Express 5: Sena to go with BJP; India to send 50 names for black money probe

2. Black Money

A week after a high-level delegation of the revenue department met Swiss authorities in a bid to persuade them to assist with details of the 700-odd Indians who are reported to have bank accounts with the HSBC Bank in Geneva, the NDA government is set to send the first batch of 50 names to Switzerland.

READ MORE: India to send 50 names to Switzerland for probe

3. IPL Scandal

The Justice Mukul Mudgal Committee’s final report, which will be submitted in the Supreme Court in the first week of November, is expected to confirm that Gurunath Meiyappan — son-in-law of ICC chairman N Srinivasan — was an important Chennai Super Kings (CSK) official and that he was involved in betting during the 2013 Indian Premier League season. These revelations will leave CSK’s future under a cloud and lead to crucial questions about the franchise’s existence in the league.

READ MORE: Mudgal report may confirm Gurunath role in IPL betting, put CSK under cloud

4. PM’s Diwali

That the PM is arriving to share his Diwali may mean little to those whose Eid was perhaps the most despondent they have ever known. Many say it was more desolate than it ever was even in the 1990s when the Valley was convulsed by daily violence.

READ MORE: If PM listens, he may find a weary Srinagar asking for a hearing

5. Opinion

It is ending with the Obama administration’s increasingly obvious inability to stop the growth of the IS, the Islamic State. What is coming to an end is not America’s military pre-eminence in the world: no country can even think of waging war against it. What is ending is American hegemony.

READ MORE: End of the American century