FREE PRESS FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms - VOL. XXXIX NO. 88 | INDORE | SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2022 | PAGES 16 WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN FOR 24X7 UPDATES Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; RNI No. 38281/83 EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE INDIA 2022 WILL TURN COUNTRY INTO A HOTSPOT: ASHALATA DEVI Pg-15 WORLD THOUSANDS LINE UP TO SAY FAREWELL TO GORBACHEV `4 QUALITY AT VALUE WEATHER 31.50c. 22.70c Sunrise : 06.10 Sunset : 06.42 CITY ON ROAD TO BECOMING A 'PROPER METRO' Malls & markets of BRTS are soon to be open 24x7 ORDERS are likely to be released in next 7 days, says collector BARS, however, will not fall under this & close at scheduled time OUR STAFF REPORTER city.indore@fpj.co.in The city is marching on the road towards becoming a proper metro city in the real sense, where malls and markets will be open 24x7. On the call of leaders of IT industries and start-ups, the malls and News Brief 4 Af kids playing with unexploded shell killed ISLAMABAD: Unexploded ordnance detonated Saturday in southern Afghanistan killing at least four children and injuring three others after the kids brought it inside their school, police and a doctor said. The incident in Helmand province happened when the children discovered an unexploded shell and brought it inside their religious school and started playing with it, according a statement from the provincial police chief's office. India's first night sky sanctuary in Ladakh in 3 months NEW DELHI : India's firstever "night sky sanctuary" will be set up in Ladakh within three months, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said on Saturday. The proposed Dark Sky Reserve will be located at Hanle as a part of Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary and will be one of the world's highest-located sites for optical, infra-red, and gamma-ray telescopes, Singh said. Gadkari unveils drone tech for organ transport CHENNAI : Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Saturday unveiled India's first prototype of drone transportation of human organs to facilitate quick organ transplant in hospitals. The use of drones in moving the harvested organs from the airport to the hospital, as against the present mode of transporting them by road from airport, will reduce considerable time. PG-7 Pilot threatens to crash plane into Walmart store in US WASHINGTON :A pilot, flying in circles for over an hour, has threatened to intentionally crash into a Walmart store in Tupelo, a city in the state of Mississippi in the US, as security officials evacuated the store, police said on Saturday. Tupelo Police Department said in a press release that the officials had "been able to begin talking with the pilot directly." Local police have started an evacuation of the Walmart and have asked residents not to go near the popular shopping store. LTC scam: 3-year jail term for ex-JD-U MP NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Saturday awarded a threeyear jail term to RJD MLA Anil Kumar Sahani for fraudulently claiming LTC reimbursements when he was a member of Rajya Sabha.Special Judge M K Nagpal also imposed a fine of Rs 3 lakh on the politician.The judge awarded a two-year jail term each to Sahani's associates N S Nair and Arvind Tiwari and imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 each. markets located along the 100metre stretch of the BRTS of the city, too, will be open 24x7 very soon. However, liquor shops and bars will close at the scheduled time. A longpending decision in this regard was taken at a meeting of public representatives, the mayor, IDA chairman, police commissioner and collector and IMC commissioner held at the . AICTSL office on Saturday CONTD. ON P8 THESE WON'T BE OPEN 24X7: All liquor shops, hotels with liquor licences and bars will close at their usual time. THESE WILL BE OPEN 24X7: Saloons, service stations, medical stores, food zones, restaurants without bars will be allowed to remain open. For this, an amendment has already been made to the Gumasta Law. Public transport will be open on the BRTS. DECISIONS MAY BE REVIEWED: Night activities and permissions will be periodically reviewed and the necessary corrections made. SECURITY TO BE PRIME ASPECT: Collector Singh said security of the public will be the prime aspect. The police will be specially deployed and women's safety will be taken care of. Installation of CCTV cameras in all the shops and malls will be made mandatory. Autos and taxis running at night will be GPS-tagged. Shoppers will have to register themselves at a portal. NOOSE TIGHTENS ON PAY GATEWAYS Premises of Razorpay, Paytm, Cashfree raided in Bengaluru `17-cr funds kept in merchant IDs and bank accounts seized FP BUREAUS Bengaluru/Mumbai Clamping down on Chinese instant loan apps known for their dubious extortion tactics, the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Saturday raided the Bengaluru premises of online payment gateways like Razorpay, Paytm and Cashfree. In the searches that started on Friday, the agency CHINESE LOAN APPS Q Modus operandi of Chinese entities involved using forged documents of Indians and making them dummy directors Q ED says addresses of the entities on the MCA website are fake Q ED had initiated a probe under the criminal sections of the PMLA Q Payment gateways in the crosshairs of the ED action since 2020 Q Case based on at least 18 FIRs filed by the Bengaluru police cyber crime station Q FIRs related to extortion and harassment of people availing small loans through apps also seized Rs 17-crore worth funds kept in “merchant IDs and bank accounts through which these entities were running their illegal business”. Razorpay and Cashfree responded saying they were cooperating with the ED, while Paytm declined to comment. These payment gateway firms have been in the crosshairs of the ED action since 2020 soon after the Covid-19 pandemic struck. TRANSFER OF TIS As per the agency, the case is based on at least 18 FIRs filed by the Bengaluru police cybercrime station against “numerous entities/ persons in connection with their involvement in extortion and harassment of the public who had availed small loans”. The modus operandi of these entities involved using forged documents of Indians and making them dummy directors leading to generation of “proceeds of crime”. The agency also said that these app firms don’t operate from the addresses given on the MCA (Ministry of corporate affairs) website/ registered address. The ED had initiated a probe under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) after a number of gullible of instances debtors ending their lives came to the fore from various states. CONTD. ON P8 India leaps past UK to become world's 5th largest economy Behind only US, China, Japan and Germany NEW DELHI India has overtaken the UK to become the world's fifthlargest economy and is now behind only the US, China, Japan and Germany, according to IMF projections. A decade back, India was ranked 11th among the large economies while the UK was at the fifth position. With record beating expansion in the April-June quarter, the Indian economy has now overtaken the UK, which has slipped to the sixth spot. The assumption of India overtaking the UK is based on calculations by Bloomberg using the IMF database and historic exchange rates on its terminal. "On an adjusted basis and using the dollar exchange rate on the last day of the relevant Set to become third largest economy by 2029: SBI report MUMBAI: India is expected to become world's third largest economy by 2029 due to the path taken by the country since 2014, SBI Ecowrap report said. The share of India's GDP is now at 3.5 per cent, as against 2.6 per cent in 2014 and is likely to cross 4 per cent in . 2027, the current share of Germany in global GDP India has undergone a large structural shift since 2014 and is now the 5th largest economy. "The path taken by India since 2014 reveals India is likely to get the tag of 3rd largest economy in 2029, a movement of 7 places upwards since 2014 when India was ranked 10th. India should surpass Germany in 2027 and most likely Japan by 2029 at the current rate of growth," the report said. "In coming days India is likely to be the beneficiary as China slows down in terms of new investment intentions," the report added. quarter, the size of the Indian economy in 'nominal' cash terms in the quarter through March was USD 854.7 billion. On the same basis, the UK was USD 816 billion," stated a Bloomberg report. With India being the world's fastest growing major economy, its lead over the UK will widen in the next few years. CONTD. ON P8 Sisodia writes to collector In a first, CM to impart training to newly appointed teachers today MORE THAN to initiate action against SP teachers will15,000 attend LETTER CAUSES flutter in govt, CM speaks to minister OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in In an unusual development, Minister for Rural Development and Panchayat Mahendra Singh Sisodia wrote a letter Shivpuri collector to initiate action against Superintendent of Police Rajesh Singh Chandel for transferring police inspectors without his approval. Letter of Sisodia, who is also district in-charge minister of Shivpuri, caused a flutter in the government more because he marked copy of the letter to Union Jyotiraditya minister Scindia besides additional secretary (ACS), chief Home Rajesh Rajora. Sisodia's letter (dated August 29, 2022) addressed to Shivpuri collector Akshay Kumar Singh, which surfaced on Saturday reads, "Superintendent of police has posted police stations in-charge without his (Sisodia's) approval which is not only against the rules but also it indicates his arbipower of use trary (Swechchhacharita). training programme OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Hence, you initiate action against him and inform this (Sisodia's) office." Sisodia didn't stop here. Talking to media persons on Saturday, he attacked Iqbal Secretary Chief Singh Bains for uncontrolled bureaucracy in the state. Opposition Congress was prompt to grab the opportunity to attack the BJP government. State Congress media coordinator Narendra Saluja said, "Minister's charges are serious in nature. The state government and the BJP must make its stand clear and tell people why bureaucracy is uncontrolled in the state." As per officials, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan spoke to the minister on Saturday and advised him to exercise restraint in his statements. Later, the minister's tone was changed. Talking to media persons he said the issue was resolved and he had nothing against bu. reaucracy to say In a first Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will impart training to newly appointed teachers here at Dussehra Maidan, BHEL at 12:30 pm on Sunday, as per official statement. A pandal has been erected for the programme with hoardings at the venue. Tribal affairs minister Meena Singh Mandve and minister of state (independent charge) for School Education Inder Singh Parmar will be present during the programme besides the officials of school education and tribal welfare departments. The Chief minister will also release a departmental training policy and guide teachers and others for maintenance of departmental assets. Fuel leak ruins NASA's 2nd shot at launching moon rocket CAPE CANAVERAL: Fuel leak ruins NASA''s 2nd shot at launching moon rocket Cape Canaveral NASA's new moon rocket sprang another dangerous fuel leak Satur, day forcing launch controllers to call off their second attempt to send a crew capsule into lunar orbit with test dummies. The first attempt earlier in the week was also marred by escaping hydrogen, but those leaks were elsewhere on the 322-foot (98-meter) rocket, the most powerful ever built by NASA. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said repair work could bump the launch into October. Mission managers planned to meet later in the day to decide on a course of action. , After Tuesday a two-week launch blackout period kicks in. Extensive leak inspections and repairs, meanwhile, could require that the rocket be hauled off the pad and back into the hangar; that would push the flight into October, Nelson said. Smriti countered in Delhi HC on Goa bar NEW DELHI Countering the defamation suit filed by Union Minister Smriti Irani denying any connection with a controversial bar in Goa, 3 Cong leaders filed their response with at least 3 instances of she and her family claiming connection with the bar, asserting that they cannot turn around now.Jairam Ramesh, Pawan Khera and Netta D'Souza told Delhi High court that questions the raised by them on the disputed bar have a clear basis and the Irani family has repeatedly made assertions about their connections with the restaurant-cum-bar and in fact Smriti felt proud of her college-going daughter running it. In their affidavit, said at least three docu- mented instances and endorsements by the family are conspicuously absent from Irani's submission. They asserted that Irani cannot evade or escape questions and cannot claim a blanket immunity regarding probity in her personal dealings. They told the High Court that its order to remove social media posts against Smriti Irani and her daughter were obtained on the basis of "suppression and egregious misrepresentations." Their affidavit said Itani's Lok Sabha affidavit in 2019 and the documents obtained ftrom public filing with the Ministry of Corporation Affairs, it is clear that there is a clear and warranted basis to the questions they asked. CONTD. ON P8 As per department officials, more than 15,000 teachers will attend the training programme. CM Chouhan will attend the programme as the chief guest. During the programme, TG Niyogi will deliver a lecture on "New Education Policy in the context of teachers", Dr SB Ojha on "school attiquette" and KK Parashar on the topic of "Evaluation". Teachers and district education officers started reaching the state capital on Saturday itself. The arrangements for food and stay have been made by the department of education. BJP can be bundled out for 50 LS seats: JD-U PATNA: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar Saturday asserted that a united opposition, which he is working on, will trounce the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha poll and "bundle it out for about 50 seats". Kumar made the averment here while addressing a meeting of the state executive of his JD(U), which was followed shortly afterwards by the national executive.According to a party release, the chief minister squarely blamed JD(U)'s drubbing in the 2020 assembly polls on "BJP's conspiracy" and also recalled his own reluctance to continue for another term in office. , Notably the assembly poll results sowed seeds of distrust and the crisis of confidence deepened with the perception that the former JD(U) president RCP Singh had become a mole of the . BJP Kumar, faced with the possibility of a split in the party allegedly with help of , RCP as Singh is known as, had pulled the plug on the alliance with BJP in August and formed a new government with the RJDCongress combine. It has the support of the Left from outside. "If all (opposition) parties fight together, the BJP will be bundled out for about 50 seats. I am devoting myself to that drive (abhiyan)", said the JD(U) de facto chief. He will reach Delhi on Monday on a three-day tour as part of his political endeavors. "The BJP will try to disturb social and communal harmony in the state. We must foil their designs by keeping vigil to the level of panchayats," Kumar added. Five JD(U) MLAs join BJP BJP has delivered a big jolt to the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) in the northeast as five out of seven MLAs from . Manipur have joined hands with BJP Earlier bulk of the JDU MLAs joined the BJP in Arunachal Pradesh giving nightmare to Nitish Kumar's party.Five JDU MLAs merged with the ruling party BJP on Friday, according to a statement from Manipur Legislative Assembly Secretariat. Teesta walks out of jail AHMEDABAD Activist Teesta Setalvad on Saturday walked out of jail, a day after the Supreme Court granted her interim bail in a case of allegedly fabricating evidence to frame innocent people in connection with the 2002 Gujarat riots. Setalvad, arrested on June 26, was released from the Sabarmati Central Jail here. As per the Supreme Court's order, she was produced before sessions judge V A Rana for bail formalities. The sessions court asked her to furnish a personal bond of Rs 25,000 and not to leave India without its perspecial public mission, prosecutor Amit Patel said. In its Friday order, the apex court had said Setalvad shall be produced before the lower court which will release her on interim bail subject to such conditions as it may deem fit. CONTD. ON P8