kochi l monday l september 21, 2026 l `10.00 l PAGES 12 l late city EDITION Need community participation to tackle climate change: President A well-structured framework of policies and actions is needed to address the challenge of climate change, President Droupadi Murmu said health, livelihood facing risks: Murmu puts Emphasis on traditional knowledge President Murmu said climate change is having serious repercussions on food security, health, and livelihoods. She said the framework to tackle climate change must ensure the participation of communities most affected by it, with special sensitivity towards needs of rural and forestdwelling communities, small farmers, women, and vulnerable sections ■ ■ Addressing the valedictory session of the international conference on ‘The Future of Environment and Climate Dynamics’, Murmu highlighted the importance of traditional knowledge systems She called for people-centric and community-based climate adaptation approaches rooted in traditional knowledge 17 countries sent representatives to the Conference held in Delhi 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 Tata boardroom Bang on target: India’s shooting stars sparkle tussle headed for courtroom Indraneel Das Tata Trusts hires Abhishek Manu Singhvi as counsel; Harish Salve to advise Tata Sons B ENN K O CH U V EE D AN @ Mumbai Noel Tata-led Tata Trusts on Sunday doubled down on its challenge to N Chandrasekaran’s reappointment as executive chairman of Tata Sons, reiterating that the resolution passed at the company’s September 17 board meeting violated the firm’s rules and bylaws. The matter now appears headed for a legal showdown as Tata Trusts, which owns 66.6% in Tata Sons, roped in noted Supreme Court lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi to represent it in the corporate dispute. According to reports, senior advocate Harish Salve is advising Tata Sons. In a detailed statement issued on Sunday, Tata Trusts said that under Tata Sons’ Articles of Association (AoA), the board meeting requires affirmative support from a majority of Trust-nominated directors to pass a resolution. But this condition was not met in the case of Chandrasekaran’s reappointment, rendering it void ab initio (legally void from the outset). In the crucial board meeting held last week, Tata Trusts chairman Noel Tata voted against Chandrasekaran’s reappointment while Venu Srinivasan, the other Tata Trusts nominee, supported the resolution. “Whether the result of the vote was 4:1, or any other figure, is irrelevant. A condition is either met, or it is not. In this case the condition was not met,” the Trusts said. The Trusts questioned the argument that Noel Tata’s opposition created a deadlock that needed to be removed through a casting vote. “It is now being suggested that a refusal of support amounts to a deadlock which would paralyse the Company and that the Chairman of the meeting was therefore entitled to resolve the position by a casting vote. There was no paralysis and there was no deadlock. The Board put a question, and the AoA answered it in the negative,” it said. In its latest statement, the Trusts also pointed out that Tata Sons had defended the same AoA during the litigation surrounding the removal of former chairman Cyrus Mistry . BJP veteran L K Advani, Union Minister S Jaishankar and his wife Kyoko S Jaishankar, CPM MP John Brittas’ wife, former Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and BJP MLA Kailash Gahlot are among a list of 33 lakh people being issued notices for “discrepancies” in their details under SIR. The list includes CBI Director Praveen Sood and his family, former Army Chief General Upendra Dwivedi and his wife, and former SC judge he bus journey to the Toyota highlands itself is quite fascinating as the road winds up the hills through lush green coniferous forest and gushing streams all along. For Indian athletes and coaches, these are the ‘ghat roads’. It had been quite an ordeal for the shooters right after they landed in Noel Tata There are two Tata Trusts nominees on the Board of Tata Sons. Majority amongst two is two and not one Tata Trusts ‘Entering fray with sadness’ Sr advocate Abhishek Singhvi said he is entering the fray with “sadness and regret” adding the dispute should have been amicably solved. Calling for protecting the fundamental rights of shareholderowners, he said such “rights cannot be nullified” Ranjana Desai and members of her family Foreign Secre. tary Vikram Misri, Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Principal Scientific Adviser to the PM Ajay Kumar Sood and Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava are listed as “unmapped with last SIR”. The list also includes Delhi CM Rekha Gupta, former CM Arvind Kejriwal and his family, and several others. The Delhi CEO office said, “Issue of notices does not mean their names will be deleted from electoral rolls.” P RA M D AS @Kochi Putting further pressure on Pinarayi Vijayan, the legal opinion of Director General of Prosecution T Asaf Ali in the CMRL payoff case states that after analysing the facts and circumstances of the case shared by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), it has been “proved beyond doubt” that the former chief minister acquired financial resources amounting to `3.28 crore from Cochin Minerals and Rutile Ltd (CMRL) through his daughter, Veena T, between March 4, 2017, and May 18, 2019, on the strength of a Pinarayi Vijayan 7 dead as rain wreaks havoc E x p r e s s N e w s S e r v i c e @Malappuram/Idukki/Kottayam Seven people lost their lives to rain-related disasters in the state on Sunday. Two remain missing. Chief Minister V D Satheesan has directed officials to review the rain situation across Kerala on an hourly basis. In Malappuram, three people – two men and a woman – died in a flash flood in Kottapuzha river near TK Colony at Pookkottumpadam in Nilambur in the evening, while two are missing. In Kottayam, two persons, including a woman tourist from Tamil Nadu, died in sepa- Casualties rate landslips – at in Malappuram Velathussery near (not officially identified) Teekoy on Erattupetta-Vag amon road in Kottayam (Chennai and at Mangalagiri resident Sangeetha, 35; in Poonjar NadubChelakkat Joseph, 80) hagam village. In Idukki, a man in Idukki (Balakrishnan, and his sister were 47, his sister Chinnu, 38) killed and his wife seriously injured after a landslide buried a temporary shed at their farmland in Kottakamboor, Vattavada. Malappuram was among the worst-hit areas in the state after five people were swept away in the flash flood, which occurred around 5pm along the Olarvattam-TK Colony stretch of the river. According to Pookkottumpadam police and residents, they were Raheem, 35, of Karuvarakundu, Anas Mangadan, 27, of Kottakkal, Sajjad, 23, of Vandoor, Rafeeq, 41, of Vandoor and Sajitha, a resident of TK Colony Raheem, Anas, . Sajjad and Rafeeq had reportedly visited the area, while Sajitha was a resident.  ● More on P5 3 2 2 Tune into music, staff tales on KSRTC buses Forgot to take headphones on your bus journey? Relax. Following the surge in ridership driven by Priyadarshini service, KSRTC is stepping up passenger experience by rolling out a digital radio network across its fleet for 21 lakh daily commuters. Accompanying the hum of diesel engine willbe a blend of music, weather updates, travel advisories and stories by staff. The entire initiative will be sustained entirely through ad revenue at zero cost to the public. Transport Minister C P John spearheaded the digital radio service and hinted at plans to introduce multimedia TV screens on select routes in the future. Travel rhythm Digital radio network across fleet for 21L daily commuters Content: Music, weather, travel updates and staff stories Ad-funded by private partners ; 5 mins/hr for advisories Launched on June 15, the UDF government’s ‘Priyadarshini’ free travel scheme for women has boosted bus patronage across Keralam. Daily female ridership rose by 25.7%, from 11.08 lakh in the first week to 13.93 lakh by the thirteenth week. Women and transgender passengers now make up over 60% of ordinary bus passengers, driving daily traffic across all KSRTC services past 27 lakh commuters. Veena T sham agreement. The amount was disproportionate to Pinarayi’s known sources of income, stated the opinion, a copy of which is with TNIE. It further stated that both Pinarayi and Veena were liable to be prosecuted under Section 13(1) from 6am to 9pm U n n i k r i s h n a n S @T’Puram (From left) Vidarsa K Vinod, Sonam Maskar & Elavenil Valarivan rejoice after winning the women’s 10m air rifle team silver | PTI shooting medal in the team event and later, Elavenil Valarivan won her second in the individual silver. Two medals in a day. She will compete in the mixed team events next. Among the three, Elavenil was the most experienced and that was visible during the competition. The shooter with roots in Tamil Nadu was in pristine form throughout and managed to exorcise the ghosts of Paris Olympics. For the other two members, this is their first Asian Games. If Vidarsa K Vinod became the first from Keralam to win a shooting medal, Sonam Maskar repaid the sacrifices made by her father — he had to sell land for her to pursue the sport. Vidarsa is another fascinating story She did not have . a personal rifle until about recently. According to her coach Manoj Kumar, she bought it just a few months ago. Being part of the Asiad has been a surreal experience for her. “That I am part of the Asian Games team is a dream,” she told TNIE after the win. Mixed Martial Arts gave India its first medal but it’s shooting that India would be banking on for a rich medal haul.  P2,11 Proof Pinarayi got money via daughter: Legal opinion Advani, Kejriwal, CBI chief get SIR notices A n up V e r m a @ New Delhi T Express @ asian games Nagoya Nagoya for the Asian Games. They were made to wait at the airport, then at the hotel and finally when they came to the venue, they realised it was not 70 minutes as the Games organising committee had indicated. It was almost two hours. Not ideal for the shooters. No screen time or games on mobile phone, neck pillow for support during journey and light food before leaving. These were some of the logistical decisions the coaches and support staff took. On Sunday, three shooters managed to win India their first Senior KSRTC officials are now preparing to equip all 5,700 operating buses with the new audio system under this public-private framework. As per an official, the service will run strictly from 6am to 9pm with smart volume limits. There will a complete ban on political or religious content and up to five minutes every hour will be reserved for official travel advisories and public welfare up● More on P4 dates.  (b) of the Prevention of Corruption (PC) Act, 1988, as amended by the Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Act, 2018 (Act 16 of 2018). “Since the period of crime falls prior to and after July 26, 2018, the date on which the PC (Amendment) Act, 2018, came into force, penal provisions applicable before and after the amendment may be suitably invoked,” it stated. The opinion stated that this is a case press clusive in which the receipt of bribe or illegal gratification by Veena for and on behalf of her father, the then CM, was established prima facie through strong oral, documentary and digital evidence, strengthened by the findings of the Interim Settlement Board. “In such circumstances, it shall be presumed, under Section 20 of the PC Act, that the bribe money was received by Veena illegally for and on behalf of her father,” it stated. According to the opinion, mere vague or ambiguous explanations are insufficient to rebut the presumption arising from the fact that Veena received `3,28,01,000 from CMRL, an amount not legally ● More on P4 due to her.  3 dead Speeding BMW falls from road in Mumbai Car was carrying 4 students. 1 seriously injured | P8