DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA LookforwardtomeetingXi,Putin, saysPM,flagssharedchallenges AI, semiconductors on his Tokyo table Rescue personnel search at the site where a building collapsed in Virar East, Maharashtra. Akash Patil The birthday celebration of a child, who turned one, was going on in the building, which housed 50 flats, just before the incident happened. Omkar Joil (27), his wife Arohi (24), and their one-year-old daughter Utkarsha were among those killedshortlyafterthegathering. Around 25 people had attended thebirthday party,minutesafter CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CHILD DIES ON HER FIRST BIRTHDAY PAGE 4 Govt working on measures to address liquidity crunch faced by exporters PM Narendra Modi leaves for Tokyo on Thursday. PTI SHUBHAJIT ROY CANBERRA, AUGUST 28 SETTING OUT on a two-nation visit that is being keenly tracked, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that he will be meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY THE WORLD 29/08/2025 116 72 Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit which is beingheldinTianjinnearBeijing from August 31 to September 1. Modi, who left New Delhi for Tokyo Thursday night, will travel to China from Japan after a twodayvisit—thiswillbehisfirstvisit CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEW DELHI, AUGUST 28 RUSSIAPOUNDS KYIVIN FIERCEST ATTACK SINCE ALASKAMEET PAGE 16 INDIA, CANADA NAME NEW ENVOYS PAGE 13 RAVI DUTTA MISHRA NEW DELHI, AUGUST 28 THENEGOTIATIONSoveratrade deal with the US may resume only after the additional 25 per cent oil penalty is addressed, according to a senior Commerce and Industry Ministry official. WashingtonDCwastosenda team to New Delhi to continue discussions on August 25, but the talks were ‘halted’ by the US after President Donald Trump Modi’s war, says Trump advisor; House Dems slam ‘sabotaging’ of ties RAVI DUTTA MISHRA & DIVYA A 68 96 Talks with US on, but removal of 25% penalty holds key: Officials A DAY after the US raised tariffs on Indian products to 50 per cent, Peter Navarro, trade advisor to President Donald Trump, described the Russia-Ukraine war as “Modi’s war”, and said “the road to peace runs, at least White House trade advisor Peter Navarro partly,rightthroughNewDelhi”. “Everybody in America loses because of what India is doing. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 projected New Delhi’s purchase of oil from Russia as a big deal breaker. Trump had on August 6 announcedtheadditional25per cent tariffs over and above the reciprocal tariffs of 25 per cent. TheUS’s50percenttariffson exports from India became effective on Wednesday. The official said the government continues to engage with the US and that only the round of negotiations scheduled for August 25 has been deferred. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E E X P L A I NE D Toll rises to 17 after 2 more bodies found A DAY after a portion of a fourstorey residential building collapsedinChamundanagar,Virar, the death toll went up to 17 on Thursday, after two bodies were found from the debris. According to officials, nine others were injured when a portion of Ramabai Apartment in Swami Samarth Nagar (Old), Vijay Nagar, collapsed late Tuesday around 11.45 pm. `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 FROM JAPAN, MODI WILL HEAD TO CHINA FOR SCO SUMMIT VIRAR BUILDING COLLAPSE VIRAR, AUGUST 28 REG.NO. MCS/067/2018 - 20 RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 2025, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES VALLABH OZARKAR ● Tightrope walk for ● New Delhi INDIA WAS one of the first countries to begin talks with the US. It was proceeding very well, but suddenly went off track with non-trade issues such as India’s oil purchases from Russia taking centrestage. It will be a tightrope walk for India as it stands up to Trump, while also keen to get the US on its side. RSS workers free to join agitations for Kashi and Mathura, says Bhagwat ‘Only a matter of three (sites)... other side should offer for brotherhood sake’ DEEPTIMAN TIWARY & VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, AUGUST 28 ON THE third and final day of his three-day lecture series in Delhi, RSS Sarasanghchalak Mohan Bhagwat indicated that the Sangh supported the demand that the sites of the Gyanvapi Mosque in Varanasi and the Eidgah at Mathura be given to Hindus. Sangh swayamsevaks were free to associate themselves with any movement for these sites, and the other side could respond by giving up their claims as it was a “matter of just three”, said Bhagwat. Thursday marked the end of the Sangh’s lecture series ‘100Yearsof theSangh’sJourney RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat in New Delhi Thursday. Express RELATED REPORT PAGE 13 – New Horizons’, and Bhagwat took up 218 questions forwarded by those who had attended the event. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2