QUALITY AT VALUE VOL. XXXIX NO. 175 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | NOVEMBER 30, 2022 | PAGES 16 RNI No. 38281/83 Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; FREE PRESS - EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE KEEP FILM FESTIVALS ABOVE REPROACH FOR 24X7 UPDATES WEATHER 29.00c. 12.50c Sunrise : 06.49 Sunset : 05.41 EDIT WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN `3 CELEBRATING LIFE Pg-16 No legal compulsion to get Covid jab, Centre tells SC OUR BUREAU NEW DELHI News Brief AIIMS-Delhi restores key data NEW DELHI : As the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Delhi servers remained out of order for the seventh consecutive day, the institute on Tuesday announced that the eHospital data has been restored, adding that measures will be taken to avert future cyber attacks. "The eHospital data has been restored on the servers. The network is being sanitized before the services can be restored. The process is taking some time due to the volume of data and a large number of servers/computers for the hospital services. Measures are being taken for cyber security," the statement said. Rahul offers prayers at Mahakal temple UJJAIN: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday performed puja with rituals at the famous Mahakal temple of Lord Shiva in Ujjain after the Bharat Jodo Yatra led by him entered the holy city. Centre appoints 2 addl judges of Bombay HC NEW DELHI: The Centre on Tuesday notified the appointment of two lawyers as the additional judges of the Bombay High Court.They are : Santhosh Govindrao Chapalgaonkar and Milind Manohar Sathaye. The Collegium recommended their names for elevation on September 12. Law minister Rijiju tweeted their names, saying "my best wishes to them." Guj 1st phase polls: Campaigning ends AHMEDABAD : Campaigning for the first phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections to be held on December 1 ended at 5 pm on Tuesday. As many as 788 candidates are in the fray for 89 seats across 19 districts of south Gujarat and Kutch-Saurashtra regions where voting will be held on Thursday. The Centre has clarified to the Supreme Court that there is no legal binding to get the vaccination for Covid-19. In an affidavit, it said the concept of informed consent is inapplicable to the voluntary use of a drug such as a vaccine. "While the government of India strongly encouarages all eligible persons to undertake vaccination in public interest, there is no legal compulsion for the same," the affidavit clarified. The Centre's response came to a petition filed by two parents whose daughters allegedly passed away due to the side effects of the Covid vaccine. "If a person suffers physical injury or death from adverse events following immunization, appropriate remedies in law are open to the , vaccine beneficiary or their family including approaching civil court for a claim of damages/compensation for negligence, malfeasance or misfeasance," affidavit said. Such claims may be decided on a case-by-case basis in an appropriae forum," said he Cenre, submitting taht "there is no material evidence to suggest how the State can be fastened with strict liability for the tragic death of the respective children of the petitioners which is the requirement in law to sustain a claim for compensation against the State under Article 32 of the Constituion." The Centre has opposed the petition seeking compensation from the respondents on the death of their respective children. It said the causation analysis revealed that the death of the daughter of the first petitioner was from a vaccine product-related reaction while in the second dase, there is insufficient evidence to arrive at a definitive conclusion. The affidavit also rejected the prayers for an independent reveiw of the AEFI cases since it would plant a seed of doubt in the existing regulatory and AEFI monitoring mechanism and harm the public interest, urging the court to dismiss the plea. 17 rifles of forest staffers looted in Burhanpur dist 15 to 20 miscreants ransacked place Two police parties formed to track down the accused and recover weapons AGENCIES Burhanpur partment staffers had kept there, the official said. Two police parties have been formed to track down the accused and recover the stolen weapons, said the SP, who visited the post. According to officials, teams from the forest department and police were conducting a drive to remove encroachments and check illegal cutting of trees in the area since the last few days. Unidentified persons looted 17 rifles from a post set up by the forest department in Madhya Pradesh's Burhanpur district, an official said on Tuesday . The incident occurred at Bakdi post under Navra forest area of Nepanagar tehsil around 9.30 pm on Monday Superintendent of , Police (SP) Rahul Kumar Lodha said. A daily-wage employee was on duty at the post when 15 to 20 people arrived there and ransacked the place, he said. The miscreants looted 17 rifles that the forest de- SC's SHIV SENA HEARING ON DECEMBER 12 Suspense over chief secretary continues, Bains retires today OUR BUREAU/ NEW DELHI Constitution 5-judge A Bench, headed by Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud, on Tuesday fixed a hearing on December 12 on a batch of petitions to decide which faction between Uddhav Thackeray and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde be recognised as the "real" Shiv Sena and for allotment of the bow and arrow symbol. It also gave time up to December 9 to both sides to submit their written submissions. The Election also had Commission sought the written papers from both sides up to December 9.Besides the CJI, the bench comprises Justices M R Shah, Krishna Murari, Hima Kohli and P S Narasimha. DISCUSSIONS OVER HIS EXTENSION GO ON IN THE CORRIDORS OF POWER about Bains's extension depend after the CM's return. Anurag Jain, who is in Delhi, is also coming to Bhopal in January to asOUR STAFF REPORTER sess the 'Gaati Shakti Bhopal Scheme' of the Central Government. Chief Secretary There are speculaIqbal Singh Bains tions that Jain may is retiring on become the chief Wednesday but sussecretary Against . pense over who this backdrop, the will succeed him chances of Bains continues. getting extension There were also look bright. Iqbal Singh Bains speculations about The name of addiextension of services of tional chief secretary Bains. But it is not yet clear (health) Mohd Suleman is whether he will get extenalso doing the rounds for sion or a new chief secrethe top job in the bureautary will be appointed. cracy . Chief Minister Shivraj Nevertheless, it is the Singh Chouhan was in DelChief Minister who will hi to campaign for his partake a decision on the isty for the MCD polls. sue, but he has yet to give Therefore, speculations any indication about it. HOLLAND BEAT QATAR, IN LAST 16 Jong of the Netherlands scores his sides second goal during the World Cup group A soccer match against Qatar at the Al Bayt Stadium in Al Khor , Qatar, on Tuesday Retail digital rupee pilot in four cities on Dec 1 MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank will launch the first pilot for retail digital rupee (e?-R) in Mumbai, New Delhi, Bengaluru and Bhubaneswar on December 1, and later expand it to nine more cities in the initial phase. This follows a month after the RBI had started a pilot in the digital rupee - wholesale segment on November 1. The RBI announces the launch of the first pilot for retail digital rupee (e?-R) on December 1, 2022, the central bank said in a statement on . Tuesday The first phase of retail digital rupee will begin with four banks -- State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, Yes Bank and IDFC First Bank in four cities across the coun, try it said. CONTD. ON P6 Netizens turn to social media to defy Beijing AGENCIES / BEIJING Protesters in China opposing the Xi Jinping regime’s zero-Covid policy are using blocked dating apps and social media platforms to evade censors and share information with each other. Netizens are saving videos, images and accounts of protests on platforms abroad before official censors can delete them, according to the Reuters . news agency Many rely on virtual private networks (VPNs), which are banned, to get past China’s Great Firewall and on to encrypted messaging apps. For three days starting Nov 25, protesters gathered in several cities across the country in a show of civil disobedience unprecedented since President Xi assumed power a decade ago. Frustration with the policy had been building, but the spark for the protests was an apartment building fire in Urumqi that claimed 10 lives. Authorities denied accusations on social media that a lockdown had prevented people from escaping the blaze. However, that did not stop people in Urumqi from taking out protests. Videos of the protests were posted on the apps Weibo and Douyin, and censors tried to scrub them from the plat. form quickly CONTD. ON P6 ADDING MORE JUDGES NO ANSWER, SC DISMISSES PIL NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed as withdrawn a PIL filed by BJP lawyer Ashwini Upadhyay to double the number of judges in High Courts and trial courts. A Bench of CJI DY Chandrachud and Justice PS Narasimha said such "popular measures" and "simplistic solutions" won't solve the problems. The CJ said: ""These are all populist measure. It's difficult to fill the 160 seats in the Allahabad High Court and you're asking for 320? Have you been to Bombay High Court? Not even a single judge can be added there because there is no CONTD. ON P6 infrastructure. Air India, Vistara to merge by Mar 2024 NEW DELHI :In a major consolidation in the Indian aviation space, Tata group on Tuesday announced the merger of Vistara with Air India, and pursuant to the deal, Singapore Airlines will have a 25.1 per cent stake in Air India. The proposed deal is expected to be complete by March 2024, subject to regulatory approvals. Tata group owns a 51 per cent stake in Vistara and the rest is with Singapore Airlines (SIA). In a release, SIA said Vistara and Air India would be merged, and it would also be investing Rs 2,058.5 crore in Air India as part of the transaction. "This would give SIA a 25.1 per cent stake in an enlarged Air India group with a significant presence in all key market segments. CONTD. ON P6 COMMUNISM, FAKE SOCIALISM DAMAGED OUR ECONOMY: SITHARAMAN 'Govt saved Rs 2L cr by using technology' SHE PRAISED CM for providing loans for MSME sector OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said that the Centre has saved Rs 2 lakh crore by using technology as systems like Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) stopped leakages. The FM was speaking at a lecture series on `Economic Potential of Bharat in Global Scenario of the 21st Century', organised in the state capital by the Dattopant Thengadi Research Institute on Tuesday . “Due to the use of technology, our govt has saved Rs 2 lakh crore. The money Finance Minister Sitharaman with CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan under DBT is reaching directly into an Aadhar-verified account with no possibility of fraud,” she said. During the Congress rule, money used to go into the accounts of the dead, non-existent persons, she said. In her address, she praised Shivraj Singh Chouhan saying he's the 'most popular CM'. The finance minister, in her speech, also highlighted the failures of the 'Communism and Socialism' and blamed the then Union government for lack of proper planning. CONTD. ON P6