FP FREE PRESS The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms VOL. XXXX NO. 239 | INDORE | MONDAY | FEBRUARY 5, 2024 | PAGES 14 `3 - r Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2021-2023; SNAKES & LADDERS JMM CM Champai Soren faces key trust vote session starting today; his MLAs emerge from a resort in Hyderabad and reach Ranchi DHEERAJ KUMAR / RANCHI NEWS BRIEF CM to meet PM in Delhi today BHOPAL: Chief Minister Mohan Yadav left for Delhi late on Sunday evening. On Monday, he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and discuss some important subjects. They are likely to discuss the Ken-Betwa River Link Project. As the PM is likely to visit Jhabua in the coming times, there could be a discussion on this as well. Fresh notice to Kejriwal , Atishi NEW DELHI: Delhi Police Crime Branch on Sunday served a fresh notice on Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, asking him to respond to his charges of poaching attempts by the BJP with evidence by Monday. The Crime Branch also served a notice on AAP leader and minister Atishi in the poaching claim case, asking her to respond within three days. NOTICE Due to a technical problem, Free Press is being printed in two parts. The snag will be rectified shortly. Inconvenience caused to readers is regretted. US strikes Yemen, Iran’s will at test LALIT K JHA Washington The US and the UK have conducted joint strikes on 36 Houthi targets across 13 locations in Yemen, in another wave of assaults intended to degrade the capabilities of the Iran-backed militia that has targeted international shipping vessels in the Red Sea in response to the Israel-Hamas war. The Pentagon said the UK, Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands and New Zealand were involved in Saturday’s strikes against Houthi targets. The latest strikes, executed with fighter jets and ships, come after the US launched strikes on 85 targets in Syria and Iraq on Friday in response to a deadly drone attack on a US military base in Jordan last Sunday that killed three of its service members. The collective action by US-led coalition sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels, a spokesperson said. However, as Iran and the United States assessed the damage done by American airstrikes, the spotlkight suddenly shifted to Tehran and its pending decision whether to respond or to take the hit and de-escalate. CONTD. ON P7 Newly appointed Jharkhand chief minister Champai Soren will face a crucial floor test in a 2-day special session of the assembly beginning on Monday . Around 40 MLAs of the ruling JMM-led coalition in Jharkhand, who were camping in a private resort outside Hyderabad amid poaching fears, had returned to the State on Sunday night. The legislators were hustled to the private resort in Shamirpet after Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Champai Soren took over as the chief minister following Hemant Soren s arrest. After a night s stay at the Circuit House in Ranchi, they would be brought to the assembly on Monday morning by bus, sources added. The Mahagathbandhan (grand alliance) government claims that it enjoys the support of 47 MLAs. The ruling coalition of JMM, Congress and RJD has 29, 17 and one MLA, respectively Ahead of the . trust vote, Chief Minister Soren exuded confidence that the Mahagathbandhan government would survive the floor test and would also complete its full term. The tenure of the JMMled alliance government ends in November this year. Champai had taken oath as new Jharkhand CM at Raj Bhawan on Friday . CONTD. ON P7 Man axes 5-yr-old nephew over tobacco in Shahdol EDIT ADVANI ADORNS BHARAT RATNA WEATHER VIRAT COULD MISS INDIA-ENGLAND 3RD TEST: SOURCES SPORTS EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE 29.40c. 15.20c Sunrise : 07.05 Sunset : 06.16 DHEERAJ KUMAR / PATNA The resort politics was playing itself out in Bihar too amid speculation that JD (U) was trying to engineer a split in the Congress before the NDA government faces a floor test in the assembly . To keep its flock together, the Congress party high command had also shifted its 16 MLAs from Bihar to Hyderabad. From here, they were shifted to Con- gress-ruled Telangana. The newly formed NDA government, headed by chief minister Nitish Kumar, will seek trust vote on February 12, when the assembly`s budget session commences. Bihar Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh and his predecessor Madan Mohan Jha accompanied the party MLAs to Hyderabad. Singh told newspersons, A new government has been formed. We are here (Hyderabad) to congratulate them. We will meet the CM and congratulate him. Sources said that the Congress MLAs are expected to return to Bihar on the day of floor test only . The Congress has 19 MLAs in the Assembly, three of whom did not turn up for a meeting attended by state Congress president Akhilesh Prasad Singh and MLCs Prem Chandra Mishra and Madan Mohan Jha. CONTD. ON P7 GILL PROVES HIS METTLE and knocked the door and asked to open it. When Sukkhi Bai did not opened the door, angered by this, the accused broke into the woman's house around 11 pm, attacked the woman and her son with an axe while they were asleep, and fled from the spot, he said. The boy was killed in the attack, while the woman sustained injuries and is undergoing treatment, the official said. The accused has been arrested under section 302 (murder) and other relevant provisions of the Indian Penal Code, he said. India's batter Shubman Gill plays a shot during the third day of the second Test match between India and England, at Dr YS Rajasekhara Reddy OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in CM STRESSES ON ADOPTING INNOVATIVE IDEAS Chief Minister Mohan Yadav also addressed the Leadership Summit and guided the ministers how to get success by setting the goals. He exhorted them to use the knowledge received in the summit, while working at ground level. He asked the ministers to use the knowledge received in the summit in their daily life. He underlined the need to adopt innovative ideas in achieving success. ment in day-to-day life as it has emerged as the strongest media platform. Capacity building commis- Pak agent working at Indian embassy in Moscow caught AGENCIES Lucknow Rakesh Gupta appointed police commissioner Indore DP Gupta is transport commissioner OUR STAFF REPORTER Indore The state government on Sunday night appointed 1999 batch IPS officer Rakesh Gupta, ADG, Indore (rural zone), as police commissioner, urban police, Indore. IPS officer DP Gupta, 1994 batch, has been made transport commissioner. Before his new posting, he served as additional director general of police, police headquarters. IG, Intelligence, Anurag, 2003 batch, has been made IG, Indore rural zone. The police in Uttar Pradesh have arrested an Indian national working at the country's embassy in Moscow for allegedly spying for Pakistan's ISI, an official statement on Sunday said. The Meerut field unit of UP's Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) called Satendra Siwal, who was working as the IBSA (India Based Security Assistant) in the Indian Embassy in Moscow from 2021, for interrogation, the statement said. Siwal, a resident of Shahmahiuddinpur village in Hapur, could not give satisfactory answers and confessed to his crime during "questioning", it said. He was arrested after an FIR was registered against him at ATS police station, Lucknow, under Section 121A of the IPC (waging war against the country) and the Official Secrets Act, 1923, the statement said. The ATS in its probe Solar thrust to make power bills of homes zero: Modi sion’s Sweta Singh shed light on the constant development target and mission Karma Yogi. CONTD. ON P7 Justice Ritu Bahri is 1st woman CJ of Uttarakhand DEHRADUN Justice Ritu Bahri on Sunday took oath as the first woman Chief Justice of Uttarakhand High Court. Governor Lieutenant General Gurmeet Singh (Retd) administered the oath of office to Justice Bahri at the Raj Bhavan here. Justice Bahri is the first woman to hold the post of Chief Justice in the state. Before becoming the Chief Justice of Uttarakhand, Justice Bahri was a judge in the Punjab and Haryana High Court. GUWAHATI: The Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that the government is working to bring the electricity bills of the households to zero. While unveiling several key projects in Assam, Modi said, "We have run programs to install electricity connections in every household in the country. Now we have planned to make the electricity bills zero." He said that setting up roof top solar power plants for 1 crore households in Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the crowd as he arrives to lay the foundation stone for multiple projects worth Rs 11,600 crore, in Guwahati on Sunday. Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also seen. the country will pave the way towards achieving zero power bills. "In the budget, we have announced plans to put roof top solar panels in 1 crore houses. This will not only bring down the electricity bills CBI charge sheets ex-AI CMD, others CBI HAS registered the case on recommendation of Central Vigilance Commission (CVC) which found prima facie procedural irregularities in procurement of software NEW DELHI The CBI has filed a charge sheet against the then CMD of Air India, German firm SAP AG and IBM in connection with alleged irregularities in procurement of software worth Rs 225 crore by the national carrier in 2011, officials said on Sunday . After nearly six years of probe, the CBI has filed a charge sheet against former CMD Air India Arvind Jadhav, IBM India Private Limited, SPA India Private Limited and six others under the IPC section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act, they said. The CVC, in the note to the CBI, said that initial probe by Air India's chief vigilance officer shows that the national carrier had selected the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software system from SAP AG without following proper tendering procedure. CONTD. ON P7 DRONE DIDI: IIT Mandi training women to become 'kisan drone operators' NEW DELHI, Several women in Himachal Pradesh are receiving training to operate drones for agricultural purpose with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Mandi launching "Drone Didi", a one-of-itskind skill development programme. According to officials, the agricultural drone applications will save time and pesticide and are very cost-effective. This will also reduce the impact of pesticides on human health. Participants are being trained to leverage drone technology for enhanced agricultural practices. through electronic and physical surveillance found that he was involved in anti-India activities with the network of the ISI handlers, it said. The ATS said that he was providing important confidential information regarding the strategic activities of the Ministry of Defence, the Ministry of External Affairs and the Indian military establishments for money. Meanwhile, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said it is aware of Siwal's arrest and working with the investigative authorities in this case. Situation has massively changed in last 10 years. Assam and northeast will become a hub of trade in upcoming years Ministers learn fineness of administrative, leadership skills On the last day of the twoday Leadership Summit on Sunday, the ministers of the Mohan Yadav government learnt the fineness of leadership skills, administrative coordination, secretariat working style, importance of technology in good governance and e-tendering process etc. Assembly Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar enlightened the ministers over administrative coordination. Citing the examples of his long political experience, he gave necessary tips over the functioning of the Assembly . Expert Amit Malviya taught the ministers how to do social media manage- QUALITY AT VALUE www.freepressjournal.in 'PRAYING FOR DEATH', ALLEGES SHARAD PAWAR CAMP NATION BIHAR CHIEF Minister Nitish Kumar too faces floor test later in the week; Congress camp in a tizzy, fearing attempts to wean away its MLAs OUR STAFF REPORTER city.bhopal@fpj.co.in A man allegedly axed his five-year-old nephew to death and injured his sister-in-law after she did not give him tobacco at their home in Shahdol district, on Saturday late night police said on Sunday. The police have arrested the accused, Ramla Kol (30), for the incident that occurred in Barkachh village under Beohari police station limits on Saturday night, the police said. Beohari police station incharge Mohan Padwar said that Kol had asked for tobacco from Sukkhi Bai (35), his elder brother's wife, but she denied his request saying she did not have the substance at home. After that he left the house and returned back r RNI No. 38281/83 "Our vision is to create a paradigm shift in agricultural practices through the empowerment of women. By integrating skill development with drone technology, we are not just training women to become proficient 'kisan drone operators' but are also paving the way for them to emerge as leaders and entrepre- neurs in this field. "The aim is to expand its reach, enhance technological capabilities, and continuously evolve to meet the dynamic and operational demands of agriculture and entrepreneurship," Somjit Amrit, CEO, IIT Mandi i-Hub told PTI. According to Amrit, the programme has a compre- hensive three-month residential training regimen. "Given that we are in Himachal Pradesh, a state known for its fruit production, the role of kisan drone operator is highly relevant and has the potential to generate numerous employment opportunities, including entrepreneurship. CONTD. ON P7 to zero, the people can have their own electricity generation system in the homes. They can even sell the electricity generated through solar power roof top system to earn money," Modi said in a massive public rally here. BJP MLA who fired at Sena leader booked in SC/ST case THANE: Maharashtra BJP MLA Ganpat Gaikwad, who is accused of shooting at a Shiv Sena leader inside a police station in Thane district, has been booked in an SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act case, an official said on Sunday Gaik. wad was booked on the complaint of a villager who claimed she was subjected to casteist abuse by him and seven others on January 31, the official added. Gaikwad had pumped six bullets into Kalyan Shiv Sena leader Mahesh Gaikwad and also injured the latter's associate Rahul Patil late Friday night inside the cabin of the Hill Line police station's senior inspector. The three-time Kalyan East MLA has been charged with attempt to murder and other offences in the case. "On the complaint of a resident of Dwarli village on Saturday, Ganpat Gaikwad and seven others were charged under the Indian Penal Code and Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act," a Hill Line police station official said. "A probe into the allegations of the woman, who is a land owner, is underway," the station house officer of Hill Line police station said. CONTD. ON P7