eye MCS/204/2020-22RNINO.MAHENG2002/21899 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Passage from India MUMBAI,LATECITY JANUARY26,2025 The passport is a chronicler of how far we have travelled, evolution of our identities 18+4PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA US court rejects plea, India prepares to get 26/11 plotter Rana back E EXPLAINED MAHENDER SINGH MANRAL & DIVYA A NEW DELHI, JANUARY 25 PAVING THE way for his extradition, the US Supreme Court has rejected a review petition filed by Tahawwur Rana, who is wantedinIndiaforhisroleinthe 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. Following the court's decision, the Indian government has started making preparations to bring RanatoIndiatofacetrialin the 2008 terror attacks in which CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ● Focus on extradition WITHRANAexhaustingall legaloptionstostallhisextradition,thefocusnowis ontheprocesstobringhim toIndia.AnNIAteamwill beformedandtheinformationwillbesharedwith theUS.Theteamof officers willbesenttocomplete theproceduresbeforetakingRana’scustody. The Indian Express wishes its readers a happy REPUBLIC DAY 26/01/2025 99 127 157 72 We are closed today. There will be no edition of the paper on Monday, January 27, 2025. Fornewsupdates24x7,visit indianexpress.com FIRE RIPS THROUGH MUMBAI MARKET P4 ADDRESS TO NATION ON EVE OF REPUBLIC DAY Joint polls promises to redefine good governance: President Praises new criminal laws, says such reforms ‘require an audacity of vision’ Maritime to digital: India and Indonesia lean on history to forge future DIVYA A NEW DELHI, JANUARY 25 ADDRESSING THE nation on the eve of Republic Day, President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday weighed in on the ‘One Nation, One Election’ Bills brought in Parliament last month, saying the move “promises to redefine the terms of good governance”. The plan to hold simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and Assemblies “can promote consistency in governance, preventpolicyparalysis,mitigateresource diversion, and reduce the financial burden, apart from offering many other benefits,” she said in her televised address. The President also praised the decision to replace the old criminal laws — the new laws came into effect in July last year. “We won freedom in 1947, but many relics of a colonial mindset persisted among us for long. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Indonesia President Prabowo Subianto with President Droupadi Murmu and PM Narendra Modi. Renuka Puri SHUBHAJIT ROY Osamu Suzuki, Debroy on list of Padma awardees INDIA AND Indonesia signed pactsonmaritimesecurity,health, traditional medicine, culture and digital cooperation as Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the visiting President of Indonesia Prabowo Subianto Saturday. He is the Chief Guest at the Republic Day celebrations on Sunday. After the bilateral talks in Hyderabad House, Prime Minister Modi addressed him as NEW DELHI, JANUARY 25 India's automotive industry, and former Chief Justice of India Jagdish Singh Khehar, who led the Supreme Court bench that THE LATE Suzuki Motor Corporation chairman Osamu Suzuki, who revolutionised MORE REPORTS P8 MAHENDER SINGH MANRAL The pursuit of innovation is in all of us We are developing and manufacturing a diverse range of products in India that propel the aerospace industry forward and bring the country closer to becoming Aatmanirbhar in aerospace and defence. Learn more at boeing.co.in WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 NEW DELHI, JANUARY 25 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT A Supreme Court ruling that continues to guardrail free speech in India The Indian Express tracks down the women and men who reshaped the Republic 75 YEARS ON 1950 ROMESHTHAPARV STATEOFMADRAS RESHAPING THE REPUBLIC CASE BY LANDMARK CASE AN EXPRESS SERIES APURVA VISHWANATH NEW DELHI, JANUARY 25 IN THE summer of 1950, across Madras, copies of the weekly CrossRoads were quietly pulled off shelves — an article on police violence that killed 22 Communists in a Salem prison was deemed too subversive by the State. The Madras government had invoked the Madras Maintenance of Public Order Act CASE: Hismagazine banned,Romeshsaid hisrighttofreespeech hadbeenviolated to ban the sale and distribution of the magazine in the state. The editor of CrossRoads, Romesh Thapar, moved the Supreme Court, perhaps bullish about the new Constitution that guaranteed a remedy for the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2