DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PATNA, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, JULY 29, 2025, NEW DELHI, LATE CITY, 20 PAGES BY UNNY DEBATE ON OP SINDOOR, PAHALGAM ATTACK IN LOK SABHA Govt says no pressure on ceasefire, targets met; Opp raises Trump claims New Lakshman Rekha: Rajnath; no link to US trade talks: Jaishankar; Cong trusts foreign narratives but not EAM: Shah EXPRESS NETWORK STALKING ACCUSED OUT OF HARYANA LIST OF LAW OFFICERS PAGE 8 Why did you wait for the inquiry to be over: SC to Justice Varma VIKAS PATHAK, DEEPTIMAN TIWARY & DIVYA A NEW DELHI, JULY 28 STRONGLYDENYINGanylinkbetweenthetradetalkswiththeUS and the ceasefire with Pakistan, the government told Lok Sabha on Monday that there was no pressure to pause Operation Sindoor, and that it was halted only because “we had fulfilled our objectives”. The operation willresumeif Pakistanagaintries “any misadventure”, it said. Initiating a 16-hour special debate in the House on Operation Sindoor and the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Lok Sabha during the debate, Monday. PTI underlined that Operation Sindoor has been paused and has not ended and that India would again give a befitting reply to Pakistan if it sponsors another terror attack, as a “new CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Justice Yashwant Varma EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Along expected ● lines THE GOVERNMENT sought to debunk the Opposition’s charge that US President Donald Trump used the trade deal as a leverage for a ceasefire. The Opposition red-flagged security and intelligence failures, Trump’s claims, IAF’s alleged losses. PAGE 6 SRINAGAR, NEW DELHI, JULY 28 Security personnel during a search operation after the encounter on the outskirts of Srinagar. Shuaib Masoodi BIHAR SPECIAL INTENSIVE REVISION Consider Aadhaar and voter card, SC tells EC again; no Opp seeks answers on stay on draft roll Should be en masse inclusion, not security lapses, asks if India lost any jets ASAD REHMAN, DEEPTIMAN TIWARY & LALMANI VERMA NEW DELHI, JULY 28 THE SECURITY lapses that led to the Pahalgam attack, the failure to apprehend all the attackers, the claims by US President Donald Trump of having brokered peace between India and Pakistan, and the supposed losses of aircraft suffered by the armed forces — the Opposition raised all these issues during the debate on Operation Sindoor in the Lok Sabha Monday. Congress deputy leader Gaurav Gogoi in LS. ANI Starting the debate on the Opposition’s behalf, Congress Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha Gaurav Gogoi said the Centre en masse exclusion, says top court EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, JULY 28 THE SUPREME Court Monday refused to stop the Election Commission (EC) from publishing the draft electoral roll for Bihar, drawn up following the Special Intensive Revision (SIR), adding that the petitioners’ concerns had been taken care of by its July 10 order asking it to also consider Aadhaar and Electoral Photo Identity Cards (EPIC) for the exercise. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi said WHAT WILL NOT COUNTINBIHAR the EC can continue to consider Aadhaar and voter cards for the enumeration, and told the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Divya beats Humpy, 3 militants killed in J&K, security takes World Cup route agencies check for Pahalgam link to GM title: ‘It was fate’ EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, JULY 28 THESUPREMECourtonMonday asked Allahabad High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma why he decided to challenge the legality of the in-house inquiry against him after appearing before the committee and participating in the inquiry process. E E X P L A I NE D BUSINESS AS USUAL `7.00 (`8 RAIPUR, `15 SRINAGAR) WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 AT LEAST three militants were killed in the Dachigam forest area on the outskirts of Srinagar, the Army said on Monday. While the identities of the dead are yet to be officially declared, officials from various security agencies said they are in the process of ascertaining whether one of them is Suleiman Shah, a Pakistani terrorist suspected of being behind the April 22 Pahalgam attack that left 26 civilians dead. In a post on X at 1:32 pm, the Army’s Chinar Corps wrote: “Op Mahadev update: Three terrorists have been neutralised in an intense firefight. Operation continues.” The Northern Command CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 posted in response: “Lt Gen Pratik Sharma, #ArmyCdrNC compliments Chinar Corps for theirswiftaction andpreciseexecutioninneutralisingthreeterrorists in the ongoing Operation MahadevinLidwas.IndianArmy stands by its commitment to keep Jammu and Kashmir terror-free.” As speculation stirred over the identities of the three men, CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AMIT KAMATH & MAYANK MUMBAI, NEW DELHI, JULY 28 IN GEORGIA, a country that birthed some of the earliest pioneers of women’s chess, India has discovered its own worldbeater: Divya Deshmukh, aged just 19, became the FIDE Women’s World Cup champion bydefeatingtheveteran, Koneru Humpy, 38, in the final via the CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Divya Deshmukh, 19, after winning the FIDE Women’s World Cup, Monday. Anna Shtourman/FIDE