The Editorial Page: IDBI disinvestment opens the door wider to winds of reform 8 TUESdaY, OCTOBER 20, 2026 JourNAlISm of CourAgE MuMbAI, lATe cITy, 18 PAgeS ₹5.00 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 reg.no. mcs/067/2018 - 20 rni regn. no. 1543/57 U.S. SeCreTary of STaTe’S viSiT ComeS amid TenSion in TieS over viSa reSTriCTionS, Tariff THreaTS Eve of visit, Rubio links pause on Russia sanctions to India-US deal ‘Trying to finalise a trade deal with India right now... we are very close’ Energy, trade, tech on table at meeting with Jaishankar today ravi dutta mishra Mumbai, October 19 DAYS AFter the US signed a diesel purchase deal with russia and announced a pause on the Lindsey O graham Sanctioning russia and iran Act of 2026, United States Secretary of State Marco rubio on Monday said the decision to waive russia oil sanctions also took into account the india-US trade deal, which is close to conclusion. rubio’s comments come US SeCretArY of State Marco rubio’s visit to india comes amid the tension in relations betweenthetwocountriesover visa restrictions and tariff threats. his meeting with external AffairsMinisterSJaishankarin Mumbaiontuesdayafternoon is being seen as an attempt to repair ties. indian officials said the two sides are expected to discuss “energy, trade and investment, defence, critical and Shubhajit roy New Delhi, October 19 Us secretary of state marco rubio at registan square in samarkand, Uzbekistan on monday. AP ahead of his scheduled visit to Mumbai on tuesday, where he will be holding talks with externalAffairsMinisterSJaishankar. “Wehavehadtowaivesanctions over the past few months, looking at the global supplies, lookingatglobalprices,andthe impact it was having on other countries. i know diesel prices are high in the United States, »ConTinUed on PaGe 2 2 months after he walked out of TMC, Gujarat clears allotment of disputed plot to Yusuf Pathan In 2024, Yusuf was told to remove ‘encroachment’ from 978-sq-m plot. Now, Govt resolution says 500 sq m to be allotted as gift, 478 sq m to be transferred at concessional rate lUnion Home Minister Amit Shah will visit Punjab. lTHe indian women’s team will take on Zimbabwe in the final T20 International match. lTHe india-new Zealand Free Trade Agreement comes into effect. Track These and more on www.indianexpress.com aditi raja Vadodara, October 19 tWO MONthS after Yusuf Pathan broke away from Mamata Banerjee’strinamoolCongress (tMC),thegujaratgovernment has decided to allot to the former cricketer a disputed 978-square-metre Vadodara Municipal Corporation (VMC) plot over which he was served an encroachment notice two years ago. the VMC, which is controlled by the BJP, served the notice on Pathan in June 2024, daysafterhewontheBaharampurLokSabhaseatinWestBen- »ConTinUed on PaGe 2 Business as usual By EP UNNY Tiger Shroff shooting: 3 held from train in Kota Two accused daily wage workers, 3rd was Rapido bike rider; planned to flee to Nepal: Police mohamed Thaver & Hamza Khan Mumbai, Jaipur, October 19 the three men accused of firingfiveroundstargetingBollywood actor tiger Shroff in Mumbai’s Juhu on Sunday evening were arrested aboard the Pune-Jaipur Superfast express in rajasthan’s Kota on Mondaymorning,afteratip-off from Mumbai Police triggered a coordinated operation. the accused had fled Mumbai after theshootingandwereallegedly planning to travel to Delhi and then Nepal, police said. Mumbai Police identified theaccusedasPhoolSingh(18), hrithik Mahto (22) and rehan rahisuddin (18). Mahto was allegedly riding the motorcycle used in the attack while the other two opened fire at Shroff’s car. rehan and Singh aredaily-wagelabourers,while Mahto worked as a rapido bike rider based in Andheri over the past year, officers said. »ConTinUed on PaGe 2 Why Mumbai Police can’t get Bishnoi brothers’ custody Page 13 Two of the three accused arrested on monday. AnI CCTV shows shooters came for actor last week, but he skipped football manish Kumar Pathak Mumbai, October 19 the three men who opened fire at Bollywood actor tiger Shroff outside a Juhu football ground Sunday were also at the spot a week earlier, on October 11, hanging around for some time, CCtV footage and call data records show. Police suspecttheyhadcometocarryout theattackontheactorthen,but leftbecausehedidn’tturnupto play that day, an officer told The Indian Express. “Shroff loves playing football and comes to Pushpa Narsee ground between 5 pm and 7 pm every Sunday. he hardly misses any Sunday,” a friend, INSIDE THe ediTorial PaGe ShooTIng In Juhu IS A wArnIng For MuMbAI page 8 A cAll To cAbbIe: how PolIce TrAcKeD ATTAcKerS who Are The 3 AccuSeD FroM hAryAnA, bIhAr how u.S.-bASeD AnIl PAnDIT becAMe lAwrence bIShnoI gAng’S Key hAnDler pages 4,6 who was with him this Sunday too and who did not wish to be identified, said. »ConTinUed on PaGe 2 The plot is adjacent to the bungalow in which former cricketers Yusuf and irfan pathan live with their families. bhuPenDrA rAnA gal on a tMC ticket. in June 2026, a little over a month after the BJP came to power in Bengal, Pathan was among the 20 tMCMPswhobrokeawayfrom the party and merged with the little-known Nationalist »ConTinUed on PaGe 2 Manipur again: Three killed, attack triggers protests, revives fears 110 138 Jimmy leivon Imphal, October 19 171 78 The world happening today emerging technologies”. With Prime Minister Narendra Modi expected to travel to the US for the g20 leaders summit in December, the meeting will also lay the groundwork for his visit. thechoiceofvenueisbeing seen as an outreach to india’s businesselite,whichisbasedin Mumbai. returning to india after less than five months, rubiowillnotbegoingtoDelhi. he will, instead, head to Jamnagar on Wednesday. AccordingtotheMinistryof Hired Cab To SUraT, THen boarded Train, Say PoliCe P 14 after riots, frencH PM calls for Partial curfeW HoutHis strike Military caMP in yeMen, 50 killed three Meitei men were killed and three others injured in an attack by suspected Kuki militantsnearNongshumhills in imphal east district on Monday,raisingfearsofrenewedviolence between the two communities after a brief period of relative calm between them. the incident occurred around 9 am at Khongban Sunurok,underthejurisdictionof Sagolmang police station. the site of the attack lies along the boundarybetweenimphaleast women vendors protest at a market in imphal, monday. AnI and Kuki-dominated Kangpokpi district. the deceased have been identified as Arubam ronil, 35, »ConTinUed on PaGe 2 lrecords show Tiger spoTTed in disTricT lasT in 1920s After nearly 100 years, tiger spotted in Beed district Shubham Kurale Pune, October 19 A tiger has been recorded in Beeddistrictforthefirsttimein nearly100years,aftertravelling across several districts from the tipeshwarWildlifeSanctuaryin Yavatmal,a page 1 forest official said Monday. the four-year-old male, weighing over 200 kg, was captured on a camera trap on August 20 in the Brahmgaon forest range of Ashti tehsil. Speaking to the indian ex- anchor a camera trap captured the tiger in ashti tehsil. SPecIAl ArrAngeMenT press,AmolMunde,rangeForest Officer, Ashti, said, “the sighting is the first confirmed presence of a tiger in the Ashti and Patoda forest areas since the 1910s and 1920s. the last record of a tiger in the district appearsintheBeedDistrictgazetteer of 1920.” “the tiger has been passing throughourareaforthelasttwo years, but we could not capture it on camera,” Munde said. Forest officials refer to the animal as ‘ramling’, though it has not been officially named. According to Munde, the tiger is a cub of tigress t-22 and left tipeshwar in 2023. it first travelled to the Kawal tiger reserve in telangana’s Adilabad »ConTinUed on PaGe 2 Mumbai