WWW.iNdiANEXPrESS.com Paint like Nobody’s Watching KOlKAtA, nOvember 23, 2025 While art education is restricted to basic principles, new platforms are enhancing the visual vocabulary of children, making room for exploration and curiosity (₹12 iN NorTh EAST STATES, ₹20 iN ANdAmAN) spoTliGhT Chef Lakhan Jethani on a Sindhi staple lATE ciTy 12+4 PAGES ₹7.00 d A i l y F r o m : A h m E d A B A d , Happening today lneARly Two monThs after 41 people were killed in a stampede at his rally, TVK chief and actor Vijay will resume his public outreach with a limitedaccess event in Tamil Nadu's Kancheepuram district. c h A N d i G A r h , d E l h i , j A i P U r , K o l K A T A , l U c K N o W , six pRoposAls by modi AT G20 summiT in JohAnnesbuRG Drug-terror nexus a global threat, act now: PM to G20 lnATionAl seCuRiTy advisors from France, Britain and Germany will meet European Union, US and Ukrainian officials in Geneva to discuss Washington’s proposed peace plan for Ukraine. m U m B A i , N A G P U r , kanchan vasdev, man Aman singh Chhina & Jatin Anand inSidE Prime minister narendra modi addresses the g20 Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday. PTi Reaches out to Africa with skills-multiplier initiative, woRld trumP, mamdanI proposes formation of global healthcare response team IndIa, canada and australIa to form tech allIance P 3 shubhajit Roy New Delhi, November 22 fLaGGING THe issue of drug trafficking including that of fentanyl, Prime Minister Narendra Modi told the G20 leaders’ summit saturday that thisposesaseriouschallengeto global security and is a major Delhi chokes, but 15 of 35 power units in 300-km radius don’t treat sulphur dioxide means of financing terrorism. To effectively address this global threat, he proposed the “G20 Initiative on countering the Drug-Terror Nexus” to “weaken” the “drug-terror economy”. Modi,whoarrivedinJohannesburg friday and was welcomed by south african Presi- E. New Delhi, November 22 eVeN as Delhi’s air quality deteriorates, many units of thermal power plants in a 300 km radius of the capital city, continue to operate without flue gas desulphurisation (fGD) systems, which are critical for reducing sulphur dioxide emissions. sulphur dioxide causes fine particulate matter PM2.5;itreactswithothercompounds in the air to form air particles with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers or less, which are not visible to the naked eye. an analysis of central electricity authority (cea) data from November 1-19 shows there are at least 15 units across six thermal plants within Delhi’s300kmradiuswhichdo not have a fGD system and wereoperatingthroughoutthis period. These include four units in Haryana (two each in Yamuna Nagar and Panipat thermal power stations), and 11 units in Punjab (three in Talwandi sabo, and four each at theGuruHargobindandRopar thermal power stations). Panipat and Yamuna Nagar plants are operated by the Haryana Power Generation corporation Limited (HPGcL), Guru Hargobind and Ropar by Punjab state Power corporationLimited(PsPcL),andTalwandi sabo plant by Vedanta. overall,thereareatotalof11 thermal powerplantscomprising 35 units (a single plant »ConTinued on pAGe 2 terror group members in Valley a source explained the difference: “al Qaeda leans on attacking Western culture and farawayenemies,whiletheIsIs goal is to establish a caliphate on october 18 to mend bridges and find a nearby enemy. The with the rest of the group and groups, barring Wagay, had “keep them on track”, investi- triedandfailedtogotoafghangators have told TheIndianEx- istan, so they decided to find a target back home.” press. sourcessaidumaralso“saw according to highly placed himself as a sucsources, the arcessortothemilirested accused — EXPRESS tant legacies of Muzammil Ganai, BurhanWaniand Rather, and Wagay Zakir Moosa in — were often not on the same page as umar. Kashmir”. Investigators said he had While the group was more inclined towards an al Qaeda been researching IeDs since ideology,umarconsideredIsIs 2023. »ConTinued on pAGe 2 or Daesh his model. After cleric was detained; ironed out differences within the module Because of differences over ideology, finances and the method of executing an attack with the rest of the members of the Jaish-e-Mohammed terror module, Red fort car bomber umar Nabi skipped the wedding of his co-conspirator adeel Rather at the beginning of october. However, once cleric Mufti Irfan Wagay was detained in the Valley, umar rushed to Kashmir’s Qazigund July left Walunj and his village stunned. It was not an isolated incisuRRouNDeD BY waters of dent. coordinated thefts of large the chincholi dam on three sides, shindodi village in quantities of these large-sized Pune’s shirur taluka had never high-valuepomegranateswere reported a theft until this year. reportedacrossMaharashtra— from sangola in sosomuchsothatshaPagE 1 lapur district to shrihaji Walunj, a 50rampur in ahilyanayear-old local pomgar and Deola in egranate farmer, “never even bothered” to lock Nashik — in July and august his tractor. Which is why the this year. The reason, police and theft of 4.5 tonnes of primequality Bhagwa pomegranates farmers say, is clear: soaring — as the variety is known — prices of this fruit. The Bhagwa pomegranate from his three-acre orchard in anchor which it currently shares with Haryana as a joint capital. currently, the Punjab Governor also holds additional charge as the administrator of the uT of chandigarh. The Bill seeks to include chandigarh in article 240, in alignmentwithotheruTswith- COP backs push against trade curbs linked to climate change, silent on fossil fuels Amitabh sinha New Delhi, November 22 sIGNaLLING a shift in power balance in the absence of the us,thecoP30climatemeeting at Belem in Brazil adopted an agreement that accommodated the main concerns of developing nations like India and china. It also left out any mention of a roadmapon fossil-fuel Tanusree bose, Anand mohan J & kamal saiyed is celebrated as the jewel of Indian varieties — an opulent fruitwitharichsaffron-redrind and deep ruby-coloured aril, which is the juicy sac that encases the seed. While the fIR registered in the shindodi case values the fruit at Rs 100 per kilo, pegging the total value of the stolen fruit at Rs 4.5 lakh, the Walunj family is sure that the fruit would have fetched Rs 200 per kilo wholesale and Rs 300 per kilo in retail. “The yield was seven months old when it was stolen and ready to be harvested. »ConTinued on pAGe 2 specialIntensiveRevision(sIR) of electoral rolls in the state. While the ec has sought a report in the case, it has yet to comment on whether workload is an issue and if any steps are planned to address it. Withthelatestincident,five suicides have been attributed to added responsibilities as BLo: Rinku Tarafdar, Kolkata: Kolkata, Bhopal, Surat, New Delhi, November 22 RINKu TaRafDaR, a 53-yearold booth-level officer (BLo) in West Bengal’s Nadia district, allegedly died by suicide saturday,withherfamilyblamingthe “severe mental stress” she was underduetoworkrelatedtothe exclusive »ConTinued on pAGe 2 A delegate reacts during a plenary session at the COP30 summit on Saturday. AP »ConTinued on pAGe 2 UPSC CSE 2025 INTERVIEW GUIDANCE PROGRAM @ NEW DELHI , BHUBANESWAR & KOLKATA 1 210+ Performance of our Candidates in recent CSE Interviews Interview Handbook for Current Affairs & Home State Offline / Online Panel & One to One Mock Interviews Personalized DAF Questionnaire »ConTinued on pAGe 2 CANDIDATES CANDIDATES CANDIDATES MARKS 93 175+ 45 190+ 7 200+ CANDIDATE MARKS MARKS MARKS MEET OUR EXPERT PANEL MEMBERS R. SHRINIVASAN Retd. IES, Former UPSC Board Member A. K. GOYAL Ex Spl. 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SUShANT KUlKArNi a purported suicide note blamed the election commission,thefamilysaid.Recovered bythepolice,thepurportednote read: “If I cannot complete the work of BLo, administrative pressurewillcome.Itisnotpossible for me to take it.” Aneesh George, Kerala: No note was found, but his family and friends claimed CREATING CIVIL SERVANTS FOR THE NATION phaseout, which the eu and some other countries had identified as non-negotiable. The showpiece outcome fromcoP30,beingreferredtoas apoliticalpackage,hastakenon board two big issues flagged by developing countries — implementation of a key finance provision in article 9.1 of Paris agreementandunilateraltrade In Maharashtra, a case of missing pomegranates Pune, November 22 The proposed inclusion of Chandigarh in Article 240 will result in the appointment of an independent Administrator or Lt Governor for the Union Territory. Ever since 1984, the Punjab Governor has been holding charge of the Chandigarh Administrator. Punjab parties see the new move as a bid to weaken the state’s claim to Chandigarh which currently serves as the capital of both Punjab and Haryana. THe ceNTRe proposes to include chandigarh under the ambit of article 240 of the constitution that empowers the President to make regulations for the union Territory and legislate directly. This will pave the way for the appointment of an independent administrator or Lt Governor, a move that is likelytoweakenPunjab’sclaim to the city. according to a bulletin of theLoksabhaandRajyasabha, the government will introduce The constitution (131st amendment) Bill 2025 in the upcoming winter session of Parliament that gets underway December 1. This has led to an uproar in Punjab where the ruling aaP and opposition congress are targeting the BJP-led centre, saying it is a move to weaken thestate’sclaimtochandigarh, l COOrDinAteD theftS leAve fArmerS ClueleSS, POliCe POint tO SOAring PriCeS Of the fruit sushant kulkarni Why Punjab is upset EC seeks report on West Bengal BLO 3 weeks before, Umar met other suicide as kin allege work pressure naveed iqbal pratyush deep »ConTinued on pAGe 2 EXPlainEd out legislatures such as andaman & Nicobar Islands, Lakshadweep, Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu, and Puducherry (when its assembly is dissolved or suspended). after Punjab was reorganised on November 1, 1966, chandigarh was administered independently by the chief secretary. But that changed on June 1, 1984. ever since, chandigarhwasadministeredbythe Punjab Governor and the chief secretary’s position was converted to adviser to the uT administrator. In august 2016, the centre sought to restore the earlier practice of having an independentadministratorbyappointing former Ias officer K J alphons to the post. But the then Punjabgovernment,ledbyParkash singh Badal, whose saD wasanallyoftheBJPandapart of the NDa, and other parties, including the congress and aaP, opposed the move. The centre’s new move comesdaysafterthemeetingof the Northern Zonal council in faridabad where chief Minister Bhagwant Mann reiterated Punjab’s claim to chandigarh and demanded its novembeR 10 CAR explosion in delhi Srinagar, November 22 A smog-filled afternoon in Delhi on Saturday. AmiT mEhrA dent cyril Ramaphosa at the summit, reached out to africa by proposing a G20-africa skills Multiplier initiative that will train one million certified trainers in africa over the next 10 years. Healsoproposedformation of a G20 Global Healthcare Response Team, creation of a Glo- bal Traditional Knowledge Repository,anopensatelliteData Partnership and a critical Minerals circularity Initiative. In all,thePrimeMinister,elaboratingIndia’sapproachtogrowth, development and well-being for all, proposed six ideas for the G20 to consider. In the joint declaration, sourcessaidIndiaensured“terrorism in all its forms and manifestations”iscondemned. 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