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JAIPUR CITY/001/2024-26 JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2025, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 14 PAGES `6.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SINCE 1932 PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI’S FIRST ADDRESS TO THE NATION SINCE OPERATION SINDOOR ‘Indiawon’tacceptPaknuclearblackmail...Idedicate oursoldiers’valourtoeverymother,sister,daughter’ India, Pak DGMOs agree to reduce troops on borders Op Sindoor not just a name, says PM, it is an unwavering pledge for justice NEW DELHI, MAY 12 IN HIS first address to the nation since the commencement of Operation Sindoor and intense aerial strikes before the armed forces of India and Pakistan agreed to stop military actions, Prime Minister Narendra Modi drew the red lines for Pakistan Monday, promising counterstrikes as a response to acts of terror without differentiating between terrorists and the regime that sponsors them, and of not yielding to Islamabad’s nuclear blackmail. Underlining that Indian military actionshave only beensuspended, not concluded, Modi said India will closely watch Pakistan’s activities, and any future talks will only be on the issues of terror and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. He told the nation that India decided to temporarily suspend its counter-operations against Pakistaniterroristandmilitaryinstallations because “Pakistan, in itsappeal,assureditwouldcease allterroristactivitiesandmilitary aggression against India”. He dedicated the valour of the Indian armed forces to “every mother, every sister and THE IDEAS PAGE FORTHERECORD: PM’SADDRESS PAGE 9 IF THERE IS a terrorist attack on India, a fitting reply will be given INDIA WILL NOT tolerate any nuclear blackmail. Will strike precisely, decisively WE WILL NOT differentiate between the government sponsoring terrorism and the masterminds of terrorism CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his televised address to the nation on Monday. PTI Indian Navy’s Carrier Battle Group deployed in the Northern Arabian Sea in the wake of tensions with Pakistan. ANI TAKEAWAYS: STRATEGY POLITICS PM unveils new 3-point doctrine, frames it part of global war on terror Address flags unity of nation, peace in strength and justice for women SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, MAY 12 WITH URI and Balakot, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had pushed at the frontiers of deterrence. After Operation Sindoor, the most intense military campaign since Kargil, he delineated India’s new doctrine against terrorism resting on three key ele- ments: a response on India’s terms; no tolerance for terror that hides under “nuclear blackmail”; and no distinction betweentheterrorists,their leaders and a governmentthatsponsorsthem. Healsokeptthestrategic and military doors wideopenmakingitclear Delhi has only “suspended” its MANOJ C G NEW DELHI, MAY 12 E EXPLAINED VIKAS PATHAK More visual evidence of Indian air defence and damage to Pak bases CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PERHAPS, the strongest political signal from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech on ● OperationSindoorandits aftermath was how it avoided the tropes of partisan politics — referring to the nation as a united front and the importance of this unity towards ensuring “shanti” (peace) through “shakti” (strength). Modiframedtheresponseas one in which “the entire nation, every citizen, every community, every class, every political party, unitedly stood up for strong action against terrorism,” after the Pahalgam terror attack. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 First time, India names China as supplier of missiles used by Pak, shows remnants SHUBHAJIT ROY NEW DELHI, MAY 12 Remnants of Chinese-origin long-range PL-15 missile fired by Pakistan are displayed at a media briefing by DGMOs. ANI FOR THE first time since it commenced Operation Sindoor and thwarted most of Pakistan’s aerialattacks,IndiaMondaynamed China-supplied weapons in the Pakistani arsenal used against the Indian Armed Forces. Trump to reduce US drug price, Indian pharma braces for impact RAVI DUTTA MISHRA & AGGAM WALIA NEW DELHI, MAY 12 GLOBAL PHARMA companies could ramp up pressure on India andotherdevelopingmarketsto raise the prices of drugs after President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday taking measures to ensure US drug costs are aligned with their cheapest equivalents abroad. The order instructs officials to set price targets and proposes rulestoensurethatmanufacturers sell at “most favoured nation PAGE 1 ANCHOR Trump: Will introduce ‘most favoured nation’ policy (MFN)” price whereby the US pays “the same price as the nation that pays the lowest price anywhere in the world”. “Accordingtorecentdata,the prices Americans pay for brandname drugs are more than three times the price other OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) nations pay, even after accounting for discounts manufacturers provide in the US,” the White House said. The order came hours after Trump took to social media to highlightthatprescriptiondrugs and pharmaceuticals in the US “will be reduced, almost immediately, by 30 per cent to 80 per cent”.“Formanyyears,theworld has wondered why prescription CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 Briefing the media, Air Marshal A K Bharti, Director General Air Operations, presentedvisualevidenceof missile remnants. “You can see the piecesofitonthescreen,”hesaid, showcasing debris of the PL-15 longrangemissilethatfellinside Indianterritory,includingarelatively intact rear section recovered from Hoshiarpur, Punjab. The Armed Forces intercepted and neutralised a range of high-tech foreign weapons used by Pakistan, including Chinese-origin PL-15 air-to-air missiles and Turkish Byker YIHA III Kamikaze drones. The naming of China is a first in this round of India-Pakistan hostilities — all these years, New Delhi has closely tracked the ex- panding Sino-Pak military ties. Sources said that ChinaPakistan ties across domains — political, economic, nuclear and military—havebeenongoingfor decades, and Beijing has been supplying weapons to Rawalpindi. Last week, India had only named Turkish drones as being CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 AMRITA NAYAK DUTTA NEW DELHI, MAY 12 TWO DAYS after they decided to end military action against each other following Operation Sindoor, theDirectorGeneralsof Military Operations (DGMOs) of India and Pakistan Monday “agreed that both sides consider immediate measures to ensure troop reduction from the borders and forward areas”. DGMO Lt General Rajiv Ghai spoke to his Pakistani counterpart Major General Kashif Abdullahat5pmMonday–their second conversation since Saturday when they agreed to stop all military actions. TheIndianArmysaid:“Issues related to continuing the commitment that both sides must not fire a single shot or initiate any aggressive and inimical action againsteachotherwerediscussed. It was also agreed that both sides consider immediate BUSINESS AS USUAL BY UNNY measurestoensuretroopreduction from the borders and forward areas.” Earlier in the day, releasing more visual evidence of the damage inflicted on 13 Pakistani military installations in retaliatory attacks, the Indian Armed Forces said that a multi-layered counter-drone and air defence CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 I N S I D E EXPLAINED BJP TO LAUNCH PAKISTAN AIR FORCE TIRANGA YATRAS ASSETS THAT INDIA 32 AIRPORTS STRUCK REOPEN PAGE 10 PAGES 3, 7 Ranthambhore: Lured After 123 Tests, ‘the by live bait, tigress kills quiet grind, long days’, ranger, her 2nd victim Virat Kohli says enough JAY MAZOOMDAAR NEW DELHI, MAY 12 ON MULTIPLE safaris to Rajasthan’siconicRanthambhore tiger reserve last year, a veteran chronicler repeatedly spotted something unusual: tigers crouching at the edge of undergrowth, a few metres away from a wall by the road at the Jogi Mahal gate that leads to tourist zonesaroundthelakesPadamtalao, Rajbagh and Malik talao. The gaze of these tigers, he noticed, was fixed on one of the two small rooms behind the wall. On closer inspection, he heard low grunts of a buffalo on the other side of the closed doors. It turned out forest staff were using that room to stock a live buffalo to be presented as weekly bait to a well-known tigress called Arrowhead. Aghast, the veteran warned the staff on duty they “may have to pay the price for luring tigers so close”. On Sunday, forest range officer Devendra Singh Choudhury CONTINUED ON PAGE 6 SANDEEP DWIVEDI NEW DELHI, MAY 12 WITHIN DAYS of Rohit Sharma calling time on his Test career, Virat Kohli followed suit and announcedhisretirementfromthe longest format. Was he quick to read the room after the abrupt endtoRohit’sTestinnings?With talkof ShubmanGill’scoronation at25,didhesensepalaceintrigue and a subtle signal to him? Or wasitthecaseof the36-year-old father of two and an undisputed batting great no longer having that famous drive to deal with the demons in the head that mess with muscle memory? Days before the team for the England tour was to be announced, Kohli shared his decision with the world on Instagram: “There’s something deeplypersonalaboutplayingin whites. The quiet grind, the long days,thesmallmomentsthatno one sees but that stay with you forever... As I step away from this format, it’s not easy — but it feels CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Virat Kohli with wife Anushka Sharma at Mumbai airport, Monday. PTI Amravati slum to Nagpur to Delhi: Justice Gavai’s road to CJI office OMKAR GOKHALE AMRAVATI, NAGPUR, MAY 12 AT HER home in the Congress Nagar area of Amravati, its walls lined with photos of B R Ambedkar, Kamaltai is counting her blessings. “Mera bachha toh muqaddar ka sikandar banna hi chahiye, na (My childoughtto be a conqueror of his destiny, no),” she asks rhetorically. WithhersonJusticeBhushan Ramakrishna Gavai set to take oath as the 52nd Chief Justice of India on May 14, the 84-year-old has been besieged with questions on whether she will attend the oath-taking ceremony in Delhi. “Mee gelich pahije na (I should certainly be going, shouldn’t I)?”she says,clutching awell-wornfilefilledwithhandwritten notes, clippings and someoldphotographsof herson — a careful compilation of the signposts in Justice Gavai’s journey, from his birth to his elevation to the top office of the Supreme Court. It is a milestone for both Kamaltai,aformerschoolteacher, and the judiciary. Justice Gavai will be only the second from the Dalit community to be Chief JusticeofIndia.In2007,formerCJI KGBalakrishnanbecamethefirst Dalit CJI and served for three years. Justice Gavai’s six-month tenure ends on November 23. Since its establishment in 1950, the Supreme Court has only had seven judges from the Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Tribes. Justice Gavai has often invoked the spirit of the Constitution to acknowledge how affirmative action has shaped his identity. “It is solely Illustration: Suvajit Dey due to Dr B R Ambedkar’s efforts thatsomeonelikeme,whostudied in a semi-slum area at a municipal school, could attain this position,” he said in a speech in April 2024. When he ended that speechwithachantof “JaiBhim”, the judge received a standing ovation from the crowd. Justice Gavai is known for his rulings in contentious and highstakespoliticalcases,oftengranting relief to the litigant against the state. In three important decisions,includingthoseinvolving Newsclick founder-editor Prabir Purkayastha and former Delhi Jaipur Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, a bench led by Justice Gavai established procedural safeguards against arbitrary arrests under stringent laws such as the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and the Preventionof MoneyLaundering Act. In November 2024, a bench led by him held that demolishing citizens’ properties without following due process was contrary to the rule of law. Justice Gavai was also part of the seven-judge bench that delivered a landmark verdict in favourof sub-classificationof the Scheduled Caste quota. In his separate opinion, Justice Gavai comparedtheoppositionof Dalit groupstothesplittingof quotato thediscrimination“highercastes have done” to Scheduled Castes. He has also lent his weight to significant constitutional cases. InFebruarylastyear,JusticeGavai was part of the bench that annulled the electoral bonds scheme and in December 2023, another Constitution bench of which he was a part upheld the Centre’sabrogationof Article370 thatgrantedspecialstatustoJ&K. CONTINUED ON PAGE 6