FREE PRESS INDORE BHOPAL UJJAIN MUMBAI - PUNE VOL. 10 NO. 236 | BHOPAL | 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 I-T notices in 475 cases for assets of Rs 14300 cr NEW DELHI:The Income tax department has issued notices in 475 cases involving undisclosed foreign assets and income of over Rs 14,300 crore under the foreign black money act, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Thakur said on Monday. 5G to roll out in India by early-2022 NEW DELHI: The Union government expects that the roll-out of 5G services will begin in early-2022 after another round of spectrum auction that is planned to be held after six month, according to a panel report tabled here in Parliament on Monday. 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 village to change his faith, Adegaon Police Station incharge Ishwari Patle said on Monday. Pak intruder shot along IB in Samba JAMMU/NEW DELHI: An unidentified Pakistani intruder was shot dead by the BSF along the IndiaPakistan international border in Jammu and Kashmir's Samba district on Monday, officials said. Inspector General of BSF, Jammu frontier, N S Jamwal said that the intruder could be a terrorist guide who had come for reconnaissance or was carrying something to deliver on this side of the border. 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 pow. er 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- Delhi HC stays direction to maintain status quo on Future-Reliance deal NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court on Monday stayed its single judge direction to Future Retail Ltd (FRL) and various statutory authorities to maintain status quo with regard to the Rs 24,713 crore deal with Reliance Retail. A bench of Chief Justice D N Patel and Justice Jyoti Singh passed the interim direction on FRL's appeal challenging the February 2 order of the single judge. It said that statutory authorities, like National Company Law Tribunal, Competition Commission of India (CCI) and SEBI, cannot be restrained from proceeding in accordance with law with regard to the deal. The bench also declined Amazon's request to keep its order in abeyance for a week so that it can explore appropriate remedies.The court issued notice to Amazon and sought its stand on FRL's appeal by February 26 when it will commence day-to-day hearing of the matter. Amazon had first filed a plea before the single judge for enforcement of the October 25, 2020 (EA) Arbitrator Emergency award by the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) restraining FRL from going ahead with its Rs 24,713 crore deal with Reliance Retail. tion giant and the government. If NTPC stops power supply, the state may be in big trouble. The power company management 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 RS passes J&K Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha on Monday cleared The J&K Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2021 that seeks to replace the ordinance to merge the Jammu and Kashmir cadre of civil services officer with the Arunachal, Goa, Mizoram UT (AGMUT) cadre. The bill was introduced in the Upper House of the Parliament last week and it was approved with voice vote before Rajya Sabha chairman and Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu. "The complete integration of both UTs along with one nation one constitution, holistic development and public welfare are being ensured at each level. Through amendment of this bill, the merger of J&K cadre with AGMUT cadre is an important step in that direction," Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said. 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 RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023 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 China gives Biden's dig at Xi lacking 'D' bone a pass BEIJING China on Monday chose to ignore US President Joe Biden's comment that his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping lacked a democratic bone in his body but said the two countries should focus on cooperation and manage their differences. In an interview to CBS television on Saturday, Biden acknowledged that he is yet to speak with President Xi since his swearing in on January 20, but said he had met him many times when they were Vice Presidents of their respective countries in the past. "I know him pretty well," Biden said, adding that when they do speak, they will have "a whole lot to talk about." Biden, 78, the oldest American president, described Xi, 67, as "very bright" and "very tough" but without "a democratic, small D, bone in his body", highlighting the autocratic style of functioning of the Chinese leader. Asked for his reaction to Biden's "D bone" remark, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin . evaded a direct reply "President Xi Jinping has had many contacts with President Biden. Maintaining communication between China and the US at all levels is conducive to mutual understanding and to the development of bilateral relations,” he said. 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 initiated NDA ruling changes in the agriculture sector since 2014. "Since 2014 we have initiated changes in the agriculture sector aimed at empowering the farmer. The crop inwas scheme surance changed to make it more . farmer-friendly The PMKISAN 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 rescued and handed over to their parents, he said. CONTD. ON P8