FREE PRESS - VOL. XXXIX NO. 6 | INDORE | TUESDAY | JUNE 14, 2022 | PAGES 14 EDIT PREZ ELECTION: CRITICAL FOR OPPOSITION UNITY FOR 24X7 UPDATES News Brief Three boys drown in well Three boys drowned while taking bath in a 35-feetdeep well in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district, police said on Monday. The incident took place on Sunday afternoon in Gorkha village, located about 100 km from the district headquarters in Sultanganj police station limits, they said. Abducted UP girl rescued from MP Four months after she went missing, a 20-year-old girl from Uttar Pradesh's Kanpur has been found by police from Morena district in Madhya Pradesh. The girl told the police that she had been abducted by two persons, Jitendra Gupta and Pawan, in February. The two raped her and then pushed her into prostitution. First underground museum Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the country's first-ever underground 'Gallery of Revolutionaries', a museum dedicated to the luminaries of the Indian Independence Movement, created at the Maharashtra Raj Bhavan, on June 14. Moderate quake in Meghalaya A moderate quake, measuring 4 on the Richter scale, was recorded in Meghalaya's East Garo Hills and adjoining areas on Monday but no loss of life and damage to property has been reported so far. The National Centre for Seismology (NCS) reported that the tremors were also felt in adjoining areas of Assam and the tremor occurred at a depth of 10 km from the surface. Hari Chand dies at 69 Two-time Asian Games gold medallist in longdistance running, Hari Chand, passed away on Monday morning aged 69. The former athlete was reportedly undergoing treatment in Jalandhar. Hari Chand was the winner of gold medals in 5000m and 1000m events at the 1978 Bangkok Asian Games Online betting ads banned The Information and Broadcasting Ministry on Monday issued an advisory to print, electronic and digital media to refrain from advertising the online betting platforms. The ministry has also advised the online and social media, including the online advertisement intermediaries and publishers, to not display such ads in India or target the Indian audience. Equity investors became poorer by over Rs 5.47 lakh crore in early trade on Monday amid an extremely weak trend in the broader market with the Sensex plunging over 1,500 points. The 30-share BSE bench1,568.46 tanked mark points to 52,734.98 in early trade. The broader NSE Nifty slumped 451.9 points to 15,749.90. In line with weak trend in equities, the market capitalisation of BSE-listed firms eroded by Rs 5,47,410.81 crore to Rs 2,46,36,948.05 in crore morning trade. Nifty opened gap down as Blade attack main accused to be booked under NSA: Minister ROUGH ROAD FOR RUPEE Dropping for the third straight session, the rupee depreciated by 11 paise to close at a fresh lifetime low of 78.04 against the US dollar on Monday as a global market meltdown and stronger greenback overseas weighed on investor sentiment. The safe-haven dollar climbed as investors wagered on accelerated rate hikes by the Federal Reserve after US consumer inflation soared to a fourdecade high in May. Weak Asian currencies and persistent foreign capital outflows were the other major factors that dragged the rupee lower, forex traders said. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at 78.20 and witnessed an intra-day high of 78.02 and a low of 78.29 against the US dollar. equity markets across the globe are witnessing a selloff after US May inflation data accelerated to four decades high, which raised concerns about aggressive rate hikes by US Fed in the upcoming monetary policy meeting due this Wednes. day “On the domestic side, India’s inflation data is due on Monday on account of which nervousness is likely to be seen in the market,” said Hemang Jani, head of Equity Strategy Motilal Os, wal Financial Services. Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, IndusInd Bank, ICICI Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank and HDFC were among the major laggards from the Sensex pack. Elsewhere in Asia, markets in Seoul, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai were trading with deep cuts. Stock exchanges in the US ended sharply lower on . Friday Foreign institutional investors (FIIs) remained net sellers in the capital market, as they sold shares worth Rs 3,973.95 crore on Friday, as per exchange data. After media outcry and huge public resentment over the outrageous blade attack incident of Bhopal, the state government swung into action. Home minister Dr Narottam Mishra told media on Monday affirmed that the main accused in the case –Badshah Baig, would be booked under National Security Act. Free Press (digital) had on Sunday highlighted the fact that the main accused SIT FORMED TO FAST-TRACK CASE PIC: PINTU NAMDEO Kids in Indore were all cheery and smiles returning from summer vacations on Monday. After Covid19 outbreak and a long break from offline schools, primary children attended the school after almost three years in a proper offline class with full attendance. Missing their friends, school campus, teachers and fun, kids made the most of their first day after summer vacations. Many schools in the city organised special welcome for pre-primary children. Primary students were given the freedom to explore school campus and share their experiences. Colours, sparkles and smiles filled the campuses. For high school students, it was a day of treasuring their last memorable year in school. Most Class 12 students were reminiscing about the day and connecting with each other. 3 die due to food poisoning in Rewa, CM mourns OUR STAFF REPORTER Bhopal Three persons, including a 5-year-old child, died due to food poisoning in Rewa on . Monday Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, in his tweet, expressed grief on deaths of children. After Mandla district, it is now Rewa district where people have died due to food poisoning. The CM has wished speedy recovery of people undergoing treatment in the hospital. A 5-member team of the health department conducted door-to-door treatment by camping for a week. The patients were taken to SirSanjay Hospital, maur Gandhi Medical College, Rewa, hospital through ambulance. Rewa district collector Manoj Pushp said three deaths were reported from June 7-13. Two of them are over 75 years of age and one child is 5-year-old. We organised health check-up camp and conducted water testing so there is no water contamination. CONTD. ON P6 INDIA, PAK EXPANDING NUCLEAR ARSENAL: THINK TANK NEW DELHI India had 160 nuclear warheads as on January 2022 and it appears to be expanding its nuclear arsenal, Stockholm-based defence think tank SIPRI . claimed on Monday Similarly, Pakistan also appears to be expanding its nuclear arsenal, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a statement. "China is in the middle of a substantial expansion of its nuclear weapon arse- nal, which satellite images indicate includes the construction of over 300 new missile silos," SIPRI's statement noted. China had 350 nuclear warheads in January 2021 as well as January 2022, it stated. "Even though SIPRI's estimate of China's total inventory is the same as for Janu- ary 2021, the number of stockpiled warheads potentially available for use has new because changed launchers became operational during 2021," it noted. While India's nuclear stockpile increased from 156 in January 2021 to 160 in January 2022, Pakistan's nuclear stockpile has remained at 165 in January 2021 and January 2022, it claimed. "India and Pakistan appear to be expanding their nuclear arsenals, and both countries introduced and PROBABLY THE FIRST TIME IN THE FOSSIL HISTORY Rare dinosaur 'egg-in-egg' found in Bagh area NEW DELHI A team of researchers from Delhi University has discovered an 'egg-in-egg' dinosaur egg from Madhya Pradesh, which is probably the first time in the fossil , history a statement issued by it said. According to the researchers, the discovery is a "rare and important find" as no 'ovum-in-ovo' egg was found in reptiles until now. The findings have been published in the latest issue of the journal Scientific Reports. tiabnormal The tanosaurid dinosaur egg was discovered from Bagh 18 fresh C-cases in city, positivity rate jumps to 19.15% OUR STAFF REPORTER Indore Covid-19 cases have been showing a reverse trend for last few days as the cases are increasing. As many as 18 cases were found positive on Monday with the positivity rate of 19.15 percent. The surge in positivity rate is the result of low sampling as only 94 samples were tested on Monday. Highest positivity rate after January 26 as only 94 samples tested on Monday KIDS HAPPY TO BE BACK AT SCHOOL FP NEWS SERVICE Bhopal of the attack, Badshah Baig, is a hardened criminal with 32 cases against him lodged at nine police stations on the city Follow. ing a tiff over eveteasing with a woman on June 9, Baig assaulted the woman with a sharp blade inflicting a severe injury on her face. The woman received 118 stitches on her A Special Investigation Team led by the Director General of Police has been formed. CONTD. ON P6 34.30c. 23.50c REPRESENTATIVE PIC area in MP's Dhar district, and could provide important insights into whether dinosaurs had a reproductive biology similar to that of turtles and lizards, or crocodiles and birds, their immediate cousins, they said. The Upper Cretaceous Lameta Formation of central India has been long known for discovery of di- nosaur fossils (both skeletal and egg remains). The authors documented a large number of titanosaurid sauropod nests near Padlya village close to Bagh town. While studying these nests, the researchers came across one 'abnormal egg'. The research team found a sauropod dinosaur nest consisting of 10 eggs including the abnormal egg which had two continuous and circular eggshell layers separated by a wide gap reminiscent of ovumin-ovo (one egg inside another egg) pathology of birds, read the statement. CONTD. ON P6 Sunrise : 05.42 Sunset : 07.12 SUPERWOMAN SHILPA’S COMEBACK Pg-14 EQUITY INVESTORS lost over Rs 5.47 lakh cr in early trade on Monday FP BUREAU New Delhi WEATHER EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE SENSEX DIVES, INVESTOR WEALTH CRASHES WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN `3 QUALITY AT VALUE RNI No. 38281/83 Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; continued to develop new types of nuclear delivery system in 2021," it claimed. India does not share official data on its nuclear arsenal. "The availability of reliable information on the status of the nuclear arsenals and capabilities of the states nuclear-armed ...India varies considerably and Pakistan make statements about some of their missile tests but provide no information about the status or size of their arsenals," the SIPRI's statement said. CONTD. ON P6 Shakti Kapoor's son detained after drug raid at 5-Star BENGALURU: Actor Shakti Kapoor's son, Siddhanth, has been detained for allegedly taking drugs during a party at a Bengaluru ho. tel, the police said today Acting on a tip-off, police raided the party at the Park Hotel and sent samples of around 35 guests for medical tests. Five guests tested positive for drugs and Siddhanth Kapoor was one of them, officials said. Siddhanth Kapoor was in. vited as a DJ at the party Five more people have been . taken into custody "A total of five persons have been arrested including Siddhanth Kapoor after they tested positive for consuming drugs. CONTD. ON P6 REPRESENTATIVE PIC Such surge in positivity rate was seen during the peak of the third wave i.e. on January 26 when positivity rate was more than 20 percent. No death was reported on Monday with which total number of deaths remained 1463. of number Total positive patients reached 208210. With six more patients recovered total number of patients recovered from the disease reached As 206627. many as 120 active cases were in city till Monday . NATIONAL HERALD CASE AFTER OVER 10 HRS OF GRILLING, RAHUL TO BE QUIZZED AGAIN TODAY FP BUREAU New Delhi Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was questioned for over 10 hours by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money-laundering probe linked to the National Herald newspaper and was called to depose again on Tuesday, as his party protested across the country, alleging that the Centre was targeting the Opposition by misusing agencies. He left the ED office around 11.10 pm on Monday after questioning. Gandhi, who entered the headquarters of the federal agency in central Delhi around 11.10 am, was put to questioning about 20 minutes later after he finished some brief legal proceedings and marked his attendance. He was allowed by the ED to leave for lunch around 2:10 pm and he returned for the questioning around 3:30 pm, officials said. The probe pertains to alleged financial irregularities in the party-promoted Young Indian that owns the National Herald newspaper. Meanwhile, senior Congress leader and former Union minister P Chidambaram suffered a fracture in his left rib after he was pushed away by Delhi police during the party's protest in support of Rahul Gandhi, said the party on . Monday CONTD. ON P6 Rahul Gandhi along with Priyanka and Congress men walk to ED office in Delhi Pushed by cops, Venugopal collapses, PC fractures rib Congress leader P Chidambaram suffered a fracture in his left rib after he was pushed by the Delhi police during the party’s protest. Chidambaram tweeted, “When three big, burly policemen crash into you, you are lucky to get away with a suspected hairline crack. Doctors have said… It will heal by itself in about 10 days. I am fine and I will go about my work tomorrow.” His colleague, Randeep Surjewala, said another Congress leader, Pramod Tiwati, was thrown on the road and suffered a head injury. Congress general secretary (organisation) KC Venugopal collapsed in police custody after the arrest of a large number of party leaders for violation of the prohibitory orders. ‘PROTEST TO PROTECT GANDHIS' RS 2,000 CR ASSETS’ A mid road blockades by Congress workers around India Gate and police barricades to prevent their demonstrations here, Union Minister Smriti Irani claimed at a press conference at the BJP headquarters that they were not to protect democracy but protect the Gandhis' assets of Rs 2,000 amassed through corrupt practices. Man ends life by jumping into cousin's funeral pyre SAGAR An 18-year-old man allegedly ended his life by jumping into the funeral pyre of his cousin sister in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar district, . police said on Monday The incident took place on Friday evening in Majhguwa village under Baheria police station limits, they said, adding that the reason behind his extreme step was not yet known. The man's 21-year-old cousin went missing on Thursday evening after she left home to go to a farm to fetch some vegetables, Baheria police station incharge Divya Prakash Tripathi said. When she did not return, her family started a search. They suspected that she might have slipped into a well located at a farm in the village. Later, they spotted the woman's body in the well and informed police, the of- IPL Media Rights: Disney Star & Viacom 18 shine D ficial said. After getting inthe about formation woman's death, her cousin Karan (18), who lived in Dhar, located 430 km from here, travelled to Sagar on his motorcycle, he said. On Friday evening, during the woman's last rites, Karan allegedly jumped into the burning pyre, the official said. Some villagers pulled him away and rushed him to a hospital, but he died on , way to the medical facility the official said. The police have registered a case and are conducting an investigation into the incident, he added. isney Star won the coveted IPL Indian TV sub-continent rights for a whopping Rs 23,575 crore, while Viacom18 grabbed the digital rights with a bid of Rs 20,500 crore at the media . rights auction on Monday The BCCI is set to laugh its way to the bank after selling its IPL TV and digital rights for the Indian sub-continent for a combined amount of Rs 44,075 crore, making it one of the richest entities in the sporting world. “Star has retained Indian TV rights of IPL for next five years while Viacom18 has got the digital rights. The combined per match value only from Indian TV and digital rights per game is 107.5 crore. With these bids, monopoly of one broadcaster in IPL ends,” a senior BCCI functionary said on condition of . anonymity CONTD. ON P6 Prepare for full-scale war in future: Rajnath AGENCIES DEHRADUN Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Monday said India needs to remain prepared for a full-scale war in the future and called for better synergy between the armed forces and the civil administration. In an address at Mussoorie’s Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Singh also mentioned the fighting in Ukraine to stress that security challenges have become more complex now with cyber and proxy wars. He said India believes in peace and “waging war is not in our character”. But if it is provoked into a war, the country which attacks it will suffer because India does not fight on the strength of its weapons but on its morale, he said at the IAS academy’s 28th joint civil-military training programme. “Considering the machinations of our neighbours, especially one, as you know, India needs to keep itself ready for a full-scale war in the future. I am confident that through better coordination and synergy between the armed forces and the civil administration, we can enhance our future readiness for a fullscale war,” Singh said. He said the armed forces alone cannot deal with the security challenges in the times now. CONTD. ON P6