hyderabad l monday l september 21, 2026 l `9.00 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: Shooting stars sparkle tussle headed for courtroom Indraneel Das Tata Trusts hires Abhishek Manu Singhvi as counsel; Harish Salve to advise Tata Sons IIT bombay Prof booked for abetment of suicide over student’s death S u d h i r su r ya w a n s h i @ Mumbai An IIT Bombay professor was on Sunday booked for abetment of suicide over the death of a second-year engineering student on the campus. Sahil Ravindra Wakode was found dead at the Powai campus of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay on Friday evening, hours after he was allegedly caught using a mobile phone and ChatGPT during a midsemester examination. Professor Suryanarayan Dulla and two other unnamed persons were booked on Sunday . Sahil’s father alleged that the professor was responsible for driving his son to take his own life. He alleged Sahil faced caste-based abuse, threats and harassment at the campus for three months before his death. A case of abetment of suicide and joint liability has been registered under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), 2023. A case has also been registered under the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 for intentionally insulting or intimidating a person with intent to humiliate a member of a SC/ST community . The case was registered based on a complaint filed by Sahil’s father. Meanwhile, a video of IIT Bombay Director Shireesh B Kedare has gone viral on social media, in which he is seen announcing his resignation, effective Monday . B ENN K O CH U VEEDAN @ 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 . 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” T Express @ asian games Nagoya 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 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 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, Advani, Jaishankar, Kejriwal, CBI chief get notices for SIR discrepancy A n u p V e r m a @ New Delhi 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 Supreme Court judge Ranjana Desai and members of her family Foreign Sec. retary Vikram Misri, Securities and Exchange Board of India Chairman Tuhin Kanta Pandey, Principal Scientific Lal Krishna S Advani Jaishankar Praveen Sood Adviser to the Prime Minister Ajay Kumar Sood and Health Secretary Punya Salila Srivastava are among those listed as “unmapped with last SIR”. Former economist and Padma awardee Bibek Debroy who , passed away in November 2024, figures in Delhi’s draft electoral roll and has been flagged for “no mapping” with the previous SIR roll. The list includes several prominent political and public figures. Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta, former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and his family, former Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar and wife Sudesh Dhankhar, former Supreme Court judge Justice Madan B Lokur, former Union Minister Kapil Sibal and wife Promila Sibal, former Union Minister Subramanian Swamy and historian Romila Thapar figure in the list. Cong ress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi is also on the list, though the column against his name specifying the reason for the discrepancy is blank. The Delhi CEO office said “issue of notices does not mean that their names will be deleted from the electoral rolls.” E x p r e s s Re a d IIIT-H study: AI struggles with spoken Telugu Hyderabad: Artificial intelligence systems can struggle to understand spoken Telugu, with speech-recognition and translation errors sometimes changing the meaning of questions and leading to incorrect answers, a study by researchers from the International Institute of Information TechnologyHyderabad has found | p3 Iran conveys conditions on opening St of Hormuz TEHRAN: Iran’s top negotiator parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday in an interview that Tehran had laid down three conditions to US for ending its Hormuz blockade. “Our conditions are an end to the war, release of our frozen funds and an end to the naval blockade.” | P9 Danam disqualification sets off hunt in BRS for Khairatabad candidate I r e d dy S r i n i vas R e d dy @ Hyderabad Fourth cheetah for MP sanctuary The Gandhi Sagar Wildlife Sanctuary welcomed its fourth African cheetah, Radha, on Sunday | P8 (From left) Vidarsa K Vinod, Sonam Maskar & Elavenil Valarivan rejoice after winning the women’s 10m air rifle team silver | PTI 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. “Let alone winning a medal, that I am part of the Asian Games team is a dream,” she told this daily after the win. For Elavenil, it was cathartic. On the day she ensured that the , process she trusted bore fruit. “I’m grateful that I was selected in the first place and this medal means a lot to me,” she said. Mixed Martial Arts gave India its first medal but it’s shooting that India would be banking on for a rich medal haul. a sacred farewell Lord Ganesh idols immersed in a baby pond set up by the GHMC at Exhibition Ground in Nampally, Hyderabad | vinay madapu The battle lines are being drawn in Khairatabad. With Danam Nagender disqualified by the Telangana High Court, the BRS is now looking for a candidate capable of taking on the Congress leader if a byelection is held, with several names being discussed within the party . For the pink party Khai, ratabad is not just another byelection — it’s a do-or-die battle. Win, and the party signals it’s still a force in Telangana. Lose, and the cadre stares at a crisis. However, Nagender has ap- proached the Supreme Court against the HC verdict, leaving the possibility of a byelection subject to the outcome of the legal process. Even as the case is being fought in court, discussions have begun within the BRS over who could be its candidate and what political strength the nominee would bring to the contest. Nagender has a long political association with Hyderabad. He was elected as an MLA from the Telugu Desam Party Congress , and BRS at different points since 1994. He also won Khairatabad on a BRS ticket in 2023 before joining the Congress. His experience and network in the constituency and other parts of the city are among the factors being considered by the BRS while assessing potential candidates. BRS leaders are discussing several names, including MLC Dasoju Sravan Kumar, who contested the Khairatabad seat as a Congress candidate in 2018 and is considered familiar with the constituency Sources said . his name has emerged as one of the options being examined by the party . Another proposal under discussion is to field a former minister who has represented one of the Assembly constituencies in Hyderabad several times and belongs to the Backward Class, sources said.  continued on p4 3-year-old boy killed in hit-and-run No freezer, rodents bite body at govt hospital mortuary edly hit by a Mahindra XUV500, allegedly being driven rashly, travelling from Bhoji Reddy College towards IS Sadan crossroads. The driver sped away from the spot while Moueed and locals rushed the boy to a nearby private hospital, where doctors declared him “brought dead”. E x p r e ss N e w s S e r v i c e @ Hyderabad A three-year-old boy died allegedly after being hit by a speeding car while crossing the road near Santhoshnagar on Saturday night. The victim was identified as Mohd Izhaan Moueed, aged three years and eight months. According to his father, MA Moueed, a private employee, he had gone to Fusion Food Hub, near Sweekar Hotel, around 11 pm with his wife Hafsa Moueed and their son on a scooter. After parking the vehicle opposite the food outlet, Moueed crossed the road and went inside to col- Mohd Izhaan Moueed lect food, while his wife and son remained near the scooter. A few minutes later, Izhaan crossed the road to join his father. While returning towards his mother, the boy was alleg- Driver nabbed Meanwhile, police identified and detained the driver and seized the vehicle. Based on a complaint, IS Sadan police registered a case under Section 106(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and launched an investigation. U M a h e s h @ Warangal A body was bitten by rodents at the Wardhannapet Government Hospital mortuary on Sunday, exposing the lack of basic facilities, including cold storage units, at the facility . The body of Gare Veeraiah, a resident of Raipar thy in Warangal district who died in a road accident on Saturday evening, was brought to the hospital mortuary for postmortem. The body was kept there overnight, with the postmortem scheduled for Sunday . On Sunday morning, Veeraiah’s family members found injuries near his left eye, which 3 injured as false ceiling crashes at MGM A patient undergoing treatment for paralysis and two attendants suffered minor injuries after a portion of the false ceiling collapsed in the Aarogyasri ward of the state-run MGM Hospital in Warangal on Sunday morning | P2 they said were rat bites. They questioned hospital staff and alleged that the mortuary lacked basic facilities, including a freezer to preserve bodies. A hospital staff member, speaking to TNIE on condition of anonymity, said the mortuary has no cold storage units or electricity connection. Bodies brought for postmortem at night are kept on stretchers un- til the examination the following day the staff member said. , Electricity & freezer unit sought: Hosp superintendent Hospital superintendent Dr B Vireen confirmed to TNIE that rodents had bitten the body He . said the mortuary is located near a graveyard and away from the main hospital building, with one staff member assigned to conduct autopsies. “We arranged a temporary freezer. There is an electricity problem in the mortuary We have sub. mitted a representation to the Wardhannapet Municipal Commissioner seeking power supply, but there has been no response,” he added. Dr Vireen said the hospital had also sought a permanent cold storage unit and appealed to higher authorities for necessary infrastructure and power supply . According to hospital officials, the state government has not yet responded to the hospital’s request for a permanent cold storage facility .