FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 17 | BHOPAL | MONDAY | JULY 1, 2024 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.com Sports Rohit Sharma goes ballistic against Australia P.10 fp EDITIONS: INDORE ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE UJJAIN PUNE WORLD PRESS BHOPAL NASHIK MUMBAI Edit For how long will ‘chalta hai’ be tolerated? P.8 7 die in Russian missile attack Brand Sutra INSIDE CANNES LIONS AND... P.12 IN THE ASSEMBLY: Budget, many important bills to be tabled Briefs BHOPAL Transport check posts cease today All transport check posts at interstate borders will cease to exist from July 1 in Madhya Pradesh. In its place, road safety and enforcement check points have come into force. An order in this regard was issued by Transport department on Sunday. The secretary, transport department, Sibi Chakravarthy wrote to transport commissioner, informing him that as decision has been taken to do away with transport check posts, hence road safety and enforcement check points have come into the force. As many as 45 check points have been established in first phase. See also | P3 Monsoon session today Oppn to corner govt over law and order, nursing scam etc Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL The monsoon session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly is starting on Monday and will last till July 19. In this session, state government will table the budget and many important bills. Opposition plans to corner the government over burning issues related to law and order and nursing college scam. Illegal sand mining is another burning issue which will be raised by the Opposition. Anticipating attacks from the Opposition, the government has also prepared its counter to the various allegations likely to be hurled at the E-paper INCLUDING TRANSPORTATION government. All Ministers have been asked to reach the Assembly with full preparation. This will be the first budget of Mohan Yadav government. Apart from budget, state government is likely to table bill of public health engineering de- partment. This bill aims to curb deaths due to kids falling into open borewells by proposing stern action against the guilty. Another bill likely to be tabled before assembly is Madhya Pradesh Corrective Services and Prison Act 2024. It proposes provisions to make all jails hi-tech, to have separate cells for third genders, to give job-oriented training to jail inmates etc. Some more new bills are likely to be tabled in the assembly. Meanwhile, tight security arrangements have been made in and around the assembly premises. New criminal laws come into effect today PTI NEW DELHI Three new criminal laws will come into effect across the country from Monday. The Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and the Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam will replace the British-era Indian Penal Code, Code of Criminal Procedure and the Indian Evidence Act, respectively. The new laws will bring in a modern justice system, incorporating provisions such as Zero FIR. Continued on | P6 Rs 125 cr award for Previous Cong govt stalled river winning T20 team link proj, claims Rajasthan CM PTI NEW DELHI BCCI secretary Jay Shah on Sunday hailed India's epochal title win in the T20 World Cup and announced a prize money of Rs 125 crore for the team for its monumental feat in the just-concluded ICC showpiece. India defeated South Africa by seven runs in a tense final at Bridgetown, Barbados, to land their second world title in the T20 format. "Under the exceptional leadership of Rohit Sharma, this team has shown remarkable resolve and resilience, becoming the first team in the history of the ICC T20 World Cup to win the tournament unbeaten," said Shah in a statement. Continued on | P6 Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Final shape of Parvati, Kalisindh and Chambal river link project has taken 20 years to get finalised because the then Congress government had submitted an affidavit in Court against the project, said Rajasthan chief minister Bhajan Lal Sharma, while talking to media here on Sunday. He blamed the previous CM Mohan Yadav and Rajasthan CM Bhajan Lal Sharma in Bhopal governments for not taking the project seriously as a result of which farmers and people of both states were denied its benefits. He added “There are lots of opportunities for both the states in the field of tourism, religious tourism, jungle safari as we have cheetah of Kuno, tiger of Ranthambhore, alligator of Chambal. CM Mohan Yadav applauded the finalisation of the project, “We had gone through the water pact and it has been finalised." Continued on | P6 Woman shot after drunken brawl Our Staff Reporter were consuming alcohol, he said. While some villagers immediately pacified them, A village sarpanch allegedly the sarpanch and his accomshot a woman dead and inplices later reached Ratiram's jured a girl followhouse and shot DATIA ing a dispute in dead his daughterDatia district, police in-law Ahilya while said on Sunday. his niece sustained injuries in SP Virendra Mishra said the the firing and is undergoing incident occurred in Banwas treatment at the district hospivillage under the Jigna police tal, he said. station on Saturday night. A case was against the sarA quarrel broke out bepanch and 12 other accused tween one Ratiram Yadav, and who are absconding, and efsarpanch Arvind Yadav's forts are on to apprehend brother Ravindra while they them, the official said. BHOPAL