DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA ● REG.NO. MCS/067/2018 - 20 RNI REGN. NO. 1543/57 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, MAY 26, 2025, MUMBAI, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 ALL-PARTY TEAM’S FIRM MESSAGE There will be a price to pay: Indian team in US on terror from Pak 26/05/2025 110 138 171 75 Tharoor: India exercised right to self-defence, not irresponsibly BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY ASAD REHMAN NEW DELHI, MAY 25 The ship carrying 640 containers, 13 of them with hazardous cargo and 12 with calcium carbide, capsized Sunday. PTI All 24 crew rescued; besides oil in fallen containers, ship’s fuel also leaked: CMO SHAJU PHILIP THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, MAY 25 THE KERALA government on Sundayputthestate’scoastalareas on alert after a Liberianflagged cargo ship, MSC ELSA 3, carrying tonnes of oil and con- EAMSJaishankar,hisCanada counterpartAnitaAnand SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, MAY 25 TAKING THE first step towards mending strained bilateral ties, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and the newly appointed Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand held talks over the phone Sunday. This is the first official political-level contact between Delhi and Ottawa after Mark Carney won the Canadian elections and became Prime Minister, raising hopes for a reset in ties that plummeted during the rule of the Justin Trudeau government. Jaishankar, in a post on X, said, “Appreciate the telecon with FM @AnitaAnandMP of CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 South Delhi house to travel: Bribes flowed via web of entities, finds ED DEEPTIMAN TIWARY NEW DELHI, MAY 25 THEENFORCEMENTDirectorate, which arrested former UCO Bank CMD Subodh Kumar Goel on May 16 in connection with a case of alleged corruption and money laundering, has told a PMLA special court in Kolkata that he created a complex web of nine companies with cross holdings to receive kickbacks. AccordingtotheED,itsprobe FORMER DIPLOMAT PAGE 10 Subodh Kumar Goel was arrested on May 16 found that Goel received bribes fromanironorecompany,aloan defaulter, through these entities and used the funds to buy property. He also forced the loan defaultertofundhisfamily’stravels and purchase of personal items Before Central teams hit ground, states scramble to verify Jal Jeevan works NEW DELHI, MAY 25 JAWED ASHRAF Crew members of the ship rescued by the Indian Coast Guard. PTI FORMER CMD OF UCO BANK ARRESTED HARIKISHAN SHARMA ‘Managing foreign policy isn’t just analysis behind closed doors... It now plays out on your phone screen, shaped by people’s voices’ tainers with “hazardous cargo”, capsized off the coast of Kochi. Allthecrewmembershavebeen rescued. “Astheoilslickcanreachanywhere along the Kerala coast, an alert has been sounded across the coastal belt. The containers aredriftingintheseaataspeedof 3 km per hour. Besides the oil in AS CENTRAL teams begin to fan out for ground inspection of Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) implementationfromMonday,severalstates such as Uttar Pradesh, Madhya PradeshandRajasthanarescramblingtoconducttheirown“physical verification” and “review” of the works carried out under the flagship rural tap water scheme. UttarPradesh,whichaccounts for 6.37% of the JJM schemes or projects approved across the country but 18.56% of the total CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E EXPLAINED Moving to mend ties, Jaishankar and Canada’s Anand hold talks over phone Kerala sounds alert after Liberian-flagged ship carrying ‘hazardous cargo’ capsizes off Kochi such as goggles and dry fruits, the agency claimed. Goel is being probed in connection with an over Rs 6,000crore loan default by Concast Steel and Power Ltd (CSPL), promoted by Sanjay Sureka, where UCOBankalonehadanexposure of Rs 1,400 crore. Goel’s lawyer Gautam Khazanchi did not respond to specific allegations made by ED sayingthematterwassubjudice. He said he was approaching CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Lalu disowns son Tej Pratap, expels him from RJD for six years Eye on ● transparency PALLAVI SMART MUMBAI, MAY 25 INWHATISseenasamajorbreakthrough in solar energy technology, researchers at IIT Bombay have developed a high efficiency tandemsolarcellwithpowerconversion efficiency of approximately30percentcomparedwith around20percentnow. This is expected to lead to a 25–30 per cent boost in efficiency over conventional solar technology and potentially reduce cost of solar power at around `1 per kwh compared with ` 2.5-4 per unit now. The Maharashtra govern- B THE INITIATIVES taken by the Centre and the states to review the works under JJM are much-awaited measures to bring in transparency and ensure accountability in the implementation of the scheme. This will also pave the way for early approval of the funding for the second phase (until 2028) of JJM. C RJDCHIEFLaluPrasadonSunday expelledhiseldestsonTejPratap Yadav from the party for six years and snapped ties with him for “irresponsible behaviour not in accordance” with the family’s “values and traditions”. In a post on X, the former Bihar Chief Minister wrote, “Ignoring moral values in personal life weakens our collective struggleforsocialjustice.Myeldestson’sactivities,publicconduct, and irresponsible behaviour are CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Bottomsiliconcell (B) The actual product in small scale which has to be developed for commercial wafer size. 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