FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. 14 No. 81 | BHOPAL | WEDNESDAY | SEPTEMBER 4, 2024 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 www.freepressjournal.in Nation Mayawati supports SC’s observation on bulldozer justice P.6 fp Briefs NEW DELHI Trai's crackdown on pesky calls As many as 2.75 lakh telephone numbers have been disconnected and services to 50 entities blocked as part of regulator Trai's massive crackdown against pesky calls and unregistered telmarketers. The move came after Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) asked telcos to blacklist and disconnect unregistered telemarketers. NEW DELHI WB: India to grow at 7 pc in FY25 The World Bank on Tuesday raised the growth forecast for the Indian economy to 7 per cent from an earlier projection of 6.6 per cent in the current fiscal, helped by recovery in the agri sector and pick-up in rural demand. This is in line with projections by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Asian Development Bank (ADB). Both multilateral funding agencies have raised their forecast to 7 per cent for the financial year ending March 2025. BAHRAICH (UP) Wolf attack injures 5-yr-old girl iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK World Bank raises India’s FY25 GDP growth view to 7% Bengal Assembly passes Aparajita Bill unanimously Agencies Centre moves SC over CISF deployment KOLKATA New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court alleging "unpardonable" non-cooperation by the West Bengal government in providing logistical support to the CISF, tasked with providing security at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata, where a trainee doctor was raped and murdered. Terming the alleged non-cooperation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government as an example "symptomatic of a systemic malaise", the Union Ministry of Home Affairs has sought a direction to West Bengal authorities to extend full cooperation to the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF). other proposals were opposed and rejected by the TMC. After this, the BJP made its protest heard and demanded Banerjee’s resignation. In turn, in her speech, the Chief Minister demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister and Union Home Minister. Although it supported the Bill, the BJP also alleged that it was being used as “eyewash” by the TMC. However, Banerjee said, “When Nyay Sanhita was implemented, I wrote to the Prime Minister that they should not be in a hurry to implement it. There should have been more clarification. If that happened, this situation would not have arisen.” Significant changes to the investigation and prosecution process stipulated in the Bill include the necessity of probes into rape cases to be completed within 21 days of the initial report (a reduction from the previous two-month deadline), fast-track courts for rape cases, and a special task force where women officers will lead inves- Fire at trauma centre of Gwalior hosp; patient dies Notices to officials for expired fire equipment Dean defends Our Staff Reporter A fire broke out in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit) ward of Government Jaya Arogya Hospital's trauma centre in Gwalior on Tuesday morning due to a short circuit in the central AC (Air Conditioning). Ten patients were on ventilators at the time of the fire and one of them died, according to Hospital doctors. JAH is attached to Gajra Raja Medical College, Gwalior. Past fires in hosps 8 persons died in a fire at Life Line Super Specialty Hospital, Jabalpur in August 2022. 4 died in a fire at Kamla Nehru Hospital (Hamidia Hospital) in November 2021 The incident took place at 6:50 am on Tuesday. The security personnel deployed at 19-yr-old shot Committee members dead by cow asked to tour state, vigilantes over suspicion not foreign locales Our Staff Reporter Rajesh Moudgil BHOPAL CHANDIGARH Assembly Speaker Narendra Singh Tomar asked the members of various assembly committees that instead of going on tour of foreign tourists places such as Maldives and Switzerland, they shall do tour of entire Madhya Pradesh to check that whether different government arrangements are in order or not. They shall present the report of their state tour so that government can do the desired improvement. He was addressing the joint meeting of newly constituted committees of Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday. There are total 23 committees of assembly and of them, two are yet to be constituted. tigations. The Bill proposed to amend provisions of Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita 2023, Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, and the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012, “in their application to the state of West Bengal to enhance punishment and to constitute the framework for… expeditious investigation and trial of the heinous act of violence against women and children.” A 19-year-old student was allegedly chased and shot dead by a group of cow vigilantes on August 23 in Haryana’s Faridabad district. The shocking incident occurred along the Delhi-Agra highway in which Aryan Mishra, a class XII student at an open school in Faridabad, was shot dead near Gadhpuri village by the accused, who were said to be five in number. While the accused were Anil Kaushik, Varun, Krishna, Adesh and Saurabh, who were said to be associated with a cow protection group, the gruesome killing took place when the victim was returning home past midnight after having snacks with his four friends in a car. Stating that all the accused had been arrested and were in judicial custody, police said the weapon used in the crime was illegal. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Police kill 9 naxals Burglar steals Rs 15 cr antiques from museum, gets injured in escape bid FP News Service RAIPUR/DANTEWADA the trauma centre took out all 10 patients from the ICU. At the same time, all the power points were turned off and the fire was reported to the fire brigade. Nine dreaded Naxals were reported eliminated while fighting fierce gunfight with the security forces in an encounter which occurred in the jungles of Dantewada-Bijapur border, in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday morning. The fierce encounter which began at night between security forces and members of the banned CPI Maoist group is still going on. The fire was halted on Tuesday morning for a brief period but it again ensured. As per information received, the clash occurred in the jungles of Bailadila, under the Kirandul police station limits. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Gajra Raja Medical College Dean Dr RKS Dhakar said, "All ten patients on ventilators were taken out immediately. One of them, who was almost brain dead, died at 11:15 am while the fire broke out at 6:50 am. So this patient was already almost dead so it is not justified to connect his death to fire incidence.” E-paper Cinema Kamya defends TV industry P.14 DIDI’S GAMBIT: Bill on women’s safety has provisions more stringent than those in BNS, investigations have to be completed in 21 days The West Bengal legislative Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed the Aparajita Woman and Child (West Bengal Criminal Laws and Amendment) Bill, 2024 aimed at creating a “safer environment for women and children” in the wake of the R G Kar Medical College rape and murder case. During the debate after the Bill was tabled, Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari proposed seven amendments, including one that said police and health officials should be identified and punished if they are involved in delaying justice or tampering with evidence. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the first three amendments proposed by Adhikari would be accepted if they were not already in the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita. His MUMBAI Sports B’desh dominates to secure 2-0 series sweep P.12 MONEY BHOPAL/GWALIOR A five-year-old girl was injured in a wolf attack in Mahsi tehsil of Bahraich district on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, the district information department said. According to the locals, Afsana was sleeping in her house in Pandohia village when a wolf attacked her and the marks of the animal's teeth were visible on her neck. ESTD-1983 4Continued on | P6 Next Cabinet in Maheshwar Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said the next cabinet will be held in Maheshwar of Khargone district. He said Vrindavan village will be developed in every development block. Such villages will be self-dependent and clean. He was addressing the ministers before the cabinet meeting at mantralaya on Tuesday. He said that Vrindavan villages will have public toilets, community building and other basic facilities. T hese hamlets will specialise in animal husbandry, milk production and usage of alternative means of energy. Along with this, Geeta Bhawan will be started in urban areas . These will be a source of intellectual study centre. They will have collection of books giving information about Indian culture and will also provide study material for students preparing for various competitive exams. SIT formed to investigate Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL A burglar tried to make off with antique pieces from state museum worth Rs 15 crore, but he fell into the hands of the cops before he could scale the outer wall of the museum on Tuesday, the police said. The museum has collection items of historic value and they are displayed in different sections of the museum. DCP Riyaz Iqbal informed that accused is identified as Vinod Yadav resident of district Gaya of state Bihar. He had done recce of the museum earlier and he came to know the shortcomings in the security measures at the museum. THE RECOVERED ITEMS In all 98 gold, silver and mixed metal coins from Gupta period to Mughal era were stolen. 75 small and big silver coins, 38 coins including small and big of copper, one gold medal, 12 mixed metal articles costing between Rs 12 to 15 crores had been stolen by the burglar. “He had taken a valid entry by purchasing ticket on Sunday, but he managed to hide himself in the museum when it was closed in the evening. Monday is a holiday. 4Continued on | P6 CHANDIGARH 8 dead in Hry road crash Eight people were killed while ten others injured after a truck hit a stationary vehicle carrying devotees in Haryana's Jind district, police said on Tuesday. The accident took place past midnight in Bidharana village on the Hisar national highway. Inspector Kuldeep, SHO of Sadar Narwana, said the injured were taken to hospitals in Jind and Agroha in Hisar. LONDON UK suspends some arms sale to Israel The UK government has announced the suspension of some arms export licenses to Israel. Foreign Secretary David Lammy informed lawmakers in parliament on Monday that around 30 licenses, out of a total of approximately 350, were being suspended, Xinhua news agency reported. New hope of AAP-Cong alliance in Haryana Both parties had contested LS poll jointly in state Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI An innocent query from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, during the Central Election Committee meeting of the party on Haryana elections on Monday, about the possible benefits of forming an alliance with Aam Aadmi Party in the state have triggered speculation and raised hopes of the two parties coming together for the polls in some measure. Senior Aam Aadmi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh was quick to react to the reports saying, “We wel- come any such move. Defeating the BJP is our priority”. He said the party’s Haryana in-charge Sandeep Pathak and Sushil Gupta will discuss the issue and take a final call on the matter after consulting party national convener and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal about it. Incidentally, both the Congress and AAP, who are part of the INDIA bloc, had got into an alliance for the Lok Sabha elections. In Delhi, the AAP had contested four of the seven seats while the Congress had contested three and similarly in Haryana the Congress had left the Kurukshetra Lok Sabha seat for AAP as it had contested the nine others. Similarly, Congress had contested the lone seat of Chandigarh and both the seats of Goa. After Centre's rap, Netflix plays ball CM's father Poonam Chand passes away, funeral today PTI FP News Service NEW DELHI/MUMBAI UJJAIN Under pressure from the government, Netflix India on Tuesday said it has included the real and code names of the hijackers of the Indian Airlines aircraft depicted in the web series 'IC814: The Kandahar Hijack'. The web series had triggered a row after a section of viewers objected to the humane projection of terrorists and reference to their Hindu code names, contending that distortion of real identities of hijackers amounted to misrepresentation of historical events. 4Continued on | P6 toxic drugs, often leading to high failure and mortality rates. “One major challenge in treating TB is that the bacteria can form a protective coating called ‘biofilms’, which increases drug tolerance and makes the disease harder to treat. Poonam Chand Yadav, the father of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, passed away at a private hospital after a brief illness here on Tuesday evening. He was about 95 years of age and survived by three sons and two daughters. A pall of gloom descended in the local circles soon after the death of Yadav. A textile mill labourer, Poonam Chand, son of Ramchandra Yadav, had to face various hardships in the early days though he settled his family well later after getting involved in agriculture. His wife died one-anda-half years ago. He was admitted to a private hospital located in Freeganj area about a week ago where he breathed his last at about 7 pm on Tuesday. CM Mohan Yadav at once left Bhopal and reached Ujjain at about 10 pm. CM was to attend a public function at Bina on Wednesday afternoon. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Desperate quest for justice NEEMUCH: Mukesh Prajapati, a resident of KakariyaTalai village, made a powerful statement by arriving at the collector’s office with a garland of 1,000 complaints, symbolising his seven-year battle against corruption and encroachment. His plea for justice underscores frustration of common man struggling with an unresponsive system. P4 drug discovery IIT-I develops powerful weapon against TB Our Staff Reporter INDORE Indian Institute of Technology Indore has developed new compounds that could help combat drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB), a major health issue in India and globally. Researchers led by Prof VenkateshChelvam from the Department of Chemistry and Prof AvinashSonawane from the Department of Biosciences and Biomedical Engineering created over 150 new antibacterial compounds designed to treat TB as part of their drug discovery program. These compounds belong to the pyridine ring fused heterocyclic family, including pyrrollopyridines, indo- lopyridines, and others. TB, caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, claiming about 1.5 million lives annually. The situation is worsening due to the emergence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) and extremely drug-resistant (XDR) TB strains, which render most existing anti-TB drugs ineffective. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there were around 4.8 lakhs new MDR-TB cases and an additional 1 lakh cases of rifampicin-resistant TB (RRTB) worldwide, with half of these occurring in China and India. Current TB treatments require six to nine months of antibiotics, but for MDR and XDR-TB, treatment can take several months to years with