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It needs to look at longer horizons 11 SAtURdAy, JUne 13, 2026 JOurnalisM of COurage kolkaTa, laTe CITy, 20 PaGeS ₹6.00 (₹12 in north east states, ₹20 in andaman) 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 Giving Wings to Aspirations of Youth 10,000+ Atal Tinkering Labs connecting 1.1+ crore students with science and technology CBC 63101/13/0002/2627 2.2 lakh Startups creating employment and innovation opportunities for the youth moVinG to end West asia Crisis uS and iran signal deal near, differ on its terms Rebuffed Iranian drone attack on Indian ships leaving Hormuz, unacceptable, says US President Parisa hafezi, steve holland & John irish Dubai, Washington, Paris, June 12 THe UnITeD States and Iran Friday appeared to have sharply different understandings of the contents of an emerging pact to end their war, though both sides signalled that an agreement was close. Pakistan, which has for weeks sought to broker a deal, saidafinaltextofapeaceagreement between the United States and Iran had been reached,althoughtherewasno immediate confirmation from Washington or Tehran. “Pakistan is now working »Continued on PaGe 2 E. explained Nuclear plan fate, sanctions relief key As the US and Iran look to sign a deal to end their military conflict, the stumbling block appears to be the division over the specific terms regarding the dismantling of the Iranian nuclear programme and sanctions relief. There remain gaps between what Washington says Iranians have agreed to do and what Tehran insists it has the right to retain. 3 attaCKs in 4 daYs near oman The wife and children of one of the victims at the air india crash site in ahmedabad, Friday. BHuPendra rana At crash site, families and friends sift for memories and a life that once was Leena misra, Brendan dabhi & Parimal a dabhi Ahmedabad, June 12 SITA PATnI and Amanda Donaghey sat beside each other at thefootoftheburntshellsofthe medicalcollegehostelbuildings onFriday,grievingfortheirsons. Donaghey, a British national,heldacollageofherson’s photographs that read “MemoriesofFiongal”,assheaccepted Sita Patni’s 13-year-old son, condolenceswithfoldedhands. FiongalGreenlaw-Meek,39,and Aakash, had been sleeping on his partner Jamie, 45, were re- the pavement next to the family’s tea stall when turning to London the plane crashed after celebrating air india Crash nearby, into the their wedding anhostel mess of BJ niversary in India. Medical College. They were among Fiery debris from the 241 who died when Air India’s Ahmedabad- the crash fell on Aakash, who GatwickBoeing787Dreamliner was among the 19 killed on the crashedshortlyaftertake-offon ground. Patni’s arm still bears »Continued on PaGe 2 June 12 last year. a year later India summons top US diplomat second time to Happening After Abhishek, Mamata protest strikes on ships today booked for ‘provocative shubhajit roy lPrime minister narendra New Delhi, June 12 FOR THe second time in less than 48 hours, India Friday summoned the US charge d’affaires (CDA) and lodged a “strong protest” over the series of attacks by US naval forces on commercial vessels carrying Indian mariners in the Gulf of Oman. On Thursday, the government confirmed the death of threeIndianseafarers,reported »Continued on PaGe 2 Modi will begin a high-profile official visit to France. He will also be attending the G7 meeting there next week. Track This and more on www.indianexpress.com Business as usual By eP Unny Us charge d’affaires Jason meeks at the mea, Friday. anI The Big PicTure Khan sir’s rise, his reckoning Page 14 nation Page 9 wait for aNswers coNtiNues as aaiB says iNvestigatioN still uNderway remarks’ in poll campaign sweety Kumari Kolkata, June 12 An FIR was registered against former West Bengal chief minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee for allegedly making provocative remarks while campaigning for the partyintherecentlyconcluded Assemblyelections,aseniorofficer said on Friday. According to police, the FIR was registered at the Hare Street Police Station in Kolkata onthebasisofacomplaintfiled byoneTusharKantiDas,aresident of netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Road on May 20. The complainant also sought legal action against Mamata. It was alleged that Mamata hadmadeacommentregarding »Continued on PaGe 2 a team of cid officials outside abhishek Banerjee’s kolkata home in connection with a hate speech case. ParTHa Paul express interview mahua moitra TMC MP Page 4 l meT wiTh near-FaTaL accidenT in himachaL moUnTains Mountains, ministries, military aircraft: Op to save Deadpool cinematographer after paragliding crash page 1 anchor hina rohtaki Chandigarh, June 12 WHen DOCTORS at PGIMeR, Chandigarh, examined a foreignnationalwithseverespinal injuries on June 9, he was registered simply as an “unknown patient”. Few at the hospital knew that the man lying on the stretcher was George Richmond, an acclaimed British whose cinematographer credits include the Hollywood blockbusterDeadpoolandWolverine. Fewer still knew that just a day before a near-fatal paragliding accident in the high Himalayas, he had been a guestatthePatialaresidenceof former Punjab chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh. What began as the rescue of theunidentifiedforeigntourist injured in a remote mountainous region near Manali soon evolvedintoamulti-agencyoperationinvolvingtheHimachal Pradesh government, district George richmond went down near deo Tibba; an iaF helicopter was used to evacuate him administrations,theIndianAir Force, senior political leaders and doctors across two states. Richmond, 54, had arrived inIndiaaspartofasix-member foreign expedition group. According to former MP Preneet Kaur, Richmond was known to her son, Raninder Singh, throughcollegefriendsabroad, and stayed with the family in PatialabeforeleavingforHimachal Pradesh on June 3. “Mysonknewthemfromhis college days. He stayed with us foranightbeforeheadingtoHimachal the next morning. A commonfriendhadbroughtthe group,andtheyhadaguidewith them. After they left, we had no idea what had happened until we learnt about the accident. It is very unfortunate,” Kaur said. After reaching Himachal »Continued on PaGe 2 Kolkata Jaspal Rana, always aiming for the perfect shot, dies at 49 mihir Vasavda Mumbai, June 12 One OF the things shooter JaspalRanalovedexplainingabout hiscomplexsportwasthetrigger pull. He would show videos of his most famous ward, Manu Bhaker, and then painstakingly explain the almost invisible movements that produce the perfect shot. To most, it would soundvaguebutforRana,itwas everything. He could admire a “beautiful shot”, he often said, even if it missed the bullseye. It was a quirk that said a lot about him. For all his reputation as a straight-talker and »Continued on PaGe 2 Legendary shooter Jaspal rana guided manu Bhaker to her olympics double bronze. PTI