The Editorial Page: How to fast-track reservation for women in Parliament — a roadmap 10 MONDAY, APRIL 6, 2026 Journalism of Courage NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 20 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 cHETAk ScREEN AWARDS 2026 Dhurandhar sweeps Homebound is Best Film; Dhurandhar bags 14 awards, including Best Actor (Male) and Best Director; Yami Gautam Dhar is Best Actor (Female) for Haq TRUMp’S TUESDAY ULTIMATUM ON HORMUz AppROAcHES US rescues airman; Trump goes ballistic, drops the f-bomb Officer hid in mountain crevice as US and Iran forces fought to get to him phil Stewart & Menna AlaaElDin Washington, Cairo, April 5 Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Reliance Foundation Chairperson Nita Mukesh Ambani and producer Karan Johar with the team of Homebound, which won the Chetak Screen Awards 2026 in the Best Film category, in Mumbai on Sunday. PRAVEEN KHANNA Heena khandelwal Mumbai, April 5 BOLLYWOODBLOCKBUSTER Dhurandhar swept the Chetak Screen Awards 2026 with 14 winsataglitteringceremonyon Sunday, including Best Actor (Male) for Ranveer Singh, Best Director for Aditya Dhar and Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) for Akshaye Khanna. The film dominated the technical categories too, winning awards for editing, sound design, special effects, cinematography, production design, background score,action, hairstyling and make-up. It shared the Best Costume award with another blockbuster Chhaava. Haq, Suparn Verma’s film documenting the landmark ShahBanocase,wonBestActor (Female) for Yami Gautam Dhar’s portrayal of Shah Bano, and Best Film for Gender Sensitivity. l ThEwINNErs BEST DIREcTOR: Aditya Dhar, BEST AcTOR (fEMALE) -OTT fILM: Sanya Malhotra, Mrs The evening’s other significantrecognitions,includingfor BestFilm,wenttoNeerajGhaywan’s Homebound, inspired by a true story of friendship and tragedy during the Covid lockdown. On stage to receive the awardwastheentireteam,from director Ghaywan and lead actors Ishaan Khatter and Vishal Jethwa to producer Karan Johar and Adar Poonawala, »cONTINUED ON pAgE 2 Homebound BEST AcTOR IN A SUppORTINg ROLE (fEMALE): Shalini Shubhajit Roy New Delhi, April 5 EXTERNAL AFFAIRS Minister S Jaishankar spoke to the foreign ministers of Iran, Qatar and UAE on Sunday as US President Donald Trump threatened to resume attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure if the Strait of Hormuz is not reopened by Tuesday. Iran’s Foreign Minister Vatsa, Homebound BEST BAckgROUND ScORE: Shashwat Sachdev, Dhurandhar BESTcHOREOgRApHY: Vijay Ganguly, Shararat, Dhurandhar BEST cINEMATOgRApHY: Vikash Nowlakha, Dhurandhar BEST cOSTUME: first, and only, hearing 2026 WEST BENgAL Sweety kumari & Atri Mitra Kolkata, April 5 A DAY to go for the voter list to befinalisedforthefirstphaseof Assembly elections in West Bengal, the tribunals to hear applications of those “deleted” »cONTINUED ON pAgE 2 BEST AcTOR (MALE): BEST AcTOR (fEMALE): Yami Tejpal, Stolen Khanna, Dhurandhar happening Cong candidate is voter today again as tribunals hold DEcISION BEST fILM : BEST AcTOR IN A SUppORTINg ROLE (MALE): Akshaye BEST DIREcTOROTT fILM: Karan PAgE 15 Strait ‘deadline’ looms, Jaishankar talks to Iran counterpart Araghchi BEST AcTOR (MALE)- OTT fILM: Abhishek Banerjee, Stolen Dhurandhar DIRECTOR, IIT BOMBAY An image on IRGC’s website shows what state media claimed was the site of a downed American transport plane and two helicopters involved in rescue ops, in Isfahan. REUTERS MORE REPORTS, P 9, 14 BEST AcTION: Dhurandhar BEST DIALOgUE: ‘Coaching culture trains students to game the exam rather than build conceptual understanding. This approach doesn’t work in the IIT system’ pROf SHIREESH kEDARE »cONTINUED ON pAgE 2 Dhurandhar Sheetal Iqbal Sharma, Chhaava; and Smriti Chauhan, Dhurandhar lcREW Of NASA’S Artemis II mission are scheduled to perform a critical lunar flyby. US SPECIAL forces rescued an airman in a high-risk mission deep inside Iran while President Donald Trump threatened to rain “hell” on Tehran if it did not reopen the Strait of Hormuz for oil flows vital to the world economy. Trump announced the rescueintheearlyhoursofSunday in a social media post that described the operation in a mountainous area as “one of themostdaring”suchmissions in US history. The airman — weapons officeroftheF-15EStrikeEaglejet shot down on Friday — was wounded but “will be just fine”, Trump said in a message on X. The pilotoftheaircraft was rescued on Friday itself. In another post, laden with expletives, Trump repeated a demand that Iran open the Business as Usual By EP UNNY Ranveer Singh, Dhurandhar BEST EDITINg: Shivkumar V Panicker, Dhurandhar Gautam Dhar, Haq (fEMALE): Shreya Ghosal, Saiyaara Title Track BEST pRODUcTION DESIgN: BEST fILM fOR gENDER SENSITIvITY: Haq Saini S Johray, Dhurandhar BEST fILM WRITINg (STORY & ScREENpLAY): Homebound BEST SONg: Saiyaara Title Track BEST HAIRSTYLINg & MAkE-Up: Preetisheel Singh Bishwadeep Chatterjee, Dhurandhar D’Souza, Dhurandhar BEST ScRIpT - OTT fILM: Stolen BEST SOUND DESIgN: BEST SpEcIAL EffEcTS: BEST LYRIcS: Gulzar, Ul Julool Dhurandhar BEST OTT fILM: Stolen, BREAkTHROUgHDEBUT DIREcTOR: ShaziaIqbal,Dhadak2 Ishq, Gustaakh Ishq Gaurav Dhingra BEST pLAYBAck SINgER (MALE): Faheem Abdullah, Saiyaara Title Track BEST pLAYBAck SINgER BREAkTHROUgH NEW AcTOR (MALE): Ahaan Panday, Saiyaara BREAkTHROUgH NEW AcTOR (fEMALE): Aneet Padda, Saiyaara Recusal plea: Kejriwal may appear in person before HC in excise case Sohini ghosh New Delhi, April 5 FORMER DELHI Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is likely to appear personally before the Delhi High Court on Monday seeking recusal of Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma in the case challenging a trial court’s verdict discharging him along with 22 other accused in the allegedexciseliquorpolicyscam. The high court is currently hearing appeals by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) against the trial court verdict that declined to put Kejriwal and the other accused on trial. On February 27, a trial court in Delhi had discharged all the 23 accused in the corruption case related to the excisepolicy. The case was listed before Justice Sharma, whose roster deals with criminal cases involving MPs and MLAs. At least three applications, includingonebyKejriwal,were filed in the appeal seeking Justice Sharma’s recusal from the »cONTINUED ON pAgE 2 New Delhi Seyed Abbas Araghchi called up Jaishankar and they discussed the “present situation”. “Received a call from Foreign Minister @araghchi of Iran. Discussed the present situation,” Jaishankar posted on X, after the call. According to the Iranian embassy, “Seyed Abbas @araghchi, Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, »cONTINUED ON pAgE 2