chennai l Monday l January 13, 2025 l `9.00 l PAGES 20 l late city EDITION Youth power will make India a developed country by 2047: PM Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India’s young population will power the country’s rise towards becoming a developed nation ‘Citizen’s help necessary to reach big goals’ youth are owners of viksit bharat: PM Modi said it was time for a quantum leap. “Big targets have to be set for a country to march forward. This is what today’s India is doing,” he said, adding the government alone cannot drive the country forward and achieving ambitious goals requires participation of every citizen. Hosting the Olympics in the next decade is one of the goals, he said | P11 ■ ■ Modi said he has full confidence the youth will realise ‘Viksit Bharat’ dream by 2047. He said the ownership in ‘Viksit Bharat’ is theirs too He was addressing the Viksit Bharat Young Leaders Dialogue in Delhi to mark Swami Vivekananda’s birth anniversary. “Swami Vivekananda said youth will find solutions to all problems,” he said $10 trillion will be the size of India’s economy by the next decade: Modi CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI EAM to attend Trump’s inauguration Jaishankar expected to have a short call on with the new US President, Secretary of State J AYANTH J ACOB @ New Delhi External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will be representing India at the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States on January 20, the Ministry of External Affairs said on Sunday . According to sources, Jaishankar is likely to have a short call on with Trump as well as Marco Rubio, the incoming Secretary of State. The meetings are expected to set the tone for India-US relations under the Trump administration. India-US relations have traditionally enjoyed bipartisan political suppor t. However, border tensions B’desh conveys ‘deep concern’ to Indian envoy e x p r e s s n e w s s e r v i c e @ New Delhi Bangladesh on Sunday summoned India’s High Commissioner in Dhaka and expressed its “deep concern” over the recent border tensions. Indian High Commissioner Pranay Verma was summoned after Dhaka accused New Delhi of violating a bilateral agreement by attempting to construct fences at five locations along the India-Bangladesh border. “Foreign Secretary Ambassador Md Jashim Uddin today expressed deep concern of Government of Bangladesh to the High Commissioner of India Pranay Verma at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs over the recent activities of the Border Security Force (BSF) of India along the Bangladesh-India border,” the Bangladesh foreign ministry said. The meeting lasted 45 minutes, sources said. “We have an understanding with regard to fencing the border for security. BSF and BGB have been in communication. We expect understandings will be implemented and there will be cooperative approach to combatting crime,” Verma said. The tensions come as the government says there has been a rise in the number of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh entering India since the start of the political crisis there. Trump’s inauguration comes amid concerns over trade disruptions due to his hawkish tariff policies. Trump has said he will strive to boost American manufacturing and cut down on international engagements. Traditionally, US Presidential inaugurations are a low-key a f f a i r. H o w e v e r, Trump has extended invitations to leaders from a clutch of select countries including Chinese President Xi Jinping and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. For India, the invitation was for Jaishankar. “EAM will also have meetings with representatives of the incoming Administration, as also some other dignitaries visiting the US on that occasion,” the Ministry of External Affairs said. While bilateral ties under the outgoing Joe Biden administration saw improvement, such as the successful Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies, political ties were strained following Gurpatwant Singh Pannun murder plot. Trump’s tariff discussions and the policy of bringing man- ufacturing back to the US are raising concerns in India but New Delhi is optimistic about smoother bilateral relations. This confidence is based on the strong foundation of India-US ties and the personal rapport between Trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. According to Jaishankar, India is better equipped to deal with these global disruptions. Speaking in Sydney last November, he had said: “There was already a reordering of supply chains, and this is likely to accelerate following the US election results. While some disruption may occur, India sees it as an opportunity .” CM arrogant, doesn’t respect nation: Guv T M u r u g a n a n d h a m @ Chennai THE face-off between Tamil Nadu Governor RN Ravi and the DMK government hit a new low on Sunday with Raj Bhavan describing Chief Minister MK Stalin as arrogant after the latter had termed Ravi’s decision to avoid delivering his address at the Assembly as “childish”. DMK leaders refuted Raj Bhavan’s charges and said the governor is acting arrogantly as he holds the post. Reacting to the CM’s comments, Raj Bhavan, in a post on ‘X’, said by his remarks, the CM has asserted that insisting on due respect to the national anthem and perfor ming the fundamental duties enshrined in the constitution are “absurd” and “childish”. “Thanks for betraying the true intentions of the coalition of interests and ideologies to which he is a leader that does not accept and respect Bharat as a nation and her constitution. Such arrogance is not good,” Raj Bhavan said, adding the CM “should not forget that Bharat is the supreme mother and the constitution is the supreme faith for her children”. P9 Man stabs estranged wife to death at bus stand in Chennai, arrested E x p r e s s N e w s S e r v i c e @ Chennai Amid concerns about the safety of women in Tamil Nadu, a 42-year-old man was arrested for murdering his estranged wife in public view at a bus stand at M e d ava k k a m Ko o t Road late Saturday evening. After slashing the woman with a knife, he also allegedly knifed her partner who was with her. The woman was declared dead at the hospital, while the man is under treatment. Medavakkam police said the deceased, Jyothi (37), married the accused, Manikandan (42) of Triplicane in 2009. They have three children. A few years ago, they separated and Jyothi was living with the children at Medavakkam. She was in a relationship with Krishnamurthy (38), police said. A bitter Manikandan would often quarrel with her over this, said police. On Saturday morning, Manikandan met Jyothi and an argument broke out again. new pitch Saikia, Prabhtej take charge Drunk attack Manikandan ran into Jyothi and Krishnamurthy at the bus stand and was in an inebriated state when he allegedly stabbed them. Onlookers caught him and handed him over to the police | P9 Devajit Saikia and Prabhtej Singh Bhatia were elected unopposed as the new secretary and treasurer, respectively, of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) at the Special General Meeting in Mumbai on Sunday | P15 kumbh 2025 Where grandeur bumps into spirituality Mahakumbh decoded Pa r a m i ta G h o s h @ Prayagraj AT the ground zero of Kumbh, Malwa’s Baba Yashwant Swaraj — goggled, high, and tridentwielding — is having a ball. He says he is “wi-fi Insta famous”, and pats the top of his trident on which he is convinced his guru, having shed his material form, sits as a flower. He gets a crowd but after a few minutes it moves on. At every bend in Kumbh, everyone is looking for a spectacle to match the hype. Saurabh Basu, an advocate at the Allahabad High Court, says that for ages, there has been no business in Allahabad as profitable as the Kumbh. “It was so when it was a Mughal city; now when it’s Prayagraj, it gives the riverine economy a boost.” For the 40 crore devotees expected to land in Prayagraj for the Kumbh, said to be the largest congregation anywhere in the world, the main target are the Shahi Snans, the first of which is on January 14 (Makar Sankranti). And there have been early movers, who have already made themselves home Total area 10,000 acres Budget K75,000 cr State’s budget K54,000 cr Centre’s budget K21,000 cr Baba Yashwant Swaraj, who claims he is a rage on the internet, at the Kumbh in Prayagraj on Sunday. The mela kicks off on Monday | Paramita ghosh in the tent-city. While some seek spiritual enlightenment, others are drawn to the luxury and convenience offered by the Kumbh Mela. Somesh Tripathy , an advertising personnel from Noida, is here for the holy dip. So is Puspendra Singh from nearby Pratapgarh. Judy a New Yorker, has opted , for a `3-4 lakh per night tent, complete with yoga facilities and a stunning view of the Sangam. “The moment I saw those cottages I knew I had to be here,” she said. In contrast, the kalpavaasis, or short-term dwellers leading an austere life at the Kumbh, can stay in tents free of charge. “There is convenience at the Kumbh for every class. If God has given you wealth, you stay in luxury tents,” says Anand Shukla, a priest from Mumbai, whose father did kalpavaas during Kumbh in the past.  Continued on: p12 Total Snans Six (Jan 13, Jan 14, Jan 29, Feb 3, Feb 12, Feb 26) Each snan takes off with bathing of saints and seers of 13 different Akharas 13 Akharas divided into 3 categories Sanyasi, Bairagi and Udaseen Total ghats: 41 Expected footfall on snan days 2 crore On Jan 29 snan: 8-10 crore ISRO to reassess strategy after space docking trial put on hold, yet again Express news service @ Bengaluru WHAT looked like an inevitable achievement in the early hours of Sunday was put on hold by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) scientists, who are closely observing and controlling the two spacecraft of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) mission. After bringing the two spacecraft — SDX01 and SDX02 — as close to 230 metres on Saturday evening, at 3.11am Sunday ISRO , said on ‘X’ that the two satellites were close to each other and were spotted from an intersatellite distance of 105m. Two hours later, ISRO said Chaser and Target spacecraft were visible 15m apart. The news brought cheer among space science enthusiasts hoping for a successful maiden docking mission. At The two spacecraft, Chaser and Target, to be launched into space Successful docking A successful docking is when the two spacecraft lock into each other for easy transfer of supplies, equipment and even astronauts. Before this, the docking of SDX01 and SDX02 was twice postponed on January 7 and January 9 6.19am, the ISRO team shared the news that the two SpaDeX satellites had been put on hold position at 15m, along with pho- tographs of the craft clearly visible at close range. However, at 7.06am, the scientists decided to put on hold the docking exercise until further analysis. They said they were successful in bringing the spacecraft just 3m from each other. The scientists did not divulge any reason for moving the spacecraft away to a ‘safer distance’, after they were close to completing thedocking experiment crucial for future Gaganyaan and Indian space missions. Experts, however, are speculating the reasons for the delay in the docking trial. While some said the two spacecraft were not aligned accurately for the docking to take place, others said the distance between the two was much more than what the scientists had announced and that there were er rors in calculation. express read NDA to also boycott Erode East bypoll Security forces kill 5 Maoists in C’garh Chennai: A day after the AIADMK and its ally the DMDK decided to boycott the by-election to the Erode East Assembly constituency, the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) led by the BJP on Sunday announced that it would also be boycotting this by-election | P6 Raipur: Five Maoists, including two women, were killed in an encounter in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh, about 400 kilometres south of Raipur on Sunday. “After the encounter, the forces recovered five bodies of Naxalites, including two women in uniform,” a senior police official said | P12