FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLI No. 92 | INDORE | MONDAY | SEPTEMBER 9, 2024 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Pant returns; Dayal gets maiden call-up P.12 fp ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE MONEY UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK NEW DELHI DeepVeer have baby girl Bollywood star couple Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh on Sunday became parents to their first child, a baby girl. The Declining bank credit to hurt exporters Brand Sutra Drivers Of Development P.10 duo, who have co-starred in films such as "RamLeela", "Bajirao Mastani" and "83", welcomed the baby a day after Deepika was admitted to a private hospital in Mumbai. JAIPUR Woman killed by leopard A 40-year-old woman was mauled to death by a leopard in Rajasthan's Udaipur district, police said on Sunday. Three women had gone to collect woods near a hilly area in Jhadol where the leopard attacked them. While two of them survived the attack, the leopard dragged Meera to the forest area and mauled her to death, they said. Locals gathered on the highway near the hills on information and found the dead body. They blocked the UdaipurAhmedabad highway and staged a protest against the incident. ‘We consider you our own, unlike Pakistan’ PTI Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh being welcomed for a public rally in Ramban on Sunday that we can facilitate massive development in the region. There will be so much development that the people in PoK on seeing this should say that we do not want to live with Pakistan and instead will go to India," the defence minister said. He said that recently an affidavit was filed by Pakistan's additional solicitor general in the neighboring country stating that PoK is a foreign land. "I want to tell PoK residents that Pakistan considers you foreigners, but the people in India do not consider you so. We consider you our own and so come and join us," he said. The defence minister's visit as a BJP star campaigner comes a day after Home Minister Amit Shah's two-day tour during which he released the party's manifesto, held a series of meetings with senior party leaders and also addressed a party workers' rally. In the Ramban constituency, the BJP's Thakur is up against the NC's Arjun Singh Raju and party's rebel Suraj Singh Parihar. The seat was last won by the BJP's Neelam Kumar Langeh who was denied a ticket by the party this time. Singh said the assembly polls are taking place in J&K Aritra Singha Toll rises to 8 in bldg collapse KOLKATA The death toll in the building collapse here has climbed to eight with rescuers pulling out three more bodies from the debris, officials said on Sunday. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will visit Lok Bandhu Hospital here to meet those injured in the incident, after returning from Ambedkar Nagar, Director, Information, Shishir said. PATNA Coupling of Magadh Exp breaks The coupling of the Magadh Express from New Delhi to Islampur broke, splitting the train into two between Turiganj and Raghunathpur railway stations in Bihar's Buxar district on Sunday, officials said. No one was injured in the incident which occurred at around 11.08 am between Turiganj and Raghunathpur railway stations. Rajesh Moudgil CHANDIGARH The BJP leadership has asked former Wrestling Federation of India chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh to take care and be mindful about his remarks about Haryana wrestlers. The former WFI chief had remarked the other day that Vinesh Phogat had cheated and could not win a medal at Paris because ‘‘God had punished her.’’ On Sunday, the Olympian respond to the obnoxious remarks by saying that such statements (by BJP leaders) show their mentality. ‘‘If they are saying that they are happy that I didn't win at Olympics, they should be tried for sedition. That medal didn't belong to me but to the whole nation. They have disrespected the nation," she said. Bhushan has a running feud with a group of Haryana wrestlers, two of whom -- Phogat and Sakshi Malik – have levelled allegations of sex harassment against him. After the allegations surfaced, the BJP did not give Singh a Lok Sabha ticket from Kaiserganj and nominated his son instead. 4Continued on | P6 DEATH THREAT TO PUNIA Wrestler Bajrang Punia has reported receiving death threats via WhatsApp from an international number, with the caller demanding he leave the Congress party or face serious consequences. Punia has informed the police, and they have begun investigating the threats. The caller informed Punia that it was his last warning. Punia won bronze in the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Trinamool Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP Jawhar Sircar on Sunday dashed off a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stating that he wants to ‘quit’ his post and retire from politics, ostensibly in protest against the handling of the wave of protests against the hospital rape cum murder.  He also said the government is doing "too little, too late" in face of the "spontaneous outpouring SUSPECTED MPOX CASE NEW DELHI A youngster who recently returned from a country that is experiencing an Mpox (monkeypox) outbreak has been identified as a suspected case, the Union health ministry said on Sunday. The patient has been isolated at a designated hospital and is currently stable, it said, adding that there is no cause for concern. Samples have been collected from the man and are being tested to confirm the presence of Mpox. PTI DHAKA after 10 years and not only the people of the country but outside are also watching it. "I firmly believe that the BJP will form the next government with a clear majority." Praising the people of J&K as skilful, hardworking and dedicated, he said if the BJP comes to power, J-K will emerge as the number one and modern state in the country. "I am saying it on the performance of the central government after Narendra Modi took over as prime minister in 2014. India has moved to fourth (fifth) spot from the 11th in terms of economy." 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday said India is ready to start dialogue with Pakistan if the neighbouring country stops sponsoring terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir. "If Pakistan do one thing, that is stop giving support to terrorism, who would not like to improve relations with neighbouring countries? Because I know the reality that you can change a friend, but not your neighbour.” BJP curbs Bhushan No confidence, TMC for abusing Phogat MP wants to resign LUCKNOW B’desh plans to extradite Hasina, try her for mass killings Bangladesh will take necessary steps to extradite deposed prime minister Sheikh Hasina from India to try her on charges of mass killings during the student-led mass movement against her government, the newly-appointed chief prosecutor of the country's International Crimes Tribunal said on Sunday. Following unprecedented anti-government protests that peaked on August 5, Hasina resigned as prime minister and fled to India. Necessary steps will be taken to bring former prime minister Hasina back under the extradition treaty with India to try her on charges of mass killings during the student-led protests in July and August, International Crimes Tribunal Chief Prosecutor Md Tajul Islam was quoted as saying by The Daily Star newspaper. "We will file an application with the International Crimes Tribunal, when it resumes functions, to issue arrest warrants against all the absconding accused including Sheikh Hasina in connection with the cases filed for mass killing and crimes against humanity," he said at a press briefing on the ICT premises in Dhaka. Advice to Pakistan JAMMU Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the residents of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) to come and join India as "we consider you our own unlike Pakistan which treats you as foreigners". Addressing an election rally in the Ramban assembly constituency in support of BJP candidate Rakesh Singh Thakur, the Union minister asserted there is a sea change in the overall security situation in Jammu and Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019. The senior BJP leader came down heavily on the National Conference-Congress alliance over its poll promise of restoring Article 370 and said it is impossible as long as the BJP is there. He said the "sea change" witnessed in the overall security situation in J-K since August 2019 means that youths now carry laptops and computers in their hands instead of pistols and revolvers. Now, nobody dares to fire bullets at people in Srinagar, he said. "Support the BJP to form the next government in J-K so E-paper Edit Two wars, and no hope of ceasefire P.8 COME JOIN US: Rajnath Singh’s appeal to PoK residents Briefs MUMBAI of public anger against this unchecked overbearing attitude of the favoured few and the corrupt". ‘‘Let us analyse frankly and realise that the movement is as much for Abhaya as it is against the state government and the party... In all my years, I have not seen such angst and total no-confidence against the government, even when it says something correct or factual," he added. 4Continued on | P6 GUV TURNS THE HEAT n a late evening development on Sunday, Governor CV Ananda Bose sent a letter to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asking her to call an emergency cabinet meeting for taking a call on removal of top cop Vineet Goyal. It’s been almost a month that people of the state are protesting over the rape murder and murder of a medical intern and demanding ‘justice.’ According to Raj Bhavan sources, the state government is ‘unable’ to tackle the present law and order situation. I 4Continued on | P6 Bhopal doc drowns in waterfall in Sehore FP News Service SEHORE In what was a happy occasion turned into tragedy when a Bhopal-based doctor drowned at Digambar Waterfall in Shahganj area of Sehore on Sunday. A search is on for the doctor’s body. He had gone there for a picnic with his four friends, who are safe. Police said the deceased is Dr Ashwin Krishnan Iyer, and his four friends are Dr Ayush, Dr Koshki, Dr Abhishek, and Dr Aakanksha. Official sources said that the security personnel deployed at the waterfall had warned the group not to enter the waters. However, they disregarded the advice and started taking bath and Dr Ashwin drowned when he inadvertently ventured into deep waters. Shahganj police station in- Doval’s Russia visit sets off Ukraine peace buzz charge Pankaj Wadekar confirmed that the police and SDERF teams are searching for Dr Ashwin’s body. The subdivisional officer of police (SDOP) of Budhni, Shashank Gurjar said that adequate safety measures were in place at the waterfall and that the group had ignored security instructions by taking an alternative route to reach the falls. Dr Iyer, who drown in Sehore, was pursuing Post Graduate (PG-I) (anesthesia) at Peoples Medical College. The others who accompanied Dr Iyer were also doctors at the same medical college. Sehore Collector Pravin Singh said, “ All the four doctors had come from Bhopal for the picnic. When we came to know about tragedy, we dispatched the team for rescue. Search is still on to fish out the body.” Heavy firing at Manipur camp Digjyoti Lahkar FP News Service NEW DELHI Given its rather envious position, India — with its expanding strategic relations with the US, on one hand, and the pragmatic ties with Russia, on the other — seems to have become a sounding board for ending the conflict in Ukraine. It was PM Modi’s recent visits to Moscow and Kyiv that ignited the peace buzz, which the uncharitable skeptics were quick to dismiss and ascribed to prodding from US President Joe Biden. But with Russian President Putin seemingly going with the flow, there seems to be some ‘convergence’ of views; but whether this would coalesce into a meeting point was another matter, felt observers. The latest in the series of what are seen as positive indicators is the announcement that National Security Adviser Ajit Doval is travelling to Russia this week. The NSA, of course, is visiting Russia primarily to attend a conclave of national security advisors of the BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-ChinaSouth Africa) grouping. GUWAHATI Heavy gun firing has been reported from a CRPF camp in Manipur. Initial reports suggest that heavily armed Kuki militants attacked a security post at Jouzangtek at Kangpokpi district. The CRPF launched a 4Continued on | P6 offgrid Censor clears Kangana’s ‘Emergency’ with cuts Online Report NEW REPORT Before controversy over Kangana Ranaut’s film Emergency stalled its release, the examining committee of the Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) had cleared it for a ‘UA’ certification, on the condition that the filmmakers make three cuts and provide factual sources for controversial historical statements. A ‘UA’ certification means the film is suitable for view- ing with parental guidance. According to sources, the producers submitted the film for certification on July 8. On August 8—almost three weeks before Sikh organisations, including the Akal Takht and the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, started demanding a ban on the film—a regional officer of the CBFC wrote to Manikarnika Films Pvt Ltd, listing 10 “excisions/insertions/modifications” required by the examining committee for ‘UA’ certification. Among the cuts, the committee suggested that the filmmakers delete or replace certain visuals in a scene depicting Pakistani soldiers attacking Bangladeshi refugees — specifically, one of a soldier smashing an infant’s head and another of three women being beheaded. Additionally, the filmmakers were asked to replace an expletive shouted by someone in a crowd in response to the death of a leader in the film. So far, Kangana Ranaut – who is not only the film’s main lead but also the director and producer, has not commented this development. The committee also asked for a change to the surname of a family mentioned in a line. The filmmakers were also asked to provide “factual information” for a line delivered by an actor playing Nixon. counter attack at around 8.30 pm; however casualties, if any, on both sides could not be ascertained. Earlier, security forces fired several rounds of tear gas shells to disperse protesters who, after taking out a rally denouncing the recent drone attacks in Manipur, reached the periphery of Raj Bhavan and the CM's bungalow in Imphal on Sunday night. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6