The Editorial Page: PK’s holier-than-thou politics has a challenge — and an opportunity 10 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2025 Journalism of Courage NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 22 PAGES ₹7.00 (₹8 RAIPUR, ₹15 SRINAGAR) l www.indianexpress.com DA I LY F R O M : A H M E DA B A D , C H A N D I GA R H , D E L H I , J A I P U R , KO L K ATA , L U C K N O W , M U M B A I , N AG P U R , PAT N A , P U N E , VA D O DA R A Happening today l PRESIDENT DROUPADI MURMU begins a six-day state visit to Angola and Botswana, with the aim to further India’s partnership in areas including defence, trade and energy security. This will be the firstever state visit by an Indian Head of State to both countries. lCAPTAIN SURYAKUMAR YADAV takes on the Aussies in the final of the T20 cricket series with an eye on keeping his captaincy slate clean. Since becoming T20 captain in July 2024, he has a 100% win record. Leading 2-1 in the series, India is favourite to beat the Aussies. SAYS INDIA HAS LARGELY STOPPED BUYING RUSSIAN OIL FADNAVIS SAYS NO ONE wILL BE SPARED; SALE DEED CANCELLED: PAwAR Botanical garden to IT park to sale: Land linked to Ajit Pawar son was govt property Power of attorney holder cannot sell the land: Registration Joint IG Alok Deshpande Mumbai, November 7 RAJENDRA MUTHE, Maharashtra’s Joint Inspector General of Registration, said Friday that the 40-acre land in Pune, at the centre of a probe into allegedirregularitiesinvolvingits sale, belonged to the state government and could not be sold at any cost. Muthe is assisting an inquiry committee, announced by Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, probing the sale of land by Pune resident and power of attorney holder Sheetal Tejwani to a li- mited liability partnership owned by Parth Pawar, son of stateDeputyChiefMinisterAjit Pawar, and Digvijay Patil. “The 7/12 document (land ownership document) showed Mumbai Sarkar (erstwhile Bombay government) as the owner. The property card issued after 2018 showed the same. The person holding power of attorney cannot sell thelandatanycost.Weareprobing everything and will sub- mit the report in seven days to the state government,” Muthe told TheIndianExpress. His office is responsible for registration of property documents and collection of stamp duty. The chronology of how the 40-acre land changed hands shows that in less than 13 months after the Pawar-Patil partnership Amadea Enterprises LLP secured a Letter of Intent from Pune’s District »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FULL REPORT ON WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM Business as Usual By EP UNNY PM targets Cong over Vande Mataram: Key stanzas dropped, still face divisive mindset Divya A DECISION 2025 BIHAR REP0RTS PAGE 6 TARGETING THE Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that “important stanzas” of the national song Vande Mataram were dropped in 1937 which “sowed the seeds of Partition”, and that “divisive mindset” is still a challenge for the country. Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s Vande Mataram was composed in 1875 and publishedaspartofhisnovelAnan- damath in 1882. In October 1937, the Congress decided to adopt only the first two stanzas »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Shubhajit Roy New Delhi, November 7 IN THE first confirmation of the Quad leaders’ summit, whichwastobehostedbyIndia this year, being pushed to 2026, US President Donald Trump has said he could travel to the country next year. Responding to questions at the Oval Office, Trump said Prime Minister Narendra Modi “wants” him to visit. He called Modi a “great man” and a friend. “He’s a friend of mine, and we speak... He wants me to go there. We’ll figure that out. I’ll go. I will have a great trip there with Prime Minister Modi, he’s a great man. And I’ll be going,” Trump said. Asked if he is planning to go to India next year, he said, “It could be, yes.” InNewDelhi,respondingto questions on Trump’s visit to India,RandhirJaiswal,spokesperson for the Ministry of External Affairs, said, “I do not have anything on this to share. IwillletyouknowwhenIhave.” E. ExPlAINED Trade deal talks key All eyes are now on the ongoing talks for a trade deal between India and the US. It will also resolve the issue of US penalty tariffs over India’s purchase of Russian oil. If a deal is sealed later this year or early next year, scheduling of Trump’s visit to India can be planned. CASH AWARDS, cars, land, government jobs, endorsements and a million new followers. These are the rewards that have come the way of India’s World Cup-winning women’s teamafterliftingthetrophylast Sunday. But there’s more — in a first, the Madhya Pradesh government has promised the team’s new-ball bowler, Kranti After Modi’s visit to the White House this February, the »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 places, shift them to shelters: SC New Delhi, Chandigarh November 7 Prime Minister Narendra Modi at an event in New Delhi. PTI Calls Modi a great man and friend: He wants me to visit, I will be going there Rewards rain for World Cup stars: Cash, brands, jobs — and promise to lift a father’s suspension Remove stray dogs from public Nihal Koshie & Nitin Sharma New Delhi, November 7 Trump hints at India visit next year, Quad summit has to wait Flags public safety, country’s image X/@NCBN Chandrababu Naidu, son Nara Lokesh with Sree Charani (left) and former cricketer Mithali Raj Gaud, that it is revoking her father’s decade-and-a-half-old »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ananthakrishnan G New Delhi, November 7 NOTING THAT “incidents of dog-bite attacks continue to be reported with alarming frequency”,theSupremeCourtdirected Friday that stray dogs be removed “forthwith” from the premises of educational institutions, hospitals, sports complexes, bus stands and depots, and railway stations to “a designated shelter, after due sterilization and vaccination in accordance with the animal birth control rules”. Stating that its directions be “implemented uniformly acrossIndia”with “statuscompliance certificates within a period of eight weeks”, a threejudgebenchofJusticesVikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta and N V Anjaria said “the stray dogs so picked up shall not be released back to the same location from which they were picked up”. “We have consciously »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2