The editorial Page: We have a model investment treaty. and are losing billions because of it 10 FRIdAY, OCtOBER 2, 2026 Journalism of Courage kolkata, late cIty, 18 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 Happening today lTHE CENTRE will launch ‘Reform Utsav’ campaign celebrating key transformative steps taken for citizen welfare. Business as usual By EP UNNY EXPRESS exclusive COURSE CORRECTION CONVEYED IN WRITING, AND AT MEETING WITH STATE CEOs ‘Left out’ voters: EC orders special drive in 20 states where SIR over Form 6, changes to which the two ECs had red-flagged, will be re-entry route for those deleted, without the SIR question Vallabh Ozarkar & Ritika Chopra Mumbai, October 1 UNder Fire over the scale of deletionsfromvoters’listsinthe nationwide Special intensive He saved us from a 9/11: PM leads praise for flydubai’s Indian pilot The Indian Express report published on September 23 over Cong nominee arrest Atri Mitra the JoiNt Parliamentary Committee examining the one Nation, one election Bills thursday cancelled a visit to the Supreme Court scheduled for october 6, days after an agenda circulated among its members said the panel would hold an “informal discussion” with the Chief Justice of india and other judges on simultaneous elections. the Lok Sabha Secretariat informed members thursday evening that the ‘Local Study With the release of Congress candidateMilanPradhanoninterim bail, over charges stemmingfroma2007case,theNandigram Assembly seat by-election has finally stirred into motion. there are several reasons why the by-poll matters — and notjustbecauseNandigramhas beentheepicentreofthetrinamool Congress-BJP confrontation in West Bengal. For Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari, New Delhi, October 1 Divya A New Delhi, October 1 Smit Machchhar recovering, smiling, says Indian envoy. PtI the US when al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked and crashed passenger aircraft. the government said »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 more rePorts, P 7, 12 »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPRESS special Jointpollspanel shelvesvisitto in nandigram bypoll, it’s SCfor‘informal advantage BjP, but disquiet discussion’ Deeptiman Tiwary & Damini Nath Injured Machchhar airlifted to UAE, envoy meets him A dAy after indian pilot Smit Machchharfoughtoffaco-pilot who attacked him and allegedlyattemptedtocrashaflydubai aircraft headed to tel Aviv from dubai, Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the pilot thursday and said he had prevented a “9/11” — a reference to the 2001 terror attack in revision(Sir)exercise,theelection Commission of india (eCi) has directed the 20 states and Union territories where the exercise has been completed to run a “special drive” to enrol voters“leftout”oftherolls,The Indian Express has learnt. the instruction was conveyed in writing on September 29 and repeated at a video conferencewithallstateChiefelectoral officers (Ceos) thursday. itcomesastheCommission faces intense scrutiny over the 13 crore names struck off draft rollsin30statesandUnionterritories, and a week after an investigation by The Indian Express (September 23) showed »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Nandigram, Haldia, October 1 »CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Congress candidate Milan Pradhan in Nandigram on Thursday. PaRtha PaUl Polarisation won’t work in rejinagar this time: suvendu P3 Kolkata