FREE PRESS Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023 RNI No. 38281/83 INDORE PUNE BHOPAL UJJAIN MUMBAI - VOL. XXXVII NO. 242 | INDORE | TUESDAY | FEBRUARY 9, 2021 | PAGES 12 PM SHOULD ASK MPS, MLAS TO GIVE UP PENSION: TIKAIT Pg-7 EDIT PHEW! TALE OF TWO AUNTS & THEIR NEPHEWS Pg- 6 170 still missing, 26 bodies found UTTARAKHAND GLACIER BURST News Brief 33 test Covid positive in city INDORE: As many as 33 patients tested positive out of 2092 sample reports received on Monday. Rate of positive patients was recorded at 1.58% and the total number of positive patients reached 57,770. No death was reported in last 24 hours. According to the CMHO bulletin, reports of total samples received till Monday was 798382 and 2056 samples were tested negative. Dept has taken 2038 more samples including 1264 for RTPCR testing. As many as 301 patients are getting treatment in city. Pak intruder shot along IB in Samba JAMMU/NEW DELHI: An Pakistani intruder was shot dead by the BSF along the India-Pakistan international border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Monday, officials said. IG BSF N S Jamwal said that the intruder could be a terrorist guide or was carrying something to deliver on this side of the border. 4 booked under new anti-conversion law SEONI: Four persons have been booked in Seoni district under provisions of the new law which penalises religious conversions through fraudulent means. The accused allegedly tried to lure and pressurise the complainant of Simaria to change his faith, Adegaon PS in-charge said EXPERTS TRYING to determine exact cause of disaster DEHRADUN/NEW DELHI Twenty-six bodies have been recovered and nearly 171 people still missing after the Uttarakhand disaster apparently caused by a glacier burst, officials said Monday, as multiple agencies worked at rescuing over 30 workers feared trapped in a tunnel at a power project site. Officials at the State Emergency Operation Centre said 197 people are still Rescue operations underway at Tapovan Tunnel in Chamoli district ISRO, DRDO helping to ascertain exact cause: CM As multi-agency relief operations continue in Chamoli and adjoining areas of Uttarakhand, CM TS Rawat Monday said a comprehensive analysis of the entire incident is being carried out to avert future tragedies, and asserted the immediate priority was to provide food and other assistance to the affected people. missing, a day after a portion of the Nanda Devi glacier possibly burst through its banks in Chamoli district. It appeared to have triggered an avalanche and a deluge that ripped through the Alaknanda river system in the upper reaches of the ecologically fragile Himalayas. Experts, however, are still trying to determine the exact cause of the disaster in Joshimath. "It was due to lakhs of metric tonnes of snow sliding down abruptly from a trigger point on top of a naked hill," Uttarakhand CM Trivendra Singh Rawat told reporters after meeting ISRO scientists. CONTD. ON P8 NTPC ultimatum: Pay dues or be ready for supply stoppage MPPMCL OWES Rs 4,000 crore OUR STAFF REPORTER BHOPAL The power generation company NTPC has issued a notice to the state Power Management Corporation Limited (MPPMCL) saying that it will stop electricity supply . NTPC has clearly said if its dues are not cleared by Thursday, it will stop power supply MPPMCL owes . Rs 4,000 crore to NTPC, which has been pending for several months. The state gets 5,100 MW power from NTPC. As the state's T JP, OTHER COS' DUES TO BE PAID he MP Power Management Corporation Limited owes Rs 6,000 crore to Madhya Pradesh Power Company Limited. Besides, the state government is indebted to other companies like JP The Power Management Company has to pay Rs 12, . 500 crore. Thus, the company is under pressure. The problem has cropped up, as the Power Management Company is not getting money against the subsidies provided by the state government. This may hit the power supply. demand for electricity has declined, the government has begun to take 2,000 MW power from NTPC. Despite taking less amount of electricity, the state has to pay a fixed charge of Rs 1,500 core to the corporation every year. This is done according to the agreement inked between the power genera- Bizman robbed of Rs 9.5L near his house Accused snatched his bag containing cash, stabbed him when he resisted OUR STAFF REPORTER Indore A businessman of the city was robbed of Rs 9.50 lakh in front of his house by some unidentified miscreants in Bhanwarkuan police station jurisdiction on Monday night. One of the robbers stabbed the businessman when he resisted and fled after snatching the bag con. taining the money Some of the accused were captured on the CCTV installed near the spot but they could not be arrested till the filing of the report. ASP Rajesh Vyas said that the incident took place in Agrawal Nagar at around 9.30 pm. Suresh Goyal (55) runs a business tion giant and the government. If NTPC stops power supply, the state may be in big trouble. The power management company buys and sells electricity on behalf of the state government. In January too, NTPC issued notices to six states asking them to pay power dues. CONTD. ON P8 IIM-I ranks in top 100 Indore: IIM-Indore is now among the top 100 Business Schools in FT (Financial Times, London) rankings. The institute has achieved Rank #94 in the Global MBA Programmes 2021 for its flagship - One Year Full Time Residential Post Graduate Programme for Executives. Only 19% FLW take vax of mobile phones in Chhoti Gwaltoli area. He alighted from his car at his home when a person tried to snatch his mobile phones. During the manhandling, the other accomplices reached there and one of them attacked him using a knife. The robbers managed to flee from the spot with a bag containing cash. CONTD. ON P8 Indore: The health dept has received a very poor response from the frontline workers in the first round of the second phase of vaccination on Monday. Only 19% of the targeted frontline workers including cops, IMC employees, administrative employees and others appeared for getting vaccinated. Twitter yet to shut bad accounts, tweets in India NEW DELHI The letter game between the government and Twitter has intensified, with no respite seen as the microblogging platform is yet to take action on several mischievous, dangerous and fake accounts amid the ongoing farmers' protest. The situation is grim, and tough penal action is imminent if Twitter does not put its artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) systems in place and remove controversial hashtags from its platform, and block accounts believed to be linked to Khalistan sympathisers and those `3 backed by Pakistan. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) has sent three notices, starting with asking the company to block 257 accounts using the #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide hashtag amid the farmers' protest, under Section 69A of the IT Act. Twitter had suspended some high-profile accounts earlier this month, only to unblock them in few hours saying that the "content is free speech and newsworthy". "Protecting public conversation and transparency is fundamental to the work we do at Twitter, and the content has been unblocked," the company said in a statement. The IT ministry then took cognizance of a clear attempt to polarise India when international celebrities with hardly any expertise on Indian affairs extended their support to the protesters agitating against the three new farm laws. CONTD. ON P8 Quality at Value WEATHER 26.90c. 9.060c Sunrise : 07.02 Sunset : 06.19 THOUGHT FOR THE DAY www.freepressjournal.in “My greatest puja is that of human beings and if you can achieve and spread sahaja Yoga that fast, I will be grateful to you.” Her Holiness Mataji Nirmala Devi MRUNAL THAKUR IN ABHISHEK VARMAN’S LOVE TRIANGLE? Pg-12 Covishield from India for UK SANJAY JOG Mumbai Serum Institute of India (SII) may soon ship Covishield vaccine to the United Kingdom, where there has been a rise in the number of corona cases as well as its new variant. This was the outcome of a meeting between the UK Secretary of State for International Trade Liz Truss and SII CEO Adar Poonawala on Monday . While a formal decision is yet to be reached, the SII has hinted that it has enough stock to cater to the UK's requirement. In the inoculation drive across India, so far, the side effects reported have been negligible. Poonawala tweeted, “It was an honour to have the Secretary of State for International Trade, UK, @trusslizand a delegation visit our headquarters@SerumInstIndia. We discussed how to further enhance the existing relationship between India and the UK on manufacturing and innovation in the healthcare space.” However, sources in the know told The Free Press Journal, "SII has sufficient stock but the Government of India has put a curb on the supply of Covishield in India and later, it will allow sale and export. Besides, the UK health regulator will have to give its clearance after its team visit to Pune and other necessary formalities.’’ MOTION OF THANKS ON PREZ ADDRESS MSP tha, MSP hai aur MSP rahega, assures Modi AGENCIES New Delhi 'MSP (Minimum Support Price) tha, MSP hai aur MSP rahega' said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Rajya Sabha on Monday amid the ongoing farmers' protests against the Centre's contentious farm laws. Modi also said that the need of the hour is to improve the lives of the country's small farmers and the ruling NDA initiated changes in the agriculture sector since 2014. "Since 2014 we have initiated changes in the agriculture sector aimed at empowering the farmer. The crop insurance scheme was changed to make it more farmer-friendly The PM. KISAN scheme was also brought in. CONTD. ON P8 Modi hai tou mauka lijiye: PM to Azad LoP Ghulam Nabi Azad on Monday came in for praise in the RS from Modi, who took a dig at the opposition by telling it that 'Modi hai tou mauka lijiye'. Beware of FDI 'Foreign Destructive Ideology' PM slammed the narrative against his govt on farmers' issue as he warned the country against the new FDI that now stands for "Foreign Destructive Ideology". PM's 'Andolan jivi' remark irks Oppn Modi slammed the new breed of 'professional protestors' using word 'andolan-jivi' who tend to hijack every protest that has taken place in the country Betul, Neemuch DMs; Guna, Niwadi SPs removed OUR STAFF REPORTER BHOPAL Minister Shivraj Chief Singh Chouhan has removed the collectors of Neemuch and Betul and the superintendents of police of Guna and Niwadi districts. The Chief Minister took the decision at the video conferencing of commissioners and collectors on Monday . Chouhan also ordered the removal of CSP of Guna. They have been removed because of their poor performance. Those who have been removed are Betul collector Rakesh Singh, Neemuch collector Jitendra Singh Raje, Guna SP Rajesh Singh, Niwadi SP Vahini Singh and Guna CSP Neha Pachisia. Only those officials who work hard will get pat on the back and the ones who fail to perform will face the music, Chouhan said. Chouhan said that action against the food adulterators should continue and that nobody should harass the small traders on the pretext of taking action against unscrupulous businessman. The CM also said the goons must be given a severe blow and kept behind bars, besides a search for the missing girls should continue. In January 2, 632 girls were res, cued and handed over to their parents, he said. CONTD. ON P8