FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 60 | BHOPAL | TUESDAY | AUGUST 13, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.com Sports 7: TT Breakthrough: Manika and Sreeja Shine P.14 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN WORLD PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK Ukrainian UAV caused fire in nuclear plant: Russia Cinema Mission Impossible: The Forceful Kiss P.16 IIT-Indore slips to 16th, IIM-I stays at 8th, DAVV 50th in SPUs INDORE Madhya Pradesh’s jinx continues as this year too no higher education institution from the state could feature into the top-100 universities in Indian Rankings-2024 released by National Institutional Ranking Framework on Monday. Adding salt to injury, the most of institutions in the state also fared poorly in NIRF Rankings-2024. While IIT Indore slipped two positions down to 16th in the engineering category, IITM Gwalior and IITDM Jabalpur -which got 88th and 97th position last year – climbed down to find place in the band of 101-150 institutions. IIM Indore managed to retain its 8th rank in management category, IIITM Gwalior saw a dip from 68th position last year to 85th rank this year. National Law Institute University, Bhopal also went three positions below to 21th rank. While colleges from MP could not fit into the top-200 colleges in fp Briefs ISLAMABAD Pak army detains former ISI chief Former chief of Pakistan's spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Faiz Hameed was taken into custody by the country's powerful army in connection with a housing scheme scandal. In a statement on Monday, the public relations wing of Pakistan Army said, "Complying with the orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan, a detailed court of inquiry, was undertaken by Pakistan Army, to ascertain correctness of complaints in Top City Case made against Lt Gen Faiz Hameed (Retd).” NEW DELHI Retail inflation slips to 3.54 pc Retail inflation declined to a five-year low of 3.54 per cent in July mainly on account of subdued prices of food items, and base effect, according to official data released on Monday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based retail inflation was 5.08 per cent in June 2024 and 7.44 per cent in July 2023. Representational photo the country,the state’s one of the leading universities i.e. Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya (DAVV) failed to go up from the band of 101-150 varsities. The DAVV in fact retained its last year’s position. However, MANIT Bhopal and AIIMS Bhopal saved the grace to some extent with the former climb- ing up by eight positions to secure 72nd position and the latter going up from last year’s 38th position to 31st rank this year. Besides, DAVV found place in top50 varsities in State Public University category thus becoming No 1 University in MP as per NIRF Rankings. l University category (151-200 band): LNCT University (Bhopal),RNT University (Raisen) l Engineering category (101-150 band): IIITM (Gwalior), IIITDM (Jabalpur), Amity University (Gwalior), IES College of Technology (Bhopal), LNCT (Bhopal), RNT University (Raisen), SGSITS Indore l Management category (101-150 band): Jaipuria Institute of Management, Indore l Pharmacy category (101-150 band): IES Institute of Pharmacy, Bhopal l College category (201-300 band): Institute for Excellence in Higher Education(IEHE), Bhopal l Overall category (151-200 band): MANIT Bhopal Institution Overall category IIT Indore IISER, Bhopal Research Institution IIT Indore Engineering IIT Indore MANIT, Bhopal IITM Gwalior IITDM Jabalpur Management IIM Indore IIITM Gwalior Medical AIIMS Bhopal Law NLIU Bhopal Architect SPA Bhopal MANIT, Bhopal State Public Unvi DAVV, Indore Mayors, urban body reps get 20% hike in honorarium Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Chief Minister Mohan Yadav announced to hike in honorarium of mayors and other elected members of urban local bodies by 20 % on Monday. He made this announcement during the Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar Urban Women Elected Representatives held at CM House premises on Monday. On highest tax collection in the division, Municipal Corporation will get incentive of Rs 5 crores per year. Likewise, Rs 2 crores will be given to 10-yr-old boy sodomised in madrassa FPNS MHOW A madrassa staffer was arrested in Indore in Madhya Pradesh on Monday for allegedly sodomising a 10-year-old boy, a police official said. The 20-year-old accused sodomised the boy, who was studying in the madrassa, on August 2 after lunch, the Badgonda police station official said. "The accused also assaulted the boy and threatened to kill him if he revealed the ordeal to anyone. The victim had entered into a fight with some other boys and was made to sleep in the accused's room for some days till tempers cooled," he said. "After the incident, the boy came out of the madrassa, took the phone of a passerby and informed his mother. 4Continued on | P6 CM Mohan Yadav with elected representatives Nagar Parishad for doing highest tax collection in division. This is aimed to make urban bodies independent in financial matters. In this regard, a state funded scheme will be brought by the government. The amount given under the scheme will be used as corporator fund for the infrastructure works recommended by the elected representatives. The honorarium of mayor has been increased to Rs 26,400 from Rs 22,000. Likewise, honorarium of Speaker has been increased to Rs 21,600 from Rs 18,000 per month. Corporator’s used to get per month honorarium of Rs 12,000 and after the hike, they will get honorarium of Rs 14,400. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee vowed to transfer the alleged rape and murder case of a woman physician inside a Kolata hospital to the CBI if the police failed to solve it by Sunday, amid public outrage. Supporting the cease work by junior doctors at that hospital, interns and postgraduate trainees at other state-run medical establishments across the state vowed to continue their agitation, now in its fourth day, until the culprits are brought to justice. Banerjee's promise, however, did not placate the pro- 2023 2024 28 60 33 78 21 14 80 88 97 16 72 No Rank No Rank 8 68 8 85 38 31 18 21 11 24 12 17 50 NA The principal of RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata resigned today amid massive protests over the rape and murder of a 31year doctor on campus late on Thursday. Dr Sandip Ghosh told the media that he "cannot take the humiliation" on social media and that "political statements are being made in his name". No ambulance or doctor for pregnant lady, janitor delivers baby who dies Agencies BHOPAL Bangladesh is still not safe for Indians, say students who have returned to Bhopal from the trouble-torn country recently. They say that anti-India sentiment is very much present in that country. “I saw a video of people raising anti-India slogans on one of our WhatsApp groups. I don’t know whether it was real or fake,” said Zaid Ansari, adding that “The students’ protest has turned into a communal campaign.” He further said that they want to go back but the situation is not conducive. “We are in Wait-andwatch mode” he said . Zaid, a third-year MBBS student at Monno Medical College in the Manikganj district of Bangladesh, was among the At least three students from the city studying in Bangladesh were able to leave the trouble-torn country in time with the help of the Indian High Commission and the local police 200 Indian and Nepalese students of his college who were taken to Darshana border in 20 vans arranged by the college management. Both the parents of Zaid are doctors and work at Bhopal Care Hospital in the city. Zaid told the Free Press that trouble began in Bangladesh on July 18 and the very next day, the college administration decided to send back foreign students. The college contacted the Indian and Nepalese High Commissions and also alerted the local police. “They left their college post midnight on July 19. Police vehicles escorted their convoy. Meanwhile, mobile Internet was shut down in the country,” In about five hours, they reached the Darshana border. After crossing into India, they felt safe. From the border, the students took trains and buses to their respective destinations. 4Continued on | P6 Cong demands JPC NEW DELHI Amid the raging row over the Hindenburg Research's allegations against SEBI chairperson Madhabi Buch, the Congress on Monday demanded her resignation and urged the Supreme Court to transfer the Adani probe to the CBI or a Special Investigation Team given the "likelihood of SEBI's compromise". SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch has now publicly confirmed her investment in an obscure Bermuda/Mauritius fund structure, US shortseller Hindenburg Research said, asking her to come clean on all the consulting clients her offshore Singaporean as well as Indian consulting firms dealt with. Hours after Buch and her husband issued a statement calling Hindenburg's latest tirade as an attack on the credibility of SEBI and attempted "character assassination", Hindenburg in a series of posts on X said their response includes several important admissions and raised numerous new critical questions. "Buch's response now publicly confirms her investment in an obscure Bermuda/Mauritius fund structure, alongside money allegedly siphoned by Vinod Adani. She also confirmed the fund was run by a childhood friend of her husband, who at the time was an Adani director," it said. Hindenburg had on Saturday alleged that SEBI chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband had undisclosed investments in obscur- Stocks end lower Shares of eight of the ten Adani group firms ended lower on Monday after facing severe drubbing during the morning trade as the US short-seller Hindenburg Research’s allegation against Sebi chairperson Madhabi Puri Buch and her husband.The Adani group firms, however, managed to recover most of their sharp early declines. offshore funds in Bermuda and Mauritius, the same entities allegedly used by Vinod Adani - the elder brother of group chairman Gautam Adani - to round-trip funds and inflate stock prices. 4Continued on | P6 MARKET BOOM: RaGa made Rs 46.5L profit in just 5 months IANS Locals help students escape B’Desh violence Our Staff Reporter against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. "There is no doubt... because of the studentled revolution the whole government collapsed..." Yunus told reporters after a Sunday night meet with the students. "I said (to the students), 'I respect you... I admire you. What you have done is absolutely unparalleled... and because you ordered me to do this (to take charge of the interim administration) I accept...'," Yunus said, recounting part of the conversation he had with the students. Finally, this moment, the monster is gone," Yunus also said, referring to Hasina's departure and the end of what her critics said was an autocratic rule that stifled all dissent. NEW DELHI offgrid BHOPAL Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus - who last week took oath as head of Bangladesh's interim government - has heaped praise on students who spearheaded protests 27 4Continued on | P6 Principal quits Hindenburg to SEBI chief : Come clean on clients PTI 4Continued on | P6 Mamata vows CBI probe if police fail to crack case by Sunday PTI Agencies testing students, who criticized the chief minister for setting a seven-day deadline to address the alleged rape and murder of a fellow doctor. 4Continued on | P6 ‘Monster is gone’: Yunus on Hasina NEW DELHI A pregnant woman in Madhya Pradesh was forced to rely on the 'medical expertise' of a sanitation worker to deliver her child after neither ambulances nor doctors responded to appeals for help. Ambulances failed to reach the pregnant woman's house to take her to the nearest hospital or Primary Health Centre, or PHC. And, once her family somehow got her to the hospital, there were no doctors or nurses to help, leaving the woman and her unborn child to be delivered by a janitor. Unsurprisingly, the child did not survive; it died shortly after delivery. The sanitation worker has reportedly been fired. The shocking incident took place around 9 am Sunday in a village called Kharai in Shivpuri district. In a video widely shared online the sanitation worker admitted to attempting the delivery and that the child had died. She claimed there were no doctors or nurses in the hospital. Local media reports claim the doctor posted to the hospital was on leave for the day, while the nurse was "missing". DOC RAPE-CUM MURDER KOLKATA, E-paper Edit Outrage over Nirbhaya redux P.8 NIRF RANKINGS: AIIMS up from 38th to 31st, NLIU Bhopal slips to 24 from 21 Our Staff Reporter MUMBAI As Rahul Gandhi continues to raise suspicions about the stupendous growth of the Indian stock markets in the Modi 3.0 era, data has revealed that the Leader of Opposition (LoP) made a profit of Rs 46.49 lakh from his stock investments in the last five months. IANS did the math and found that the value of Rahul Gandhi’s portfolio in the stock market increased from about Rs 4.33 crore (as on March 15, 2024), to nearly Rs 4.80 crore (as on August 12, 2024). The profit has been calculated on the basis of shares revealed in the Lok Sabha nomination filed by Rahul Gandhi for the Rae Bareli constituency. 6 women among 7 dead in Bihar temple stampede 16 people hurt PTI JEHANABAD At least seven people, including six women, were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddheshwar Nath Temple in Bihar's Jehanabad district, an official said on Monday. The deceased have been identified as Pyare Paswan (30), Nisha Devi (30), Punam Devi (30), Nisha Kumari (21), and Sushila Devi (64). The identity of one woman remains unknown, the official added. District Magistrate Alankrita Pandey confirmed the fatalities and injuries, stating that the stampede took place at the temple around 11.30 pm on Sunday. She noted that security personnel at the temple quickly brought the situation under control. "Seven people, mostly kanwariyas, were killed and 16 others injured in a stampede at Baba Siddeshwar Nath temple in Barabar Pahadi area of Jehanabad around 11.30 pm on Sunday. The deceased included six women", she told PTI. Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar expressed grief over the incident and instructed that an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh each be provided to the families of the deceased. The Why it happened Patna: Jehanabad Police in Bihar on Monday said that a quarrel between flower sellers and devotees led to the stampede. “The quarrel quickly led to panic and chaos, resulting in the stampede that claimed seven lives,” the police investigation reveals.Police said that the authorities responded swiftly, took control of the situation and deployed additional police forces and civil magistrates to the temple area. Chief Minister also directed the district administration to ensure the best possible treatment for the injured. "The CM has instructed that an ex gratia of Rs 4 lakh each be immediately provided to the next of the kin of the deceased. Kumar has also directed the district administration to provide best possible treatment to the injured," a statement by the Chief Minister's Office said. Rahul Gandhi's portfolio includes stocks like Asian Paints, Bajaj Finance, Deepak Nitrite, Divis Labs, GMM Pfaudler, Hindustan Unilever, Infosys, ITC, TCS, Titan, Tube Investments of India and LTIMindtree, among others. His portfolio includes about 24 stocks, out of which he is currently incurring losses in only four companies - LTI Mindtree, Titan, TCS and Nestle India. 4Continued on | P6 Puja gets arrest relief from HC PTI NEW DELHI The Delhi High Court on Monday granted interim protection from arrest till August 21 to former IAS probationer Puja K h e d k a r, who has been accused of cheating and wrongly availing OBC and disability quota benefits. Justice Subramonium Prasad issued notice to the Delhi Police as well as the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on the anticipatory bail plea by Khedkar, and asked them to file their responses. "In the facts of the present case, the court is of the opinion that the petitioner be not arrested till the next date of hearing," Justice Prasad said, adding that Khedkar shall cooperate with the investigation. The court listed the case for further hearing on August 21. Khedkar allegedly misrepresented information in her application for the UPSC Civil Services Examination, 2022 to get reservation benefits. On July 31, the UPSC cancelled Khedkar's candidature and debarred her from future exams. 4Continued on | P6