eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Shining on the Inside NEWDELHI,LATECITY OCTOBER27,2024 Deep-cleaning, mithai, new clothes: Diwali is about joy, renewal and rejuvenation 20+4PAGES,`7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR,` 12SRINAGAR) DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA Israel attacks Iran, strikes military targets ■ Israelcarriedoutawaveof airstrikesonIranSaturday, targetedsurface-to-airmissile sitesaswellasfacilitiesthatit saidwereusedtomakethe missilesIranfiredatIsrael. ■ Iran reported ‘limited damage’, saying its military bases in three provinces, including Tehran, were hit and four soldiers killed. It said it had the right to self-defence. ■ Expressing deep concern over the ‘evolving escalation’ in West Asia, India urged all sides to exercise restraint and return to the path of diplomacy. REPORTS,PAGE14 In Tehran after explosions were heard following the Israeli airstrikes. Reuters AN EXPRESS INVESTIGATION - PART 2 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT ‘ENGAGED IN RELEVANT WORK’ Beijing confirms troop disengagement: ‘Going smoothly at the moment’ Foreign Ministers, NSAs to take process forward: Jaishankar EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE A note of caution SHORTLY AFTER sources in the Indian Army confirmed that the disengagement process began Tuesday in the Depsang Plains and Demchok, China, too, affirmed this saying that “Chinese andIndianfrontiertroopsareengaged in relevant work, which is goingsmoothlyatthemoment”. The Army’s confirmation cameFriday,fourdaysafterIndia CHINA’S AFFIRMATION underlines the commitment to the process post the Modi-Xi bilateral at Kazan. However, by flagging the current breakthrough as being focused on only the “first part”, Jaishankar has underlined the long haul. NEW DELHI, PUNE, OCT 26 announced that an agreement on patrolling had been reached between the two sides. “In accordance with the resolutions that China and India reached recently on issues concerning the border area, the Chinese and Indian frontier troops are engaged in relevant work, which is going smoothly atthemoment,"ChineseForeign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told a media briefing in Beijing Friday. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 One law, many verdicts: Some got relief for ‘pain and suffering’, others did not Climate change to AI: CJI calls After Balasore train accident, Railway Claims Tribunals faced additional challenge: Dodgy claims in the name of the dead WHAT RAILWAY CLAIMS TRIBUNAL (RCT) AWARDED TOTAL EX GRATIA BY RAILWAYS DEATHS INJURIES `10 lakh `22.04 cr `94,471 (average of 183 cases) MORE RELIEF FROM CASES RCT BENCHES DEATHS INJURIES (average of 416 cases) AVG PAYOUT (INJURIES) AVG PAYOUT (DEATHS) `8 lakh Kolkata 553 127 426 `53,670 Bhubaneswar 202 44 158 `1.06 lakh `8 lakh Ranchi 33 16 17 `25,312 `8 lakh Patna 28 6 22 `31,333* `8 lakh Chennai 24 0 24 `28,750 - Bhopal 1 0 1 `1.6 lakh - Source: RCT case records. Note: 22 cases pending in Patna DHEERAJ MISHRA, SOUMYARENDRA BARIK, AGGAM WALIA & AANCHAL MAGAZINE NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 26 ■ WEST BENGAL resident BiswajitMondalreceivedexgratia payment of Rs 50,000 from the Railways after suffering injuries in his lower back in the devastating train accident last year at Balasore in which 297 others were killed and over 800 injured. He approached the RailwayClaimsTribunal(RCT)in Bhubaneswarseekingadditional relief of Rs 8 lakh for the injuries, Coldplay, Diljit concerts: ED probes ‘illegal’ sale of tickets EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 26 THE ENFORCEMENT Directorate said on Saturday that it has conducted searches across “five states” in connection with its probeintothe“illegalsaleof tickets” for concerts by British rock band Coldplay and actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh. Saying that it has initiated an investigation under the CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 Railways: No one contested our ex gratia relief, RCT award separate YOUR RIGHT TO KNOW E AN XPRESS RTI APPLICATION and “painandsuffering”. He was awarded Rs 50,000 for the injuries,buthisclaimfor“pain and suffering” was rejected. ■ Tamil Nadu resident K S Sundaramwasawardedanadditional Rs 25,000 by the Chennai RCT for injuries sustained in the accident, above the Railway ex gratia of Rs 50,000 — and Rs 5,000for“painandsuffering”.“It is considered reasonable to award Rs 25,000 for the injuries sustained and Rs 5,000 for the painandsufferingundergoneby him,” stated the tribunal order dated September 29, 2023. These are two of the several cases in which varying amounts were awarded as additional compensation by different RCTs for similar injuries or trauma in one of the worst train accidents in the country's history. Reason: The health conditions listed by the applicants were not covered by the Railway Accidents and Untoward Incidents (Compensation) CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ENS ECONOMIC BUREAU NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 26 THE MINISTRY of Railways has said that no one affected by the Balasore train accident last year had contested the relief granted to them by the national transporter and asserted that any compensation provided by Railway Claims Tribunals (RCT) “is over and above the ex-gratia relief given by the Railways”. Responding to a report published Saturday in The Indian Express titled “Lives derailed, most Balasore train disaster victimscontestRailwayrelief —and gethigherawardinTribunal”,the Railways said,“RCT is a claimtribunal,andisnotanappellatetribunal. The claim amount is over and above the ex-gratia relief givenbyRailways.Inmanycases, one can have a claim under RCT and Balasore is not a standalone case. No one contested the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 12-year run ends as India lose Test series at home to New Zealand SANDIP G PUNE, OCTOBER 26 UNDER THE cloudless skies of Pune, an empire creaked and crumbled. India conceded their first Test series at home in 12 years,endingastreakof 18victories and signalling the symbolic end of a glorious era. Theimpregnablebastionhad repelled several great captains likeAustralia'sPatCumminsand England's Ben Stokes, but not New Zealand's Tom Latham, just CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 New Zealand players celebrate Rishabh Pant’s wicket on Day 3 of the second Test in Pune. This proved to be the turning point of the match. ANI MOREREPORTS,PAGE19 ‘We have been saying this’: Police confirm ragpicker killed over meat that wasn’t beef PAGE 1 ANCHOR AISWARYA RAJ GURGAON, OCTOBER 26 FIVE DAYS ago, when Sujauddin Sardarcalledthepoliceforanupdateonthedeathcertificateofhis brother-in-law Sabir Malik, he was told something the family hadbeenmaintainingeversince the 22-year-old’s murder on August27—thatMalikhadbeen Ten people have been arrested so far. ANI file lynchedbycowvigilantesonfake allegations of cooking beef. “They confirmed what we have been repeating to the police and government,” he told The Indian Express. Nearly two months after Malik, a migrant worker from West Bengal who worked as a ragpicker in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri, was killed over the suspicionthathehadcookedandconsumed beef at his jhuggi, the police said on Friday that a lab report showed the meat was not CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 for broader ambit for federalism OMKAR GOKHALE MUMBAI, OCTOBER 26 CALLING FOR a more expansive definition of federalism, Chief Justice of India DYChandrachud on Saturday said 2024 that if the federalisminthepastyearswasabout adjustingpoliticalrealities,inthe years to come, it should also be ´FiÀ°Fb°F CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CJI D Y Chandrachud delivers the inaugural Loksatta lecture in Mumbai Saturday. Amit Chakravarty RELATEDREPORT,PAGE8 ISRO chairman S Somanath in New Delhi, Saturday. PTI ISRO chief sets new dates: 2026 for Gaganyaan, Chandrayaan-4 likely in 2028 AMITABH SINHA NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 26 EMPHASISING THE need for greater indigenisation of space technologies, ISRO chairman S SomanathonSaturdaysaidIndia was aiming to increase its contribution in the global space economy to at least 10 per cent in the next one decade, from the current 2 per cent. Delivering the Sardar Patel Memorial Lecture at Akashvani (All India Radio), Somanath also revealednewdatesforsomeimportant upcoming missions: Gaganyaan, the manned space mission, likely in 2026; sample return mission Chandrayaan-4 in 2028; and the much-delayed India-US joint NISAR mission is finally slated for next year. The ISRO chairman disclosed that a joint moon-landing mission with Japan space agency JAXA, originally named LUPEX, or Lunar Polar Exploration, would be the Chandrayaan-5 mission. He did not mention the expected time frame for launch. The LUPEX mission was earlier scheduledtobelaunchedwithin CONTINUED ON PAGE 12