DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 2024, CHANDIGARH, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY AN EXPRESS SERIES – PART 1 Jammu flares up, frames challenge: reset counter-terror grid, fill ‘vacuum’ L-G: Progress made, Raj Bhavan for fine balance with elected UT govt Will take some time for security grid to ‘mature and manifest’, patience and perseverance required: Army officer Cloudburst in Himachal: 5 of school’s sports stars still missing SAURABH PARASHAR SAMEJ (KULLU), AUGUST 4 ATAtimewhenalleyesareonthe Olympics, teachers at a government school in Himachal's Kullu arefacinguptothepossibilitythat five of their own state medal prospects, including four members of an extended family, may neverstepintotheschool'scourts again. CONTINUEDONPAGE4 REGION HARYANATOBUYALL CROPSONMSP:CM P7 `5.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA, ARUN SHARMA, DEEPTIMAN TIWARY & P VAIDYANATHAN IYER POONCH, JAMMU, SRINAGAR, NEW DELHI, AUGUST 4 ON JUNE 19, two terrorists were killed by the Army in an encounter in Sopore in north Kashmir’sBaramulladistrict.The two had crossed from Pakistan into Rajouri-Poonch in Jammu and were behind the December 21 killing of four soldiers in an ambushinThanamandilastyear. Their cellphones, a probe revealed, had clips of a T20 cricket match in Abu Dhabi, details that suggested a “level of education not very common and a good family background”, and their use of weapons reflected they were among the “most highly trained terrorists seen in 20 P VAIDYANATHAN IYER SRINAGAR, AUGUST 4 5 YEARS SINCE AUG 5 AN EXPRESS SERIES SECURITY TOMORROW Securing the Valley: what has worked years”, said an official. The story of how these two Security personnel conduct a search operation in J&K’s Poonch on Sunday. ANI terrorists moved from Jammuto Kashmirisillustrativeof asignificant security shift five years since August 5, 2019, when the state lost its special status and later split into two, downgraded to a Union Territory and put under an unprecedented security CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 THE GOVERNMENT has brought peace and development to Jammu and Kashmir, and ensured that all institutions such as schools and colleges, hospitals and businesses carry on with their normal routine 365 days a year, J&K Lieutenant Governor ManojSinhasaidaheadofAugust 5,markingfiveyearsoftheendof thespecialstatusoftheerstwhile stateofJ&KanditssubsequentdivisionintotwoUnionTerritories. In an hour-long interview to TheIndianExpress(detailedtranscript to be published tomorrow), Sinha, who took charge of J&K four years ago in August 2020, said: “There should be no doubtaboutelections.ThePrime 1 man short, India script THE EXPRESS thrilling fightback to INTERVIEW enter hockey semifinals MANOJ SINHA J&K LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR Minister recently said that Assembly elections would be held at the earliest.” Asked if an elected government would be able to function smoothly with most powers including law and order vested with the L-G, Sinha said: “I will work to achieve a fine balance CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 EXPRESSAT OLYMPICS MIHIR VASAVDA PARIS, AUGUST 4 STADE YVES-DU-MANOIR in Paris has a mythical place in the Olympic universe. About 10 km from Notre Dame, it is the site of one of the greatest sporting spectacles, the 100 and 400m races of the 1924 Paris Olympics immortalised in the movie Chariots of Fire. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 FULL COVERAGE PAGES 18, 19, 20 Chandigarh