FREE PRESS - VOL. XXXIX NO. 224 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | JANUARY 18, 2023 | PAGES 14 WWW.FREEPRESSJOURNAL.IN Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; RNI No. 38281/83 EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE EDIT SURIYA, THE RULING STAR Pg-12 TRANSPARENCY IS JUST A RUSE FOR 24X7 UPDATES INDIAN STUDENTS PREFER USA FOR HIGHER EDU LACK OF specialised courses, quality colleges, and excessive competition are root causes NO OF STUDENTS ACADEMIC YEAR TINA KHATRI Indore 2,00,000 1,67,582 Institute of International Education. asked the We 2021-22 school principals, 2020-21 leaving students the country and dents chose to study in the some parents about the US for undergraduate rise in number of students courses in the 2021-22 acaleaving India for higher eddemic year. The number ucation. rose by 32,418. This shows Dean of International Afan increase of 19 per cent fairs at an international over the previous year's school Nisha Ahmad said, 1,67,582. This was found in "For institutes like IITs, a survey by the US-based the intake is very low. In The number of students going to study in the United States from India jumped by 19 per cent this year, as competition for entry into good engineering and medical colleges has become tougher. Also, there is a lack of advanced courses for commerce and arts streams. About 2,00,000 Indian stu- 1 NATION, 1 DATA PLATFORM FROM FEB ALL INDIA COUNCIL FOR TECHNICAL EDUCATION CHAIRMAN TG SITHARAM ANNOUNCES... OUR STAFF REPORTER city.indore@fpj.co.in All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) chairman TG Sitharam here on Tuesday said that one nation, one data (ONOD) platform for technical institutions will be launched in February . "By February end, we are going to launch ONOD platform to check duplicity of data and bring about transparency technical education," he told reporters on the sidelines of National Summit of Institutional . Leaders (NSIL) at DAVV Sitharam stated that ONOD is an online platform wherein all the technical institutions can upload their data on students, faculty, infrastructure, All India Council for Technical Education chairman TG Sitharam AICTE to get 1cr paid internships for students Regarding internship portal of AICTE, Sitharam said that they were planning one crore paid internships for students within a period of one to two years. "More than 55,000 companies are lining up to take students on paid internships. Lakhs of students have already got paid internships," he said. Students interested in an internship are required to register on the portal, as do the industries that want to hire the students. APPROVAL SANS INSPECTION AICTE said that it would soon start giving recognition to MBA and other technical courses without conducting a pre-recognition inspection at the institutions. "We will ask the institutes to make selfdeclaration about their standards and grant recognition based on it. But if we receive any complaint, we will send a team for inspection to the college concerned," he added. MBA TO BECOME A ONE-YEAR COURSE Sitharam said that MBA will become a oneyear course when NEP-2020 is implemented in technical courses. "PG degree has to be given on successful completion of five years of duration to after-school course students. As UG has become a four-year duration course, MBA has to be one year course," he said. On implementation of NEP in technical institutions, the AICTE chief said they have started a discussion on it but added that it won't start in the coming academic session. "The national credit framework is still to get national acceptability. After that only NEP in technical institutions is possible," he said. land, facilities etc. "This data will be used by different agencies for their respective purposes; like NIRF can take data for rankings, NAAC for accreditation and AICTE for granting approval. The in- Negotiations impossible until reversal of Aug 5 action, says Pak PMO Dawood has second wife, his sister Haseena Parkar's son tells NIA A day after Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif offered to talk to India on "burning issues", the country's PMO clarified that it will not hold negotiations with its neighbour until it reverses the "August 5, 2019 illegal action" on Kashmir. On August 5, 2019, the Indian government had abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution country's which granted special status to the Jammu and Kashmir. "Without India's revocation of this step, negotiations are not possible," Dawn News reported quoting the PMO as saying. The case is related to a global terrorist network and a transnational organised criminal syndicate, namely 'D-Company', which it claimed is involved in various terrorist and criminal activities in India. "Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar wife's name is Maizabin and he is having three daughters Marukh (married to Junaid, son of Javed Miandad), Mehrin (married) and Maziya (unmarried) and one son Mohin Nawaz (married)," Alishah Parkar said in the statement, which was made . available recently CONTD. ON P6 ISLAMABAD News Brief Covovax gets DCGI approval The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved market authorisation to Covid-19 vaccine Covovax as a heterologous booster dose for adults who have been administered two doses of Covishield or Covaxin, sources said on Monday. The DCGI’s approval came following recommendation by the Subject Expert Committee of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation. UK to extradite arms dealer British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has ordered the extradition of Sanjay Bhandari, an accused middleman and consultant in arms deals, to India to face charges of tax evasion and money laundering. According to Home Office sources, Bhandari has 14 days to appeal against the order. Sensex rallies 563 points Equity benchmarks shrugged off lacklustre global cues to clock smart gains on Tuesday. However, a depreciating rupee and unabated foreign fund outflows capped the gains, traders said. MUMBAI Fugitive underworld don Dawood Ibrahim has a second wife who is a Pakistani and he has lied about divorcing his first wife, his nephew has told the National Investigation Agency which is probing a case pertaining to a global terrorist network and a criminal syndicate involved in terrorist and criminal activities in India. The statement of Alishah Parkar, son of Dawood's sister Haseena Parkar, is part of the charge sheet filed by the NIA in the case in November last year. stitutions will not be required to submit the same data again and again to different agencies. The agen- After extension of Nadda's tenure, everyone’s eyes on MP BJP chief VD SHARMA’S three-year tenure will come to an end after a month OUR STAFF REPORTER Bhopal The tenure of JP Nadda as national president of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been extended till June 2024. Now, everyone in the party is eying on the term of president of the party's Madhya Pradesh Unit, VD Sharma. Sharma is completing three years in office on February 15. Now that Nadda's tenure has been extended, a decision on Sharma's term may be taken. According to sources in the party a decision on the , issue will be taken in a fortnight. Sharma considered close to the Rashtriya Sayamsevak Sang might get an extension till the assembly elections. Apart from extension of Sharma's tenure, there are speculations that the party may choose a tribal president for the MP unit. Three names are doing the rounds for that. They are Union Minister of State Faggan Singh Kulaste, Member of Parliament from Khargon Gajendra Patel and RS member Sumer Singh Solanki. There may be some changes in the Union cabinet. According to sources, there are possibilities of inducting Sharma into the Union cabinet which has five ministers from MP . The party leadership may remove a few of them to bring in the new faces. Kulaste and Prahlad Patel may be shifted from the cabinet to the party organisation. According to sources in the party, only ten months are left for the assembly elections in the state, so the decisions taken by the central leadership will soon come to light. cies can get the data with the help of API (application programming interface)," he said. Astronomers from McGill University in Canada and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru have used data from the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune to detect a radio signal originating from atomic hydrogen in an extremely distant galaxy . "The astronomical distance over which such a signal has been picked up is the largest so far by a large margin. This is also the first confirmed detection of strong lensing of 21 cm emission from a galaxy", according to an IISc statement. The findings have been published in 'Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Atomic .' hydrogen is the basic fuel required for star formation in a galaxy When hot . ionised gas from the surrounding medium of a galaxy falls onto the galaxy, the gas cools and ‘BJP can attack any country to win the 2024 LS poll’ CooperaPATNA: Bihar tives Minister Surendra Yadav on Tuesday alleged that the BJP can attack any country before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections to win. elections "Whenever come in the country, the BJP allows attacks to take . place on the army This time, the BJP can attack any country to win the election," the RJD leader told media persons here. His statement came to a query from media persons whether the BJP will do big things before 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Claiming that the BJP will face a wipe-out in the 2024 Lok Sabha election, he hinted that the BJP allowed the Pulwama attack in 2019 to take place. "The BJP can do anything to win the election. Last time, Pulwama happened and this time, the BJP will attack any country," Yadav said. CONTD. ON P6 WEATHER 20.60c. 08.80c Sunrise : 07.10 Sunset : 06.03 STRESSING ON INCLUSIVE G20, THINK 20 CONCLUDES WITH BHOPAL DECLARATION Developed nations should fulfill commitments to fund SDG progress, say experts OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in Bhopal Declaration underlining for development transformation to support transitions towards life and responsible consumption was adopted at the session of concluding ‘Think-20’ convention of G20 in the state capital on Tuesday The Declaration stresses on the urgent need for the developed countries to fulfill their commitments towards funding Sustainable Development Goal progress in developing countries especially Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States (SIDS), said Research and Information System for Developing Countries director general Sachin Professor Chaturvedi while sharing details of the declaration with media persons here on Monday . Diversification of Global Value Chains (GVCs) is necessary but with special and differential treatment to developing country exporting nations, said Chaturvedi quoting the Declaration. The Declaration speaks about life and value based development paradigm, accelerating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), trade, investment and global value chains, health, children, financing resilient infrastructure, inclusive G 20 etc. Professor Chaturvedi said that the Declaration highlights that the development path pursued hitherto has threatened the existence of other species, biodiversity and environment. There is a real danger that if we don’t make substantial progress towards universal values based systems and institutions, some of the past gains in the quality of human life will be reversed. CONTD. ON P6 ‘Four wards of Joshimath declared completely unsafe’ DEHRADUN Army Captain commits suicide at Pachmarhi, reasons yet to be learnt FP NEWS SERVICE Narmadapuram A 29-year-old Captain of the Indian Army reportedly committed suicide at the Pachmarhi Army facility in Narmadapuram district of Madhya Pradesh, police . said on Tuesday According to reports, the body of Captain Sartaj Singh was found hanging from a ceiling fan of the room where he was staying. Nevertheless, no suicide note was found in the room. Kalra, a native of Kanpur district in Uttar Pradesh, had been staying at the institute since September 2022. The police were informed about the death of the Army officer at the Army Educational Corps Training College and Centre (AECTCC) at around 9 . pm on Monday Captain Karla was learning Chinese at the Pachmarhi Army facility institute where the soldiers are trained in an array of disciplines, including music and foreign languages, said local police station in-charge . Rooplal Uikey Superintendent of police Gurukaran Singh said Captain Karla's may have been a case of suicide, but no suicide note was recovered from the room. Astronomers detect radio signal from atomic hydrogen in extremely distant galaxy BENGALURU many countries, the cost of studying is almost the same as our students can secure scholareasily ships." She added many students opt for studying courses that are not available in Indian colleges. A school principal, Asha Nair said, "A lot of students in India do attempt the engineering and medical entrance exams, but even though they are intelligent, they cannot go through. These students . opt to go abroad to study `3 QUALITY AT VALUE forms atomic hydrogen, which then becomes molecular hydrogen, and eventually leads to the formation of stars, it was explained. "Therefore, understanding the evolution of galaxies over cosmic time requires tracing the evolution of neutral gas at different cosmological epochs", the statement said. CONTD. ON P6 Amid the evolving crisis around the landslide and subsidence at Joshimath in the upper reaches of Uttarakhand, Disaster Management Secretary Ranjit Kumar Sinha on Tuesday said four municipal areas or wards in the holy town have been declared as 'completely unsafe'. Addressing a press conference in Dehradun on , Tuesday Sinha said, "Four wards in Joshimath have been declared as completely unsafe. The rest of the wards have been found to be partially affected (by subsidence)." "Many or- India, welcomes UN ban against LeT's Makki NEW DELHI: India on Tuesday welcomed the UN Security Council decision to dePakclare istan-based Lashkar-eTaiba (LeT) leader Abdul Rehman Makki as a global terrorist and said it would continue to press the international community to take credible, verifiable and irreversible action against the menace. External Affairs Ministry Arindam spokesman Bagchi said threats from terrorism in the region remain high and sanctions by the UNSC were an effective tool to curb such threats. "We welcome the decision of the UN Security Council's ISIL and Al Qaida Sanctions Committee to list Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki, who is also the brotherin-law of LeT leader Hafiz Saeed," Bagchi said in response to questions. Makki, the 68-year-old brother-in-law of Jamat-ud Dawa (JuD) chief and Mumbai attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed, was designated a global terrorist by the UN. CONTD. ON P6 NGRI members check bearing capacity of soil at land subsidence-affected area in Joshimath on Tuesday ganisations are involved in the ongoing investigation into the reasons and extent of subsidence in and around Joshimath. We will come up with a final report soon. We have made adequate preparations in anticipation of rainfall," he added. However, in a piece of 'good news', Sinha informed that the water discharge level at JP Colony has gone down. "The water discharge level (which is said to be behind the prevailing situation in Joshimath) at JP Colony has gone down. This is good news," the Disaster management secretary said. CONTD. ON P6 Preparations on to shift Badrinath deity’s ‘treasure’ JOSHIMATH Even as residents of Uttarakhand's Joshimath are grappling with land subsidence and cracks that have appeared in the city's structures, the offerings to Lord Badrinarayan have been brought here from Badrinath, and kept in the treasury of Narsingh temple. Minor cracks were recently detected in the temple premises, due to which arrangements are being made to keep the 'treasure' safe by the Shri BadrinathKedarnath Temple Committee. Devotees offer jewellery, diamonds, gems, gold, silver, and cash among other items to the deity during the Char Dham pilgrimage. The treasure is transferred back to Badrinath, after a ceremonial reopening of the temple. According to sources, apart from cash in crores, 30 quintals of silver, more than 45 kg of gold and jew- ellery are included in the treasury At present, the . winter worship place of the lord is safe but is under threat. The Committee has been planning to shift the offerings to its Dharamshala, located at Pipalkoti. On Monday, Committee Chairman Ajendra Ajay inspected the place. He instructed the officials to take immediate steps in shifting the treasure if such a situation arises. Significantly, Saint Swami Avimukteshwaranand Saraswati Maharaj of Jyotishpeeth has started the 'Joshimath Raksha Mahayagya,' which will last for 100 days in the temple premises. 10 lakh sacrifices will be made in this. Along with the saints, the affected people are participating in the Yagya.