DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 2025, AHMEDABAD, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES `5.00 ● WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 ‘OP SINDOOR KILLED TERRORISTS’ BOSSES, OP MAHADEV KILLED TERRORISTS’ DISCUSSION ON OPERATION SINDOOR IN LOK SABHA No world India Pahalgamterroristskilled,clearproof to stop Opleader askedonly (Sindoor)... ofPakistanhand,ShahtellsLokSabha 3 countries backed Pak: PM Says ballistic report, witnesses helped identify 3 dead as Pahalgam attackers THE THREE KILLED ASAD REHMAN NEW DELHI, JULY 29 SPEAKING FOR the government on the second day of the special discussiononOperationSindoor in the Lok Sabha Tuesday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah announced in the House that those behind the Pahalgam terror attack had been killed. The three terrorists gunned down in the Dachigam forest area on the outskirts of Srinagar under ‘Operation Mahadev’ on Monday were the same as those involvedintheterroristattackon April 22, Shah said, adding that forensic proof as well as witness identification of the men had confirmed the same. Identifying SULEIMAN NEW DELHI, JULY 29 WITH JUST two days left for the August 1 deadline set by the DonaldTrumpadministrationto wrap up agreements with its trading partners, the American Presidentsaidheisplanningtar- ARUN SHARMA, AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA & DEEPTIMAN TIWARY JAMMU, NEW DELHI, JULY 29 Union Home Minister Amit Shah addresses the Lok Sabha on Tuesday. PTI thethreeasSuleimanaliasFaisal Jatt, Afghan and Jibran, he said they had all come from Pakistan. The three were killed in ‘OperationMahadev’carriedout CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Challenge in US trade deal: Tackling Trump, ensuring tariff edge ANIL SASI Inside the op: 2 signals 17 days apart, 3-month hunt, Mahadev peak iffs at “somewhere in the 15-20 per cent range” for “the rest of the world”. That would mean a significantincreaseonthe10per cent“baseline”tariff thatapplies to most trading partners now. Given how talks have proceeded, an interim deal still seems distant. But three things CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 JIBRAN AFGHAN INSIDE IT WAS the detection of a signal emitted from a communication device used by the Pahalgam attackers on Saturday — the second time in the last 17 days — that led the Army and Jammu and Kashmir Police to them on Mulnar Peak near Lidwas Meadow of Mahadev Peak, a strategically important location in the Dachigam forests on the outskirts of Srinagar town. The device was among various items, including arms, ammunition and explosives, later seized from the three slain terrorists,whoHomeMinisterAmit Shah said are the same as the ones who killed 26 civilians on April 22. Identifying them as Suleiman, Afghan and Jibran, Shah said in Lok Sabha, “These three terrorists were those who killed our citizens in Baisaran (Pahalgam), and all three have been killed.” According to highly placed CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Manipur district election officers begin outreach on SIR, meet parties ECONOMIST, HOUSE SUKRITA BARUAH OF LORDS PEER GUWAHATI, JULY 29 MEGHNAD DESAI DIES EVEN AS Manipur remains unWILL STEP IN IF MASS derPresident’sRule,districtelecEXCLUSION: SC ON tion officers have begun holding BIHAR REVISION OF meetings with local representativesof politicalpartiestodiscuss ROLLS PAGES 18, 12 the Special Intensive Revision ‘Vance said Pak was planning big attack... I said will answer bullets with cannonballs’ VIKAS PATHAK NEW DELHI, JULY 29 WITH THE Opposition flagging USPresidentDonaldTrump'srepeated claims of mediating the May 10 ceasefire between India and Pakistan, Prime Minister NarendraModitoldLokSabhaon Tuesday that “no leader in the world asked India to stop its militaryoperation(Sindoor)”.Hesaid he had told US Vice-President J D Vance on May 9 that if Pakistan firedbullets,Indiawouldrespond with cannonballs. Replying to an over 16-hour discussion in Lok Sabha on the Pahalgam terror attack and Operation Sindoor, Modi said it CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY (SIR) of electoral rolls. While these meetings have already beenheldinatleastfiveof the16 districtsinthestate,notices conveningsuchmeetingshavebeen issuedinthe remainingdistricts. On Monday, representatives of the BJP, Congress and the Kuki People’s Alliance attended one CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during the discussion on Tuesday. PTI ‘PM should have courage to tell Trump he is lying’: Rahul questions ceasefire MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, JULY 29 STEPPINGUPtheOpposition’sattack on the government over US PresidentDonaldTrump’sclaims thathebrokeredtheceasefirebetween India and Pakistan after OperationSindoor,RahulGandhi Tuesday asked Prime Minister NarendraModitoshow“courage” anddeclareTrumpaliarif hewas not speaking the truth. “Donald Trump has said 29 times that he brought about the ceasefire. If he is lying… let the PrimeMinistersayheislying.Ifhe has the courage of Indira Gandhi, let him say here that Donald PAGE 14 Trumpisaliar.Thatyou(Trump) did not make us cease fire and thatwedidnotloseanyplanes… Evenif hehas50%of thecourage Indira Gandhi had, let him say it here,” Gandhi said. “Have the couragetotellhim(Trump)…‘To hell with you, you can’t stop any CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Demand for independent school not met, villagers in Bhuj collect leaving certificates for kids en masse BRENDAN DABHI AHMEDABAD, JULY 29 MORE THAN half of the 134 students from Pul PatiyaBharatnagar village have collected leaving certificates (LCs) How W-beam fencing has brought down cattle collisions with Vande Bharat by 81% The fencing is part of a firstof-its-kind initiative of the Indian Railways from the sub-section of the Ambedkarnagar Prathmik Shala in Bhuj taluka of Kutch over the last four working days to mark their protest as their demand for a full-fledged school in their village “continued to fall on deaf ears” even after more than half a decade. The Education department runs this sub-section (peta varg) from a small tin-shed community hall with just two teachers and no other facilities, as the mainschoolissometwokilometres away in another village. Parents began to collect the LCs for their children en masse on Friday. As many as 34 of them had been signed by the Principal of thegovernmentschoolbefore Education department officials reached the village to mediate SCAMS AND LADDERS Fell prey to unsound scams Followed sound practices CONTINUEDONPAGE10 ! Joining platforms that claim to be ‘tied up with FPI and provide institutional access.’ Installing apps that say ‘Earn ₹10,000 a day with trading.’ ! ! Chasing ‘hot tips’ from so-called advisers on social media. ADITI RAJA VADODARA, JULY 29 THREE YEARS after incidents of the Mumbai CentralGandhinagar Capital Vande Bharat Express suffering damaged nose and delayed runs due to collision with cattle herds raised safety concerns in highspeed train operations, the Western Railway — in a first-ofits-kind initiative of the Indian Railways — installed W-beam fencing along the 565-kilometre length of the tracks of the Vande Bharat route, bringing down the incidents of Cattle Run Overs (CRO) by 81%. Soon after its launch in September 2022, repeated incidentsof collisionof theMumbaiGandhinagarVandeBharat,with images of the train's Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) nose cone damaged surfacing, posed grave risk to the train operating at high speed. Besides, they threatened the lives of cattle grazing along the tracks. To counter this, the Western Railway installed the W-beam fencing — a crash barrier widely used by the National CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ! 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