DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES SINCE 1932 In a first, IndiGo uses Indian navigation system to land aircraft NEW DELHI, APRIL 28 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Out in cold after criticising Govt, Shah Faesal is back in IAS Resigned in 2019; withdrew it later DEEPTIMAN TIWARY NEW DELHI, APRIL 28 KASHMIRI IAS officer Shah Faesal, who resigned from the bureaucracyin2019tofloatapolitical partyand wasdetainedafter the splitting and downgrade of JammuandKashmir,hasbeen reinstated in the services, Home Ministry officials confirmed to The Indian Express. Sources said Faesal, who quit politics, has been taken back into theIndianAdministrativeService following clearance from the MinistryofHomeAffairsandislikely to be posted in the National Security Council Secretariat in Delhi. Notably,Faesal’sresignationhad never been accepted by the government and he even CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AN INDIGO-OPERATED ATR 72600 aircraft landed at KishangarhairportThursday,using an approach process guided by India's own satellite-based augmentation system named GAGAN, or GPS-aided GEO Augmented Navigation. With this trial landing at the small airport near Ajmer in Rajasthan, India joined a small group comprisingthe US,JapanandEurope withitsownsatellite-basedaugmentation system (SBAS). WhiletheSBASdevelopedby the US, Japan, Europe and India arealreadyoperational,thereare several more under development. These include China's BeiDou SBAS, South Korea's Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS), Russia's System for Differential Corrections and Monitoring (SDCM), and the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SPAN) of Australia and New Zealand. The test flight that landed at Kishangarh is a part of the approval process with aviation NEW DELHI, APRIL 28 ASPOLITICALleadersacrossparties in Karnataka weighed in on a debate triggered by an exchange of words between Bollywood star Ajay Devgn and Kannada actor Kiccha Sudeep, former Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy tweeted that what lay at the heart of it was a simple fact: “Devgan must realise that Kannada cinema is outgrowingHindifilmindustry.” In recent months, films such as Pushpa: The Rise, RRR and most recently, KGF: Chapter 2, have broken box-office records, signalling a seismic shift in a marketplace long dominated by Hindifilms.In2019,Bollywood's share at the domestic box office wasaroundRs5,200crore,while WHILE GAGAN is primarily meant for aviation, it will provide benefits to several other segments such as intelligent transportation, maritime, highways, railways, security agencies, telecom, etc. Once fully rolled out, it will make several smaller airports such as those in the North-East capable of having compliant aircraft land in low-visibility scenarios. safetyregulatorDGCA,whichincludes training of pilots, validation of approach and simulator sessions. The flight was performed with a DGCA team on board andafter theapproval,the procedure will be available for usage of commercial flights. The SBAS is a navigation system, which builds on the Global Mustbereadyforbriefops atshortnotice:IAFchief Mentions Ladakh to stress preparedness for long standoffs EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, APRIL 28 AIR CHIEF Marshal V R Chaudhari said Thursday that theIndianAirForceneedstoprepare itself for intense, small durationoperations atshortnotice. He also said it needs to be ready for short, swift wars and long standoffs like the one in eastern Ladakh. Addressing a conference on logistics management in the IAF, AirChief MarshalChaudharisaid the “current geo-political situation necessitates the Indian Air Force to prepare for intense and smalldurationoperationsatshort notice.Thisnewparadigmofhigh intensity operations, coupled with minimal build-up time, would require major changes in terms of (operational) logistics.” Logistics support in such a scenario would be extremely challenging,he said,because the PUNE, APRIL 28 THERE WERE 246 of them. They were soldiers, aged between 21 and 49 years. And they all came fromtheGangeticplainsandwere killed in a Punjab town — by the British during the 1857 rebellion. Eight years after skeletal remains were found in an abandoned well in Amritsar district’s Ajnala town, researchers have solved the mystery of their origin through DNA testing. The study, published Thursdayinthe journalFrontiers in Genetics, shows the skeletons were that of soldiers belonging to the Gangetic plain region, comprisingpeoplefromtheeastern part of West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. It even identifiedthemassoldiersof the all South Indian film industries together accounted for around Rs 4,000 crore. By 2021, as per a new EY-FICCI report, Bollywood's earnings of Rs 800 crore were one-third of the Rs 2,400 crore made by South Indian films. The political row erupted after Devgn stirred a Hindi vs regional languages debate following a statement by Sudeep at a recent press event that Hindi could no longer be considered the 'national language' as audiences had a clear appetite for regionalcinema.Devgntweetedto Sudeep Wednesday, saying that if he didn't consider Hindi the national language, why did SouthIndianfilmmakersrelease dubbed Hindi versions of their films in North Indian markets. Hindi is our mother tongue and national language and will remain so, Devgn said. Sudeeplaterclarifiedthatthe context in which he made the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, MoS Defence Ajay Bhatt and Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R Hari Kumar in New Delhi on Thursday. PTI REPORT,PAGE7 IAF has a “fairly vast and diversified inventory”. “To address issues like availability of spares,Ifeel weneedto re-evaluate demand forecasting methods and stocking philosophies. The way forward will be to have a serviceability-linked inventory management system. Flexible stocking policies with modern forecasting techniques would help in demand sensing and prepositioning of items at bases. We must also review our procurement strategies in order to reduce lead time for supplies and pre-empt problems of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ANJALI MARAR Stills from RRR and Pushpa: The Rise, among the highest grossing films this year ROHAN NAAHAR Other sectors too ● benefit ‘INDIGENISE CRITICAL PARTS’ Remains found in Punjab well traced to 1857 rebellion: Study Between lines of language faceoff: South is new No. 1 in cinema stakes PAGE 1 ANCHOR E E X P L A I NE D PRANAV MUKUL `6.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM Researchers sort through the remains. Express 26th Bengal Native Infantry regiment of the British Indian Army —whowereassaultedbeforebeing shot at close range. Archaeologists say the site is thelargest to possess skeletal remains linked to any single event of the 1857 Indian rebellion. The remains were first dis- covered in 2014 by a group of amateur, local archaeologists. The same year, the government tasked a group led by forensic anthropologistJSSehrawatfrom PanjabUniversitytoscientifically investigate the matter. Teeth, jaw fragments, vertebrae, skulls, phalanges (bone of the finger or toe), femur (thigh bone), clavicles (collar bone), bones of arms along with some coins,jewelleryandmedalswere unearthed from the well site. Atotalof 9,646teethsamples were recovered. Of these, over 4,000 have been analysed so far. Sehrawat told The Indian Express: “On the basis of trace elements and ancient DNA analysis, the average age of the soldiers was calculated to be between 21 to 49 years, with an average age of 33 years. As the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Seven held in Ayodhya for bid to defile places of worship: UP Police ASAD REHMAN LUCKNOW, APRIL 28 SEVENPERSONSwerearrestedin Ayodhya on Thursday for throwing objectionable posters and torn pages of religious texts outside three mosques and a shrine in what police said was their attempt to disturb the peace to protest against “the recent incident in Delhi”. The accused have been identified as Mahesh Kumar Mishra, PratyushSrivastava,NitinKumar, Deepak Kumar Gaur alias Gunjan, Brijesh Pandey, Shatrughan Prajapati and Vimal Pandey — all residents of Ayodhya district. Police said while the youngest, Gaur, is 22 yearsold,theoldest,Mishra,is37. The accused have been booked under IPC Sections 295 (injuring or defiling places of worshipwith intent to insult the religion of any class), and 295-A (deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs). In a statement, Ayodhya police said Mishra was the "mastermind", and the acts were planned"inoppositiontotherecent incident in Delhi". Police sourcessaidthereferencewasto the violence in Delhi's Jahangirpuri earlier this month. Accordingtothepolice,objectionableitemswerethrownoutside three mosques — Taatshah CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 From Vedic maths to zoonotic diseases: What ministries want in school curriculum SOURAV ROY BARMAN NEW DELHI, APRIL 28 AN ONGOING inter-ministerial consultation on revising the country’s school curriculum has seen a push to incorporate “emerging topics” such as “catastrophic consequences of zoonotic diseases”, vedic mathematics, coding and Swachh Bharat to “reflect current realities and priorities”. Thesuggestionsarebeingexamined by experts involved in revisingtheNationalCurriculum Framework (NCF), which will subsequently inform the changesintheNCERTtextbooks. EducationMinisterDharmendra Pradhan is in Bengaluru to hold discussions with members of the national steering committee leading the process. The Ministry of Education launched the inter-ministerial consultation earlier this month. Records show that the Environment Ministry, Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) have shared lists of suggested topics. On April 22, the DST proposed that the school curriculum should introduce students to the concepts of "traditional knowledge, coding, patents, intellectual property rights and vedic maths". The MoHUA, in its proposal on April 21, said: "We need to inspire and motivate children and school students to be the messengers and facilitators of swachh behaviour" by incorporating concepts on sanitation as "formal part of school syllabus". A section on Swachh Bharat Mission, of the scheme's rural as well urban aspects, would CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 WORLD BIDEN ASKS CONGRESS TO CLEAR ANOTHER $33 BN IN UKRAINE AID PAGE 14