FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. 14 No. 90 | BHOPAL | FRIDAY | SEPTEMBER 13, 2024 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 www.freepressjournal.in Sports Ponting lauds Virat’s transformational leadership ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN WORLD PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit Kamala trumps Trump P.8 67.1 mn people watched Harris, Trump debate Cinema Emmy night with Vir Das P.14 MONSOON FURY| Rain wreaks havoc in state. Army, NDRF pressed into rescue operations 7 DEAD in Datia fort wall collapse Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Free Press felicitates teachers Felicitated teachers pose for a group photograph with chief guest Indore MP Shankar Lalwani, DCBM principal Dr Sonal Sisodia, Omaxe Ltd (MP) president Vineet Sharma and Moira Group director Sandeep Jain at Free Press House on Thursday fp Briefs MOSCOW 45 discharged from Russian army Forty five Indians who were illegally made to join the Russian army and fight for them on the battle fronts against Ukraine have been rescued from the war zone and discharged from the Russian military, the Ministry of External Affairs said today. NEW DELHI Kejriwal's bail decision today The Supreme Court is scheduled to deliver on Friday its verdict on Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's petitions seeking bail and challenging his arrest by the CBI in the excise policy 'scam'. As per the cause list of September 13 uploaded on the apex court website, a bench headed by Justice Surya Kant is slated to pronounce the verdict. BARIPADA Jumbo killed in Odisha An elephant was killed due to electrocution in Odisha's Mayurbhanj district, a forest official said on Thursday. The incident occurred on Wednesday night in Jamsuli village under the Betnoti forest range when around 19 jumbos were roaming there and one of the elephants came in contact with a live electric wire, he said. 3 arrested for gang rape, robbery; two on five-day police remand The young officers were thrashed and robbed near Jam Gate FP News Service MHOW The accused, who were arrested in connection with suspected gang rape with a girl, assault and loot with young army officers near Jam Gate, allegedly confessed their crime on Thursday. They revealed the names of their four aides and the police have started a search for the remaining accused. Additional SP (Rural) Rupesh Dwivedi informed Free Press that the arrested accused are 23-year-old Pawan Vasunia and 27-year-old Anil Barod, residents of Gondkua village near Wanchu Point. They were arrested a few hours after the incident. Veteran CPI(M) leader Yechury dies at 72 The remaining four suspects are still at large. Both Pawan and Anil were presented before the court from where they were sent to fiveday police remand for further investigation. Teams from five different police stations are working to locate and apprehend the remaining accused. The incident involved two army officers, who were participating in the Young Officers (YO) course at the Infantry School. They, along with two female friends from Indore, had set out for a night picnic on Tuesday. The group was near Ahilya Gate when the officers separated; one officer and a female friend went to a hill, while the other officer and a female stayed in the car. Around 2:30 am, six men approached there, robbed the officer and assaulted him. 4Continued on | P6 ‘Law & order in BJP states almost non existent’ Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi criticize the BJP over the attack on two Army officers and rape of one of their two women friends in Indore, alleging that law and order in states ruled by the party is almost "non existent". He said the negative attitude of the BJP government towards increasing crimes against women is "extremely worrying". Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra also lashed out at the BJP, in her post X. Chief minister Mohan Yadav also attacked on Rahul Gandhi he said “Now a day’s Rahul Gandhi is free, at present he is defaming our country. Jabalpur airport boundary wall collapses after rains ADM caught taking Rs 5K bribe in Rewa, suspended Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Special police establishment (SPE) Lokayukta police Rewa trapped the additional district magistrate posted in Mauganj district for taking bribe of Rs 5000, said the officials on Thursday. The officer was suspended by Chief Minister Mohan Yadav. Mauganj district has been newly formed; the 53rd district of the state. SP Gopal Dhakad said that complainant Ramniwas Tiwari resident of village Khooj complained that he had applied for division of their landed property. 4Continued on | P6 RG Kar: Medics blame WB govt after talks fail PTI PTI NEW DELHI The agitating junior doctors on Thursday blamed the West Bengal administration for its rigidness in not allowing live streaming of the meeting to resolve the RG Kar stalemate and asserted that they never sought the resignation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, as offered by her. Dubbing Banerjee's remarks blaming the medics for the impasse as unfortunate, the doctors said their 'cease work' and agitation would continue until their demands are met. "The chief minister's remarks are unfortunate. We wanted the talks to take place. However, the state administration was adamant about not allowing live streaming of the meeting. Our demands are justified. 4Continued on | P6 RS 4L EX-GRATIA Chief Minister Mohan Yadav posted on X, "The news of the death of people due to the collapse of the old wall of Rajgarh Fort in Datia is extremely painful. We all are with the bereaved families in this hour of grief." “Instructions have been given to provide financial assistance of Rs 4 lakh each to the families of the deceased," he wrote. Seven died after a wall of a fort collapsed following heavy rain in Datia district early Thursday morning 500 RESCUED IN GWALIOR DIST Guna, Datia, Gwalior, Shivpuri, Rajgarh, Tikamgarh worst affected Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Around 500 people have been rescued in Senkara and Dabra in Gwalior district while two were rescued in Tikamgarh on Thursday. They were stranded after heavy rainfall and increase in water level in Sindh River tributary. While in Tikamgarh, people were stranded due to water level increase in Dhasan River. In Chhatarpur district 160 people were rescued in last 24 hours. Pohar SDM Motilal Airwar said a husband and wife were swept away while crossing a culvert on a bike, and while the husband managed to escape, the wife died. Chief Minister Mohan School building collapses in Bhind Due to heavy rainfall, government middle school building in Ranipura, Bhind, collapsed on Thursday. No casualties were reported as the administration had declared a holiday on Thursday for students due to the ongoing heavy rains in the district. Yadav reviewed flood situation on Thursday and instructed that helicopters be pressed into service to rescue stranded families. Meanwhile, a 60-member NDRF team left for Gwalior in a special Air Force aircraft from Hyderabad. 4Continued on | P6 PM attends Ganpati puja at CJI’s home, kicks up political storm Opposition says it compromises judicial integrity, sends out uncomfortable message Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Modi at CJI’s home KOLKATA CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury died at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) here on Thursday following prolonged illness, hospital and party sources said. He was 72. Yechury had been in a critical condition for the last few days and was on respiratory support. The veteran leader died at 3.05 pm, sources said. The CPI(M) had said earlier that the 72-year-old leader was being treated for an acute respiratory tract infection at the ICU in AIIMS, Delhi. Yechury was admitted to the hospital on August 19 for treatment of a pneumonialike chest infection. Seven people died after a wall of a fort collapsed following heavy rains in Khalkapura, Datia district at around 4 am on Thursday. According to locals, wall of Rajgarh Fort in Datia collapsed and fell on a house adjacent to it, trapping nine members of a family under the debris of the wall. The locals rescued two persons while seven remained trapped and died. Collector Sandeep Kumar Mawkin said, “At around 4 am, a wall of a fort called Rar collapsed due to continuous rainfall for around 36 hours in the district and nine members of a family got buried inside it. The locals immediately swung into action and rescued two members of the family. Later we admitted them to hospital and they are safe." 4Continued on | P6 Boundary wall collapse at Jabalpur airport Canopy was damaged in June Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Boundary wall of Dumna Airport, Jabalpur collapsed after heavy rain on Thursday. This is the second damage to the airport building after renovation worth Rs 450 crore. Previously canopy at the airport had fallen two and half months ago. Jabalpur airport director Rajiv Ratan Pandey informed Free Press, “Because of heavy rain, boundary wall of the air- port collapsed. We will go for repairing after the weather becomes clear. Earlier, also canopy was damaged due to heavy rain in June.” A part of a fabric of the canopy on the premises of the Dumna airport had collapsed on June 27 this year due to accumulation of water amid heavy rains and had crushed a car parked below. Fabric canopy was put up to beautify the ‘drop and go’ area. Water had accumulated over it due to rain. It collapsed under the weight of the water and water fell with great force on a car parked there. NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the residence of Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud on Wednesday to offer prayers during the Ganpati Puja has kicked up a political storm with several opposition leaders criticising the move saying it creates an “uncomfortable situation” and may impact judicial transparency. The ruling BJP hit back saying PM’s attending Ganesh puja was not a crime and politicians and judges often share the dais. Modi had gone to Chandrachud’s residence donning a traditional Maharashtrian cap and had later shared his picture performing the aarti and offering prayers before the Ganpati idol along with the CJI and his wife Kalpana Das. The PM also wrote, “Joined Ganesh Puja at the residence of CJI, Justice DY Chandrachud Ji. May Bhagwan Shri Ganesh bless us all with hap- BJP hits back Why was this not said when Manmohan Singh hosted iftar IN 2009 which was attended by then CJI piness, prosperity and wonderful health.” 4Continued on | P6 ‘Give me 50 seats, will resolve Kashmir issue’ 4Continued on | P6 IANS SRINAGAR offgrid IISc develops new computing platform for AI tasks PTI BENGALURU Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) have developed a brain-inspired analog computing platform that could potentially bring complex AI tasks to personal devices like laptops and smartphones. Capable of storing and processing data in an astonishing 16,500 conductance states within a molecular film, the researchers believe it could be a game-changer, revolutionising industrial, consumer and strategic applications. Published on September 11 in the journal Nature, this breakthrough represents a huge step forward over traditional digital computers in which data storage and processing are limited to just two states, the IISc said. Such a platform could potentially bring complex AI tasks, like training Large Language Models (LLMs) to personal devices like laptops and smartphones. These developments are currently restricted to resource-heavy data centres, due to a lack of energy-efficient hardware. With silicon electronics nearing saturation, designing brain-inspired accelerators that can work alongside silicon chips to deliver faster, more efficient AI is also becoming crucial. "Neuromorphic computing has had its fair share of unsolved challenges for over a decade," explained Sreetosh Goswami, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Nano Science and Engineering (CeNSE), IISc, who led the research team. "With this discovery, we have almost nailed the perfect system - a rare feat," he said. 4Continued on | P6 Prime Minister Narendra Modi meets javelin thrower Navdeep Singh, who won silver medal at Paris Paralympics 2024, in New Delhi on Thursday Addressing his first public gathering after arriving here on Thursday, Engineer Rashid said if the people give him 50 seats in the Assembly elections, he will resolve the Kashmir issue. The Lok Sabha member addressed a gathering of around 3,500 to 4,000 people, mostly youths, in a ground in the Delina area of Baramulla district. He said that all the people at the gathering had come there on their own. "I tell everyone that the vote in Parliament elections was not an emotional outburst, but a vote against oppression.