DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2024, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 24 PAGES Madhabi Puri Buch, chairperson of SEBI Jaishankar will go to Pak for SCO meeting, first visit by EAM since Sushma Swaraj 9 years ago E Minister will be in Islamabad on Oct 15-16; Pak had invited Modi LIZ MATHEW SHUBHAJIT ROY THE PUBLIC Accounts Committee (PAC), the parliamentary watchdog for government spending, has asked Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)chairpersonMadhabiPuri Buchandotherofficialstoappear before it on October 24. While they have been asked to appear forrecording evidence on the overall performance of the regulatory body, the PAC, sources said, will ask questions relatedtotheallegationslevelled against Buch by US-based Hindenburg Research. Members of the committee, sources said, will ask questions on the “impartial functioning of the SEBI in investigating the allegations against the Adani Group of Companies”. There has been an Opposition chorus for a parliamentary probe into Hindenburg Research’s allegation that Buch and her husband, Dhaval Buch, had “stake in obscure offshore entities used in Adani money siphoning scandal”. Inresponsetotheallegations made by Hindenburg, Buch and her husband, in a joint statement, had said “the investment in the fund referred to in the EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister S Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegationtoPakistanforameeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s Council of Heads of Government on October 1516, the Ministry of External NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 4 External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar meets Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, Friday. PTI PAGE 7 NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 4 IN AN unprecedented move amid escalating tension in West Asia, the Israel Embassy in New Delhihasrequestedaccesstothe shooting range of Delhi Police to train its security personnel. The ● The chill in ties PAKISTAN DOWNGRADED ties with India in 2019 following the abrogation of Article 370 that ended J&K’s special status. India has said it desires normal relations with Pakistan but the onus is on Islamabad to create an environment free of terror and hostility for such an engagement. Affairs said Friday. In August this year, Pakistan, which holds the rotating chairmanship of the SCO CHG, said it had extended invitations to all heads of government of the SCO member states, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for the meeting in Islamabad. This will be the first visit to Pakistan by an External Affairs Minister in nineyears— Sushma Swaraj led the Indian delegation to the Heart of Asia Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan that was held in Islamabad on December 8-9, 2015. SwarajalsometNawazSharif, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 HC: Give dead man’s Now bulldozers ‘with love’: frozen sperms to his Cong takes unique ride in race parents for surrogacy for Nuh; Haryana votes today SOHINI GHOSH NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 4 COMING TO the aid of the parents of a young cancer patient who, months before his death, had sought cryopreservation of hissemensample,theDelhiHigh Court ruled Friday that they are entitled to the release of their son’ssperm,andthereis“noprohibition against posthumous reproduction” in the absence of a spouse if the consent of a sperm or an egg donor is established. In her order, Justice Prathiba Singh relied on the Hindu Succession Act to rule that parents are entitled to the release of their son’s sperm as they are “Class-1 legal heirs of the deceased”. Thirty-year-old Preet Inder Singh was diagnosed with NonHodgkin’s lymphoma on June 22, 2020. Five days later, before starting chemotherapy, he had given his semen sample for cryopreservation — doctors had said chemotherapy may affect his fertility. Concluding that the reproductive material such as semen sample or an egg constitutes CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Israel mission wants to train its staff at police shooting range MAHENDER SINGH MANRAL matter is under consideration and opinions of different units havebeensoughtbeforetakinga final decision, The Indian Express has learnt. On September 23, the security division of Delhi Police received a letter from the Israeli Embassy, requesting them to provide the facility for shooting CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 From a Pune slum to MacArthur genius grant, the formidable arc of a Dalit scholar PAGE 1 ANCHOR THE WORLD LEBANON CROSSING TO SYRIA CUT OFF P16 AISWARYA RAJ NUH, OCTOBER 4 TWO BULLDOZERS stand on either side of the Delhi-Alwar road,theirarmsoutstretched.As people below mill for a rally of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, the arms move up and down, showeringthemwithpetals.The five boys dropping the petals in fistfuls from atop the bulldozer are cheered lustily by the crowd. A little over a year after bulldozers rolled into Nuh DECISION town as part of BJP 2024 HARYANA government actionfollowingriots that left six dead, the machines returned in the Haryana Assemblyelectionsaspartof the Opposition’s campaign — with the Congress underlining that “the tools of hate” in BJP hands were “messengers of love” in its. Riots had broken out in Nuh on July 31, 2023, during a VHP ‘Brajmandal Yatra’, leaving six, including two Bajrang Dal leaders, a Nuh resident, a Muslim cleric and two home guards, dead. Between August 3 and August 7, as per estimates of dis- DECISION 2024 Congress workers arrive on a bulldozer for Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Nuh on Thursday. Abhinav Saha Haryana Assembly polls Totalseats Candidates 90 1,031 ■ 17 seats reserved for SC ■ Total 100 women Assembly results in 2019 40 BJP 31 10 9 INC JJP Others Turnoutin2019: 68.31% trict authorities, 443 structures weredemolishedinNuhdistrict, including 162 permanent ones. Nearly 80% of those affected in the demolitions were Muslim. ThePunjabandHaryanaHigh Court later stayed the demolitions, taking suo motu cognizance of media reports and askingthegovernmentwhether properties of “a particular community” were targeted “under theguiseof alawandorderproblem”,andif an“exerciseof ethnic cleansing”wasbeingconducted. In Nuh, while the Congress CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Jai Jawan STF, DRG teams acted on intel about presence of senior Maoists, say police JAYPRAKASH S NAIDU Raipur RAIPUR, OCTOBER 4 IN ONE of the largest such operations in Chhattisgarh’s 24-year history, at least 28 Maoists were gunned down by security forces in an encounter in Dantewada district of the Abujhmad region on Friday, police said. According to officers, the encounter took place after around 1,000personnelfromtheSpecial Task Force (STF) and District Reserve Guard (DRG) from Dantewada and Narayanpur set out on an operation, acting on specific intelligence inputs on the presence of Maoists. The STF and DRG are specialisedforcestotargetLeftWing Extremism in Chhattisgarh. On the operation that began Thursdayafternoon,aseniorpoliceofficertoldTheIndianExpress, “We had information on the CHHATTISGARH Narayanpur Site of the encounter Sukma Dantewada ODISHA presence of 50-odd Maoists in the area from the East Bastar divisionof thebannedCommunist Party of India (Maoists) and Company No. 6 of their armed wing, People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA).” The intelligence input indicated that top-ranking Maoists, such as Dandakaranya Special CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Shinde, team in Davos: Rs 1.58 cr due, Swiss firm sends legal notice VALLABH OZARKAR MUMBAI, OCTOBER 4 THE MAHARASHTRA government has received a legal notice from a Switzerland-based services sector company for alleged non-paymentof billsamounting to Rs 1.58 crore, which the companyhadsubmittedforhospitality services provided to Chief Minister Ekanth Shinde and CM Shinde, team were in Davos in January someministersandofficialsduring their January 15-19 visit to the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Lal Bahadur Shastri National Memorial Trust in collaboration with National Museum (Govt. of India) cordially invites you to the 30th Lal Bahadur Shastri Memorial Lecture on “One Nation One Election” PUNE, OCTOBER 4 BUSINESS AS USUAL 28 Maoists shot dead by security forces in forests of Chhattisgarh Jai Kisan DIPANITA NATH AONE-ROOMhouseinSiddharth NagarinPune’sYerwada,withits bluecorrugatedroof proppedup bywoodenpoles,mayjustbethe symbol of Dalit resilience. This is wherehistorianShailajaPaik,50, spentherchildhoodwithherparents and three sisters, navigating a journey of poverty and caste and gender discrimination, beforeendingupasoneof themost promisingnamesinDalitstudies and the winner of this year’s MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship. The $8,00,000 fellowship is a five-year grant awarded to people who show “exceptional creativity in their work and the prospect for still more in the fu- ENCOUNTER IN DANTEWADA PRO-IMRAN PROTESTS ROIL PAK AHEAD OF SCO GATHERING E X P L A I NE D PAC summons SEBI chief Buch, officials on October 24 `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 to be delivered by Shri Ram Nath Kovind Hon’ble Former President of India Date : Saturday, October 05, 2024 Time : 05:00 PM Shailaja Paik is a history professor at the University of Cincinnati ture”.Candidatesdonotapplyfor thefellowshipbutarenominated. “I started my journey in the slumsof Yerwada.Ithastakenall my life to get here, where I am the only Dalit woman to be a full CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INSIDE BY UNNY UKRAINE WAR HAS DELAYED S-400 DELIVERY: IAF P 11 TIRUPATI LADDU ROW: SC FORMS ‘INDEPENDENT’ SIT P7 Venue : Bharat Ratna Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (1904-1966) Auditorium, National Museum, Janpath, New Delhi-110011 Shri Ram Nath Kovind Hon’ble Former President of India The memorial lecture can also be viewed on following links: Facebook: You Tube: Prof. Praveen Gupta Director, Lal Bahadur Shastri http://fblive.lbsim.ac.in http://ytube.lbsim.ac.in Institute of Management for Invitation, please contact : Col (Retd.) Ajay Sood (CAO, LBSIM) : 9958137595 Dr. Sheetal Singh (Head, LBSM) : 8979175656 Email: cao@lbsim.ac.in, lbsmemorialdelhi@gmail.com Organised by : Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi