The Editorial Page: India-Bhutan story offers lessons for managing asymmetric relationships 8 TUESdAY, NovEmBEr 11, 2025 JourNalism of Courage AHMEDABAD, LATE CITy, 20 PAgES ₹5.00 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 , LU 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 Legacy built in 11 NOV 2025 AHMEDABAD AHM STRENGT STRENGTHENED IN Shri Narendra Modi Happening today lThe supreme courT will hear petitions challenging the SIR of electoral rolls. The petitioners include political parties such as DMK, TMC and the West Bengal unit of Congress. lpresIDeNT DroupADI Murmu arrives in Botswana as part of her visit to Africa. India is set to get cheetahs from Botswana, which is likely to be announced during the visit. lAssembly bypolls will be conducted in 8 constituencies across 7 states and Union Territories, including J&K. Business as Usual By EP UNNY DecIsIoN 2025 bIhAr Phase2today Results in 2020 pArTy seATs BJP 42 (21.6%) RJD 33 (22.4%) JD(U) 20 (13.7%) Cong 11 (11.2%) Left 5 (1.8%) AIMIM 5 (2.4%) HAM(S) 4 (1.8%) Others 2 Source: EC, Seats Voting 122 Candidates 1,302 Reserved SC ST 19 2 2020 turnout (in these seats) 58.64% Vote Share in % REP0RTs, PAGEs 12, 13 capital’sJlN stadiumtobe dismantledfor newsportscity pritish raj New Delhi, November 10 The Jawahar Lal nehru (JLn) Stadium in the Capital is likely to be dismantled to pave way for a sports city that will house venues for all the major olympicdisciplines,alongwith residential facilities for athletes, a high-ranking Sports Ministry official said on Monday. The concept, inspired by a similar model executed in Doha, is still at an “ideation phase”, the official said. “no timeline has been fixed for the project yet as it is in ideation phase. we are assessing sports cities like the one in Doha. once all of that is done, we will move ahead with the planning phase,” the source said. The JLn Stadium was originally built for the 1982 asian Games. ahead of the 2010 CommonwealthGames,thefacility got a rs 961-crore makeover and recently, before the world para athletics championship, a further rs 50 crore was spent for upgradation. Currently, apart from a main football stadium and »coNTINueD oN pAGe 2 Shri Vishnu Deo Sai #CGBusinessEasy Prime Minister of India Chief Minister of Chhattisgarh seVerAl INJureD, suffereD burNs, No splINTer wouNDs, sAy polIce; mANy VehIcles cAuGhT fIre 9 killed in car blast near Red Fort; probing all angles, says Shah as NIA, NSG move in Probe tracks journey of car: Pulwama resident bought i20 last month Blast occurred when slow-moving vehicle stopped at traffic signal: Police Alok singh, sakshi chand & pragynesh New Delhi, November 10 aT LeaST nine people were killed and several injured in a blast in a moving car outside Gate no. 1ofthe red Fort Metro Station in the Capital on Monday evening. There wasnoofficial confirmation on what caused the blast. Union home Minister amit Shah said the investigating agencies were probing “all angles” and not ruling out any possibility. The vehicle, identified as a hyundai i20, was tracked to a Gurgaonresident,whoislearnt tohavesaidduringquestioning that he had sold it to someone else. The vehicle is learnt to havechangedhandsacoupleof times,withthelastownerbeing identified as a resident of pulwama in Jammu and Kashmir. a preliminaryinvestigation indicated that the vehicle had been parked near the red Fort area for over three hoursbefore it was driven out. Speaking to reporters after visiting the blast site, Delhi police Commissioner Satish Golcha said thata slow-movingvehicle stopped at the traffic signal near Gate no.1 of red Fort Metro Station, following »coNTINueD oN pAGe 2 mahender singh manral, Varinder bhatia & sakshi chand New Delhi, Sonepat, November 10 at the site of the explosion near the Red Fort on Monday. TASHI TOBgyAL RelaTed REPoRTs, Page 10 350 kg explosives, AK-47: J&K cops seize arms from doctor’s Faridabad home Two doctors held, part of ‘interstate, transnational’ terror module, say police bashaarat masood & Abhimanyu hazarika Srinagar, Faridabad, November 10 In a major security operation conducted over the past two weeks, J&K police said they have arrested two doctors in haryana and Uttar pradesh who were allegedly part of an “interstate and transnational terror module” linked to terror groups Jaish-e-Mohammad and ansar Ghazwatul hind (aGh). The two arrested doctors have been identified by J&K policeasDrMuzammilahmad Ganai from pulwama and Dr adeel Majeed rather from Qazigund. Ganai was arrested firstand questioned, leading to the arrest of rather — both were employed at private »coNTINueD oN pAGe 2 The building from where the explosives were recovered in Faridabad’s dhauj village, Haryana. ExPRESS How probe into posters for Jaish in Srinagar led police to doctors in UP bashaarat masood Srinagar, November 10 whaT STarTeD as a probe into the appearance of posters in Srinagar, supporting terror outfit Jaish-eMohammad, led J&K police to the “interstate andtransnationalterror module” allegedly involving two doctors hailing fromKashmir,sourcestoldThe Indian Express. The posters were first spotted on october 19 at nowgam and surrounding areas on the outskirts of Srinagar city, they said. “Duringtheexamination of CCTV footage, we got some leads that ledustothedoctor(Muzamil ahmad Ganai) in Faridabad. after our team E. »coNTINueD oN pAGe 2 l bodies aRRiVing Today, suRaT FaMily PRePaRes FoR lasT RiTes Buried under Nepal snow, a man, daughter who took on Himalayas Page 1 anchor Kamal saiyed Surat, November 10 JIGneSh paTeL and his wife Jagruti were teachers who conducted tuition classes in Kadod, a village in bardoli taluka of Surat in Gujarat. Their only child, 17-year-old priyadarshini,wasaClass11student. but what made this family Priyadarshini, 17, with her father Jignesh Patel, 52 special in the village was something else. In 2018, Jignesh and priyadarshini started trekking, a hobby that soon became a passion—somuchsothatboth father and daughter soon started challenging the heights of the himalayas in nepal. and thevillagelookedonwithpride. Until that phone call on Sunday afternoon. “It was a hotel receptionist from Manang (in nepal) who »coNTINueD oN pAGe 2 Ahmedabad The probe into the red Fort blast has led investigators to zero in on a pulwama resident who bought the hyundai i20, which was the source of the explosion, just weeks earlier, on october 29, it is learnt. Investigators are yet to make his identity public. Sources said he is 34 years old. »coNTINueD oN pAGe 2 CCTV footage shows the car entering a parking lot adjacent to the Red Fort at 3:19 pm and exiting at 6:48 pm on Monday