DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, JULY 29, 2024, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES SINCE 1932 FAMILIES RECALL HOW STUDENTS CAME TO DELHI WITH ‘BIG DREAMS’ Capital tragedy: Two graduates, one PhD student, phone calls to 3 states `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM INDIA’S FIRST OLYMPIC SHOOTING MEDAL AFTER LONDON 2012 ‘Have no words to express’: Families, friends from UP, Kerala, Telangana struggle to cope VIDHEESHAKUNTAMALLA, MANISH SAHU, SHAJU PHILIP & SREENIVAS JANYALA NEW DELHI, LUCKNOW, THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, HYDERABAD, JULY 28 A BIOLOGY graduate from UP who moved to her uncle’s home in Delhi to chase her dreams; a JNU research student from Kerala who had quietly signed up for civil services coaching; an IAS aspirant who missed her parents in Telangana so much that she called them every day. On Saturday evening, these three lives, and their stories, crossedpathsinthebasementof the popular Rau’s IAS Study Circle in Delhi’s Old Rajinder Nagar — for the last time. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Parents of Tanya Soni, one of the students who died in the flooding at the UPSC coaching centre, wait outside the mortuary at Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital on Sunday. Abhinav Saha Rau’s CEO among 2 held, police say basement library had no approval ARNABJIT SUR NEW DELHI, JULY 28 A DAY after the three deaths at Rau’s IAS Study Circle in the Capital, police arrested two persons — Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Abhishek Gupta and coaching coordinator Deshpal Singh — on Sunday. Gupta has been named and identified as the “owner” in the FIR, filed under Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Sections 105 (culpable homicide not amounting to murder), 115(2) (voluntarily causing hurt) among others at theRajinderNagarpolicestation. According to police, neither did the coaching centre have clearancetousethebasementas Manu Bhaker celebrates after winning the bronze medal in the 10m air pistol women’s final round in Chateauroux, France. AP Manu Bhaker opens India medal account with shooting bronze 22-year-old India’s first woman shooter to win at Olympics EXPRESSAT OLYMPICS Students protest near the coaching centre. Gajendra Yadav MOREREPORTS,P6,7 a library, nor did it have a drainage system in the basement. Commercial activity in CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 THE EDITORIAL PAGE KILLINGSTUDENTS Will CM fix accountability from Tihar Jail? Do parents have to line up at Raj Bhavan? PAGE 12 MIHIR VASAVDA CHATEAUROUX, JULY 28 MANU BHAKER never fancied visiting the Eiffel Tower. “I have already visited it before,” she said. She found it “okay”. WhenshereturnstoIndiaafter the Paris Games, Manu will carry a piece of the iconic monument back with her. Like all the medalsattheParisOlympics,her bronze will contain within its centre, fragments of iron kept away during renovations of the famous tower. With a gentle pull of the trigger, the shooter who stormed into the limelight as a 16-year- old prodigy ended India’s decade-plus waitforan Olympic podium finish in shooting. She won India’s first medal of the Paris Games, in the 10 m air pistol event. She also shot herself into the history books as the country'sfirstwomanshooterto win an Olympic Games medal. Manu’s instinctive reaction on the firing point was to purse her lips — she had missed out on CONTINUEDONPAGE4 INDIA AT OLYMPICS BOXING ■ Nikhat’s comeback win in opening bout TABLE TENNIS ■ Manika-Sreeja advance to round of 32 PAGE 19 Ethanol used in petrol now more from Haryana youth dies in Factor in Class 9-11 performance for maize, damaged foodgrains than sugar Russia, kin say forced to Class 12 report card: Govt proposal HARISH DAMODARAN go to Ukraine battlefront SECONDARY SCHOOL REFORMS State boards’ views sought; report to look at classwork too ABHINAYAHARIGOVIND NEWDELHI,JULY28 A STUDENT'S performance — basedonbothexamsandcontinuing classwork — in Classes 9, 10, and11shouldbecountedtowards their final marks at the end of Class 12, according to a report recentlysubmittedtotheEducation MinistrybyPARAKH,aunitsetup in NCERT last year to standardise assessment by school boards NEW DELHI, JULY 28 COMBINED EVALUATION Weight Class 9 Class 10 Class 11 Class 12 Formative 70% 50% 40% 30% Summative 30% 50% 60% 70% ■ Formative are classroom assessments through holistic progress cards, projects, group discussions, etc; summative are end-term examinations ■ Each class will have two terms for assessment Weighted marks at the end of higher secondary stage Class 9 15% Class 10 20% across the country. In line with the National EducationPolicy,PARAKH’sman- Class 11 25% Class 12 40% date included capacity development, achievement surveys, CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 CEREAL GRAINS have overtaken sugarcane as the primary feedstock for the production of ethanol used in blending with petrol. In the current supply year (November 2023-October 2024), sugar mills and distilleries supplied 401 crore litres of ethanol to oil marketing companiestillJune30.Of that,211crore litres or 52.7% was ethanol pro- ducedusingmaizeanddamaged foodgrains (mainly broken/ old rice not fit for human consumption), while sugarcane-based feedstocks (molasses and whole juice/ syrup) accounted for the remaining 190 crore litres. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Chardham bypass: After red flag by SC panel, Govt cites ‘landslide sites’ for nod NIKHIL GHANEKAR NEW DELHI, JULY 28 FOUR YEARS after a high-powered committee appointed by theSupremeCourtrejectedconstruction of the Netala bypass road on the Uttarkashi-Gangotri route under the Chardham project, the Border Roads Organisation (BRO) is going ahead with the contentious alignment and has sought forest clearance from an environment ministry panel citing “active landslide sites” on the old route, The Indian Express has learnt. The 8.7-km bypass alignment, proposed between Hina and Tekhla on NH-34 in Uttarkashi district, was rejected bythecommitteeinitsJuly2020 report to the Supreme Court on groundsof adverseenvironmental and social impacts. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 SUKHBIR SIWACH CHANDIGARH, JULY 28 A 22-YEAR-OLD man from Haryana has died on the Russian frontline after being “forced to battle against Ukraine forces”, hisfamilymemberssaidSunday. In a communication to the family of Ravi Moun — from Matour village in Kaithal district — the Indian embassy in Moscowconfirmedthedeathalthough it did not mention the circumstances in which he died. Ravi’s elder brother Ajay Moun told The Indian Express that the embassy has sought DNA test reports from the family,especiallyfromRavi’smother. Ravi Moun, 22, from Matour in Kaithal district. Express “As we have lost our mother, we will be sending the DNA test report of our father to the Indian embassy soon,” said Ajay. This comes days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi during CONTINUED ON PAGE 4