DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2025, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `15 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 HITS BACK AT STALIN AMID ROW Shah:Indelimitation,no lossforSouth,fairshare BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY Trump offers $5-mn ‘gold card’ visas for US citizenship DIVYA A NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 26 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has announced plans to offer a “gold card” visa that can be bought for $5 million (Rs 43.5 crore approximately) as a route to American citizenship. The proposed visa will replace the existing EB-5 visa for foreign investors, which grants residency to those who invest $800,000 (Rs 7 crore) to $1 million dollars (Rs 8.71 crore) and create at least 10 jobs. The EB-5 programme is popular among Indians with sizeable investment potential. “We are going to be selling a gold card... We are going to be putting a price on that card of about$5million,”Trumptoldreporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “It's going to give you green card privileges, plus it's going to CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPLAINED PAGE 14 E EXPLAINED Not a single seat will be reduced pro rata, he assures southern states ARUN JANARDHANAN CHENNAI, FEBRUARY 26 THE MAHA KUMBH ENDS Devotees gather to take a dip at the Sangam in Prayagraj on Wednesday, the final day of the Maha Kumbh. AP REPORT,PAGE9 EU CARBON TAX KEY STICKING POINT 19 FIRS REGISTERED IN PUNJAB SO FAR A DAY after DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin described the proposed delimitationexerciseas“asword hanging over the head of South India”, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said Wednesday that the southern states, including Tamil Nadu, will not lose a single Parliamentaryseatonaccountof delimitation. Addressing BJP workers at the inauguration of party offices in Coimbatore, Tiruvannamalai and Ramanathapuram, Shah Home Minister Amit Shah in Coimbatore Wednesday. PTI said, “Today a meeting will be held to ensure the South does not suffer on account of delimitation. The public in Tamil Nadu is disturbed. This is why the Tamil Nadu CM (Stalin) and his son (Udhayanidhi) are trying to distract the public. Mr Stalin, the Modi government has made it clear in Lok Sabha that after delimitation, on pro rata basis, not a single seat will be reduced in The worry in the ● South THE PROPOSED delimitation after 50 years has the southern states worried that an exercise based on population will disregard their progress in population control, reduce their representation in Parliament and give the northern states an undue advantage. anysouthernstate.AndIwantto reassure the public of South India that Modi ji has kept your interest in mind to make sure thatnotevenoneseatisreduced pro rata. And whatever increase EU trade talks: India 32 countries, global to red-flag carbon tax, money trails: FIRs on data privacy concerns deportees’ statements Sexual exploitation charges put town RAVI DUTTA MISHRA Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 26 INDIA IS set to raise concerns over the European Union's controversial carbon tax, which seeks to impose tariffs as high as 30 per cent on imports of carbon-intensive products such as steel and aluminium from next year, during the two-day visit by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and 21 EU RELATED REPORT PAGE 13 Commissioners, Thursday. beginning CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 DIVYA GOYAL GOPAL LUDHIANA, FEBRUARY 26 IN SEPTEMBER last year, Gurwinder Singh, a 44-year-old dairy farmer from Patiala, left homeafterpayingHaryana-based agents Rs 45 lakh to go to the United States, according to an FIR registered by the Punjab Police. This was his third attempt — hisfirstviaDubaiandthesecond viaAmsterdam(Netherlands)en route to Conakry (Guinea) had both failed. On January 25, after a journey that involved a flight to Suriname in South America, a boat to Guyana, traversing the jungles of Panama and hiding in a vegetable truck for hours until the Mexican border, he finally entered the US, only to be deported back to India in February. Gurwinder is among the 131 deporteesfromPunjabwhohave been sent back home in batches from the US this month for having crossed into the country CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 on edge, Governor joins ‘dharma’ call Rajasthan:11held,‘encroachment’noticestomosque,graveyard PARUL KULSHRESTHA BEAWAR, FEBRUARY 26 IT STARTED with Rs 2,000 going missing from a wallet. In the 10 days since, a town in this district of Rajasthan has been swept up in communal tension, with a growing web of charges leading to the arrest of 11 members of the Muslim community for al- Security has been stepped up in the area. Parul Kulshrestha legedly exploiting Hindu girls. While the police still look for evidence, the VHP has got involved, Governor Haribhau Bagde has suggested the girls were targeted as they are “associated with a Hindu organisation”, the families of the accused and the local Jama Masjid have got“encroachment”notices,and a town with a mixed population CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 A bright future needs better options. Building wealth with Mutual Funds is SIPlified. Advantages of SIP Freedom from timing the market Flexibility to choose investment amount SIP - Systematic Investment Plan. Contact your MFD/RIA to know more. 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