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OfficialsofthelandandDevelopmentOffice(l&DO),ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, arrived at the Jaipur Polo Ground around 9 am saturday. Accompanied by CrPF »cOntInUeD On paGe 2 Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a diaspora event in Nice, France, Saturday. X/@narendramodI Trump and Shehbaz say peace deal signing today, Iran questions timing eman abouhassira, steve holland & saad sayeed Dubai, Washington, June 13 UsPresiDeNTDonaldTrump andmediatorPakistansaidsaturday an initial deal to end the war in the middle east would be signed sunday, although iran denied the signing would lODI wOrlD champIOns India face Pakistan in their first game of the ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Birmingham. media post that the deal with iranwasscheduledtobesigned sunday and that the strait of Hormuz,avitalarteryforglobal oil supplies which iran has blocked,wouldbeimmediately “open to all” after it was signed. earlier saturday, iranian Foreignministryspokesperson »cOntInUeD On paGe 2 Abhishek’s backyard to Kolkata and Bardhaman, The Indian Express tracks crumbling of TMC networks ravik Bhattacharya & atri mitra Sonarpur, Kolkata, Jamalpur, June 13 A smAll office made of asbestos and tin, in the blue and white colours of the Trinamool Congress, along the bustling sonarpur railway station in south 24 Parganas, now sports a new look. Hoisted on it is a saffron banner saying ‘Bharatiya mazdoor sangha, sarbabrihat trade union, sonarpur block’. »cOntInUeD On paGe 2 »cOntInUeD On paGe 2 Lt Gen Dhiraj Seth next Army chief, first from Armoured Corps in 30 yrs amrita nayak Dutta New Delhi, June 13 lieUTeNANT GeNerAl Dhiraj seth will be the next Chief of the Army staff, the ministry of Defence announced saturday. An Armoured Corps officer, ltGensethiscurrentlyserving as the Army’s Vice Chief. He will take over as the COAs on June 30 when current Army Lt General Dhiraj Seth will take over as the COAS on June 30 5 IAF personnel killed as AN-32 transporter crashes at Assam base amrita nayak Dutta Happening today take place so soon. Pakistani Prime minister shehbaz sharif said the two sides had agreed on a framework for a peace deal and that islamabadwaspreparingforan electronicsigningsunday,tobe followed by technical-level talks next week. Trump also said in a social iN A shot in the arm for the rebel faction of the Trinamool Congress (TmC) mPs, veteran party leader and six-time mP sudip Bandyopadhyay sunday signalled that he could join them as the dissidents prepare to meet lok sabha speaker Om Birla on monday to urge him to recognise them as a separate bloc and allow them to sit alongside the mPs of the ruling BJP-led NDA in the House. The development has caused a fresh setback for TmC Not just at top, cracks at grassroots amid anger against ‘syndicates’ New Delhi, June 13 FiVeiNDiANAirForcepersonnel, including two officers, were killed saturday when an Antonov AN-32 transport aircraft crashed during landing at Jorhat in Assam. Of the six personnel on board, one was rescued and his conditionwassaidtobeserious. The iAF identified the five dead personnel as sqn ldr Prashant singh, Flt lt shubham Kumar, sgt Jitendra sharma, Agniveervayu Khemaram Kumawat and Agniveervayu Danish Alam. A Court of inquiry (Coi) is being constituted to ascertainthecauseoftheaccident. »cOntInUeD On paGe 2 chief, General Upendra Dwivedi, retires from service. lt Gen seth will be the third Army chief from the 2nd lancers, one of the oldest armoured regiments in the country, and the first Armoured Corps officer to be appointed Army chief in the last 30 years after General shankar roy Chowdhury (1994-97). »cOntInUeD On paGe 2 ExprEss interview After 2 years of (IndiaCanada) tension, working methods better known to each other’ chrIstOpher cOOter Canada’s hIgh CommIssIoner To IndIa Page 5 l her SON FiONGAL wAS ONe OF The 52 BriTiSh CiTizeNS whO DieD iN AhMeDABAD CrASh LAST yeAr ‘All we got to bury was a DNA sample’: British victim’s mother seeks answers ritu sharma June 12 last year. “AllwegottoburywasaDNA sample of my son Finn that apAs sHe walksupwithabagfull peared to be about a centimetre of ashes to the debris piled at square… i can’t tell you how much that hurts,” the foot of a damaged hostel mess aIr InDIa crash the 67-year-old says. building in AhmeThirty-ninedabad, Amanda year-old Fiongal Donaghey has just andhis45-year-old one regret: that she still hasn’t found the re- husbandJamieGreenlaw-meek mainsofhersonFiongal,oneof wereamongthe260peoplewho the 52 British citizens who died died when the Ai 171 Boeing »cOntInUeD On paGe 2 in the Air india plane crash of Ahmedabad, June 13 a year later Amanda Donaghey, mother of Fiongal Greenlaw-Meek, one of the British victims, with her brother at the crash site in Ahmedabad Kolkata A closed TMC office in Sonarpur; a building linked to a TMC leader in Beleghata being demolished. 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