WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM ‘In a changing industry, he was a constant’ My collaboration with Dharmendra on Johnny Gaddaar and Ikkis revealed what an icon he was, how sharp his creative instincts and how youthful his enthusiasm were: Sriram Raghavan AHMEDABAD, NOVEMBER 30, 2025 LATE CITY 16+4 PAGES ₹6.00 D A I L Y F R O M : SPOTLIGHT Prasad Bidapa’s family secret on a plate A H M E D A B A D , 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 , M U M B A I , N A G P U R , BIG PLAyERS MORE EffECTIVE IN NAVIGATING 50% TARIffS PSB APNA GHAR P R E M I U M happening today lAN ALL-PARTy MEETING will be held ahead of Winter Session of Parliament, which begins tomorrow. Parliamentary Affairs Minister will brief floor leaders of all political parties from both Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha. lSwITzERLAND wILL VOTE on a proposed wealth tax that will be a litmus test of appetite for wealth redistribution in one of the world’s richest countries. lPOPE LEO xIV heads to Exports to US fall: Marine, auto, jewellery find new markets Asian, West Asian countries, Germany and some EU members open up diversification possibilities Ravi Dutta Mishra & Anil Sasi New Delhi, November 29 AS STEEP 50 per cent US tariffs effective August 27 begin to weighonIndiangoodsexports, severalproductcategoriessuch asshrimps,gemsandjewellery, auto components and electric machinery have managed to redirect some of that output into other Asian and European markets. Analysis of data released by the Commerce and Industry Ministry showed that while gems and jewellery exports to the US plummeted 76 per cent in September compared with last year, total gems and jewellery exports registered only a marginal 1.5 per cent dip. ShipmentstotheUnitedArabEmirates jumped 79 per cent, to Hong Kong 11 per cent and Belgium 8 per cent, the data showed. Asimilarpatternwasvisible in auto components, whose exports to the US dropped 12 per cent in September, but shipments to Germany, the UAE, and Thailand helped total auto component exports grow 8 per cent. Marine products grew l hOwmArINEExPOrTSTurNEDThETIDE $623.70 mn: Total exports in Sept 2024 $781.02 mn: Total exports in Sept 2025 (+25.22%) SHARE By COUNTRy SEPT ’24 35.66% USA 21.11% CHINA 20.48% 5.78% JAPAN 6.43% 6.13% THAILAND 8.42% 2.87% Source: Commerce & Industry Ministry BELGIUM 5.13% 2.84% CANADA 3.28% 30.91% Others 35.15% 23 per cent in September and 11 per cent in October, largely due tohigherexportstoChina(upalmost60percent),Japan(37per Lebanon, which has a large Christian community. The visit comes amid fears of a deepening conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. ExPlAINED The imperatives of diversification THE US tariff move forced Indian exporters to aggressively tap new geographies. In the last two months, early signs suggest India’s trade linkages with other parts of the world, including in different parts of Asia, has helped mitigate the blow of lower exports to the US. Diversification of markets will continue to remain work-in-progress. SEPT ’25 15.81% E. cent), Thailand (about 70 per cent) and the European Union. Thisreinforcestheviewthat leveragingIndia’stradelinkages withotherpartsoftheworld,including in different parts of the Asian region, could help »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INSIDE TRACk THESE AND MORE ON www.INDIANExPRESS.COM POLITICS Bashaarat Masood & Naveed Iqbal Srinagar, November 29 AS CHIEF Minister Omar Abdullah faces protests from youths and attacks from the Opposition and within his own ranks over the issue of reservations,aCabinetSubCommittee has cleared a report that suggests changes to ensure that 50% of the seats/jobs remain available for open merit or general category students. The report prepared by a CabinetSubCommittee,which has been accepted by the Abdullah Cabinet, leaves the Scheduled Tribe (ST) and Scheduled Caste (SC) quotas untouched but recommends carving out additional open merit seats/jobs from the Residents of Backward Areas (RBA) and Economically Weaker Section (EWS) categories. In March 2024, soon after Parliament brought in more groups under STs in J&K, Lt Governor Manoj Sinha amended the J&K Reservation Rules, 2005, enhancing the STreservedseats/jobsfrom10%of thetotalto20%.Alongside,reservation for Other Backward Classes (OBC) was also increased, with 15 new groups »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Lanka cyclone toll 153, India sends help SOFTwARE FIx CARRIED OuT ON AIRbuS A320s P 9 INDIA IS planning evacuation flights for stranded Indians under ‘Operation Sagar Bandhu’ THE CENTRE has also sent relief material, besides NDRF personnel to help the country Johnson T A Bengaluru, November 29 KARNATAKA CHIEF Minister Siddaramaiah and his deputy D K Shivakumar signalled a truce in their power struggle Saturday following a breakfast meeting held at the CM’s residence at the instance of the Congress central leadership. Both leaders put up a show of unity after their meeting, sayingthatanydecisionregarding a change of guard in Karnataka would be taken by the Congress high command. »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah with Deputy CM D K Shivakumar during a breakfast meeting in Bengaluru on Saturday. PTI In MP, a tribal woman’s death throws spotlight on unending queues for urea PAGE 1 anchor Anand Mohan J Guna, November 29 People queue up to get urea in Guna. ANAND MOHAN J winter chill, carefully scooped theashesintoplasticsackswith their bare hands. A few mari- gold garlands rested on blue plastic plates. A spoonful of ghee was all the family could offer for the final rites. With no cremation ground in the locality, the tribe conducted her finalritesinamustardfieldthat she once tilled with her hands. BhuriBai’sdeathhasgotthe rulingBJPscramblingfordamagecontrol.OnSaturdaymorning, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, the MP from Guna constituency,visitedherfamily, offering condolences and pullingupthelocaladministration. Scindiawasintheconstituency, announcinginfrastructureprojects, when she died. The Sahariya are on the list of India’s 75 Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTG). They live on the margins — in »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 V A D O D A R A COMMONwEALTH GAMES Delhi 2010 lesson: Not-for-profit company to plan Ahmedabad 2030 Likely to be headed by Gujarat Dy CM Harsh Sanghavi, structure meant to ensure tighter governance Ritu Sharma declaration of the Section 8 company is expected before December 26, 2025, less than a DRAWING ON the institu- month after Ahmedabad was tional lessons of the 2010 Com- awarded host-city status at the monwealth Games in Delhi Commonwealth Sport General that came under a cloud of cor- Assembly in Glasgow on Noruption, the Orvember 26. ganisingCommitSpeaking to ExPrESS tee (OC) for the The Indian Ex2030 edition, set press, Ashwini to be hosted in Kumar, Principal Ahmedabad, will Secretary,Departbe constituted as a “not-for- ment of Sports, Youth and Culprofitcompany”underSection tural Activities, who attended 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, the Glasgow meeting with The Indian Express has learnt. SanghaviandIOAPresidentPT Top government sources Usha, said: “The details for the said the company is likely to be Organising Committee to be headedbyGujaratDeputyChief constituted as a not-for-profit MinisterandSportsandCulture company for CWG 2030 are Minister Harsh Sanghavi. being worked out and will be Thisnewstructurebuildsin announced soon. We have a clear sunset clause. The com- framedasystem.Weknowthat pany will be dissolved or we have less than five years, we “merged” two years after the have planned what we are Games conclude. The formal »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Gandhinagar, November 29 exclusive 1 Since 1992 st THE CyCLONE is set to reach 25 km from TN-Puducherry coastline by Sunday night, IMD said P 14 Siddaramaiah and Shivakumar call truce, for now: ‘Will work together’ P U N E , New Delhi Institute of Management Volunteers carry a woman to a boat in a submerged locality in Colombo on Saturday. Sri Lanka declared emergency after at least 153 people were killed in landslides and flooding caused by Cyclone Ditwah, with 191 others missing and more than half a million affected nationwide. AP l UNION MINISTER AND GUNA MP SCINDIA PULLS UP LOCAL ADMINISTRATION HER ASHES rest in yellow plastic bags, the kind that once carried urea, sitting in the middle of a mustard field near Sikari Pura village in Guna district. This is all that remains of 45-year-old Bhuri Bai (45). On the night of November 26, Bhuri Bai, a member of the Sahariyatribe,diedwhilestanding in a queue for urea, where the wait was as long as 16 hours. 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