AGAINST BENGAL GOVERNOR Publishers say MoD/Army officials Says Centre to be made party to petition, seeks A-G help too called the books back for clearance 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 linked 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 BY UNNY Global tech outage hits many sectors, aviation bears brunt in India SOUMYARENDRA BARIK BUSINESS AS USUAL 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 SC to look at immunity to Governors under Art 361 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, 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 4 washearingapleafiledbyacontractual woman employee of West Bengal Raj Bhavan, who has alleged sexual harassment 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 Now, Haridwar cops ask eateries on kanwar route to display owner name AVANEESH MISHRA West Bengal Governor C V Ananda Bose 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. Set for launch, now on hold: Tale of two books by former Army Chiefs 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 ADHIKARI CALL TO RETHINK ‘SABKA SAATH’ BJP minority cell chief hits back: ‘New to party’ 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 Jaipur Gen Naravane’s Four Stars of Destiny; (right) Gen Vij’s Alone in the Ring UPSC files FIR against IAS trainee: Faked ID 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