DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, MAY 5, 2025, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 22 PAGES `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `15 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 DAYS AFTER MODI GAVE MILITARY BRASS THE GO-AHEAD IAF,NavychiefsbriefPMasforces prepareresponsetoPahalgam 2 found spying for Pakistan in Amritsar, held: Police What you wish, will happen, says Rajnath at public gathering AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA & JATIN ANAND KAMALDEEP SINGH BRAR & MAN AMAN SINGH CHHINA NEW DELHI, MAY 4 INDIAN AIR Force chief Air Chief Marshal A P Singh met Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday and is learnt to have briefed him on the overall preparedness of the IAF in the context of retaliatory options being weighed by the government following the Pahalgam terror attack. While there was no official statement on the meeting, Air Chief Marshal Singh and the PrimeMinisterweresaidtohave discussed the security scenario and the options on the table. The IAF chief’s meeting at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg took place hours after Navy chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi spoke to the Prime Minister on the situation in the northern Arabian Sea. Given the Navy’s ongoing CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INSIDE Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal A P Singh leaves after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sunday. ANI Looking for partners, not preachers: EAM on Europe EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, MAY 4 STATING THAT Europe has “entered a certain zone of reality check”, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said Sunday that Delhi is looking for partners, not preachers, “particularly preachers who do not practice at home External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and preach abroad”. His remarks aimed at “some CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 OVER LAST 10 DAYS NEW DELHI, MAY 4 PAGE 6 ASLEWof ceasefireviolationsby Pakistan along the Line of Control over the last 10 days shows that unprovoked firing from posts across the border are no longer restricted to one or two sectors as was the norm in Baramulla Poonch PA K I S TA N THE INDIAN Council of AgriculturalResearch(ICAR)said it has developed the world’sfirst genomeedited(GE)ricevarieties withsuperioryields,droughtand salinitytolerance,andhighnitrogen-use efficiency traits. Twoof itsaffiliateinstitutions — the Hyderabad-based Indian Institute of Rice Research (IIRR) andtheIndianAgricultural ResearchInstitute(IARI)at New Delhi — have bred improved GE mutants of the popular Samba Mahsuri (BPT-5204) and Cottondora Sannalu (MTU-1010) varietiesusingCRISPR-CasSDN-1 (Site-DirectedNucleases-1)tech- Indus Waters Treaty needs relook with new data: Top glaciologist NEW DELHI, MAY 4 INTHEfaceof climatechange-induced retreat of glaciers feeding eastern rivers of the Indus river basin,andprojectionsof reduced water availability, the Indus Water Treaty (IWT) needs to be reviewed with the help of new data, leading glaciologist Anil V Srinagar Akhnoor Anil V Kulkarni is a scientist at IISC, Bengaluru Kulkarni told The Indian Express. Following theterror attack in south Kashmir’s Pahalgam that CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Ladakh J&K Pargwal TIMES INTERNET LIMITED UNIQUE VISITORS ( FIGURES IN MILLIONS ) 315 202 TIMES INTERNET LTD SOURCE: COMSCORE MMX MULTIPLATFORM, UNIQUE VISITORS, TOTAL DIGITAL POPULATION, NEWS/ INFORMATION CATEGORY, MAR’25, INDIA 6x SIX TIMES MORE UNIQUE SOCIAL MEDIA VISITORS THAN TIMES INTERNET LIMITED UNIQUE VISITORS ( FIGURES IN MILLIONS ) 212 BUSINESS AS USUAL 34 TIMES INTERNET LTD BY UNNY nologies. UnionMinisterof Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Shivraj Singh Chouhan released the two rice varieties at theICAR’sNASCComplex on Sunday. GE is different from ● genetic modification or GM.Thelatterinvolvesintroduction of genes from unrelated SOURCE: COMSCORE MMX MULTIPLATFORM, UNIQUE VISITORS, SOCIAL, NEWS/INFORMATION CATEGORY, MAR’25, INDIA 38 % CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Workload, eye on future: no leadership role for Bumrah on England tour MORE USERS CONSUME NEWS18.COM ON NATIVE & SOCIAL PLATFORMS THAN THE TIMES OF INDIA UNIQUE VISITORS ( FIGURES IN MILLIONS ) 251 182 TIMES OF INDIA SOURCE: COMSCORE MMX MULTIPLATFORM, UNIQUE VISITORS, TOTAL DIGITAL POPULATION, [C] NEWS18.COM, [C] THE TIMES OF INDIA, NEWS/INFORMATION CATEGORY, MAR’25, INDIA DEVENDRA PANDEY MUMBAI, MAY 4 INDIA’S FAST bowling figurehead and vice captain Jasprit Bumrah is unlikely to be given a leadership role on the Test tour to England starting June-end, sources in the BCCI told The Indian Express. The ace seamer had led India to their sole win on the Australia tour at the turn of the year, apart Unlikely to play in all five Tests from leading in two other Tests. But since Bumrah is unlikely to feature in all the five Tests in England as part of his workload management, the selectors are CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 At a Haryana farmstead, cows, cars and a plea for conserving indigenous breeds PAGE 1 ANCHOR HARISH DAMODARAN SOHNA, MAY 4 HOW SHOULD India ensure the conservation of its indigenous cattle breeds — whether those reared for milk (Gir, Red Sindhi, Sahiwal and Tharparkar) or for bothmilchanddraughtpurposes (Kankrej, Ongole, Rathi, Deoni, Hariana, Mewati and Dangi)? “By allowing export of their 55 % MORE INTERNET USERS ON NATIVE AND SOCIAL PLATFORMS THAN Kargil E ‘SHRINKING INDIAN SHARE IN RIVER FLOWS’ NIKHIL GHANEKAR INDIA Mendhar Rajouri Naushera Sunderbani Rawalpindi CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 EXPLAINED NEW DELHI, MAY 4 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Kupwara ICAR marks a first, develops two genome-edited varieties of rice HARIKISHAN SHARMA & HARISH DAMODARAN AMIDRISINGtensionsfollowing the Pahalgam terror attack, the Punjab Police saidit has arrested two men in Amritsar for allegedly leaking sensitive information about military installations to Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). The two arrested have been identified as Palak Sher Masih andSurajMasih,bothdailywage labourers with a history of substance abuse but no prior criminal record, the police said based on a preliminary probe. The police said they also recovered a mobile phone from Pak violating ceasefire all along Line of Control, standoff in new locations AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA INDUS TREATY PAUSE GIVES HOPE TO J&K WULAR PROJECT AMRITSAR, CHANDIGARH, MAY 4 IS WAY AHEAD OF THE TIMES Gir Amritphal Gaushala has pure indigenous breed cattle: Gir, Nari, Red Sindhi, Hariana and Punganur. Gajendra Yadav frozen semen and embryos, which will make it more viable forfarmerstomaintaintheseanimals and ‘Breed in India’,” says Madan Mohan Yadav, the president of the International Federation of Indigenous Zebu Cattle of India (IFIZCI). Exports of both live bovine and their germplasm from India are under the “restricted list”, while allowed only against licence issued by the Directorate General of Foreign Trade on the recommendation of the Department of Animal 15 % MORE MOBILE & DESKTOP VISITORS ON MONEYCONTROL THAN ON THE ECONOMIC TIMES UNIQUE VISITORS ( FIGURES IN MILLIONS ) 39.33 34.14 THE ECONOMIC TIMES SOURCE: COMSCORE MMX MULTIPLATFORM, CUSTOM COMPARISON OF UNIQUE VISITORS, MOBILE AND DESKTOP, [C] MONEYCONTROL AND [S] THE ECONOMIC TIMES FOR MAR’25, INDIA CNBCTV18.COM Find us on CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 New Delhi