eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE One for the Road As a new year unfolds, we look back on journeys we took and the destinations we are headed to. LUCKNOW,LATECITY JANUARY7,2024 12+4PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT cbc 22201/13/0102/2324 Government of India BANGLADESH OPP LEADER ARRESTED OVER TRAIN ARSON HEZBOLLAH FIRES ROCKETS AT ISRAEL PAGE 8 On YouTube videos raising EVM doubts, now an EC disclaimer DAMINI NATH NEW DELHI, JANUARY 6 STARTING EARLIER this week, YouTube has added a “Context” informationpanel,which serves as an Election Commission of India (ECI) disclaimer, to videos thatraisedoubtsaboutElectronic Voting Machines (EVMs). Underliningthe“safeguards” in place to ensure “free and fair” elections,theinformationpanel, right below the video, also provides a link to the ECI's page on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about EVMs and VVPAT (Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail) machines. The information panel, titled 'Electronic Voting in India, Election Commission of India', says: “The strong technical safeguards in electronic voting machinesandelaborateadministrative safeguards, procedures and security put in place by ECI (Election Commission of India) ensure that the elections are transparent, free and fair.” Search results for “EVM” on YouTubehavealsostartedshowing the same information panel. YouTube is learnt to have CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 ISRO THIRD AFTER NASA AND ESA TO STATION SPACECRAFT AT L 1 POINT Aditya-L1, ISRO’s first mission to study Sun, in final orbit; another landmark: PM E Solar observatory has 7 payloads, ‘mission lifetime’ of five years E X P L A I NE D THE WORLD ANONNA DUTT, ANURADHA MASCARENHAS & ANJALI MARAR NEW DELHI, PUNE, BENGALURU, JANUARY 6 JUSTOVERfourmonthsafterthe Moon landing, the Indian Space ResearchOrganisation(ISRO)inserted its Aditya-L1spacecraft — India’s first mission to study the Sun — into its destination orbit on Saturday afternoon, yet again demonstrating its capabilities to execute complex and advanced space missions. Aditya-L1 moved into the ‘halo’ orbit around the L1 point in the Earth-Sun system, from where it will make observations ISRO’s PSLV-C57 carrying Aditya-L1 lifts off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on Sept 2, 2023. PTI file of the Sun for the next five years. L1, or Lagrange 1 point, is one of the five locations in the EarthSun system where the gravitationaleffectsof theEarthandthe Sun, as also the centripetal force on any satellite placed there, roughly cancel each other out. It is a relatively stable point for a spacecraft to be parked, and observe the Sun. The L1 point is about 1.5 million kilometres from the Earth. This is just 1 per cent of the total distance between the Earth and Sun. (PTI adds: ISRO Chairman S Somanath said Saturday's event was about only placing the ● Nextstep: Gaganyaan THE SUCCESS of AdityaL1 mission reinforces ISRO’s evolution into a space agency fully devoted to scientific and planetary exploration. ISRO has already sent missions to Moon and Mars, and a mission to Venus is in the works. A human spaceflight mission is set for next year with Gaganyaan. Aditya-L1intheprecise'halo'orbit. “It was moving towards the 'halo'orbitbutwe had to do a little bit of corrections to put it at therightplace.Sosomethinglike a 31 metres per second velocity had to be given cumulatively to the satellite to keep it at theright orientation,” he told reporters. “So in this new orbit, it had to be placed very precisely. If you don'tdothecorrectiontodaythen itcanescapefromthispoint(L1). We will not allow it to escape. Therearesomecontingenciesbut I am telling you mathematically it can escape. So it has been done very precisely,” he added. What the ISRO scientists have achieved is exact placement based “on our measurementandverycorrectprediction of thevelocityrequirement.”The space agencyfurther saidthe orbit of Aditya-L1 spacecraft is a periodic one, on the continuously moving Sun-Earth line, with an orbital period of about 177.86 Earth days. “Thisspecific'halo'orbitisselected to ensure a mission lifetime of 5 years, minimising CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 ‘ACTUAL SCIENCE OBSERVATIONS MAY TAKE ANOTHER 3MONTHS’ PAGE 5 At Sandeshkhali village in West Bengal. Partha Paul DAY AFTER ATTACK BY TMC SUPPORTERS ‘Saw ED officers beaten, CRPF men calling for calm with folded hands’ Gov tells police to arrest TMC leader RAVIK BHATTACHARYA & ATRI MITRA AKUNJIPARA, SANDESHKHALI, DECEMBER 6 A PALATIAL four-home cluster belonging to TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his three brothers was locked and abandoned on Saturday, shattered glass from Enforcement Directorate (ED) vehicles the only reminder of the chaos that ensued in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali village a day earlier. On Friday, when an ED team went to conduct searches at Shahjahan's home in North 24 Parganas district, in connection with an alleged ration scam case, they were attacked by a mob of hundreds, who also manhandled accompanying CRPFpersonnel. Theagencysaid three of its officers sustained serious injuries. WhileShahjahanisabsconding, West Bengal Governor C V CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Hijacking bid foiled, Navy hunts for pirates, probes vessels in area AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA NEW DELHI, JANUARY 6 A DAY after they foiled a hijacking attempt in the north Arabian Sea, the Indian Navy personnel are investigating several suspectedvesselsintheareatotrack down the pirates. On Friday afternoon, the Navy’s marine commandos (MARCOS) boarded a Liberiaflagged vessel, MV Lila Norfolk, a bulkcarrier,andrescueditscrew of 21, including 15 Indians, after carrying out “sanitisation” oper- Crew of MV Lila Norfolk following their rescue by Indian Navy commandos who foiled a hijacking bid in Arabian Sea. PTI ations. The MARCOS team, however, did not find any pirates onboard. “It is suspected that forceful warningsbytheIndianNavalaircraft to the vessel and likely interception by IN (Indian Navy) warship, probably compelled the pirates to escape during the night hours,” the Navy said in a statement on Saturday. Giving details of the operation, it said that after the merchant vessel sent a message onthe United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) portal -- indicating that five-six unknown armed personnel had boardedit–theNavyresponded immediately. CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 After temple visits, CJI No one will be spared: flags ‘dhwaja of justice’ L-G Sinha on killing of to district court lawyers three Poonch civilians GOPAL KATESHIYA NAVEED IQBAL DRAWING INSPIRATION from dhwaja or flags atop temples which binds “all of us together”, Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud Saturday urged districtcourtlawyerstofunction in a manner that the “dhwaja of justice” keeps flying for generations to come. “In envisioning a society where every citizen is assured IN HIS first comments since the killing of three civilians from Jammu’s Topa Pir village, allegedly by security forces, on December 22, Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha has told The Indian Expressthatthoseinvolvedinthe incident “will not be spared”. “The law will take its own course. No one will be spared, RAJKOT, JANUARY 6 SRINAGAR, JANUARY 6 CJI D Y Chandrachud, wife at Dwarkadhish temple. PTI the right to justice, the district courtsemergeastheinitialpoint CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Will ensure locals’ trust in govt is maintained, says L-G whosoever they may be,” he said, while speaking about the incident. Responding to a query about the trust deficit between the local tribal population and the CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 A tug at its tail, shower to mask human scent: How an elephant calf was reunited with herd PAGE 1 ANCHOR ARUN JANARDHANAN CHENNAI, JANUARY 6 IN THE early hours of December 29, amidst the mist-wreathed highlands of Tamil Nadu's AnamalaiTigerReserve,localtea plantation labourers spotted a lone elephant calf wandering near a bus stand. This serendipitous encounter set the stage for afive-hourrescueoperation,un- Days after its rescue in Tamil Nadu's Anamalai Tiger Reserve, the calf was seen lying down beside its mother. Express til the calf was reunited with its mother and the herd. “It was an estate vehicle driver who informed the forest department around 8:30 am,” said A Manikandan, the forest range officer in charge of Manampalli Range in Anamalai Tiger Reserve who monitored the entire operation. “By the time we reached, people had tied its legs with a rope as it was a bit upset amid the crowd. We had no clue where it had come from, but our previous day’s elephantsurveyintheareagavethe CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Lucknow