THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Leading the Royal Charge JAIPUR,LATECITY Directors Priyanka Ghose and Nupur Asthana on helming The Royals, working with Zeenat Aman FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT MAY4,2025 12+4PAGES,`6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA SLUICE GATES LOWERED AS PART OF INDUS TREATY PAUSE; MAIL EXCHANGE ON HOLD ScrewstightenonPak:Curbonwaterflow throughBaglihar;crackdownonships,trade Second set of measures kicks in as Pakistan tests 450-km ballistic missile P VAIDYANATHAN IYER & SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, MAY 3 JUST OVER 10 days after the Pahalgam terror attack that killed 26 people, India has ratcheted up its diplomatic offensive with a second set of measures against Pakistan: curbing water flow through the Baglihar dam; stoppingtheimportof products; banning docking of Pakistanownedshipsandsuspendingthe exchange of all mail and parcels. This, even as it flagged its condemnation over the test-firing Saturday of a surface-to-surface ballistic missile by Pakistan. The testing wasn't lost on India. Turning the heat on Islamabad, the government put into effect a crucial next step as part of putting the Indus Water Treaty in abeyance. The gates of the sluice spill- CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Govt bans backdoor imports, shuts doors on Pak-origin goods NEW DELHI, MAY 3 TO PLUG LOOPHOLES and eliminate any possibility of Pakistani goods entering its territory, the governmenthasimposedanimmediate ban on the import or transitof allgoodsoriginatingin, orexportedfrom,Pakistan,aMay 2 notification of the Commerce and Industry Ministry said. This follows the termination of direct trade, marked by the closure of the Integrated Check Post (ICP) at Attari on April 24 in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack. That move was expected to halt cross-border trade worth Rs 3,886 crore between India and Pakistan. However, imports of Pakistanigoodsviathirdcoun- E EXPLAINED RAVI DUTTA MISHRA ● Punitive action THE BAN on all imports and transits of goods originating from or exported by Pakistan follows a series of punitive measures taken by India to hurt Pakistan economically and diplomatically in the wake of the Pahalgam attack. tries were still possible. “Direct or indirect import or transit of all goods originating in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Govt recalls former CEA Subramanian from IMF board AANCHAL MAGAZINE NEW DELHI, MAY 3 Subramanian was not available for comment SIX MONTHS before the end of his three-year term as the International Monetary Fund’s Executive Director, KrishnamurthyVSubramanianhasbeen called back to India by the government. An order, dated April 30, said that the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet had approved the "termination" of his services as IMF's Executive Director (India), "with immediate effect." The government is looking EXPRESS NETWORK LOCAL WHOSE SHOP WAS SHUT ON DAY OF ATTACK UNDER NIA SCANNER PAGE 3 ways on the Baglihar dam have been lowered to restrict water flow to Pakistan’s Punjab as a “short-term punitive action,” a senior official told The Indian Express. The Baglihar dam, over Chenab river, is designed as a run-of-the-river plant for hydro powergeneration.Chenabisone of thewesternriversintheIndus Water system and the treaty allowsforharnessingitswatersfor power generation. “By doing this, even if the choke is for a short while, we demonstrate that we will take SEARCH ON FOR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR for his replacement to be nominated to the IMF Board, sources said. The reasons for his exit have not been officially announced. Sources said concerns were flagged over an “alleged impropriety”relatingtothepromotion of his latest book India @ 100. Additionally, sources said, there CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Murshidabad violence: Gov flags ‘twin spectre of Days before Pahalgam massacre, there was radicalisation, militancy’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi with J&K Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in New Delhi on Saturday. ANI intel alert of attack on tourists: Top official KOLKATA, MAY 3 Among 4 terrorists, 2 from south Kashmir may have ‘herded’ tourists to site: Official P VAIDYANATHAN IYER NEW DELHI, MAY 3 THE SECURITY establishment and the government are learnt to have got advance intelligence inputs about a possible attack targeting tourists staying in hotels in and around Srinagar days before the Pahalgam massacre in which terrorists killed 25 tourists and a local, officials aware of developments said. Infact,theofficialssaid,given the threat of anattack, there was heightened security presence in the foothills of the Zabarwan range overlooking the Dal lake CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Govt bars Pak ships from its ports, curbs on Indian vessels too SIDDHANT KONDUSKAR & SUKALP SHARMA MUMBAI, NEW DELHI, MAY 3 AMID GROWING tensions with Pakistan in the wake of the Pahalgam terror attack, India on Saturday banned the entry of Pakistani ships at Indian ports, while also barring Indian ships from going to Pakistani ports. According to an order issued by India’s maritime authority, Directorate General of Shipping (DGS), the restrictions were put inplace“withimmediateeffect” and “till further order” to ensure safety of “Indian assets, cargo and connected infrastructure, in publicinterestandforinterest of Indian shipping”. “In exercise of power conferred by section 411 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1958, read with objectives as enshrined under Preamble of the said Act, keeping in view the present situation, the following in Murshidabad and Malda districts, which share borders with Bangladesh. The violence in Murshidabad, which took place in the wake of the new Waqf law, claimed three lives on April 11. While a man was killed in police firing, another man and his son died in mob violence. ATRI MITRA Security personnel patrol along the Dal Lake. Shuaib Masoodi WEST BENGAL Governor C V Ananda Bose has submitted to UnionHomeMinisterAmitShah his report on the communal violenceinMurshidabadlastmonth, flagging the state police's “failures” and proposing a commission of inquiry into the incident. In the report, the Governor also said that radicalisation and militancy pose a serious challengeforWest Bengal,especially CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ‘RIOT TOURISM’: ADHIR ON MAMATA VISIT P 4 Our Top Rankers in IAS Result 2025 IAS 2025 esa jktLFkku esa igyh jSad (AIR- 20th ) ds lkFk lokZf/kd p;u !! st AIR 20 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 eye f=yksd flag THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE The Mirror Sees Her Now Transitioning from a deeply unsettled man to a woman at peace with herself, Anaya Bangar shares her remarkable journey Rank in Rajasthan RAS Foundation Classroom Student AIR AIR 366 AIR 483 AIR 689 930 FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT From Census of nearly a century ago, a roadmap — and a note of caution UMA VISHNU & VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, MAY 3 THE GOVERNMENT’S surprise announcementof acaste census as part of the upcoming population enumeration exercise may have dented the Opposition’s campaign but the experience of John Henry Hutton, an anthropologist-civil servant from nearly a century ago, frames the challenge on the road ahead. Thoseweretheheadydaysof Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement. Hutton, a Yorkshire-born, Oxford-trained officer who as Census Commissioner of India conducted the 1931 Census, the last to tabulate data on caste, writes withahintof annoyancethatthe exercise “had the misfortune to coincide with a wave of non-cooperation, and the march of Mr. Gandhi and his contrabandistas…”. Hutton, who joined the Indian Civil Service in 1909 and served for the greater part of his career in the Naga hills writing two voluminous monographs on Naga ethnography, brought to his census office his experi- John Henry Hutton was the Census Commissioner of India when the 1931 Census was conducted ence as an anthropologist. Onthecomplexitiesof countingcaste,hiscensusreport,laced withinsightandwit,referstoformer census chief Sir Herbert Risley, whose formulation of the castesystemasaracialhierarchy in the 1901 Census laid the basis forsubsequentsurveysandpolicies on caste. “All subsequent census officers in India must have cursed the day when it occurred to Sir Herbert Risley… to attempt to draw upalistof castesaccording to their rank in society. 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