DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2024, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 22 PAGES `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 ‘NO ERROR IN REPORTING’ SILENT ON ARTICLE 370 Justice Gavai: ‘Just because he is Chief Minister, he can do anything?’ Describes L-G as 21st century Raja, says outsiders getting benefits Not in feudal era when king’s word final: SC pulls up Dhami over official’s Rajaji posting We will restore statehood, giving you this guarantee: Rahul in J&K NAVEED IQBAL & ARUN SHARMA DOORU (ANANTNAG), JAMMU, SEPTEMBER 4 ADDRESSING his first rally in KashmirforthecomingAssembly elections, Congress leader Rahul GandhiWednesdaypromisedreturn of statehood to Jammu and The Indian Express report published on August 29 ANANTHAKRISHNAN G NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 4 A WEEK after The Indian Express reported that UttarakhandChief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, ignoringarequestfromthestate Forest Minister and Chief Secretary to reconsider the appointment, had handed charge of the Rajaji Tiger Reserve to an officerremovedtwoyearsagoas headof theCorbettTigerReserve, the Supreme Court Wednesday tookstrongexceptiontotheChief Minister’s decision and NEW DELHI, DEHRADUN, SEPTEMBER 4 AHEAD OF the hearing in the SupremeCourt,theUttarakhand government removed Indian Forest Service officer Rahul — he uses only his first name — from BASHAARAT MASOOD the office of Director, Rajaji Tiger Reserve. Rahul has now been posted as Chief Conservator of Forests of the Monitoring, Evaluation, IT, and Modernization division, the position he held before moving totheRajajireserve.Theorderissued by a Deputy Secretary of the Forest Department said CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ram Madhav is the BJP’s J&K poll in-charge SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER 4 Rahul Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah in Dooru on Wednesday. Shuaib Masoodi Kashmir,statingthatensuringthis was “the responsibility of every CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PREDICTING THAT a new leadership will emerge in the Valley in the upDECISION coming Jammu 2024 and Kashmir J&K Assembly elections, the BJP's J&K poll in- charge, Ram Madhav, Wednesday accused the National Conference (NC) and the Peoples Democratic Party CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BY UNNY VIDHEESHA KUNTAMALLA NEW DELHI, SEPTEMBER 4 GOVT & POLITICS IN HARYANA POLL RUN-UP, BAJRANG, VINESH MEET RAHUL RUSSIA SOURCING SENSITIVE GOODS FROM INDIA FOR ITS WAR EFFORT: FT P7, 9 Day after IC-814 hijack, call from Pak, Mumbai manhunt Silence and choreographed SPECIAL TO THE timidity in SAU: EXPRESS Lankan scholar D SIVANANDHAN forced to quit BUSINESS AS USUAL CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ahead of SC hearing, officer transferred out from Rajaji reserve JAY MAZOOMDAAR & AVANEESH MISHRA Ram Madhav: Ex-militants campaigning for NC, PDP ‘INDIA CHERISHES FRIENDSHIP’ PrimeMinisterNarendraModiwithhiscounterpartLawrence WonginSingaporeWednesday.“Hadanexcellentdiscussion onawiderangeof issues.Indiacherishesthefriendshipwith Singapore,”Modi postedon X. PTI REPORTS, PAGE8 DESCRIBING SOUTH Asian University’s inquiry into a PhD proposal citing linguist Noam Chomsky’s criticism of the NDA government as “utterly unreasonable”,SasankaPerera(62),the scholarwholaterquitovertheissue, told The Indian Express that the“deafeningsilence”of hiscolleaguesandthe“choreographed timidity”, on campus suggests that SAU “will never again stand for academic freedom.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 THE NEW web series on the IC814 hijackinghasnotonlybroughtback into news a horrific terror incident that rattled the world but also got embroiledinacontroversyoverthe names of the hijackers, forcing the Governmenttostepin.Now,forthe firsttimeever,thetruthabouthow the case was cracked by the Mumbai Police and the Crime Branch is being presented to the world.Itwasoneofthefinestworks of investigation donebyany police department across the world. This is what happened: OnDecember24,1999,Indian Airlinesflight,IC814enroutefrom KathmandutoNewDelhiwashijacked30minutesafterittookoff The flight from Kathmandu to Delhi was hijacked on December 24, 1999. File from the Kathmandu Airport in Nepal.Theentirecountrywasput on highest alert immediately after the authorities came to know of the hijacking. During that time, I was posted as Joint Commissioner of PoliceinMumbaiPoliceandwas head of the elite Mumbai Crime Branch and was informed by my boss and Mumbai Police Commissioner, R H Mendonca, Join us at the International Solar Festival 2024 YOUTH | COMMUNITIES | WOMEN | BUSINESSES Celebrating 100 member countries of the International Solar Alliance Explore the future of solar energy with Plenary and Technical Sessions Thematic Partner Pavilions Engagement and Entertainment Zones Hear from industry leaders as they discuss the pathways that drive the future of clean energy adoption and industry transitions at the CEO Caucus Accelerating solar deployment globally 5 - 6SEPTEMBER, 2024 BHARAT MANDAPAM, NEW DELHI Register Now: isf.isa.int CONTINUED ON PAGE 2