FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. 14 No. 35 | BHOPAL | FRIDAY | JULY 19, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 www.freepressjournal.com Sports SINDHU AIMS FOR HISTORIC THIRD OLYMPIC MEDAL P.14 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK 2 of the world’s 5 largest coal mines now in India Cinema Influencer apologises to Priyanka P.16 TRAIN ACCIDENT: Chandigarh-Dibrugarh Express derails near Gonda in UP FOUR KILLED, 20 INJURED 8 15 coaches derail ambulances deployed in Gonda, said district Magistrate Neha Sharma, stating that the injured were shifted to various govt hospitals A 40-member medical team and 15 ambulances were rushed to spot. More medical teams were being rushed there, official said fp Briefs NEW DELHI Hardik and Natasa announce separation Indian cricketer Hardik Pandya and Natasa Stankovic have confirmed their separation. The couple released a joint statement on Instagram saying they decided to part ways mutually, ending their fouryear-old marriage in the "best interest for the both of us". The duo stated that they will continue to coparent their three-year-old son Agastya together. Victim Sandeep Kumar said for a moment, the coach was filled with dust and it was all dark. I don't remember what happened in the next few seconds. I only remember the cries and that some passengers pulled my hand and helped me get out of the window 10 lakh Ex gratia Railways has announced ex gratia of Rs 10 lakh each to the family of the deceased, Rs 2.5 lakh for grievous injury and Rs 50,000 was announced for minor injuries Over 3,500 industry captains to take part in Jabalpur RIC Baidyanath, ITC and Eicher groups to participate in the event that will begin on Saturday Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL delegates representing Taiwan, Malaysia, UK, Fiji, Japan and Indonesia. Yadav will virtually inaugurate more than 60 units and, during the conclave, he will directly hold talks with industrialists. There will be five regional sessions to discuss the possibilities of investment in the region. Agriculture, food and dairy, defence, mining, textiles, garments and tourism are included in the talks. There will be a round table conference with the experts of industries associations, startups, defence, textiles and garments. The second Regional Industries Conclave of the state is being held in Jabalpur on Saturday. As many as 3,500 participants are attending it. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav held a video-conferencing with the industrialists of Mahakaushal on Thursday to discuss the conclave. Yadav also discussed the issues related to the conclave with the officers of the Industries Department. Eminent industrialists, representatives of various indus- tries associations and foreign representatives are taking part in the conclave. The eminent industrial house s, like Baidyanath Group under RIC, ITC, Volvo, Eicher, Best Carp, SRF and Dawat Group are taking part in the meet. There will be foreign 12 naxals with Rs 86L bounty killed Congress to celebrate Bakri-Eid in PS Akhilesh’s monsoon offer to BJP dissidents In all 12 naxalites, including three senior cadres, who were killed in an encounter with security forces in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra carried a total cash reward of Rs 86 lakh on their heads, police said on Thursday. Due to the success of the operation, the entire Korchi-Tipagad and Chatgaon-Kasansur Dalams of Maoists have been wiped out, they claimed. Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Congress will celebrate BakriEid and Guru Nanak Prakash Parv in every police station of Bhopal city. We are going to take permission from commissioner of police, said former chief minister Digvijaya Singh, here on Thursday. After submitting complaint against minister Vishvas Sarang in Ashoka Garden police station in nursing college scam, the Congress leaders took a press conference at PCC. 4Continued on | P6 The train accident in Gonda district is extremely sad. District administration have been directed to carry out relief and rescue operations on a war footing and to take injured to hospital and provide them proper treatment, said UP CM Yogi Adityanath Declare NEET-UG results by July 20 noon: SC to NTA PTI NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Thursday directed the National Testing Agency (NTA) to declare by 12 noon of July 20 the centre and city-wise results of NEET-UG 2024 while masking the identities of aspirants. As it strove to address the allegations of malpractices in the conduct of the examination, a bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud said any order for conducting it afresh has to be on 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 ANI NEW DELHI offgrid Babies use mom’s scent to see faces: Study IANS NEW DELHI Ever imagined how babies see the world? An interesting study on Thursday showed that infants aged between four and 12 months use their mother’s scent to perceive faces. The study published in the Child Development journal noted that infants benefitting the most from the presence of their mother’s odour, and that their ability greatly improves between four and 12 months. Further, researchers including from Universite de Bourgogne and the University of Hamburg in France suggest that older infants efficiently perceive faces from visual information, and they do not need to rely on other concurrent cues anymore. The study aimed to find whether olfactory-to-visual facilitation declines grad- ually as infants grow and become more efficient at perceiving faces solely from visual information. To understand, the team tested 50 infants aged from 4 to 12 months and found that the face-selective EEG response increases and complexifies between 4 and 12 months, indicative of improved face perception with development. “As expected, we also found that the benefit of adding the mother’s body odour diminishes with age, confirming an inverse relation between the effectiveness of visual perception and its sensitivity to a concurrent odour,” said Dr Arnaud Leleu, Associate Professor of psychology and neuroscience from the Universite de Bourgogne in Dijon, France. 4Continued on | P6 3 held for waving Palestinian flag in Muharram procession FP News Service KHANDWA/RAJGARH Police have apprehended at least three persons in Khandwa for allegedly waving a Palestinian flag during a Muharram procession, officials said on Thursday. A similar case has also been filed in Damoh. In Rajgarh district of the state, the police picked up a minor boy after he was seen in a video purportedly raising the flag of the west Asian country, but he was let off after questioning, they said. Muslims took out tazia processions across the country on Wednesday and offered special prayers as they observed Muharram -- the martyrdom of Imam Hussain Ali. Muslims commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussain Ali, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, in the battle of Karbala in 680 AD with mourning rituals. Khandwa Superintendent of Police Manoj Rai said, "We have picked up at least three persons after a prominent leader of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP) lodged a complaint with us that a Palestinian flag was waved during a Muharram procession, which it alleged was done to whip up communal frenzy." The police are questioning the apprehended persons to know the Palestinian flag being waved in Khandwa motive, he said."We will act in accordance with the law," Rai said. In Rajgarh, a minor was picked up by the police after a video showed him waving a Palestinian flag during a Muharram procession in the city. But he was let off after questioning, Sub Divisional Officer of Police Upendra Bhati said. The police in both these districts, however, denied that these flags were of militant Islamist group Hamas. They also said that no anti-Israel slogans were raised during the processions. But eyewitnesses said that some people raised anti-Israel slogans at Shivaji Chowk in Khandwa city during the procession. "A written complaint has been received from Bajrang Probe launched Police has launched an investigation after it received complaints of the raising of pro-Palestine slogans and waving of the Palestine flag during a Tazia procession in the Khandwa district. The complaint was registered by Bajrang Dal, alleging that the 'Palestine flags' were waved during the Tazia procession at Shivaji Chowk in Khandwa city on Wednesday. Dal members and the incharge of the concerned police station has been directed to investigate the matter and submit the reports to district police headquarters," Khandwa SP Manoj Kumar Rai said. 2-inch rain drowns Bhopal Students’ identity will not be disclosed dream of becoming the Chief Minister and if he could bring in a hundred MLAs with him, then the Samajwadi Party would give full support to him to form the government. On Wednesday, Deputy CM KP Maurya caused a flutter with a post on X from his office that quoted Maurya as saying, "The organisation is bigger than the government; the pain of the workers is my pain. No one is bigger than the organisation; the workers are the pride." ‘Bring 100 MLAs and form govt’ Taking a dig at the UP Govt, after a post by the Deputy CM mentioning that the organisation was bigger than the government set political temperatures soaring, the Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav announced a monsoon offer on Thursday, where he asked dissidents to bring a hundred MLAs and form the government in Uttar Pradesh. Yadav took to X, announcing the offer, saying, "Monsoon Offer: Bring a hundred, form the government!" Earlier, in an interview with ABP News, Yadav said that Maurya had a Yogi mourns concrete conclusion that the sanctity of the entire process was affected. The top court will resume hearing the arguments on July 22 on a batch of pleas seeking cancellation, re-test and a court-monitored probe into the allegations of largescale malpractices in the prestigious test held on May 5. During the day-long hearing, the bench asked the counsel for the aspirants to establish their claim about extensive irregularities in holding the examination, including leak of question paper, warranting cancellation and a re-test. The court said it prima facie appeared that the question paper leak was limited to Patna and Hazaribagh, and nothing of this sort can be said to have happened in Godhra in Gujarat. In Patna and Hazaribagh, the question papers allegedly got leaked, while in Godhra there were claims that a person involved in holding the test took money for filling up the OMR sheets of certain candidates. GADCHIROLI E-paper Nation Display eatery owners’ name diktat draws flak P.7 MONEY Dust-filled coach MUMBAI Scent of a mother Scene at Banganga Road in Bhopal Seven shanties were damaged in a slum after wall collapse Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Heavy rains lashed the state Patwari told to remove stray cattle in Chhatarpur capital on Thursday leading to water-logging in entire city throwing traffic out of gear on flooded roads. Bhopal recorded 48.8mm (2 inch) rainfall in one hour in the afternoon. Besides, 7 shanties in a slum were damaged with the collapse of the boundary wall of Vallabh Bhavan due to heavy storm water. All pockets like MP Nagar, Jahangirabad, Banganga, Bhopal talkies, Hamidia Road, Link Road no-1, Link Road-2 and Link Road -3, Shahpura, 1100 –quarter, Depot Square, Kotra Sultanabad, Jyoti Talkies, Khatlapura, etc. were waterlogged. (Full report inside ) No entry for CBI sans MP govt’s permission State govt issues notification providing a shield to its employees Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL A patwari has been pressed into service to remove stray cattle from the roads in Chhatarpur. The area sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) has issued the order in this regard. This order has irked MP Patwari Sangh. MP Patwari Sangh president Upendra Singh said, “People pay the toll tax for the same job. Road maintenance covers all the things. It is duty of toll staff to clear the roads.” The SDM assigned the duty of various officials including patwari Sushil Mishra to remove herd of stray cattle from roads between Deogaon turning and Deogaon toll barrier on National Highway (NH)-39. 4Continued on | P6 CBI will not be able to probe the public servants, including ministers, legislators and officers, without MP government’s written permission. The state government has provided a shield to state public servants from CBI probe, through this notification. The state government earlier issued such a notification. But it has been reissued after the Bharatiya Nyay Samhita recently came into existence. Nevertheless, there will be no change the cases for which the state government has already given nod for a probe. Along with this, consent will be given for trial of each case on the basis of evidence. But to try the employees of the Central Government and Central Public Undertakings, the agency does not have to take the government’s permission. According to sources, such a notification was issued for the first time during the tenure of the then chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. When the Congress formed the government under Kamal Nath in 2018, the notification was not disturbed. Likewise, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav also maintained the notification for CBI probe in connection with the officers and employees of MP.