eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE With the river by my side KOLKATA,LATECITY JUNE8,2025 Travelling on a river makes one acutely aware of the ceaseless flow of time 12+4PAGES,`7.00 (`12 IN NORTH EAST STATES, ` 20 IN ANDAMAN) DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT CBC 46101/13/0009/2526 Nari Shakti’s Spirit of Entrepreneurship gets Wings With over 35 crore loans, nearly 70% beneficiaries of Mudra Yojana are women LAMMY MEETS PM, JAISHANKAR Trade to terror, India and UK flag deeper ties Delhi won’t accept equivalence of perpetrator and victim: Jaishankar EID PRAYERS SHUBHAJIT ROY People offer prayers on the occasion of Eid-al-Adha in Nadia, West Bengal, on Saturday. PTI AFTER MEETING visiting UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy Saturday, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said that Indiafollowsapolicyof “zerotolerance against terrorism” and expects its partners to understand that Delhi will never “countenance” the equivalence of perpetrators and victims. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who met Lammy as well, said:“PleasedtomeetUKForeign Rahul’s attack on EC doesn’t match poll data, officials say bid to ‘defame’ VALLABH OZARKAR, DAMINI NATH & RITIKA CHOPRA SPECIAL TO THEEXPRESS By DEVENDRA FADNAVIS NEW DELHI, MUMBAI, JUNE 7 Khairul Islam, 51, was detained on May 23 SUKRITA BARUAH GUWAHATI, JUNE 7 TWO WEEKS after he was detained from his home and allegedly pushed into Bangladesh by security forces, 51-year-old KhairulIslamcelebratedEidwith his family in Assam’s Morigaon districtafterhewasbroughtback and handed over to his family. “There are no words for the thoughtsthatweregoingthrough my head during those two days that I was in Bangladesh. I was fearful, I was not sure if I would ever be able to come back to my family,”hetoldTheIndianExpress, speaking from his home. Islam, a former government school primary teacher, had been declared a foreigner by a Foreigners Tribunal in 2016. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LEADER OF Opposition Rahul Gandhi’s attack on the Election Commission, in a piece in The Indian Express Saturday, reiterates allegations he has made in the past and contradicts Maharashtra Assembly election data the poll panel has released. A scrutiny by The Indian RAGA: REJECTED BY PEOPLE,NOW HE REJECTS PEOPLE’S MANDATE PAGE 5 Express of his allegations and data around each shows that AMONG SITES FOR DHARAVI RELOCATION At Deonar dumping site, toxicology indicators four times safety limit: Study PRATIP ACHARYA MUMBAI, JUNE 7 EVEN AS the Deonar dumping ground, in Mumbai’s eastern suburbs, is among the areas earmarkedforrelocationof Dharavi residents, a waste characterisation study commissioned by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) shows that the level of toxicology indicators at the landfill is up to four times thepermissiblelimitsprescribed by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB). Thestudyanalysedthelevels of Biochemical Oxygen Demand CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Gandhi’s criticism selectively citesrecords,ignorescrucialcontext and, in one case, even draws a connection where none exists. Chief ElectionCommissioner GyaneshKumarwasunavailable for comment. However, a senior EC official said: “After losing the match, blaming the referee has becomestandardpractice.These allegations are absurd and a bid to defame the poll body. ECI has responded to INC on 24 December 2024 on the same CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PM Narendra Modi with UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Saturday. PTI INSIDE BEHIND PAKISTAN’S APPOINTMENT TO UNSC COMMITTEES PAGE 7 Onboard Shukla’s mission: Study to enable diabetes patients travel to space ANONNA DUTT & AMITABH SINHA NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 AMONG the studies and experiments that will keep India’s Shubhanshu Shukla and other astronauts on Axiom-4 mission busyduringtheirtwo-weekstay in space expected to launch June 10, is one aimed at enabling diabetic people to travel into space. Asof now,insulin-dependent diabeticpatientsarenotselected CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E EXPLAINED Assam man ‘pushed into Bangladesh’ back home in time for Eid NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 Worse than ● sewage THE HIGH levels of BOD, COD and TDS indicate that the water and soil at the dumping ground are even more contaminated than Mumbai's untreated sewage with a recorded BOD level of 100 mg/litre. A CPCB report had earlier said that Deonar is among the top 22 methane hotspots in the country. Vaishno Devi pilgrims, engineer heading home: On Day 1, Katra-Srinagar train has 530 on board ARUN SHARMA KATRA, JUNE 7 Passengers in the Vande Bharat train in Srinagar, Saturday. PTI ON SATURDAY morning, when the first Vande Bharat train with 530 passengers on board soundedthewhistleatShriMata Vaishno Devi railway station here, it marked the beginning of a journey to Kashmir through variousengineeringmarvelsand three major geological thrust zones—Reasi,MurrieandPanjal. An electrically propelled engine hauled eight coaches of Vande Bharat on a historic trip from Katra to Srinagar railway station, a distance of 189 km, at 8:10 am sharp. Of this, 78 km falls between Banihal and Srinagar, and 111 km between Katra and Banihal. Nearly97kmof this111kmis through 27 tunnels, while CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 127 yrs in vault, veil to lift on Buddhist relics PAGE 1 ANCHOR DIVYA A NEW DELHI, JUNE 7 A CRYSTAL casket believed to be over 2,300 years old was found along with four other caskets at Piprahwa (ancient Kapilavastu) in Uttar Pradesh during an excavation in 1898. The fish-shaped knob of the 5 cm x 10 cm casket containspreciousgemsandgold The crystal casket from Piprahwa; (right) inscribed casket. Indian Museum, Kolkata leaves. Another casket, found in a stone coffer buried 18 feet undertheground,hasaninscription in Brahmi script that roughly translatesas:“thecasketcontainingtherelicsof LordBuddhawas donatedbySukirtibrothersalong withtheirsisters,sonsandwives belonging to the Sakya clan”. Formorethan127years,several such sacred Buddhist relics from the third century BC, including the five caskets, a sandstone coffer and 221 gems and jewels, were kept in the secure CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Kolkata