DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 2024, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 24 PAGES BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY `7.00 (`8 BIHAR & RAIPUR, `12 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 Atal Setu message is... distances will be reduced, every corner connected: Modi Inaugurates India’s longest sea bridge in Mumbai, takes swipe at previous govts THE WORLD US, UK TARGET HOUTHIS OVER RED SEA ATTACKS MYANMAR MILITARY, GUERILLAS REACH TRUCE PACT PAGE 20 MUMBAI, JANUARY 12 INAUGURATINGTHE22-kmAtal Setu, the country’s longest sea bridge,Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday that the bridge symbolised a developed India even as he took a swipe at the previous governments at the Centre, saying they failed to deliver on their promises. “AtalSetuisthepictureof developed India. This is a glimpse of what a developed India is goingtobelike,”thePrimeMinister said during the inauguration of the Mumbai Trans Harbour Link, which has formally been named as Atal Bihari Vajpayee Sewari-Nhava Sheva Atal Setu. “In a developed India, there will be facilities for all, there will beprosperityforall,therewillbe CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 7 yrs after IAF plane went missing, its debris found off Chennai coast DefenceMinistryconfirmswreckageisof AN-32thathad29onboard mystery of a missing transport plane of the Indian Air Force. The AN-32 transport plane, with 29 people on board, was flying from Chennai to Port Blair on July 22, 2016 when it had AMITABH SINHA NEW DELHI, JANUARY 12 A ROUTINE testing of a recentlyacquired automatic underwater vehicle (AUV) by the Chennaibased National Institute of Ocean Technology stumbled upon a large debris that eventually solved the seven-year-old CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 The AUV spotted the debris of the plane during its trial in the Bay of Bengal RELATED REPORT PAGE 13 PM Narendra Modi with workers after inaugurating the bridge in Mumbai on Friday. ANI Retail inflation surges to four-month high; IIP slips to eight-month low AANCHAL MAGAZINE NEW DELHI, JANUARY 12 RETAIL INFLATION surged to a four-monthhighof 5.69percent in December driven by higher prices of food items such as pulses, spices, fruits and vegetables, data released by the National Statistical Office (NSO) Friday showed. SeparatelyreleasedNSOdata also showed that factory output, as measured by the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), slippedtoaneight-monthlowof 2.4 per cent in November as against11.6percentamonthago, and 7.6 per cent a year ago, due to a high-base effect and slower CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 E E X P L A I NE D SWEETY ADIMULAM Non-food, non-fuel ● eases CORE INFLATION declining to a 48-month low is a big positive. On the industrial output side, the slide in capital goods production, an indicator of investment momentum, and consumer durables output, a proxy for consumption demand, are continuing areas of concern. Cloud over his degree, IIM Rohtak director faces probe on money transfer RITIKA CHOPRA NEW DELHI, JANUARY 12 MONTHS AFTER the Union Government amended the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Act, granting it greater say in the functioning of the 20 premier business schools, the EducationMinistryhaslaunched an inquiry into the accounts of IIM-Rohtaktoinvestigateallega- IIM-Rohtak Director Dheeraj Sharma. File tionsoffinancialirregularities,including a complaint that the institute“illegally”transferredRs2 crore to its director's account as CONTINUED ON PAGE 4