DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, MAY 27, 2025, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 22 PAGES BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY SINCE 1932 PAK GOVT, ARMY BACK TERROR, PUSHING YOUTH INTO DARKNESS: PM IN GUJARAT Muststepforwardtofreeyourcountry fromdiseaseofterror:PMtoPakyouth Message to Pak: Sukh, chaain ki zindagi jiyo, roti khao, varna meri goli toh hai hi ‘May have come from Pakistan’: BJP MLC on award-winning official, booked BJP MLC N Ravikumar RITU SHARMA & ADITI RAJA First in Op Sindoor: ‘Red teams’ of experts to map ‘mind of adversary’ AHMEDABAD, DAHOD, MAY 26 AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA UNDERLINING THAT the Pakistan government and its army have been supporting terrorists at the cost of their people's welfare, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said it is for the youth of the neighbouring country to step forward and “free Pakistan from the disease of terrorism”. Addressing a public meeting atBhujinGujarat'sKutchdistrict, FOR THE first time, Operation Sindoor — the military strike launched by India earlier this month against terror targets in Pakistan — employed the concept of “red teaming” as part of its operational planning, The Indian Express has learnt. Red teaming involves embeddingasmallgroupof experts NEW DELHI, MAY 26 PM Modi flags off India’s first 9,000 hp locomotive engine in Dahod. PTI PAGE6 bordering Pakistan, Modi said, “Pakistan ko aatank ki bimari se CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BENGALURU, MAY 26 CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 DAMINI NATH & LALMANI VERMA NEW DELHI, MAY 26 Many parts of Mumbai recorded over 200 mm rainfall on Monday. The IMD has sounded a red alert for the city and neighbouring districts. Ganesh Shirsekar REPORTS,PAGE12 As early monsoon hits Mumbai, the key factor: Madden-Julian Oscillation E has been the active Madden-JulianOscillation (MJO), senior meteorologists said. MJO, a complex, moving system of winds, clouds and pressure, originates in the Indian Ocean and is one themostimportantfactorsinfluencing Indian monsoons. MJO travels eastward at the speed of 4-8 metres per second. MJO wind bands can travel EXPLAINED NAYONIKA BOSE MUMBAI, MAY 26 THE EARLY ONSET of monsoon in Kerala and its fast progression to Mumbai were spurred by “veryfavourable”conditions,according to Shubhangi Bhute, Director of India Meteorological Department (IMD), Mumbai. A crucial contributing factor Aizawl becomes fourth N-E capital with rail link, trial run successful Safety check this week, line likely to be inaugurated after June 17 DHEERAJ MISHRA NEW DELHI, MAY 26 IN A bigpushfordeeperconnectivity in the North-East, Mizoram’s capital Aizawl has now been linked to the national railway network via the Bairabi–Sairang line in the state. Bairabi in Kolasib district, near the border with Assam, has so far been the only railhead in DEEPERCONNECTIVITYINNORTH-EAST Sikkim SIVOKTO RANGPO MURKONGSELEK TOPASIGHAT Arunachal Pradesh 26.15km BHUTAN 45km Assam INDIA Manipur BANGLADESH BAIRABITO SAIRANG 51.38km Mizoram. Sairang is a satellite town of Aizawl, around 20 km from the city. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 GOVT & POLITICS COLLEGIUM NAMES 3HC JUDGES FOR SUPREME COURT PAGE 13 THE WORLD Nagaland DHANSIRI TOZUBZA Bihar Meghalaya around the world and causesignificant weather changes within 30-60 ● days. In favourable phases, they can enhance monsoon rainfall over India. Initsextendedrangeforecast issued on May 22, the IMD had said that the MJO was then in Phase 4 with an amplitude greaterthan1,whichisindicative 82.5km Kohima JIRIBAMTO IMPHAL Mizoram 111km A senior official of the Ministry of Railways said the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 TRUMP: PUTIN HAS ‘GONE ABSOLUTELY CRAZY’, CONSIDERING MORE SANCTIONS ISRAEL NATIONALISTS STORM U.N. AGENCY COMPOUND PAGE 16 To build confidence, draw tourists, Omar & his Cabinet to meet in Pahalgam today PAGE 1 ANCHOR BASHAARAT MASOOD SRINAGAR, MAY 26 TOINSTILconfidenceinthewake of thePahalgamterrorattackand encourage tourists to return to Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah and his cabinet will moveoutof thecapital,Srinagar, totouristresortsofPahalgamand Gulmarg for two days. On Tuesday, the J&K cabinet and top civil and police officers A photo of the Operations Room from a booklet released by the Army on Operation Sindoor. ANI Mayawati vacates Delhi house allotted as party chief, BSP cites ‘security’ EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE THE KARNATAKA Police has booked BJP MLC N Ravikumar after he said at a rally that IAS officer and Kalaburagi Deputy Commissioner Fouzia Taranum “may have come from Pakistan”. A 2015-cadre IAS officer, Taranum was among the 22 recipients of the Best Electoral PracticesAwardconferredbythe President of India in January this year. The IAS Officers' Association, Karnataka, has condemned Ravikumar’s remarks and demanded an unconditional apology from the BJP legislator. Ravikumar was addressing a rally organised by the BJP in Kalaburagi on Saturday, against Congress supporters reportedly gheraoing a government guest house last week in the area, not allowing BJP MLC and Leader of Opposition in the Legislative Council Chalavadi Narayanaswamy to come out. During the speech, Ravikumar said that the Deputy Commissioner’s office at Kalaburagihadlostitsindependenceandtheofficeronlylistened to what the Congress said. “I don't know whether she comes from Pakistan or is an IAS officerhere.Listeningtoyourapplause, I think she might have comefromPakistan,”Ravikumar said. Kalaburagi is the bastion of `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `15 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM A file photo of tourists in Pahalgam, where 26 people were killed in a terror attack on April 22. File will meet not in Srinagar's civil secretariat, but at a resort in Pahalgam. This comes a little over a month after 25 tourists and a local were killed in a terror strike in the meadows of Pahalgam. “Obviously, if we don't go to theseplaces,whowill?"CM’sadvisor Nasir Aslam Wani told The IndianExpress."Therearetwoobjectives of this meeting — first, that we go to these far-off places and get first-hand information from the ground, and second, it becomes more important in the currentsituationthatwegothere (to instil confidence).” Abdullah will personally chair the meeting, which Chief SecretaryAtalDulloowillalsoattend. The CM and his cabinet are also likely to meet stakeholders from the tourism sector in Pahalgam. A similar meeting is scheduled at a tourist resort in Gulmarg in north Kashmir on Wednesday. Inspector General of Police(IGP),Kashmir,VKBirdi is expected to be in attendance. The meetings come at a time when tourism in the Valley has taken a serious hit, with stakeholders in the sector saying 90 per cent of bookings have been cancelled. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 ROUGHLY 10 years ago, the civic authoritieshadshiftedabusstop from the front of BSP chief Mayawati’s then Lutyens’ Delhi bungalow as she claimed threat to her security. Last week, with theBSPclaimingsimilarsecurity concernsregardingher35,Lodhi Estate, bungalow,Mayawatiquietly vacated it. The 35, Lodhi Estate, residence. Lalmani Verma Mayawatihadmovedintothe residence, allotted to her as the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 WhatsApp chats can’t be substantive evidence: Court in 5 murder cases linked to ’20 Delhi riots NIRBHAY THAKUR NEW DELHI, MAY 26 WHATSAPP CHATS cannot be “substantive evidence”, a Delhi court has ruled in five murder cases lodged during the 2020 Northeast Delhi riots. It ruled that these chats can at best be used as “a corroborative piece of evidence”. In all five cases, where the 12 accusedarecommon,theprosecution had relied heavily on WhatsApp chats as evidence. These are among nine cases filed in connection with the murderof ninemen,whosebodies were recovered a week after the riots. Of the remaining four cases, one has ended in acquittal, and three are at the stage of A total of 53 people died in the Delhi riots. File final arguments and statements of the accused. A total of 53 people died and over500wereinjuredintheriots. In all five cases, the Delhi Police primarily relied on the chats of a WhatsApp group named‘KattarHinduEkta’;multiple chargesheets filed by the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2