FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLI No. 37 | INDORE | MONDAY | JULY 15, 2024 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.com nation PM: Media makes people aware of their strength P.7 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit Mahayuti strengths grip, shock for Congress P.8 SPORTS Samson, Mukesh fire India to 42-run win over Zimbabwe Brandsutra Say Hallyu To K-Beauty P.12 P.10 GREEN THRUST: Indore plants place in Guinness World Records 12L saplings planted in 24 hrs Dangling the cleanest city tag for the past seven years in a row, Indore on Sunday took a major leap towards becoming a green city too with creating a world record by planting 12 lakh saplings in 24 hours as part of Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam campaign launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav received the certificate from a representative of Guinness World Records in the evening after thousands of Indoreans thronged Reoti Range and planted trees in names of their mothers. Indore, which is famous for its cleanliness, food, good governance, cooperation and public participation, will now be known for Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam too This Swachh and Smart City will now be known as Green City too, Union home minister Amit Shah said earlier in the day. He also took part in the plantation drive in Indore and planted tree in the name of her mother on BSF campus in Reoti Range. As standards of Guinness World Records, the plantation drive had to be completed within 24 hours. For the first 12 hours, pits had to be dug and then trees were to be planted in the following 12 hours. The exercise to dug pits had begun on Saturday evening which continued till 6 am on Sunday. Thereafter, plantation was done amid the presence of state s cabinet minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and mayor Pushyamitra Bhargav at 6 am on Sunday. The plantation continued till 6 pm. The plantation week begun on July 7 with plantation of 11k saplings by saints. Indore is planting a total of 51 lakh saplings. MP’s share in India’s forest cover is 12%: Shah CM Mohan Yadav and Cabinet minister Kailash Vijayvargiya show certificate received from Guinness World Records for planting 12 lakh Union home minister Amit Shah plants tree in the name of his mother at Pitra Parvat on Sunday saplings in 24 hours on Sunday HIGHLIGHTS Our Staff Reporter INDORE n Indore surpasses record of Assam which planted 9.25 lakh trees in a single day n More than 30k people participated in the Indore campaign n A trench of 30 kilometre was made where 12 lakh pits were dug Decomposed body of tiger found, poaching suspected Our Staff Reporter Body cremated BHOPAL The body of a missing feline was found in Chicklod jungle area of Raisen district on Sunday. The tiger carcass was highly decomposed. Forest officials are probing the tiger death incident. Interacting with Free Press, Chief Conservator of Forest, Rajesh Khare said that it was in Ashapuri beat of Chiklodh range, tiger corpse was found inside a drain. It body of tiger is three to four days old. The search operation for tiger was launched on the basis of information. Sources said that search operation continued for two days. On Saturday also, search was done for tiger but search operation was stopped in mid- fp Briefs NEW DELHI Patient shot dead in hosp In a shocking incident, a patient was shot dead in a Delhi hospital on Sunday evening, said police. The incident took place at Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital at 4:20 pm. "A PCR call was received from ward No 24 of GTB Hospital at around 4:20 pm, in which information was given that someone shot dead a patient and went away. way due to heavy rainfall. On Sunday, search was again conducted and it was during the noon hours that tiger body was spotted inside a drain. The State Tiger Force (STF) has received some vital clues in connection with the tiger death case which is being investigated as a poaching incident. 4Continued on | P6 Chief Conservator of Forest, Rajesh Khare told Free Press that highly decomposed body of feline was recovered from the jungles of Ashapuri area. After autopsy, the dead body of feline was cremated. As body was highly decomposed hence it could not be known that whether it is a male or female tiger. On being asked that wild life activist Ajay Dubey had apprehended that feline was killed by professional poachers, he said that so far, no bullet had been found. Vital samples of feline will be sent to Forensic Science Laboratory of either Sagar or Jabalpur. Four children drown in well during mother's suicide bid 4Continued on | P6 PTI AMRITSAR Four children drowned after their mother jumped into a well with them in an attempt to commit suicide in Mandsaur district on Sunday, police said. The incident occurred in Pipalkheda village in Garoth, about 100 kilometres from the district headquarters, in the early hours of the day, an official said. Locals managed to rescue Sugna Bai (40) from the water body but could not save her children in time, he said. Bodies of Arvind (11), Anusha (9), Bittu (6) and Kartik (3) were fished out of the well later, Additional Superintendent of Police Hemlata Kuril told reporters. Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the supreme temporal seat of the Sikh community, Giani Raghbir Singh has asked the SGPC to put up portraits of three Khalistani separatists in the central Sikh museum in the Golden Temple complex. While describing them "martyrs" of Sikh community, the Akal Takht jathedar asked the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC) to install portraits of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, Paramjit Singh Panjwar and Gajinder Singh. In a statement here, he said the SGPC should display the portraits of the trio "in view of their sacrifices and contribution towards the Sikh commu- (Detailed on Page 4) CUET-UG retest on July 19 Haridev Pushparaj PTI NEW DELHI memories of a young Rafael Nadal bursting on the scene at 18 winning his first French Open where he beat Roger Federer in the semi-finals. A new Spanish wave is on its way to dominate world tennis and these are just early days for a very young Alcaraz, all of 21 at the moment. The National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to conduct a retest for over 1000 candidates of CUET UG on July 19. The NTA had on July 7 released the provisional answer key of Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 and announced that it will conduct a retest for CUET UG candidates between July 15 and 19 if any grievance raised by students about the conduct of the exam is found to be correct. While the agency notified the retest schedule on Sunday, it remained silent on the declaration of the result which has already been delayed by over two weeks with the final answer key not yet notified. 4Continued on | P6 Shooter shot dead by Secret Service PTI Demand to put portraits of Sikh separatists in Golden Temple museum FP News Service Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents CHICAGO/WASHINGTON Chief Minister Dr Mohan Yadav said that in Sanatan Dharma trees are regarded as deities and Hindus worship them. He stated that the PM s Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam has become a revolution. We in the state are planting 5.5 crore saplings. Indore is planting 51 lakh saplings, Bhopal 40 lakh and Ujjain 10 lakh saplings, he stated. Urban development and housing minister Kailash Vijayvargiya said that plantation of 51 lakh saplings is not a one-time affair. 4Continued on | P6 MUMBAI break as the set went to the tiebreaker. It seemed there was a window of opportunity for Djokovic going into the tiebreak but the Spanish superstar held his nerve to close out the set, match and championship at 7-6 (7-4). Alcaraz’s back-to-back Wimbledon titles rekindles Calling Madhya Pradesh as lungs of the country , Union home minister Amit Shah here on Sunday said that the state s share in India s forest cover is 12 per cent. The MP has one of the highest forest cover in the country which stands at 31 per cent, he said addressing an event organised on the sidelines of the mega plantation drive in Indore. Hindus worship trees as gods: CM MANDSAUR Alcaraz is the champ, again Carlos Alcaraz played the best tennis of his life as he outclassed the 24-times Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic 6-2, 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) to clinch his fourth Grand Slam crown and second consecutive Wimbledon title. It was a performance for the ages by the Spanish sensation as he outplayed the Serbian legend in about two hours and 27 minutes. Alcaraz wrapped up the first two sets in a jiffy but just when it seemed it was all going too easy and headed for a straight-set demolition, there was a slight twist in the tale. With five games to four and 40-0 up with three championship points at his disposal, Alcaraz fumbled with a double fault and allowed Djokovic to Trump escapes assassination bid nity". Gajinder Singh, the founder of Dal Khalsa, was one of the five men accused of hijacking an Indian Airlines plane to Lahore in 1981. He reportedly died of a heart attack in Pakistan recently at the age of 74. India had put Gajinder's name in the list of 20 most wanted terrorists in 2002. Khalistan separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar was killed outside Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara in British Columbia, Canada on June 18, 2023. 4Continued on | P6 Former US president Donald Trump survived an attempt on his life on Saturday when a young shooter fired multiple shots at him at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, injuring his right ear, days before he was to accept the Republican Party's nomination for the presidential election in November. Trump, 78, was speaking at the packed outdoor election rally in Butler town when bullets started flying. Video footage showed him grabbing his ear as shots were fired. The crowd started screaming behind him and then someone yelled "Get down, get down, get down, get down!" as Secret Service agents piled on top of Trump to shield him. The shooting created chaos with people in the back of the The fabled ‘Ratna Bhandar (treasury)’ of the Sri Jagannath Temple in Puri, Odisha, was finally opened on Sunday, lifting the veil off a six-year-old mystery and controversy. The opening of the treasury vault of the 12th century shrine was one of the major poll planks on which the BJP won the twin elections in the state last June. The task did not prove to be as difficult as was anticipated, despite the keys to the Ratna Bhandar being ‘either missing or misplaced’. It was last opened in 1978. So, what exactly is the Ratna Bhandar? As the name suggests, it is a repository of valuable gems (ornaments), the inner chamber of the Sri Mandir, where it is believed, the jewels and gold 4Continued on | P6 As Trump was bundled into a nearby vehicle, confusedlooking Secret Service agents nervously looked around. One agent seemed to struggle to holster her weapon into her waistband, while another frantically moved around. There was a ‘bewildering lack of action from agents,’’ said an eyewitness. TILT OF THE HEAD Trump tilted his head just seconds before the shot was fired. It enabled him to dodge the bullet, literally. He grabbed his right ear and brought his hand down to look at it before dropping to his knees behind the podium. 5 ARRESTED WITH RADIOACTIVE DEVICE Pro-China Oli Deal to sell device was to is Nepal’s PM be done in Gurugram device through messages, when they were away from each other. Zaid sold his flat 8 The 5 accused arrested with a months ago Zaid’s father, radioactive device in DehraUbaid Ali told Free Press that dun told Uttarakhand police Zaid had sold one of his flats that the deal to sell the device eight months ago, and had was to be finalised in opened a garments Gurugram. Two of the store in New Market accused are from area of the city. As Bhopal. told by his father, he Dehradun SP Ajay had been to Delhi a Singh told Free Press month ago, to get Follo up that the arrested acorders for his garcused belonging to Bhoments. Adding to this, pal, Zaid Ali and Abhishek he said that on Tuesday too, Jain told the cops that the dehe had left Bhopal on the previce was to be sold by the text of going to Delhi. mastermind of the gang, Sumit He said the last time he spoke Pathak. Pathak, as per SP to Zaid was on Wednesday, Singh, is still at large. The police after which he did not call him. said that all the arrested ac4Continued on | P6 cused used to discuss about the led by retired Orissa High Court Judge Biswanath Rath, had a clear mandate - to open the Ratna Bhandar when the divine trinity set off on its annual sojourn, following the ‘rath yatra’. The committee acted swiftly, choosing a date for the opening of the chambers, whether or not the keys were available. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 FP ornaments of Lord Jagannath and his sibling deities, Balabhadra and Subhadra, have been stored for centuries. The outer chamber is where the golden adornments were stacked for day-to-day use. Historically, the proceeds in terms of valuables earned by way of conquests of Gajapati Maharaja of Puri went to the Ratna Bhandar. A 16-member committee formed barely ten days ago, Shirish B Pradhan KATHMANDU K P Sharma Oli, a pro-China leader, was appointed Nepal’s Prime Minister for a fourth term on Sunday. He leads the Communist Party of Nepal-Unified Marxist Leninist, which will form a coalition government with the support of the Nepali Congress, the largest party in Parliament. Oli, a wily politician who has wrecked many governments in Nepal in the past, had endangered ties with India during his first term when he had publicly criticised India for interfering in Nepal’s internal matters and accused the southern neighbour of toppling his government. In his second term, his government redrew Nepal’s political map by incorporating three strategically key Indian territories. India had termed as “untenable” the “artificial enlargement” of the territorial claims by Nepal over areas which India maintains belong to it. Again, in July 2020, Oli offended Indian sensibilities by claiming that India had appropriated Ram and that the real Ayodhya was in Nepal, forcing the Foreign Ministry in Kathmandu to issue a clarification. Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Keys missing but Ratna Bhandar finally opened Srimoy Kar venue immediately running to the exits. As blood gushed from his ear, Trump was then rushed off stage. He boldly pumped his fist into the air and told the crowd to "fight!" He was then whisked away in a car to a Pittsburgharea hospital. "Let me get my shoes," Trump said as he was escorted to the safe place. BEWILDERED AGENTS offgrid BHUBANESWAR MOTIVE MYSTERY US investigators are still trying to piece together the why and how of the assassination bid. The gunman who shot at Donald Trump is a 20-year-old registered Republican named Matthew Crooks who had donated for Joe Biden’s campaign. Crooks had no criminal history and officials claimed they are still working on identifying a motive behind the shooting.