FREE PRESS - VOL. 12 NO. 50 | BHOPAL | WEDNESDAY | AUGUST 3, 2022 | PAGES 16 WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE EDIT TRIUMPH OF TECHNOLOGY SEES ZAWAHIRI’S END FOR 24X7 UPDATES Indore's Advait Page in 1500m freestyle final Indore’s Advait Page has qualified for the final of men's 1500m freestyle at the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday.Page clocked 15:39.25s in heat 1. Iranian couple detained in MP Madhya Pradesh police has detained a couple from Iran following a spat with a shopkeeper in the state's Vidisha district, officials said on Tuesday. Additional Superintendent of Police Sameer Yadav said that the couple arrived in India on a month-long tourist visa on June 26 and seemed to have overstayed in the country. Nationwide Cong protest on Friday The Congress has given a call to mobilise the party workers and people on August 5, Friday, for a nationwide protest against the rising prices and unemployment. AICC general Secretary (Organisation) K C Venugopal held a preparatory meeting at the AICC headquarters on organising the protest. Nine HC judges appointed President Droupadi Murmu on Tuesday appointed nine judges of the High Courts, three judges and four additional judges of the Andhra Pradesh High Court and two lawyers as the additional judges of the Allahabad High Court. They are all promoted from the judicial services. Woman hurls shoes at Partha A woman from West Bengal's Amtala area on Tuesday made an attempt to throw her shoes at suspended Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee when the latter was being escorted out of a hospital in Kolkata by Enforcement Directorate officials. However, the footwear flung by the woman missed Chatterjee. Pak Army Lt Gen among 6 killed A top Pakistani army general and five senior military officials were killed when their helicopter crashed while on a flood relief operation in troubled Balochistan province, the army said on Tuesday. The six individuals on board included the Commander XII Corps Lt Gen Sarfraz Ali, who was supervising the flood relief operations in Balochistan province which has been badly hit by the torrential rains. 50 sick after gas leak At least 50 workers fell ill today after a gas leak at an apparel manufacturing unit in the Brandix Special Economic Zone in Andhra Pradesh's Anakapalle district. The workers complained of nausea and vomiting after the gas leak. The workers were administered first aid in the medical centre at the SEZ and later shifted to nearby hospitals. Lovely Choubey, Pinki, Nayanmoni Saikia and Rupa Rani Tirkey pose for photos during a presentation ceremony after winning the Lawn Bowls Women’s Fours final match against South Africa, at the Commonwealth Games 2022, in Birmingham, UK, on Tuesday. ED raids National Herald office I-T dept detects Rs 1,000-cr black MEN'S TABLE TENNIS TEAM WINS GOLD MEDAL OUR BUREAU New Delhi Days after recording Congress president Sonia Gandhi and leader Rahul Gandhi's statements in connection with the National Herald case, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday carried out search operations at Herald House, the newspaper's headquarters in the national capital. The case came under spotlight in 2013 on BJP MP Dr Subramanian Swamy filing a complaint on illegal takeover the assets of the Associated Journals Ltd owning the newspaper by Young Indian Limited, a company floated by Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Motilal Vora and Oscar Fernandes. The probe began on the Income Tax Department took note of the complaint. Sonia and Rahul Gandhi's questioning by the ED did not go down well with the Congress and its workers with several party leaders protesting against the alleged misuse of central agencies, including the ED. Congress leaders across the income in raids on Gujarat group nation held protest marches and to protest against the ED's questioning of Rahul Gandhi, and later of party chief Sonia Gandhi, in the National Herald newspaper-linked money laundering case. The National Herald newspaper was founded by Jawaharlal Nehru and other freedom fighters in 1938. It was published by the AJL, which was also started by Nehru. The AJL had over 5,000 freedom fighters as its shareholders. According to media reports, it was an unlisted public company that began with a capital of Rs 5 lakh. NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department has unearthed "unaccounted" income of more than Rs 1,000 crore after it raided a Gujarat-based business conglomerate last month, the CBDT said Tuesday. naccounted cash of Rs 24 crore and unexplained jewellery, bullion etc. valued at Rs 20 crore have been seized so far," it said in a statement. The searches were launched on July 20 and the agency covered 58 premises in Kheda, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Kolkata. The "prominent" business conglomerate is engaged in diversified fields of textiles, chemicals, packaging, real estate and education, the CBDT said without identifying the group. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) is the administrative authority for the tax department. Documents and digital data seized during the raids show that the group has been engaged in "large-scale" tax evasion by adopting various methods, including by way of "unaccounted' cash sales outside the books of account, booking of bogus purchases and cash receipts from real estate transactions, it said. CABINET APPROVES EDU DEPT'S NEW TRANSFER POLICY New teachers will have to work for at least 3 yrs in rural areas TEACHER POSTED in urban areas for 10 years will be shifted to rural areas OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in A newly-recruited teacher of the school education department will have to work in rural schools for at least three years. A teacher will have to spend at least 10 years of his entire career in rural areas. This is a part of the new transfer policy of the school education department approved by the state Cabinet on Tuesday given the needs arising out of the special circumstances of the School Education department. The Cabinet had met at OTHER FEATURES Teachers who have three years to retire or are suffering from serious illness or disability to be exempted from transfer Teachers not to be posted in the personal staff of elected public representatives There will be no voluntary transfer to Excellence Schools, Model Schools and CM Rise Schools Voluntary transfer applications for the posts of principal/assistant director or posts senior to them will be accepted online The transfer of first-class officers will be done in coordination with the approval of the Chief Minister Mantralaya under the chairmanship by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. Briefing journalists about the new transfer policy, state government spokesperson Home minister Narottam Mishra said that the new transfer policy would be effective from session 2023-24. CONTD. ON P6 Shah tells Adhikari CAA rollout after booster dose exercise NEW DELHI BJP leader from West BenAdhikari Suvendu gal Union urged Tuesday Home Minister Amit Shah to implement the citizenship law CAA at the earliest, with the latter assuring him that rules regarding it will be framed after the Covid precaution dose vaccination exercise is over. The framing of rules for the Citizenship (Amendment) Act will pave the way for its implementation. Passed by Parliament in December 2019, the Act is yet to be rolled out due to the absence of rules. The government has cited the outbreak of pandemic for not framing them so far. CONTD. ON P6 Man accused of supplying arms to Khalistanis held in Burhanpur FP NEWS SERVICE Burhanpur Burhanpur police nabbed one Sikligar from Khargone district suspecting that he supplies illegal arms to the Khalistan Movement. According to information, the arrested has been identified as Asan Singh Bhond, a resident of Satipura village of Khar- gone district. During interrogation, it has been revealed that the accused used to smuggle countrymade pistols made in Pachori village of Burhanpur to Khalistan supporters. Earlier, on January 7, the Shikarpura police team here in Burhanpur had arrested two arms peddlers with 21 country-made pistols. During this, Asan Singh and Nihang alias Narendra, a resident of Pachori village, Burhanpur had managed to escape through the forest. Later, Nihang was also arrested by the police. On the basis of informa- WEATHER 28.60c. 22.40c US KILLS QAEDA CHIEF ZAWAHIRI Sunrise : 05.49 Sunset : 07.08 SURPRISE, SURPRISE! Pg-14 WOMEN POWER: HISTORIC GOLD IN LAWN BOWLS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CWG News Brief `3 QUALITY AT VALUE RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 tion received from the in, former on Sunday the police also arrested Asan Singh on July 31. Superintendent of police Rahul Lodha said that now it is being ascertained how many weapons he has smuggled so far. SP Lodha added that they had received information in January about suspected connections of Asan Singh, with the "Khalistani movement." CONTD. ON P6 AFTER SEEKING HIM for years, agents traced him to Kabul this year AGENCIES American intelligence located reclusive al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in year this earlier he after Afghanistan moved from a hideout in Pakistan to a Taliban-supported safe house in a posh locality in downtown Kabul. US President Joe Biden announced on Monday that Zawahiri, who had assumed the leadership of alfounder after Qaeda Osama bin Laden was eliminated in 2011, was killed in a CIA drone strike on Saturday at a house where he had reunited . with his family “Justice has been delivered and this terrorist is no more,” Biden declared. The 71-year-old Egyptian surgeon, who had a $25 million bounty on his head, was Laden’s secondin-command when the September 11, 2001, attacks took place. He remained a visible international symbol of the terror group 11 years after the US Navy SEALs killed Laden in a raid on his hideout Abbottabad, Pakistan, on May 2, 2011. After relentlessly seek- Smoke rises from a house following a US drone strike in the Sherpur area of Kabul. US President Joe Biden announced on Monday that Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri (inset) had been killed by a drone strike in the Afghan capital THE HELLFIRE MISSILES The US drone strike points to the use of secret Hellfire missiles by the CIA as there was no explosion. Widely-known Hellfire missiles are specially designed, secret missiles used to conduct pinpoint airstrikes that kill terrorist leaders with no explosion, drastically reducing damage and minimising the chances of civilian casualties. A Hellfire missile, which is a little more than five feet long and weighs just over 100 pounds (over 45 kg), typically leaves behind mangled, burned-out shells of vehicles, surrounded by debris and scorch marks over a large radius. ing Zawahiri for years, US intelligence agents finally located him earlier this year. The officers determined earlier this year that Zawahiri had moved from Pakistan to a safe house in Kabul. His wife and children relocated there first. US intelligence agents monitored them and found out when Zawahiri joined them, NBC News reported. Once Zawahiri arrived at the safe house, he never left, according to a senior official administration who briefed reporters on . Monday CONTD. ON P6 NEW LIFE HOSPITAL FIRE TRAGEDY FIR against 5 for culpable homicide MANAGER HELD, four directors on run: Police OUR STAFF REPORTER BHOPAL/JABALPUR New Life Multi-Speciality Hospital manager Ram Soni was arrested on Tuesday, while four partners of the hospital - Dr Nishit Gupta, Dr Suresh Patel, Dr Sanjay Patel and Dr Santosh Soni - were on the run, said the police. The police booked five people, including four partners and the manager on Tuesday, a day after eight people were killed and five others injured in a fire that broke out in the hospital. The police have registered an FIR under sections 304(A), 308, 34 of the IPC with the Vijay Nagar police station based on the statements of eyewitnesses Atul Jain and injured De- Hospital's fire NOC had expired Preliminary probe has identified several shortcomings. The fire No Objection Certificate (NOC) had expired, said home minister Narottam Mishra said on Tuesday. "Prima facie, several shortcomings were found regarding fire safety in the hospital. Fire NOC had expired. Probe panel headed by divisional commissioner that includes joint directors of health and town and country planning, and engineers, would file a report on various issues including fire safety and health," said Mishra. CONTD. ON P6 vlal Varkade and Halki Bai. The hospital too had been sealed. CONTD. ON P6 CMHO, fire safety officer suspended OUR STAFF REPORTER City.bhopal@fpj.co.in Jabalpur Chief Medical and health officer (CMHO) Dr Ratnesh Kuraria and Jabalpur Municipal Corporation fire safety officer Kushagra Thakur have been suspended on the ground of dereliction in duty in connection of fire tragedy of New Life Collector issues list of 51 hospitals urging people not to go for treatment Multi-Speciality Hospital, Jabalpur, on Monday, according to government officials. The suspension came after chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s instructions to authorities concerned. Regional Director (health) Dr Sanjay Mishra has been given additional charge of CMHO. CONTD. ON P6 DEFYING DRAGON WARNING, PELOSI ARRIVES IN TAIWAN AGENCIES Taipei US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived in Taiwan on Tuesday night despite threats from Beijing of serious consequences, becoming the highest-ranking American official in 25 years to visit the self-ruled island claimed by China. Pelosi's visit has triggered increased tension between China and the United States. China claims Taiwan as part of its terri- , tory to be annexed by force , if necessary and views visits by foreign government officials as recognition of . the island's sovereignty China had warned of "resolute and strong measures" if Pelosi went ahead with the trip. Shortly after Pelosi's arrival, China's official Xinhua News Agency said its military will conduct live-fire drills from Thursday to Sunday in multiple locations in waters surrounding Taiwan. CONTD. ON P6 Visit will have 'severe impact' on ties: China BEIJING: China on Tuesday warned that US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan disregarding its stern warnings will have a "severe impact" on bilateral ties and her move "gravely undermines" regional peace and stability, as the official media here reported air and ground movement of troops in the Taiwan Straits. JUDOKA VIJAY YADAV FROM SAI-BHOPAL WINS BRONZE MEDAL AT CWG-2022 Banks wrote off Rs 10 lakh ‘If I could, I would change colour of my medal to gold’ crore loans in 2018-22 FP BUSINESS BUREAU Even as the Ministry of Finance and the RBI kept a close watch and issued strict risk advisories on non-performing assets and bad loans, Indian banks have written off loans worth Rs 10 lakh crore in the last five years. The data on this whopping bad loan Rs includes write-off 1,57,096 crore during 202122. The total number of wilful defaulters during this period stood at 10,306. The Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said in a written reply in Rajya Sabha on Tuesday that bank loans to the tune of Rs 9,91,640 crore have been written off in the last five years – 2017-18 to 202122. The trend, however, shows that the risk advisories have at least helped reduce the size of bad loans and the number of wilful defaulters over the years. During 2021-22, the writeoff amount came down to Rs 1,57,096 crore compared to Rs 2,02,781 crore in the previous year, the Minister informed the Parliament. CONTD. ON P6 'WOULD HAVE BEEN IN TOP FOUR OR FIVE IN OLYMPICS IF MANAGED PROPERLY' V ijay Kumar Yadav, who won a bronze medal in judo in Common Wealth Games (CWG)-2022 on Monday, said, "I wish I can change the colour of the medal to gold." Yadav, associated with SAI- Bhopal, had won bronze medals in the past in different tournaments. Hence, he was not excited about winning bronze again, this time in CWG. Talking to Free Press over the phone, Vijay said, "To be honest, I wanted to win gold this time, having won bronze medal twice Judo Coach of SAI Yashpal Solanki told the Free Press, "I have known Vijay since 2013. I identified his talent. Vijay is extremely hardworking and committed, and was in top 20 athletes at one point. If he was managed properly at that time, I am sure he would have been in the top five athletes by now." Vijay emailed the Judo Federation of India many times. He even said that he'd bear his earlier, but I couldn't. However, I will surely rectify my mistakes in my next championship." expenses. He was qualified, but wasn't given a chance to play in the Olympics, Solanki added. Yashpal mentioned that government and federation should support the players more. He said that despite representing India in many international tournaments, Vijay doesn't have a job. "Vijay called me yesterday and cried, he said that he is not satisfied with his bronze medal," Yashpal said. When asked if he would like to say something about winning bronze again, Vijay said he wished he could have changed the colour of the medal. CONTRIBUTED BY MINAL TOMAR CONTD. ON P6