FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 31 | BHOPAL | MONDAY | JULY 15, 2024 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 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 MONEY NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit Mahayuti strengths grip, shock for Congress P.8 ‘Expect retail inflation to remain close to 5%’ Brandsutra Say Hallyu To K-Beauty P.12 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 11 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 IMPHAL CRPF jawan killed A CRPF jawan was killed by suspected militants at Mongbung village in Manipur's Jiribam district on Sunday morning, police said. The deceased has been identified as Ajay Kumar Jha, 43, a resident of Bihar. 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 PTI PURI Ratna Bhandar ing keys, the BJP had promised that it would make efforts to reopen the treasury if it won the polls. "On the wish of Lord Jagannath, the Odia community, with the identity of 'Odia Asmita', has started making efforts to move forward," the Chief Minister's Office (CMO) said in a post on X in Odia. "On your wish, the four gates of the Jagannath temples were earlier opened. Today, on your wish, the Ratna Bhandar 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. 4Continued on | P6 Hindus worship trees as gods: CM 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 Demand to put portraits of Sikh separatists in Golden Temple museum FP News Service PTI MANDSAUR 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) Jagannath temple’s Ratna Bhandar reopened after 46 yrs Ratna Bhandar, the revered treasury of the 12th-century Jagannath temple in Puri, was reopened on Sunday after 46 years for an inventory of valuables and the repair of its structure, officials said. The members of a committee set up by the state government for the purpose entered the temple around 12 pm, and after performing rituals, the treasury was reopened at 1.28 pm, the auspicious moment which was decided at a meeting in the morning, they said. The reopening of the Ratna Bhandar became a major political issue during the recently held assembly elections in the state. Targetting the then-ruling BJD over its miss- Trump escapes assassination bid CUET-UG retest on July 19 PTI NEW DELHI was opened after 46 years for a greater purpose," it said in the post. Among the 11 people present when the treasury was reopened were former Orissa HC judge Biswanath Rath, Shree Jagannath Temple Administration (SJTA) chief administrator Arabinda Padhee, ASI Superintendent DB Gadanayak and a representative of Puri's titular king 'Gajapati Maharaja', officials said. Also among them were four servitors, Patjoshi Mohapatra, Bhandar Mekap, Chadhaukarana and Deulikaran, who took care of the rituals. They came out of the Ratna Bhandar, which has an inner and an outer chamber, around 5.20 pm. 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 4Continued on | P6 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 Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents Shooter shot dead by Secret Service PTI CHICAGO/WASHINGTON 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 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. The shooting, which left one spectator dead and two others critically injured, is being investigated as an at- 5 ARRESTED WITH RADIOACTIVE DEVICE Deal to sell device was to be done in Gurugram Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL The five accused arrested with a radioactive device in Dehradun told Uttarakhand police that the deal to sell the device was to be finalised in Gurugram. Two of the accused are from Bhopal. Dehradun SP Ajay Singh told Free Press that the arrested accused belonging to Bhopal, Zaid Ali and Abhishek Jain told the cops that the device was to be sold by the mastermind of the gang, Sumit Pathak. Pathak, as per SP Singh, is still at large. The police said that all the arrested accused used to discuss about the device through messages, when they were away from each other. Zaid sold his flat 8 months ago Zaid’s father, Ubaid Ali told Free Press that Zaid had sold one of his flats eight months ago, and had opened a garments store in New Market area of the city. As told by his father, he had been to Delhi a month ago, to get orders for his garments. Adding to this, he said that on Tuesday too, he had left Bhopal on the pretext of going to Delhi. He said the last time he spoke to Zaid was on Wednesday, after which he did not call him. He said that as he had been suffering from gangrene, owing to which one of his feet had to be cut, he could not go, and thus, his mother left for Dehradun. 4Continued on | P6 offgrid Law should be taught in Indian languages: CJI Agencies LUCKNOW At present, there are 37,000 Supreme Court decisions from 1950 to 2024 that have been translated into Hindi, and this service is available free of charge to all citizens. Chief Justice of India (CJI) D Y Chandrachud Sunday said law should be taught in regional languages so that people’s access to the legal system can be improved. Chandrachud was speaking during the convocation ceremony of Dr Ram Manohar Lohiya National Law University (RMLNLU) in Lucknow on Saturday, an event that was also attended by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, Chief Justice of Allahabad High Court Arun Bhansali and several judges I often discuss with educationists across law can be taught in simple language. CJI Chandrachud of the Allahabad High Court, a release said. He said that if one cannot explain the principles of law to the general public in simple terms, there is a deficiency in the legal profession and legal education. Pointing out that regional languages should also be taken into consideration when teaching law, he said:“I believe that RMLNLU should start an LLB course in Hindi. Laws related to regional issues should also be taught in our universities. If someone comes to the university’s legal aid centre from a nearby village with a landrelated problem and the student does not understand terms such as Khasra how will they be able to help? 4Continued on | P6 No place for violence in America: Biden US President Joe Biden and former presidents Barack Obama, George W Bush and Bill Clinton condemned the assassination attempt. ‘Violence has no place in politics’ Violence has no place in politics and democracies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said this morning, expressing concern over the assassination attempt. tempted assassination. The male attacker was also shot and killed by a member of the Secret Service. A spokesperson for the Trump Campaign said the former president is "fine" after the "heinous act." The gunman was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, the US media reports said though authorities did not release the identity of the gunman. In a post on his Truth Social social media account, Trump elaborated on what happened and described his injuries: "It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. 4Continued on | P6 Oli appointed Nepal's new PM PTI KATHMANDU K P Sharma Oli was appointed Nepal's Prime Minister for the third time on Sunday to lead the new coalition government that faces the daunting challenge of providing political stability in the country. Oli, 72, succeeds Pushpa Kamal Dahal Prachanda who lost the vote of confidence in the House of Representatives on Friday, leading to the formation of the new government process as per Article 76 (2) of the Constitution. President Ram Chandra Paudel appointed Oli as the new Prime Minister of the Communist Party of NepalUnified Marxist Leninist (CPN-UML)-Nepali Congress (NC) coalition. Oli along with the new Cabinet will be sworn in on Monday. Late on Friday night, Oli staked his claim to become the next Prime Minister with the backing of NC president Sher Bahadur Deuba and submitted the signatures of 165 House of Representatives (HoR) members -- 77 from his party and 88 from the NC. Oli served as Nepal's prime minister from October 11, 2015, to August 3, 2016 and then, from February 5, 2018, to July 13, 2021.