FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLI No. 80 | INDORE | WEDNESDAY | AUGUST 28, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.in ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: Sports Here We Go, Coco: Reigniting the Flame on Day 1... P.14 fp INDORE UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MONEY Govt capex boosts GDP growth by 3.4% over last 10 yrs: Moody’s E-paper Edit Collapse of government’s credibility P.8 Cinema ‘The journey has just begun’ P.13 SETBACK: Free spirit Pawan drowns in Kuno Briefs Wild life activist Ajay Dubey expressed surprise over the claim of Kuno officials that Pawan died possibly due to drowning. He said cat family members don’t drown. He feared that it may be a case of poaching. Demanding high level probe into the incident, he said that Field Director of Kuno National Park Uttam Sharma should be removed. BHOPAL Jay Shah is ICC boss at just 35 In yet another setback to the cheetah project, Namibian cheetah Pawan died due to drowning in Kuno National Park of Sheopur on Tuesday morning. Pawan was found lying dead by the side of a nullah flowing in full strength. Pawan was the lone cheetah which was in the free range, while rest of the cheetahs and cubs are inside the The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah has become the youngest chairman of the International Cricket Council (ICC) at the age of 35. The appointment was announced by the ICC. Shah’s appointment at the helm of the ICC became a mere formality when incumbent chairman Greg Barclay decided not to seek a third term a few days back. After Shah filed his nomination on the last day; he was elected unopposed as the sole nominee for the post. ICC announced: “Jay Shah has been elected unopposed as the next Independent Chair of the International Cricket Council (ICC).” Shah, who served as the BCCI Honorary Secretary since October 2019. Good swimmer Activist sceptical Our Staff Reporter MUMBAI enclosures. The statement released by Kuno officials said that it was around 10.30 am that Pawan was found lying near the edge of a nullah. Its carcass was stuck amidst bushes and he was unresponsive. The veterinary doctors were informed immediately. On closer inspection, it was found that the front half of Pawan’s body including his head was inside the water with no external injuries visible on the body. Preliminary cause of death seems to be due to drowning. The actual cause of death could be known only after the post mortem. 12 ADULTS 13 CUBS LEFT With the death of Pawan, now only 12 adult cheetahs RG KAR HORROR: 'Nabanna Abhijan' meets brute force Protesters, cops injured as clashes erupt during rally Aritra Singha KOLKATA Kolkata, a veritable minefield since protests erupted over the recent rape and murder of a doctor, turned into a warzone on Tuesday after protesters and police clashed as the former tried to make their way through barricades to march towards the West Bengal secretariat ‘Nabanna'. Scuffles broke out at Howrah Bridge and other areas and the police had to resort to lathi charge and use water cannons to disperse the milling crowd, many of them senior citizens. Braving the gushing water jets, the protestors dismantled the barricades as they surged towards the secretariat. As the administration came down with a sledgehammer, protesters questioned where the police were hiding when a rampage took place at the RG Kar hospital premises in the wee hours of August 15. NEW DELHI Majority in RS for NDA The ruling NDA dispensation touched the majority mark in the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday as nine BJP members and two from allies were elected unopposed in the by-polls to the upper house. With this, BJP's strength has reached 96, taking NDA’s to 112 in the upper house. Among the three others to get elected unopposed were one each from NDA allies - NCP faction of Ajit Pawar and Rashtriya Lok Manch. The ruling alliance also has the support of six nominated and one independent members. One member of the Congress also got elected, taking the Opposition numbers in the Upper House to 85. 4Continued on | P6 Tear gas shells being used by security personnel to disperse students during their protest march towards West Bengal Secretariat in Kolkata, on Tuesday BJP calls for 12-hour strike today against police brutality BJP on Tuesday called for a 12- hour strike on Wednesday against police brutality. BJP state president and MoS Sukanta Majumdar urged everyone to make the 12-hour bandh ‘successful’. “This strike is to restore democracy and is against autocratic rule in the state. With folded hands I would urge everyone to make the bandh successful. We all have seen how police have baton-charged on peaceful protestors. They (police) didn’t even leave the women and senior citizens,” Rs 2.26K cr investment likely at industries conclave in Gwalior NEW DELHI Kavitha is out of jail Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL K Kavitha, in jail since March over alleged corruption and money laundering charges in connection with the Delhi liquor policy case, was released from jail on Tuesday evening, hours after Supreme Court granted conditional bail to the Telangana politician. BRS workers and supporters played drums and burst crackers as she stepped out of the prison complex. Kavitha's brother and BRS working president KT Rama Rao was also present. The next Regional Industries Conclave is going to be held in Gwalior on Wednesday. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav will do one-to-one meeting with the investors. Apart from this, there will be round table discussion with investors. This conclave will open a new window of investment in Gwalior-Chambal region. Trade commissioner and industrial representatives of half dozen countries are going to participate in this conclave. They include Zambia’s Secretary of Economy and Trade Ireen Akombelwa Apuleni, Tongo’s Mission Attache Maz This conclave will open a new window of investment in Gwalior-Chambal region Viayo Mendeli, Chief Diplomatic Agreement of Costa Rica Sofia Salas Monge, Mexico’s Economic and Commercial Affairs Officer Ricardo Daniel Delgardo Munoz, Ravi Tiwari of Canada and Trade Commissioner of Netherland Miss Priya. Senior officers will give presentation during the conclave to highlight the opportunities in investment. The industrial units already established in Gwalior-Chambal such as Jamna Auto Industries, Godrej Consumer product are set to expand their wings and are going to pump in investment of around Rs 2,260 crores. This will provide jobs to more than 4,500 people. Senior officials of industry groups like Reliance Industries, AGI Green Pack, Prime Gold etc are also going to come up with investment proposals in the conclave. Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Assembly Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar, Panchayat Minister Prahlad Patel, Water Resources Minister Tulsiram Silawat, Minister Chetanya Kashyap etc will remain present in the conclave. said Majumdar. Countering the saffron camp, TMC minister Chandrima Bhattacharya said that everything will be normal on Wednesday. “The strike culture has gone from the state after Mamata Banerjee became CM. 3 MP teachers to get National Teachers Awards Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Three teachers from Madhya Pradesh have been selected for the National Teachers Awards 2024. These teachers hail from Damoh, Dindori, and Mandsaur districts and will receive their awards on September 5 at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The selected teachers are Madhav Patel from Middle School Lidhora (Damoh); Sunita Godha from High School, Khajuria Sarang (Mandsaur); and Sunita Gupta from Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhamangaon (Dindori). 4Continued on | P6 ‘Me-too’ storm in Mollywood claims actor Mohanlal FP News Service T’PURAM Following the ‘me-too’ moment that has engulfed Mollywood after the release of the Justice Hema Committee re- port, senior actor Mohanlal Tuesday resigned as President of the Association of Malayalam Movie Actors (AMMA) ater remaining silent all the while. Another senior actor, Mam- days, pressure mooty too has remained silent. In the last few has been mounting on Mohanlal and AMMA with protestors taking rallies and laying wreaths in front of the office of the association demanding action. 4Continued on | P6 offgrid No romance for 31 yrs: Woman seeks divorce Our Staff Reporter Hasan Zaidi BHOPAL 31 years after their marriage, the wife of a Central Paramilitary Force (CPMF) official has decided that she doesn’t want her husband to live with her. The wife has approached the Bhopal District Family Court, seeking maintenance from him. The 60-year-old husband MUMBAI retired from a CPMF last month. His last posting was in Guwahati. During his service period, he was posted in Won’t allow him to live with her and the kids ; demands maintenance different places in the country and visited Bhopal, where his wife lived, once every four months or so as leaves were difficult to get. According to Sapna Prajapati, who tasked with coun- selling the couple, they have three children. All of them are adults. The husband had bought two houses in Bhopal, both in the name of his wife. The wife has sold one of them and is living with her children in the other one. The man also made fixed deposits in his wife’s name. The wife, who is 51, is not ready to allow the man to live with her and children also don’t want to live him. She says that during their 31-yearlong married life, the man never bought any gift for her and never took her on an outing - no cinemas, no parks, no ice-creams, no hotels, nothing. She says that during his periodic visits, he was only interested in making physical relations with her. 4Continued on | P6 Cheetah Pawan was a good swimmer. “He swam from one side of pond to another side in Veerpur range around four to five months back - around one km,” said a forest employee of Kuno National Park on condition of anonymity. He was equally surprise that how Pawan died due to drowning. are in Kuno National park. 4Continued on | P6 Minor girl gang raped in govt hosp at Jodhpur FP News Service Student killed, 6 hurt as auto overturns Driver was drunk JAIPUR A teenager (15) girl has been allegedly gang raped within the premises of government run Mahatma Gandhi Hospital in Jodhpur. The incident occurred late at night on August 25 at the biomedical waste dumping yard behind the building of the hospital. The police got the information on Monday evening. According to Pratap Nagar assistant commissioner of police Anil Kumar, the teenager had left her home on Sunday evening after being reprimanded by her mother. Her missing report was lodged at Soorsagar police station on the evening of August 25. Police got information about the girl on August 26, after which her family members were informed A probe has been initiated after the minor’s medical examination. Forensic teams have collected evidence from the crime scene on Tuesday morning and teams have been formed to apprehend the suspects. 4Continued on | P6 Harshit Our Staff Reporter INDORE A class XI student of St Arnold’s School at Lalaram Nagar was killed while six other students received injuries after their auto-rickshaw overturned in Tilak Nagar area on Tuesday. It is said that the driver, who was caught by people, was inebriated. He was driving the rickshaw recklessly due to which one of the wheels of the auto-rickshaw came off and it overturned. Investigating officer Shriram Parmar from Tilak Nagar police station informed Free Press that the incident occurred on Tilak Nagar Main The ACP said that the driver was in an inebriated condition and was driving the auto-rickshaw recklessly. Though the exact reason behind the accident is still being investigated, the police believe that the rickshaw first hit a portable divider and overturned on the road. Road around 1.45 pm. The auto-rickshaw would drop seven children from their school to their houses when the rickshaw overturned. In this incident, Harshit Sitole (16), a resident of Suraj Nagar area was killed. He was sitting at the corner and when the auto hit the divider, he fell off the vehicle and the auto fell on his chest. Six other students received injuries. Harshit was alive after the accident and gave his uncle Satish’s mobile number to an eyewitness who informed the latter. Harshit was taken to hospital, where he died during treatment at around 3.30 pm. 4Continued on | P6