FREE PRESS The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms VOL. XXXX NO. 91 | INDORE | FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 8, 2023 | PAGES 16 KISHAN'S RISE FROM A HUMBLE VILLAGE TO INDIA’S TRUSTED WICKETKEEPER-BATTER’ Pg-14 `3 - r Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE EDIT r RNI No. 38281/83 QUALITY AT VALUE WEATHER FP 32.90c. 22.10c Sunrise : 06.10 Sunset : 06.43 FPJ: www.freepressjournal.in for 24x7 updates Ex-hotelier, who decided to die at 30, shoots self ADVANTAGE US HE LEAVES behind a 7-page MODI TURNS TABLES AGAINST INDIA MY FRIENDS SHOULD PERFORM LAST RITES He requested to police station incharge that he wanted his friends to perform his last rites. It was his special request to the police. However, he had no enmity with his elder brother though he didn’t like him. He also wrote his friends to take care of his mother. He also mentioned names of his friends who are reliable. suicide note; bought illegal firearm 7 years ago OUR STAFF REPORTER city.indore@fpj.co.in Having had no intention to live beyond 30 years, an ex-hotelier committed suicide by shooting himself at his residence in Deendayal Nagar on Thursday. He took the extreme step nearly 8 months after turning 30. Aditya Sharma, a bachelor, left behind a 7-page suicide note CALLING OUT GAME! Pg-16 why he wanted to live till 30. Hira Nagar police station incharge PL Sharma said the deceased Aditya was found dead by his brother and mother. He was in his room on the ground floor while his mother and brother were on the second floor at the time of incident. The family members were shocked seeing him in such situation and finding notes pasted at various places in the room. In a note, he wrote “Sabse pehle Raju Bhaiyya ko phone lagao ya fir Manu ko.” Manu is one of his close friends. CONTD. ON P6 In the absence of Xi Jinping and Putin, West can dominate the G20 agenda WASHINGTON D.C.: President Xi Jinping will not attend the G20 summit but his absence will surely cast a shadow on the proceedings. The US seemed to sense the ominous portents and has warned that China should not play the spoiler. Embedded in this is the message that Beijing, which is known for its sluggish response at most global events and is often the last one to sign on documents, should not seek any pretext to delay the validation of the G20 outcome. (As against this, Indian Government officials said that more than 80 per cent of the agreements have been obtained from the members about documents to be presented at the Summit.) CONTD. ON P6 After Stalin Jr, A Raja likens PM gives new rule book Sanatan to HIV, leprosy Police team investing the room where Aditya (Inset) committed suicide which speaks about his wish of friends performing final rites and about his family . The letter fell short of reasoning G20: BIDEN ARRIVES TODAY SOUTH CHINA SEA FP NEWS SERVICE / JAKARTA BJP SAYS remarks reflect Oppn bloc's 'Hinduphobia' News Brief INDIA seat sharing talks on Sept 13 NEW DELHI: The first round of talks on the seatsharing formula of the INDIA alliance for the Lok Sabha elections will be held here at the residence of NCP supremo Sharad Pawar on Sept 13. It will be attended by a 14-member coordination committee set up by the INDIA at its Mumbai meeting last week. On Tuesday, the floor leaders of almost all parties represented in Parliament held a meeting at the residence of Congress President and Rajya Sabha opposition leader Mallikarjun Kharge. JJP to make its mark in Raj polls: Chautala JAIPUR: Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Thursday said people of Rajasthan were facing several challenges, including the dominance of the mining mafia, an increase in violence against women and recruitment exam paper leaks.. China backs African Union inclusion in G20 BEIJING: China on Thursday expressed its support for the inclusion of the African Union (AU) in the G20, saying it is the "first country to explicitly support the inclusion of the African bloc in the grouping. Modi said India backs the inclusion of the African Union as a full member of the Group of 20 largest economies as no plan for the future of the planet can be successful without the representation and recognition of all voices. BOPANNA-EBDEN IN US OPEN FINAL CHENNAI/NEW DELHI Adding fuel to the raging debate over DMK leader Udhayanidhi's remarks against Sanatan Dharma, the party's Lok Sabha MP A Raja has likened it to diseases like leprosy and HIV which had social stigma, prompting the BJP to accuse Opposition leaders of suffering from 'deep-rooted Hinduphobia'. As the row over Raja and Stalin junior's remarks snowballed into a major political row on Thursday the Congress sought , to distance itself from their statements while TN CM M K Stalin accused the BJP of being 'desperate' to create divisions in the INDIA bloc. CONTD. ON P6 INDIA alliance to take country on the path of destruction: Scindia Union MinisterScindia took a jibe at the INDIA alliance and said that it would take the country on the path of destruction. The manner in which the INDIA Alliance is commenting on Sanatan Dharma is inappropriate and highly condemnable. Plea in SC against Udhayanidhi, A Raja As a hugely divisive debate raged over Udhayanidhi Stalin's "eradicate Sanatan Dharma" remark, a petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Thursday seeking its direction for registration of an FIR against him. The petitioner has also sought an FIR against A Raja for his comments on Sanatan Dharma. Keep your personal views to yourselves: Raut Questioning Udhayanidhi, for his objectionable remarks against Sanatana Dharma, Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut said that the leader of DMK, an ally in INDIA bloc, should keep his personal or party's views to himself and within the state. HIGH-PROFILE SEATS: PARTIES TO FIELD LOCAL CANDIDATES NITENDRA SHARMA BHOPAL Political parties have experimented with fielding well-known candidates from high-profile constituencies of senior leaders. Nevertheless, the BJP and the Congress are trying to avoid this experiment this time. Cong plans to give ticket to Rajkumar Patel from Budhni; BJP may field Vivek Sahu from Chhindwara There are demands from both the parties that local candidates should be fielded from high-profile constituencies. Congress pitted former state president Arun Yadav against Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from Budhni. The party expected that Yadav would be able to confine Chouhan to Budhni. Although Yadav was Congress's high-profile candidate yet Chouhan did not campaign in his constituency . The CM defeated Yadav by a margin of 59,000 votes. Now, the Congress is planning to field former legislator Rajkumar Patel from Budhni. Patel who won assembly election twice from this constituency is well-connected with this area. Former CM Digvijaya Singh is also in favour of giving a ticket to Patel from Budhni. On the other hand, the BJP plans to field Vivek Sahu aka Bunty from Chhindwara against MPCC president Kamal Nath. Sahu contested against Nath in the previous by-poll. There were talks about fielding a highprofile candidate from Chhindwara, but BJP workers said some local candidate should be given a ticket. CONTD. ON P6 'BHARAT' ROW If we get requests like that, we consider them as they come: UN NEW DELHI: The United Nations considers requests from countries to change their names as and when the world body receives them, a top UN official has said, amid a row over President Droupadi Murmu’s G20 dinner invites referring to her as 'President of Bharat' instead of 'President of India'. Deputy Spokesperson for UN Secy-Gen Antonio Guterres, Farhan Haq, on Wednesday cited the example of Turkey changing its name to Turkiye last year. “Well, in the case of Turkiye, we responded to a formal request delivered to us by the Government. Obviously, if we get requests like that, we consider them as they come,” he said in response to a question on reports that India’s name could be changed to Bharat. CONTD. ON P6 Khandu reveals barrage plan to counter Chinese dam ONLINE REPORT New Delhi NEW YORK: Continuing their dream run, India's Rohan Bopanna and his Australian partner Matthew Ebden entered the final of the US Open with a straight-set win over French pair of PierreHugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut here on Thursday.They beat the French combination 7-6 (7-3), 6-2. Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Pema Khandu on Wednesday warned the state Assembly of environmental disasters, including floods, for his state and neighbouring Assam if India does not respond to China's building a mega dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet's Medog district. The Tsangpo flows through Tibet before entering Arunachal Pradesh as the Siang. It becomes the Brahmaputra in Assam and the Jamuna in Bangladesh before it empties into the Bay of Bengal. To counter what some experts have called a "ticking water bomb for residents downstream (in Arunachal and Assam)", the centre plans to build a large barrage a low-lying structure with gates to control the flow of water - across the Siang, Khandu said as he sought support for the idea. "The Indian government has raised objections over repercussions to Siang as a result of China's project. CONTD. ON P6 Aditya-L1 takes a selfie, images of Earth, Moon BENGALURU: ISRO on Thursday released a "selfie" and images of the Earth and the Moon -- the first of the images taken by the camera on-board Aditya-L1 solar mission spacecraft, which on reaching its intended orbit would begin sending as many as 1,440 images a day to the ground station for analysis. "Aditya-L1, destined for the SunEarth L1 point, takes a selfie and images of the Earth and the Moon," the Bengaluru-headquartered national space agency said on social media platform 'X'. The images show VELC (Visible Emission Line Coronagraph) and SUIT (Solar Ultraviolet Imager) instruments as seen by the camera onboard Aditya-L1 on September 4, 2023. ISRO also shared images of the Earth and Moon as seen by the camera.VELC, the primary payload of Aditya L1, was built by Bengalurubased Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA).Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, had developed the SUIT payload. VELC is an internally occulted coronagraph, with 40 different optical elements (mirrors, gratings, etc) inside it that are aligned precisely The atmosphere of the Sun, the Co. rona, is what we see during a total solar eclipse. CONTD. ON P6 'DMK means Dengue, Malaria Kosu': Annamalai TN BJP president Annamalai equated the DMK 's name with "Dengue, Malaria Kosu" Reacting to the remarks made by Udhayanidhi on eradicating Sanatan Dharma, Annamalai said, "If something needs eradication from TN it is the DMK. D-Dengue, M Malaria, K - Kosu. Going forward, we are sure that people will associate these deadly diseases with DMK." Annamalia targeted Stalin for defending his son over his Sanatan Dharma remarks. Against the backdrop of China's increasing military assertiveness in the South China Sea, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday pitched for everyone's commitment and joint effort to strengthen the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries. In an address at the East Asia Summit, Modi also said that India believes that the Code of Conduct for the South China Sea should be effective and compliant with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). His comments came days after a number of ASEAN member countries such as Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines reacted sharply to Beijing's territorial claim over the South South Korean prez Yoon Suk Yeol, Prime Minister Modi, Chinese Premier Li Qiang and US Vice Prez Kamala Harris walk to attend the East Asia Summit at the ASEAN-Summit in Jakarta on Thursday China Sea in its latest edition of the "standard map of China". In his speech, PM Modi also called for building a rules-based post-COVID world order, underscored the need for a free and open Indo-Pacific and elevating the voice of the Global South in the common interest of all. ASEAN is considered one of the most influential groupings in the region, and India and several other countries including the US, China, Japan and Australia are its dialogue partners. The prime minister also reaffirmed that ASEAN is the central pillar of India's Act East Policy and it fully supports ASEAN centrality and its outlook on the IndoPacific. CONTD. 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