eye MCS/204/2020-22RNINO.MAHENG2002/21899 THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE Pouring in, Pouring Out MUMBAI,LATECITY JUNE15,2025 How do counsellors, therapists and psychologists unwind? 16+4PAGES,`6.00 DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA REPORT IN 3 MONTHS, AAIB PROBE GOING SMOOTHLY: GOVT 15/06/2025 80 108 132 76 Centresetsuphigh-levelpanel toprobeA-Icrash,reviewSOPs 8 of airline’s 33 Boeing 787 planes inspected so far, says minister WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM FOUR-PAGE PULLOUT 78 KILLED ON FIRST DAY, SCORES MORE ON SECOND, SAYS IRAN Israel vows to intensify attacks as Iran calls off nuclear talks with US SUKALP SHARMA NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 SOUTH AFRICA WIN WTC, FIRST MAJOR TROPHY IN 27 YRS PAGE 15 At police station, passports, jewellery found on bodies also await identification LEENA MISRA & ADITI RAJA AHMEDABAD, JUNE 14 AT THE Naroda police station, about four kilometres from the site where the Air India plane crashed on Thursday, plastic containers with transparent lids areneatlystackedinaspacedesignated as “Kids’ Corner”. These boxes, locked and marked with numbers, contain the belongings of those who were on board the flight — jewellery, passports, phones and other valuables found on the charred remains of their bodies. After all the bodies of the 241 passengers and crew members who died in the crash are identified,theseboxeswillbeopened and the contents will be handed Sankhadeep Banerjee Outside the post-mortem room at B J Medical College in Ahmedabad on Saturday. to their family members after dueverification,sourcestoldThe Indian Express. For now, they form part of the muddamal (property seized in connection with a case). They CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 INSIDE ON SURPRISE VISIT, COUPLE HOPED TO START FAMILY SOON, MET DOCTOR GUJARAT MINISTER SAYS 19 BODIES IDENTIFIED PAGES 8, 9 Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu at a press meet in New Delhi. PTI Cranes bring down the Dreamliner’s tail from a building in which it was stuck, in Ahmedabad Saturday. Sankhadeep Banerjee saideightof AirIndia’s33Boeing 787 aircraft have been inspected sofar.Inastatement,AirIndiasaid it has completed the mandated checks on nine aircraft so far. While the minister did not elaborate on the checks, a senior government official told The Indian Express that the inspectionshavenotrevealedanyissue or adverse observation so far. Meanwhile, Aviation Secretary Samir Kumar Sinha saidtheAAIB'sinvestigationwas “going smoothly”. Asked why the committee was constituted when the AAIBled probe was already on, Naidu said the AAIB investigation was CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Will never step into a plane: Teen who shot video left traumatised ADITI RAJA & MOHAMED THAVER AHMEDABAD, JUNE 14 STANDING ON the terrace of a three-storeybuildingclosetothe airport, Aryan Asari watched in wonder as the planes flew “right overhishead”,seeminglywithin touching distance. The Class 12 student, who had come to visit his father in Ahmedabad’s densely packed Laxminagarneighbourhoodjust twodaysback,decidedtoshoota video of one of these planes and send it to his friends back home in a village in Aravalli district. It was this very video — Aryan Asari shot the clip from the terrace of a 3-floor building showing the Air India Dreamliner 787-8 struggling to stay in the air and crashing in a massive fireball — that has now become a crucial visual clue for investigators attempting to de- code the disaster. But what the 17-year-old witnessed through his lens has left him traumatised and struggling to sleep at night. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Buildings destroyed by an Iranian strike in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv on Saturday. AP REPORTS,PAGE12 In a first, Israel hits Iran energy infra; Tehran threatens US, UK and French bases MAAYAN LUBELL & PARISA HAFEZI JERUSALEM, DUBAI, JUNE 14 ISRAEL POUNDED Iran for a second day on Saturday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its campaign would intensify dramatically, while Tehran called off nuclear talks that Washington had held out as the only way to halt the bombing. A dayafterIsraelwipedoutthetop echelon of Iran’s military command with a surprise attack on itsoldfoe,itappearedtohavehit Iran's oil and gas industry for the first time, with Iranian state mediareportingablazeatagasfield. Netanyahu said Israel’s strikes had set back Iran’s nuclear programme possibly by years and rejected international calls for restraint. “We will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs’ regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days,” he said in a video CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MORE SCO condemns Israel strikes, India distances itself: ‘Not part of talks’ DIVYA A NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 INDIA ON Saturday distanced itself from a statement issued by the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) which condemned the military strikes carried out by Israel. The 10-member bloc, currently chaired by China, called Israel's“aggressiveactionsagainst civiliantargets(inIran),including energy and transport infrastructure,whichhaveresultedinciviliancasualties,agrossviolationof international law and the United Nations Charter”. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said: “India did not participate in the discussions on the above-mentioned SCO statement... India’s own position on the matter had been articulated by us on June 13, 2025, and remains the same. We urge that channels of dialogue and diplomacy be utilised to work towards de-escalation and it is essential that the international community undertake endeavours in that direction.” It said that India's “overall position” was communicated to other SCO members. The MEA statement came a day after India abstained from a voteintheUNGeneralAssembly (UNGA)onadraftresolutionthat demanded an “immediate, unconditional and permanent” ceasefireinGaza.The193-member UNGA voted overwhelmingly to adopt the resolution introduced by Spain. India was among the 19 nations that abstained, while 12 nations voted againsttheresolution,whichgot 149 votes in favour. On Friday, India had urged both Israel and Iran to avoid any “escalatorysteps”,andtoresolve issues through dialogue and diplomacy. “India enjoys close and friendly relations with both the countries and stands ready to extend all possible support,” the MEA had said. In its statement, the SCO expressed “serious concern over the escalating tensions in the Middle East and strongly condemn(ed) the military strikes carried out by Israel on the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Last known location 700 m from site, search on for music director Trade to inflation, how Iran-Israel conflict may affect India, markets MOHAMED THAVER AHMEDABAD, JUNE 14 APART FROM the several distraughtfamiliesgrievingtheloss of their loved ones who died in the Air India plane crash, there is one that is anxiously looking for answers. The family of Mahesh Kalawadia(34),whodirectsmusic albums and was neither in theflightnorinthehostelwhere it crashed, has been looking for him in hospitals, morgues and police stations. So far, they haven’t been able to trace him or Mahesh Kalawadia, 34, his scooter untraced the Activa scooter on which he was headed home. The family is worried as Mahesh’s last location before his phoneswitchedoff isnearly700 metres from the BJ Medical College hostel that the Boeing Dreamliner crashed into. His younger brother, Kartik (32), told The Indian Express, “He spoke to his wife Hetal around 1:10 pm on Thursday and told herhejustgotdonewithameeting near Law Garden. They shared a few jokes, and he said he was on his way to their Naroda residence.” Kartik said that when Mahesh did not return home for an hour, Hetal dialled his number, which was switched off. “She kept trying but could not get through,“ he said. When she heard about the plane crash, she called Kartik, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 RAVI DUTTA MISHRA NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 JUSTASglobalshippinglinesand traders had begun to breathe a sigh of relief from elevated freightrates,withvesselsreturning to the crucial Red Sea route from the longer Cape of Good Hope passage, a direct conflict between two major West Asian powers has reignited fears of surgingoilpricesandmoretrade disruptions. The escalating ten- E sion between Iran and Israel sent shockwaves throughglobalstockmarkets, with India’s benchmark Sensex closing 573 points lower on Friday. Experts warn that Iran may respond by closing the strategic Straitof Hormuz—akeypassage through which 20–25 per cent of global oil supply transits, as well as a critical corridor for LNG (liquefied natural gas) shipments from Qatar and the UAE. Qatar, notably, is among the top EXPLAINED SPORT THE CENTRE has set up a highlevelmulti-disciplinarycommittee to look into Thursday's crash of the Air India London-bound flight (AI 171) in Ahmedabad, whichkilled241peopleonboard and many on the ground too. While the Aircraft Accident InvestigationBureau(AAIB)isalready leading a technical investigation into the crash, the committee is also expected to focus on “formulating SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) for preventing and handling such occurrences in the future”, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said. Addressing a press briefing on Saturday, Civil Aviation Minister K Ram Mohan Naidu said the committee would hold its first meeting on Monday, and was expected to submit its report within three months. Soon after Thursday’s crash, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had sought enhanced safety inspection of the aircraft type. On Saturday, Naidu ● LNG suppliers to India. Inflation risk in India Therenewedinstabilitycouldposedeepermacroeconomic challenges for India, extending beyond trade, particularly as the country’s reliance on oil imports continues to rise. While India was compelled to halt oil imports from Iran following US sanctions in 2019, Goldman Sachs estimates CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 WhatsApp alerts, colour-coded placards: IMD’s heat wave warning for vendors PAGE 1 ANCHOR NIKHIL GHANEKAR NEW DELHI, JUNE 14 ASSIZZLINGtemperaturesofover 40 degrees Celsius in New Delhi thisweekpromptedthenational weather body to issue a heat wave red-alert, winds of change wereblowinginsidetheMausam Bhawan auditorium too. Standingbeforeapackedgathering of gig workers, street vendors, waste pickers and domestic workersintheauditoriumonJune 12, India Meteorological Department (IMD) Director-General Mrutyunjay Mohapatra officially unveiled a collaboration with theseworkersforsharingofdirect, simple and daily weather forecasts, especially heatwave warnings,oneWhatsAppalertatatime. The “special” occasion also sawtheIMDdirector-generalunveilcolour-codedplacards—one of which showed a distressedlooking emoji and used the colour red to amplify the heatwave warning — to disseminate simplified weather information. Nearly a month ago, nongovernment organisation Greenpeace India and a collective of Delhi-based workers’ unions had approached the IMD with a proposal for direct sharing of weather information over WhatsApp. Soon enough, all the stakeholders concerned rolled out a pilot programme, starting with a WhatsApp group. Currently, the 35-member WhatsApp group, named ‘Daily Bulletin - IMD/Citizens’, receives direct forecasts from the weather body in the form of text messages, voice notes in Hindi and simple infographics. Union representatives, who are members of this WhatsApp group, act as “climate messengers”, which includes disseminating heat alerts and other weather warnings in markets and waste collection points via colour-coded placards, handwritten forecast notices, and in their own WhatsApp groups. Commendingtheunionsand the NGO “for giving the IMD an opportunity to connect directly A colour-coded heat warning at a shop in Delhi. YODDHA with the people”, Mohapatra emphasised that vendors, domestic workers and other gig workers should take more precautions since “they are more vulnerable to the impacts of the rising heat”. “Loo-like conditions, their frequency and intensity are rising. The frequency of warmer nights is also rising. When our bodytemperaturecrosses40degrees Celsius, it starts impacting how we cool down. It impacts our health adversely. If we are unabletocooldown,itcancause a heat stroke,” he informed the audience. Additionally, under what the unions termed as “vendor social responsibility (VSR)”, vendors have installed hydration points anddisplayedearly-warningnotice boards on carts in markets across north Delhi’s Guru Teg Bahadur (GTB) Nagar and Mukherjee Nagar, and Old Delhi’s Meena Bazaar (correct). The unions are also planning to build canopies that will serve as resting spaces in these markets. One such vendor, Anupam Kumar Chaurasia, has displayed notice boards at his tea and samosa stall outside GTB Nagar metro station. Chaurasia, who has also set up a hydration point, says not only has the rising heat caused his skin to blister, it has also shrunk his income “in half” since fewer people are out and about during the day. “I have started keeping free drinking water in my stall. Other vendors in the area split the cost of water refills with me. Customers who read these weather notices appreciate the initiative,” he says with a beaming smile. To cope with a heat strokelike emergency, Chaurasia says he has started keeping glucose powder on his person at all times. “The audio forecasts are straightforward. They are easier to comprehend than the weather information available on the Internet,” he says. Sheikh Akbar Ali of the Basti Suraksha Manch, which works for the rights of waste pickers and informal workers, and their housing rights, says early warningsareextremelyimportantfor his union since waste collection points and landfills are hotter than other places. “Besides sharing audio forecasts,leadersof ourwastepicker CONTINUED ON PAGE 2