DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2020, PUNE, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM Battered by bias ‘CJI AWAREOFNATURE OF ALLEGATIONS, SEIZEDOFMATTER’ On table for next and years of apathy, TimingofJaganlettersuspect, round of LAC talks: Doms seekchange butnoconsentforcontempt:AG Thinningoftroops Mahadalitspointtobrokenpromises Signal from Beijing on certain friction Letter followedJustice Ramanaorder Delisting Kamal Nath:SCasks pointsasharsh Ladakhwinter sets in DIPANKARGHOSE DECISION PARBATTA(KHAGARIA),NOV2 to fast-track cases: Venugopal EC who gave you this power? ED 2020 DEEPTIMANTIWARY Modi,Xi THERE IS apool of waterbehind NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 atthree their ramshackle homes on un- BIHAR ANANTHAKRISHNANG ‘Conductof PLAIN E ● meetings easy stiltsinKhagaria's Aguani. NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 AndhraCM, ANANTHAKRISHNANG EC had NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN India EX That is where the solitaryhand Principal Secy &RITIKACHOPRA revokedhis and China over the situation in pumpfor the community of 200 VOTINGTODAY NOTINGTHATthe “timing” of prima facie NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER2 name from eastern Ladakh have notyielded PRIME MINISTER stands. The waterhas turneda AndhraPradesh ChiefMinister contumacious’ listofstar resultssofar on troops returning NarendraModi and poisonous green, with garbage No.of YSJagan Mohan Reddy’s letter THE SUPREMECourt Monday campaigners to their April locations —the sta- Chinese President Xi seats collected over the years and a PhaseII to ChiefJustice of India SA stayed the Election Commission tus quoante, before the startof Jinping areset to meet sheet of mosquitoes over itssur- 94 Bobde, complainingagainst General KKVenugopal on order revoking former Madhya the standoffinMay —but the eachother at three vir- face. Foryears, allthat the Doms No.ofvoters Contesting Justice NVRamana, andthe Monday,however, declined con- Pradesh Chief MinisterKamal “Weare staying your order,” Indianestablishment is hopeful tualsummitsthis month herehaveasked from their morethan candidates state’s move to makeitpublic sent to initiateproceedings Nath’s name from the listofstar Chief Justice of India SABobde, of “partial disengagement”at cer- —ofthe BRICS, SCO, politicians is to at leastremove 2.85 cr 1,463 “couldcertainlybesaidtobesus- againstReddy forcriminal con- campaigners forthe Congress headingathree-judgeBench, told tain friction pointsinthe region. G-20. Ahead of these the waterand levelthe land, es- pect” in the wake of the latter’s temptofthe Supreme Court. party in the stateAssemblyby- Senior Advocate Rakesh Dwivedi Sources said this is largely meetings, the twosides peciallyafter afive-year-old fell order to expeditetrial in cases In alettertoAdvocate polls —elections to 28 seatswill who wasappearing forthe EC. supposedtotranslateintothin- will hope to dial down and drownedhere10years ago. MORE REPORTS againstlegislators, Attorney CONTINUEDONPAGE2 be held Tuesday. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ningoftroops massed by the the tensions somewhat. “Once, theycame and threw PAGE 13 twosides on the northand south CONTINUEDONPAGE2 banksofPangong Tso. Friction pointsalso remain in Gograand since June, movement of troops HotSpring areas aftersome ini- and artillery by either side has AN EXPRESSINVESTIGATION PART THREE tial disengagement. onlyincreasedinthe region. 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But Minorities Finance and pridefulofits working-class then, we became aware, and the findings of itsinvestigation Development Corporation (JS- grit.Labour unions, astrong stopped,” he says. that trackedhundredsofappli- MDC), the implementing Timing of Jagan letter suspect: AG coreofAmerica’s industrial This “awareness”did not cationsfrom15schools in six agency,“the scholarship portal revolution, gainedpolitical and come from government inter- districtsand showedhow mul- is notveryrobust”. Ashwini Upadhyay, who had Ministertothe Chief Justice of ditiously. As youyourself have inal contempt of theSupreme economic clout, winning foun- vention, but from the work of tiple layers of verification, from On September 2, he wroteto sought his consent to initiate India, Hon’ble Mr.Justice S. A. pointed out, thereare 31 crim- CourtofIndia,” he said. dational worker protections. Bahishkrit Hitkari Sangathan, an the school to thestate level, AdityaSSingh, Under Secretary, criminal contempt of courtpro- Bobde. The letter wasthen re- inal cases pendingagainstthe Upadhyay,inhisletterseek- “It wasamarkofpride to organisation ledbySanjeev failedtodetect the scam -- de- Minority Affairs Ministry, about ceedings againstReddy and the leasedtothe press by Sh. Ajeya Chief Minister,”hesaid. ing consent, had said Reddy’s have ajob even when youwere Kumar,anMBA graduatewho spitechecks like Aadhaar IDs the “technical” problems of the Chief Minister’s Principal Kallam,Principal Advisor to the “In this background, prima letteranditssubsequentrelease young,” 50-year-old Kearns returnedfromDelhi in 2005 to and fingerprints, and systems NSP that did notallowfor cross- Advisor Ajeya Kallam, Chief Minister, at apress confer- facie, the conduct of thesaid to themediaby Kallamatapress said of his days working in Khagaria. Kumar is fighting likeDirect Benefit Transfer verificationatthe statelevel. Venugopal said since the mat- ence on 10.10.2020. The Chief persons