www.INDIANeXPReSS.COm Whisk Taker For Niyati Rao, a dish can begin with a childhood memory, a seasonal ingredient or a passing encounter ahmedaBad ocToBer 25, 2026 the hoUse that Fell sileNt In Politics, Policy and Predictions, Derek O’Brien marshals statistics and examples to trace the decline of parliamentary deliberation and accountability LATe CITy 14+4 PAGeS ₹6.00 D A I L y F R O m : A H m e D A B A D , Happening today lPM NareNdra Modi will visit UP and Odisha. He will inaugurate a garment manufacturing facility in Varanasi, witness the Indian Air Force’s aerial display at Namo Ghat and inaugurate the RBI’s Data Centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute in Bhubaneswar. lBrazil heads to Polls in a high-stakes presidential runoff that could reshape that country's political future. Far-right senator Flavio Bolsonaro secured an edge over President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in the first round. l UNioN MiNister G Kishan Reddy will visit Australia to boost cooperation with Australia and other countries in critical minerals and advanced tech. Track These and more on www.indianexpress.com C H A N D I G A R H , D e L H I , j A I P U R , K O L K A T A , L U C K N O w , Govt respects judges with spine… Chandrachud was too deferential: Former SC judge Justice Kaul’s memoir reveals quiet rift with then CJI Recalls the then CJI wondering whether he should phone to check Govt’s view after Collegium resisted a name he proposed ritu sarin New Delhi, October 24 As Chief Justice of india, Justice D Y Chandrachud was “too deferentialtotheGovernment” when it came to appointments. Atonetime,hesoughtits“nod” before the Collegium had met and,once,evenvoicedtheGovernment’s “bizarre” query regarding the caste of a minority- Says he once walked out of a meeting after Chandrachud voiced Govt’s query on caste of a minority-faith judge candidate faith judge candidate. This issue, of how to engage with a “political class” that will, inevitably, ask for more was a “strain”inhisrelationshipwith the then CJi, reveals Justice sanjayKishanKaulinhismemoir, ‘Without Fear or Favour’,tobepublishedbyJuggernaut later this month. According to the pre-publication manuscript reviewed by The Indian Express, Justice Kaul, who retired in December 2023 after serving 14 months as “J1,” the most senior puisne judge after the CJi, repeatedly pushed back and once “walked out of the room”. Justice Kaul’s criticism comes with an important qualificationatatimewhenthe role of the supreme Court »CoNtiNUed oN PaGe 8 Don’t recall Kaul walking out… had reasoned dialogue, affable meetings in Collegium: Justice Chandrachud shubhajit roy Justice (retd) sanjay kishan kaul; former cJI d Y chandrachud After the stampede at pandal an idol from the chorbagan durga Puja pandal in kolkata being taken for immersion under police supervision, saturday. at least 19 people were killed in a stampede at the pandal on october 17. The sIT probing the incident cleared the immersion, provided the main pandal structure was preserved for investigation. Top Physics honour for Ashoke Sen, working to unify the laws of universe amitabh sinha special intensive revision of the electoral rolls. in a conversation with Vandita mishra and Liz mathew at »CoNtiNUed oN PaGe 2 gujarat paGeS 3, 4 From SCotland, CopIeS oF GandhI’S letterS reaCh SabarmatI AmiD feArs of another flareup in West Asia, mohammadBaqer Qalibaf, one of the top leaders of iran and the country’s parliament speaker whoplayedaleadingroleinnegotiationswiththeUsinrecent months, has cancelled his visit to New Delhi for the BriCs speakers’ forum gathering next week. The 12th BriCs Parliamentary forum will meet on October 26-27. The venue is to be the Central hall of Parliament, and Lok sabha speaker Om Birla will be the host. Prime minister Narendra modi is expected to inaugurate the event on October 26 which will be attended by presiding officers, lawmakers and delegates from BriCs member and partner countries including high-level Iranian Parliament speaker mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf was to visit new delhi next week representatives from russia and China. Confirming the cancellation of Qalibaf’s visit, the iranian embassy in New Delhi, in a statement, said, “The embassyoftheislamicrepublicof iran in New Delhi wishes to inform that, due to certain unforeseen circumstances, Dr mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf, speaker of the islamic Consultative Assembly of iran, will be unabletoattendthemeetingof speakers of the Parliaments of BriCs member Countries in New Delhi.” “it is also emphasized that theparliamentarydelegationof theislamicrepublicofiranwill participate in the meeting. As »CoNtiNUed oN PaGe 2 THE TIGER BALM IDENTITY. RECOGNISED BY THE SUPREME COURT. New Delhi, October 24 PrOfessOr AshOKe sen is not a household name. But in the small community of theoretical physicists, particularly amongststringtheorists,hehas a formidable reputation. Asoneoftheworld’sleading theoretical physicists working in the area of string theory, the 70-year-old sen has won several of the top prizes in Physics in the last three decades. The Oskar Klein medal that he has just been honoured with only reinforces his credentials as one of the most prominent scientists in his field. Now a professor at the Bengaluru-based international Centre for Theoretical sciences, sen is credited with some very important breakthroughsinstringtheory,astilldeveloping field that is seeking V A D O D A R A West Asia on edge again, Qalibaf calls off Delhi trip New Delhi, October 24 PARTHA PAUL ReNUKA PURI P U N e , Washington, Tehran issue alerts, warnings as fears mount New Delhi, October 24 keralam cm V d satheesan was at the express adda, friday. P A T N A , Was to atteNd a BriCs Meet express News service 76%oFprISonerS InIndIaare undertrIalS: bombayhC JudGe N A G P U R , express special Engage with GenZ, give them hope, they are worried, Keralam CM urges Centre KerALAmChiefministerVD satheesan has urged the Centralgovernmenttoengagewith Gen Z and give it hope, saying that the country’s youth are “depressed” and “worried” for several reasons, including the changing nature of jobs and a perceivedlackofopportunities. his remarks come at a time when the ruling BJP has claimed a “foreign hand” behind the protests over the last few months, including the recentonesagainsttheChiefelectionCommissionerdemanding bringing back all eligible voters into the electoral rolls. These protests come close on the heels of the youth-led agitation against the NeeT paper leaks in June-July. Congress, satheesan’s party, has taken the political lead in the Opposition’s campaign against CeC Gyanesh Kumar and the m U m B A I , The Honourable Supreme Court of India has upheld Tiger Balm’s rights in its trademark and packaging in the case against Flying Tiger. Prof ashoke sen, 70, is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists working in the area of string theory to come up with a new unified theory of the universe that can bridge the inconsistencies between two of the existing grand theories of nature — the theory of gravitation that explains natureatthescaleofstarsandgalaxies,andquantumtheorythat »CoNtiNUed oN PaGe 2 SUPREME COURT OF INDIA JUDGMENT l fans who fIlm acTors for lIkes & followers on socIal medIa caPTured ocT 18 aTTack on TheIr Phones Phone, camera and action: Tiger Shroff shooting spotlights Bollywood vloggers heena Khandelwal focus a largely overlooked feature of mumbai’s celebrity culture. Ordinary fans who follow actors’ movements, wait outsidetheirhomesandhangouts, and film them for their own social media pages. Their reward is the chance to get close to an idol, gather followers and, perhaps, turn a hobby into a source of income. Mumbai, October 24 “TIgEr bETa, mujhe kuchch batanahai,” salma shaikh was callingouttoTigershroffwhen the shots rang out outside Juhu’s Pushpa Narsee Park on October 18. inavideosheshotthatevening,shaikh’svoicecanbeheard trying to get the actor’s attention. Then came the gunshots. “i initially thought that somebody was bursting crackers. it was only after we saw his driver soaked in blood that we realised what had happened,” the 55-year-old homemaker from malad said. Within hours, her videos, along with clips recorded by otherfansatthespot,werecircu- among the fans whose phones captured the october 18 attack in mumbai were salma shaikh, 55, and shahrukh shaikh, 29 lating widely on instagram. Theyshowedshroffstoppingfor aselfiebeforegettingintohiscar, two men opening fire, the shooters escaping on a motorcycle and an injured fan being carried into an autorickshaw. That fan was Umesh Chauhan, a 35-year-old detergent seller who had come to film shroff for his own followers. The shooting brought into The vlogger who was shot for nearly 18 years, Chauhanhassolddetergentdoor-todoor to support his family. for thepastyear-and-a-half,hehas also been filming Bollywood celebrities,theirhomesandthe fans who gather outside them. his facebook bio sums up the »CoNtiNUed oN PaGe 2 On 13th August 2026, the Honourable Supreme Court of India upheld the order dated 26th May 2010 of the Honourable High Court of Karnataka at Bangalore, which in turn upheld the Judgment and Decree dated 30th November 2007 passed by the VIII Addl. City Civil Judge, Bangalore City. 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