DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2025, KOLKATA, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES SINCE 1932 `6.00 (`12 IN NORTH EAST STATES, `20 IN ANDAMAN) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM ‘ARC OF HISTORY IS BENDING NOW’ India’s rise is a stabilising force, now dominance of hegemon contested: FM ‘We can’t afford to be spectators... we must be active participants shaping outcomes... preserving autonomy’ Wangchuk’s wife moves top court against his arrest under NSA Wangchuk is accused of instigating Ladakh mob SIDDHARTH UPASANI & AANCHAL MAGAZINE NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 3 Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman with economist and former Rajya Sabha MP N K Singh at the Kautilya Economic Conclave in New Delhi on Friday. ANI EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 3 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY IIAS IN BRUSSELS After critique of indices on freedom, democracy, governance DAMININATH NEWDELHI,OCTOBER3 OVER THE past few years, several globalindiceshaveportrayedIndia in a negative light and the governmenthasquestionedtheirmethodology.Now,asasthecurrentpresident of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences (IIAS), India has proposed a new internationalgovernanceindex,TheIndian Expresshaslearnt. India, which won the presidencyoftheBrussels-basedIIASfor thefirsttimeinJune,haspitchedfor researchonestablishingthisindex. As India completed 100 days of its three-yearpresidency,IIASreleased AIIMS study shows how training gap in certifying brain death hits organ donation ANONNA DUTT NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 3 ASURVEYof 177of thecountry’s topneurosurgeons,neurologists and critical care specialists shows that over half (59.2 per cent) were not trained in medicalcollegestocertifybraindeath — a knowledge gap that impacts organ donations, according to a studypublishedrecentlybydoctors at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS), Delhi. While nearly three-fourth (74.5%) of the doctors surveyed worked at teaching hospitals, only 10 per cent said they regularly trained their residents in brain death certification. More than a third of the doctors said CONTINUEDONPAGE2 E Boosting donation ● numbers DESPITE INDIA performing among the highest number of organ transplants in the world, the national organ donation rate has hovered under one per million population for years, compared with more than 30 per million in countries such as Spain. Experts point out that better awareness, stronger hospital systems and streamlined brain death certification are critical to bridging this gap. alistofachievementsFridaythatincluded advancing this research agenda through initiatives such as theinternationalgovernanceindex. When reached for comment, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) secretary and IIAS president V Srinivas said: CONTINUEDONPAGE2 SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 3 IN ITS first official statement on the wave of protests in Pakistanoccupied Kashmir, the Indian government said Friday that the “brutalities by Pakistani forces on innocent civilians” is a consequenceof Pakistan’s“oppressive Vijay under pressure after stampede, BJP sees opportunity in TN, opens line to him PAGE 1 ANCHOR MANISH KUMAR PATHAK SHIVANI GANDHI, Raksha Joshi, Durgavati Gupta, Janaki Gupta, Nitu Gupta, and Punita Gautam. Led byShivani,thesix,members of a catering unit in Mumbai’s Kandivali, had a lot in common — besides the practised ease ShivaniGandhi,RakshaJoshi,DurgavatiGupta,JanakiGupta,NituGuptaandPunitaGautam—all of themwerekilledinafireatacateringunitinMumbai’sKandivaliareaonSeptember24 with which they rolled out theplas,tookbreakfastandlunchorders, and passed on thalis with barely a spill. Most of them lived in the Ram Nagar slums nearby. So whenever they stole some time off their hardscrabble lives back home, they would walk down to the catering unit, where they were paid by the hour. And then, on September 24, Manohar Kahaniyan, he says on Pak claims about downing Indian aircraft AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA approach”. The government also underlined that the territories are under “forcible and illegal occupation” of Pakistan. At least 10 people have been killed in five days of violent protests since Monday in PoK, and Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has set up a CONTINUEDONPAGE2 NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 3 IN FIRST public remarks detailing Pakistani losses during the hostilities that followed Operation Sindoor, Indian Air Force chief Air Chief Marshal A P Singh said Friday that Indian strikes at three separate locations inside Pakistan resulted in damage to a C-130 aircraft, CONTINUEDONPAGE2 EXPRESS NETWORK ARMY CHIEF TO PAK: INDIA WON’T SHOW RESTRAINT NEXT TIME PAGE 4 Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi pays its humble tribute to 2nd Prime Minister of India on his 121st Birth Anniversary NEWDELHI,CHENNAI, OCTOBER3 At the site of the stampede in Karur, Tuesday. ANI ‘LEADER VANISHED, NO REMORSE’: HC SLAMS VIJAY PARTY PAGE 6 popularity is evident at the huge meetingshehasbeenholding. “Backroom channels have been opened,” a senior BJP CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Six women, a Maharashtra catering unit & a fire that snuffed out their lives, dreams MUMBAI, OCTOBER 3 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 BHARAT RATNA SHRI LAL BAHADUR SHASTRI LIZMATHEW &ARUNJANARDHANAN THEBJPisexploringthepossibility ofapoliticalrealignmentfollowing thestampedeatarallyof filmstarturned-politician Vijay in Karur, leaving41dead. Thepartyhaslaidtheblamefor the incident on the state government,ledbytheDMK,accusingofficialsofnegligence—notablyleavingVijayoutof itsstatements. Duringhisrallies,Vijay,whohas floated the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam(TVK),hasbeenattackingboththeDMKandBJP.However, withVijayonthebackfootafterthe stampede,theBJPbelievesitcould openalinetothemegastar,whose Chief of the Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh addresses a press conference in New Delhi on Friday. PTI IAF chief details Pak losses: F-16s, JF-17s among aircraft taken Violent protests sweep out on ground, in air At multilateral body, India pushes PoK, India says Pak for new global governance index oppression the cause EXPLAINED GITANJALI ANGMO, the wife of activist Sonam Waghchuk, has movedaHabeasCorpuspetition before the Supreme Court, challengingherhusband’sarrest under the National Security Act (NSA) for allegedly playing a role in instigating the violent protests in Ladakh on September 24, which led to four deaths in police firing. According to the court’s official website, Angmo filed her petition on Thursday evening. The court is currently on Dussehra vacation and will reopen on October 6 when Angmo's lawyers are likely to request for an urgent hearing. Meanwhile, in a post on X, Angmo wrote: “I have sought relief from the Supreme Court of India through a Habeas Corpus petition against Wangchuk's detention. It is one week today. Still I have no information about Sonam Wangchuk's health, the condition he is in nor the grounds of detention.” Wangchuk was detained on September 26 under NSA, which empowers governments to act pre-emptively against individuals seen as a threat to public CALLING India’s rise as a stabilising force on the global stage as “neither accidental nor transient”, Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in an apparent reference to the US, said Friday that the “absolute dominance once enjoyed by a hegemon is now contested.” Speaking at the Kautilya EconomicConclave,organisedby the Ministry of Finance and the Institute of Economic Growth, the Finance Minister said that sanctions,tariffsanddecoupling strategies are testing alliances thatonceappearedsolidandare creating new coalitions. These dynamics,shesaid,highlightvulnerabilityandresilienceforIndia and the choices the country makes will determine “whether resiliencebecomesafoundation for leadership or merely a buffer against uncertainty”. Framingtoday’schallengeasa a fire that fed on the gas from a leaking cylinder swallowed the narrow cooking area and spread through the 500 sqft unit. All six women sustained severe burns. A week later, they were all dead. Itwasaroundeightyearsago that Shivani, 53, started ‘Shivani Catering Services’, a popular eateryandtakeawaythatsheran out of a rented space at Ram KishanMistryChawlonMilitary Road, around 400 metres from Kandivali (East) railway station. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri (2nd October 1904 - 11th January 1966) Success in science and scienti c work come not through the provision of unlimited or big resources, but in the wise and careful selection of problems and objectives. Above all, what is required is hard sustained work and dedication. 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