FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. XLI No. 30 | INDORE | MONDAY | JULY 8, 2024 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 www.freepressjournal.com ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper FREE PRESS GREEN RUN Winner Bantu Parmar fp Briefs Jealous west ‘is watching’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi will embark on his two-day official visit to Russia from July 8 to 9 at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin for the 22nd India-Russia summit that will review the entire range of multi-faceted ties between the two countries. Putin will host a private dinner for PM Modi on the day of arrival. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said they are expecting a "very important and fullfledged visit," which the West was watching with "jealousy". “They are jealous — that means they are closely monitoring it. Their close monitoring means they attach great importance to it. And they are not mistaken, there is something to attach great importance to,” Peskov said in response to a question. AGRA 4 kids drown in Agra pond Four children drowned while taking a bath here in a pond on Sunday morning, as five others who attempted to save them had to be rescued by police and locals, officials said. The incident occurred near the Yamuna Expressway under the Khandauli Police Station limits in Agra district. All four children were around 10-12 years of age, they said. Around 1000 participants turned up for the Free Press Green Run mini-marathon in Indore on Sunday. It was a morning full of excitement where participants warmed up with Zumba before the flag off. After the end of race all participants shaked their legs on peppy music till the prize distribution. Full Report P2 EERIE REDUX | 24-year-old rams BMW car into scooter, drags pillion rider for 1.5 km, killing her Porsche hit & run replay in Mumbai Ankit Salvi MUMBAI In a hit-and-run incident early on Sunday, eerily reminiscent of the Pune Porsche incident in May, a 24-year-old man speeding in his luxury car rammed into a scooter at Worli, injuring the driver and dragging the woman pillion rider for nearly 1.5 kilometres, killing her in the process. The man allegedly driving the car, Mihir Shah, is abscond- No one will be spared. Strict legal action will be taken. Everyone is equal before the law – Eknath Shinde Maha CM ing, and police have detained his father Rajesh Shah and the family driver Rajrishi Bidawat, who was accompanying the accused. Preliminary inquiries have found that Bidawat was in the front passenger seat when the accident occurred. Mihir’s father Rajesh Shah owns a construction business and is a deputy leader in the Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde), Palghar. Mihir, who has completed his SSC, assists his father in the family business. 4Continued on | P6 Five from Sidhi district killed in building collapse in Surat Our Staff Reporter Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Killer BMW, this time n Accused visited a Juhu pub where he ran a bill of `18,000 n Being ascertained if accused was drunk n Car driver was in the adjacent seat at the time of mishap n Husband of deceased landed on car bonnet n Car owned by leader of Shinde Shiv Sena SC will hear pleas on NEET retest today NEW DELHI Five from Sidhi district, who had gone to earn a living in Surat, were among those killed when a 4-storied building collapsed there on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. All five live in Majholi police station area of Sidhi. Four of them are cousins from two families and worked in textile mills. Majholi police station incharge Deepak Baghel informed that the deceased were brothers Hiraman Kevat (40) and Lalji Kevat (40) and Shivpujan Kevat (26) and Parvesh Kevat (21), who were also brothers. The fifth deceased was Abhilash Kevat. The residential building, JCB machines remove the debris after a four-storey building collapsed at Sachin area in Surat on Sunday which was in a dilapidated condition in Pal area, collapsed at around 2.45 pm on Saturday, as per police. A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF), two teams of the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF), police personnel and fire brigade were involved in the rescue operation, the Surat police said in a statement. After around three hours of operation, they managed to rescue a 20-year-old woman, named Kashish Sharma, and rushed her to the hospital for treatment. The body of a man was pulled out on Saturday night and rescue teams later pulled out six more bodies from the debris , according to police. 4Continued on | P6 worrying: Sharma Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL PTI BHOPAL Rawat all set Loss in 7 assembly to swear-in as segments in LS polls minister today The Supreme Court will hear on Monday a batch of pleas related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024, including those alleging irregularities and malpractices in the May 5 test and seeking a direction to conduct it afresh. The Centre and the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts NEETUG, recently told the apex court that scrapping the exam would be "counterproductive" and "seriously jeopardize" lakhs of honest candidates in the absence of any proof of large-scale breach of confidentiality. Congress turncoat MLA from Vijaypur, Ramniwas Rawat is all set to get ministerial berth in the Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s Cabinet on Monday. Rawat is expected to be sworn in as minister at a ceremony in Raj Bhawan at 9 am today. Rawat had joined BJP at the Lok Sabha election campaign rally of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav in Vijaypur. Soures said that when Rawat had joined the party, he was promised a Cabinet berth and now the ruling party is fulfilling its promise. 4Continued on | P6 BJP’s state unit president VD Sharma has said the party was defeated in seven assembly constituencies in the Lok Sabha election, although it won all the 29 parliamentary seats, which is worrying. The party won all these seven seats in the assembly election. At the state executive committee meeting held in Bhopal on Sunday, Sharma who delivered the inaugural speech said that the party was paying attention to this factor. The BJP has got more than 59% of votes this time in the Lok Sabha election, which more than the vote percentage the party got in the assembly election. CM’s mantras to run govt smoothly Our Staff Reporter Peering into his laptop sitting in Singapore, heritage enthusiast S Vijay Kumar zoomed into an art gallery in New York. Vijay was playing a sleuth and Google Street View came in handy. He looked around the gallery and located two antique bronze statues with a market value of $8.5 million stolen from India by Shubhash Kapoor. Notorious art smuggler Shubhash Kapoor is behind bars, but the two Chola bronzes of Nataraja and Sivakami (Goddess Parvati's form) are still missing. Associates of Kapoor, a USbased arts smuggler, have concealed them. And what rightfully deserves a pride of place in India, might be lying in some dingy, obscure corner of the world. In 2020, confined to her Melbourne home due to the Covid lockdown, Dolly Kikon was surfing the internet. The Naga anthropologist spotted a news article in The Guardian that gave her goosebumps. Kikon read that human remains from Nagaland had been on display at Oxford University's Pitt Rivers Museum in England. Among the exhibits Sandstone statue of Harihar now in the British Museum were skulls taken as trophies. "The remains don't belong there," muttered Kikon to herself. S Vijay Kumar co-founded the India Pride Project in 2013 and returned to India in 2021, and helped get back 600 artefacts stolen from India. Dolly Kikon, meanwhile, along with Scotlandbased academician Arkotong Longkumer, joined the Forum for Naga Reconciliation (FNR) to get the Naga human remains, looted during British colonial rule, back to India. For centuries, the loot and then the smuggling of India's cultural artefacts, like the 4Continued on | P6 Fresh case against Mahua NEW DELHI Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that ever since he became CM, he always remembers the mantra that if one needs to work in a fine manner in state then he should recite mantra Om Shivay Namah, Om Vishnu Namay and by doing so, one can easily sail his boat till the shore. By referring to mantra Om Shivay Namah and Om Vishnu Namah, he was indirectly referring to Union minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and BJP state president Vishnu Dutt Sharma. He was addressing the BJP’s extended executive committee meeting held in Bhopal on Sunday. He said government has made provisions for all sector. He said the first regional investor summit was held successfully in Ujjain and now government intends to organise investors summit in Jabalpur on July 20. 4Continued on | P6 India bringing looted, smuggled Gods back home Online Report Nevertheless, the party’s vote share was less in Vindhya and Ujjain, which is worrying, he said, adding that it should be examined. The party has made a record of wining 80% of booths in this election, but it has to register victory over rest of the 20% of booths, he said.