DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 2025, KOLKATA, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES Pahalgam terror attack kept out, Rajnath doesn’t sign SCO draft AXIOM-4 CREW TO SPEND 14 DAYS IN INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION ‘Learning like a baby, new steps, how to eat’: Shukla, first Indian on board the ISS 7experimentsfromIndiaamong60to beconductedonboardfor31countries ANONNA DUTT & AMITABH SINHA BUSINESS AS USUAL NEW DELHI, JUNE 26 Targets Pak on cross-border terror, says no place for double standards Shubhanshu Shukla with other astronauts aboard the International Space Station. @SpaceX/ PTI BY UNNY WITH OPEN arms, a beaming Shubhanshu Shukla glided into the International Space Station Thursday evening India time, transferring himself from the Dragon spacecraft that brought him and three others from Earth after a 28-hour journey through space. Group Captain Shukla, the pilot of the Dragon spacecraft, is the first Indian on board the ISS. He was the second to enter the station, after mission CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AI 171 CRASH Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and his Iran counterpart Aziz Nasirzadeh look on as Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif arrives, in Qingdao, China. AP NEW DELHI, JUNE 26 DEFENCE MINISTERS of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation,meetinginQingdao in China, failed to issue a joint statementThursdayafterDefence Minister Rajnath Singh declined tosignthedraftstatementwhich omittedareferencetotheApril22 Pahalgam terror attack in J&K. GovernmentsourcestoldThe IndianExpressthatthedocument, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 E EXPLAINED AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA & SHUBHAJIT ROY Ahead of ● Summit THE MEETING of the SCO Defence Ministers took place weeks after Operation Sindoor which had India striking terror targets in Pakistan and PoK. The SCO leaders are scheduled to meet at the Summit in Tianjin in China this autumn. Analysis of black box data on at Delhi lab: ministry SUKALP SHARMA NEW DELHI, JUNE 26 DATAFROMtheblackboxesofthe AirIndiaBoeing787-8aircraftthat crashedinAhmedabadonJune12 isbeingextractedandanalysedat theAircraftAccidentInvestigation Bureau’s(AAIB)newstate-of-theart laboratory in Delhi, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) said on Thursday. At least 260 people — 241 on board and another 19 on the ground — were killed when the London-bound flight (AI 171) crashed soon after takeoff CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 IN CONVERSATION WITH DELHI CM Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta with Vandita Mishra, National Opinion Editor, The Indian Express, at the Express Adda in New Delhi on Thursday. Renuka Puri A father’s fight to ensure son’s death wasn’t lost in darkness SHAJU PHILIP THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, JUNE 26 “LET AT least my invisible son know that his father never shut the door.” T V Eachara Warrier, who made that plaintive appeal, held true to his word — he never shut the door, and ensured his son Rajan, who died incognito, could not be rendered invisible. Warrier’ssearchforwhathappened to Rajan, followed by his fight for justice against those responsibleforhisdeathincustody during the Emergency, led to the first habeas corpus in such cases after the provision was lifted, the ouster of a chief minister, an award-winning book, and a film that won national and international accolades. Rajan, a final-year student of RegionalEngineeringCollege(REC, nowNIT),Calicut,isbelievedtohave beenpickedupbypoliceintheearly hours of March 1, 1976, during a manhunt after a suspected Naxal The blank editorial in The Indian Express after the Proclamation THEEMERGENCY 50YEARSON Itsshadow—andlight AN EXPRESS SERIES attackonapolicestation. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 MORE REPORTS PAGE 6 We Serve: MOTOR HEALTH TRAVEL HOME COMMERCIAL INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE INSURANCE National Insurance Company Limited Trusted Since 1906 A Govt. of India Undertaking Scan the QR for products and more CIN: U10200WB1906GOI001713 IRDAI Registration No.: 58 For Queries: customer.support@nic.co.in Disclaimer: The information in the advertisement is indicative of nature. Insurance is a subject matter of solicitation. For more details, terms and conditions, please refer the Sales Brochure and Policy Wordings carefully before concluding a sale. Registered & Head Office: Premises No. 18-0374, Plot No. CBD-81, New Town, Kolkata-700156 9920501906 nationalinsuranceindia NICLofficial @nationalinsurancecompany national_insurance_official 24X7 Toll Free Number: 1800-345-0330 Kolkata Ad UIN 015/25-26 NO JOINT STATEMENT `6.00 (`12 IN NORTH EAST STATES, `20 IN ANDAMAN) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932