FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLI No. 98 | INDORE | SUNDAY | SEPTEMBER 15, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 4 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 www.freepressjournal.in Cinema Laughs and screams P.16 fp Briefs KOLKATA Ragpicker hurt in blast A ragpicker was injured in a blast that took place in central Kolkata on Saturday, a police officer said. The explosion occurred when he was "near a plastic bag" at the crossing of Blochmann Street and SN Banerjee Road. "The injured person was identified as 58-yearold Bapi Das, who lives on a footpath beside S N Banerjee Road. He is a ragpicker," the officer said. CHHATTISGARH 5 held for pelting stones at Vande Bharat Five persons were arrested for allegedly pelting stones at the Durg-Visakhapatnam Vande Bharat Express during a trial run in Chhattisgarh's Mahasamund district, officials said on Saturday. The incident occurred when the train was passing through Bagbahra railway station on its way back from Visakhapatnam to Durg during its trail run around 9 pm on Friday, said Praveen Singh Dhakad, inspector of the Railway Protection Force (Mahasamund). INDIA BEAT PAK 2-1 HULUNBUIR: Defending champions India continued their unbeaten run and defeated arch-rivals Pakistan 2-1 to enter the semifinal of the Hero Asian Champions Trophy here on Saturday. It was India's fifth consecutive win in the six-team roundrobin competition. iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN NATION PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK Sports LA special day for India’s T20I captain P.15 CM IN INDORE| No Sanchi employee will be fired, he says & announces new subsidy scheme for animal-rearers ‘Will make state number one in milk production’ Our Staff Reporter Chief Minister on Saturday announced that Madhya Pradesh would be made number one in milk production by doubling the current milk production. He also announced that no employee or outsourced employee of Sanchi Milk Union would be fired. Addressing ‘dialogue with employee’ event in Sanchi Milk Plant at Mangliya in Indore, the CM rued that despite boasting of 51,000 villages, the state lagged in milk production. Announcing special efforts to encourage milk production, Yadav said that Sanchi Chief Minister Dr. Mohan Yadav inspects Sanchi milk plant at Mangliya on Saturday. Indore MP Shankar Lalwani and Minister Tulsi Silawat were also present Milk Union and employees would be empowered through committees. Cooperative societies associated with it too would be strengthened. To strengthen milk union, employees would be made partners, he added. He also announced milk purchase bonus for animal husbandry. “We will develop capacity of existing commit- tees of milk union and special efforts will be made to increase consumption of Sanchi milk and its products along with milk production in the state. The Sanchi brand will be further strengthened,” he added. He further said that a MoU was signed with National Dairy Development to enhance cooperation. Stating that agricultural growth in MP stood at 25%, he said that a new scheme would be launched to promote animal husbandry. Under the scheme, animal keepers who rear more than 10 animals would be given subsidy on animal husbandry and milk production. Serving army man held for raping woman in city hotel Three terrorists gunned down in Baramulla Victim alleges that he even tried to push glass into her private parts SRINAGAR Our Staff Reporter The woman who was allegedly raped in a hotel on AB Road was five month pregnant. She alleged that the accused Sanjay Yadav had also taken Rs 1.5 lakh on different dates after blackmailing her INDORE An army man posted in Assam was booked for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in an Indore hotel on Saturday. The victim is wife of a bank manager and had gone to meet the accused. In her complaint, the woman alleged that the accused had even tried to push a glass in her private part causing her injuries. The police said that the accused was arrested within minutes of receiving the plaint. Women police station incharge Koushalya Chouhan told Free Press that a 35-yearold woman approached the police station around 11.30 am Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi colluding with Amazon, Flipkart: CCI Agencies and lodged a complaint that she was raped by accused identified as Sanjay Yadav of UP in a hotel on AB Road. She stated in her complaint that Sanjay was posted in Assam as Naik in Indian Army.   As victim was unable to walk properly, SI Rupali Bhadauria immediately took her to hospital for treatment and medical examination. As police vehicle had gone for refilling, she rushed the victim to 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Reciprocal visits end in stalemate Aritra Singha KOLKATA NEW DELHI Samsung, Xiaomi and other smartphone companies colluded with Amazon and Flipkart to exclusively launch products on the e-commerce firms' Indian websites in breach of antitrust laws, according to regulatory reports seen by Reuters. Antitrust investigations conducted by the Competition Commission of India (CCI) have found that Amazon and Flipkart violated local competition laws by giving preference to select sellers, prioritising certain listings, and steeply discounting products, hurting other companies, Reuters reported this week. hospital in an auto rickshaw. Another team rushed the hotel and arrested the accused. The woman in her complaint stated that she had met the accused a year ago when he was posted in Mhow. She alleged that later accused reached her place in the city, made an objectionable video and started blackmailing her. A day of twists and turns ended in stalemate again between the protesting doctors and the West Bengal Chief Minister as a delegation of the junior doctors left the Chief Minister's residence in the pouring rain late on Saturday evening. They claimed they had been turned away after having agreed to a change in a key condition that they would settle for the signed minutes of the meeting instead of videography which has been a sticking point. As they left the residence the doctors told the media that they were “crestfallen’ and said they would decide on the next steps after they reached the site of their protests for the last month and conferred with fellow agitators. “We were told that even vi- Didi turns up at protest site, junior doctors go to CM's residence but deadlock persists deography cannot take place from our side. Since the Chief Minister had requested us personally, we held a personal meeting amidst our delegation and to show respect to the Chief Minister we had agreed to hold the meeting with the minutes of the meeting duly signed by both the parties. While we were holding our personal meeting we were told that it is too late and the MoS health, Chief Secretary, Health Secretary left in front of us and the door was closed,” said the protesting doctors. 4Continued on | P6 IANS Three terrorists were killed on Saturday in a gunfight with the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Baramulla district. Police said the three terrorists were killed in the encounter in Chak Tappar Kreeri area of Pattan tehsil in Baramulla district on Saturday. "The encounter started late last evening between the security forces and the terrorists in Chak Tappar Kreeri area of Baramulla district. "The operation was suspended late last night because of bad light and it was resumed today morning and three terrorists have been killed in this operation. "Searches are still going on in the area. The exact identity and affiliation of the slain terrorists are being ascertained," officials said. Meanwhile, an antiterrorist operation is still going on in Chatroo village of Kishtwar district in Jammu division where two Army soldiers were martyred and two others injured in an encounter with a group of terrorists on Friday. Eight Assembly constituencies spread across Doda, Kishtwar and Ramban districts in the Chenab valley region along with 16 seats in the south Kashmir districts. SUKMA CRPF jawan shoots self A 44-year-old personnel of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Saturday, police said. offgrid Cheetah project suffers major setback in 2nd year Birth of 13 cubs was like a new spring for the project Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL The Cheetah Project will complete two years on September 17. This year has been a challenging year for the project officials as despite all kind of preparations, all adult cheetah’s could not be released into the wild so far. Moreover, the project suffered setback in the form of deaths of two adult cheetahs including Pawan and Shaurya. Now the officials are looking forward for the release of cheetahs in open jungle in the winter season. EXPERIENCE FIRST RAINS IN KUNO The recent incessant rains posed a huge challenge before Kuno National Park authorities. The seasonal nullah passing through the enclosure was a big concern. They kept a close eye on swelling nullah and tried to ensure that it does not get choked. A dedicated team remained deployed even in adverse weather and was tasked to remove the waste from nullah every day so that its water did not spread in the enclosures. In the meantime, this was for the first time that cheetahs have experienced such intense rainfall. This is going to help them in facing rainfall related challenges in better manner in future. NULLAH IN SPATE E-paper World No nod to Kyiv on use of long-range missiles P.9 Terrorism on its last legs in J&K: Modi INDORE MUMBAI 4Continued on | P6 ‘Guarantee quota till I am there’ Four of family hang selves in well in Sagar Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Three women and a girl of the same family residing in a village in the Deori town of Sagar allegedly hanged themselves to death inside a well in the early hours of Saturday, the police said. Official sources said that the family took the extreme step after being harassed by several distant relatives, and a probe is underway into the incident. Superintendent of police (SP) of Sagar, Vikas Kumar Shahwal told Free Press that the incident took place in the Kopra village of Sagar. After the incident was reported to the police, a team from the State Disaster Emergency Response Force (SDERF) was called and they brought out the bodies, he said. SP Shahwal said the women who died have been identified as Bharti Lodhi, Aarti Lodhi and Bhagwati Lodhi, while the girl is named Romika Lodhi. Official sources told Free Press that all the people who took the extreme step are the relatives of a man named Surendra Lodhi, who lives in the same village and Sonu Lodhi. Almost a year ago, Sonu’s wife had consumed poison to commit suicide, and the police had registered a case of abetment of suicide against Sonu’s kin. PM Modi seeks to woo non-Jat, OBC vote in Haryana IANS KURUKSHETRA Eyeing to woo non-Jat and Other Backward Class (OBC) votes in poll-bound Haryana, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday lavishly praised Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini, saying he has become immensely popular despite his short stint as he dedicates all his time to the state, while also emphasising that was his guarantee that reservations for the Dalits, OBCs and tribals would remain as long as he was alive. "In such a short time, Nayab Singh Saini became popular in Haryana. Coming from a backward class, Nayab Singh Saini became CM. Whenever I hear praises of Nayab Singh Saini, it fills my heart with pride," PM Modi said at a public meeting in the historical city of Kurukshetra, the party’s first major public meeting ahead of the October 5 Assembly elections. Giving his development guarantees, by calling them Modi Guarantees, the Prime Minister said in the last few years, Haryana has reached 4Continued on | P6 among the top states of the country in terms of investment and income. "I am proud of this. We have seen the period of the Congress government when the development money was limited to only one district. Every child of Haryana knows in whose pockets that money went. The BJP has connected the whole of Haryana with the development," the Prime Minister said.He also claimed that the Congress wanted to remove certain provisions such as reservations.Praising the brief stint of the incumbent Haryana Chief Minister, PM Modi said Saini dedicated all 24 hours to the state.In March, just ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the BJP had replaced Manohar Lal Khattar, a Punjabi face, with OBC leader Saini as the Chief Minister after snapping its ties with its major ally, Dushyant Chautalaled Jannayak Janta Party (JJP). Only 6.1% schools in state have toilets for special children Rishita Tomar BHOPAL The School Education Department emphasizes the importance of inclusive education for Children with Special Needs (CWSN). However, despite this commitment, only 6.1% of schools in the state have CWSN-friendly toilets. A recent report by the Ministry of Education’s Department of School Education and Literacy has highlighted the dire state of infrastructure for CWSN in government schools across the state. Shockingly, only 5.7% of these toilets are functional. Out of a total of 92,695 government schools in the state, just 5,658 schools have toilets for CWSN students, and only 5,310 of these facilities are operational. On a national level, 26.96% of schools had CWSN-friendly Representative Pic FREE ESTD-1983 toilets in 2021-2022, a slight increase from 25.25% in 20202021. Similarly, 49.72% of schools nationwide had ramps with handrails, compared to 48.31% in the previous year. The data, which pertains to the academic year 20212022, was collected through voluntary submissions from schools using the Unified District Information System for Education Plus (UDISE+) platform. 4Continued on | P6 Earth all set to gain new mini-moon due to gravity E arth is about to gain a temporary mini-moon, a rare celestial event that will show the power of Earth's gravity. The rare mini-moon will be in the form of asteroid 2024 PT5. Discovered on August 7, 2024, this asteroid measures approximately 10 meters (33 feet) in diameter and will be captured by Earth's gravity from September 29 to November 25, 2024. During this two-month period, the asteroid will loop around Earth but will not complete a full orbit. After November 25, 2024, 2024 PT5 will break free from Earth's gravitational influence and return to orbiting the Sun. In a paper published by the American Astronomical Society, researchers detailed the findings. "Near-Earth objects (NEOs) EXPERTSPEAK Founder of Umang Gauravdeep welfare society who works for the uplift of CWSN children told the Free Press inclusivity is important but first we need to change the mindset of the people and the way they look up to special children, then only everything will improve. It is must for the school to construct toilets and ramps for such children. Cong’s fresh salvo: Buch invested in Chinese firms Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI that follow horseshoe paths, and approach our planet at close range and low relative velocity, may undergo minimoon events in which their geocentric energy becomes negative for hours, days or months, but without completing one revolution around Earth while bound," the paper read. The Congress on Saturday asked “Is the PM aware that the SEBI chairperson has been investing in Chinese firms at a time when India is facing geopolitical tensions with China?” The question came from party general secretary Jairam Ramesh soon after its head of media and publicity Pawan Khera claimed in a press conference that Madhabi Puri Buch held foreign assets from 2017 to 2021 and questioned when she first declared these assets, which included investments in Chinese funds, to government agencies. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 Despite its small size and brief stay, asteroid 2024 PT5 offers valuable insights into the dynamics of near-Earth objects