FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 133 | BHOPAL | SATURDAY | OCTOBER 26, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Spin web asphyxiates Team India P.14 4 Indians die as their Tesla crashes into divider, catches fire in Canada Online report Four Indians died after a Tesla car they were travelling in caught fire after crashing into a divider near Toronto in Canada just after midnight. It is currently unclear where the victims were heading or if their Tesla was a self-driving model. Among those who died were 30-year-old Keta Gohil and 26-year-old Nil Gohil, siblings from Godhra in Gujarat. They were travelling with two other individuals, who too, died after the car caught fire. An individual who had just recently become a Canadian citizen also died in the accident. The Tesla crashed into a divider, following which its battery caught fire, leading to the death of all the four individuals at the scene. A woman in her 20s was pulled from the burning car by a passing motorist who stopped to help, reports said. She was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries. Three students from Punjab died in Canada in July this year when a car they were travelling in veered off a highway. The three passengers were thrown out of the vehicle and died at the scene due to their injuries. The driver of the car sustained serious injuries in the incident. fp Briefs NEW DELHI Seminar on W Asia not cancelled: JNU Asserting that it wants to provide a platform for balanced discussions, the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Dean of the School of International Studies (SIS), Amitabh Mattoo, said the on Friday said it has cancelled no seminar on the West Asian conflict but had to postpone one where Iranian Ambassador Iraj Elahi was scheduled to speak due to logistical and protocol reasons. NEW DELHI Ex-J’khand CM’s conviction stay dismissed The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed former Jharkhand chief minister Madhu Koda's plea seeking a stay on his conviction in a coal scam case to enable him to contest the upcoming state Assembly polls. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Sanjay Kumar refused to interfere with an October 18 order of the Delhi High Court dismissing Koda's plea for a stay of the conviction order passed in 2017. ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: BHOPAL UJJAIN WORLD PRESS PUNE INDORE NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit Who will save the middle class? P.8 3 TV staffers fall to Israeli strike Cinema Singing, style and summits P.16 Labourers to ride e-scooty to work Rajan Raikwar BHOPAL In developed countries, labourers reach the worksite on their vehicles. The same scenario will be seen shortly in Madhya Pradesh, as Labour department has prepared a scheme to provide subsidy of Rs 40,000 to labourers to purchase electric scooty. The aim of scheme is to provide mobility to the labourers. The vehicle subsidy will be provided to only those labourers who are registered with Building and Other Construction Workers Board (BOCB). There are around 18.5 lakh registered labourers in the state. Sources in Labour department said that choice of electric two-wheeler has been left to the labourer concerned. “The subsidy will be provided to labourers after they purchase the electric scooter. After buying the vehicle, labourers have to make an online claim for subsidy subsidy by uploading vehicle bill and other documents. The documents will be cross-checked Principal Secretary of Labour department, Umakant Umrao told Free Press that the scheme will provide mobility to labourers registered with Building and Other Construction Board. Applications have started arriving online. Madhya Pradesh is the pioneering state with any such scheme for labourers through a central portal to prevent bogus claims. Upon verification, subsidy money will be transferred into the Dana makes a gentle fall bank account of labourers,” said a senior officer of the labour department. This officer added that to Eight killed, five DEEPENING BONDS: Modi confident that this injured in three move will increase growth separate road accidents FP News Service INDORE A villager stands near a damaged temporary house following the landfall of cyclone Dana in East Midnapore district around 180km southwest of Kolkata, on Friday. DANA SPARES ODISHA, BENGAL ZERO CASUALTY IN ODISHA: CM 1 DEAD IN BENGAL, SAYS MAMATA Cyclone Dana spared Odisha and West Bengal of severe damage to infrastructure. It triggered heavy rains and uprooted of trees and electric poles. The landfall of 'Dana' started around 12.05 am on Friday between Bhitarkanika in Kendrapara and Dhamra in Bhadrak district of Odisha with wind speeds of around 110 kmph. Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi asserted that no fatality report has been received so far and the state achieved its 'zero casualty mission'. Majhi, who reviewed the cyclone situation in Bhubaneswar, announced that the state has achieved its "zero casualty mission" as there has been "no report regarding any loss of human life or injury.” CM Mamata Banerjee said one person died in aftermath of storm, even though administration evacuated around 2.16 lakh people. "Only one person died in this natural disaster. The man died at his residence while conducting some cable-related work. It is quite unfortunate.” India, China troops to disengage by month end Agencies NEW DELHI Indian and Chinese troops will complete disengagement - in the Depsang and Demchok areas of Ladakh - and fall back to pre-April 2020 positions by Tuesday, Army sources said this afternoon. Troops from both sides will fall back to pre-April 2020 positions and all temporary infrastructure - sheds or tents - will be removed, while ground commanders will continue to hold regular meetings. Sources said each side will also continue to have surveillance options in the Depsang and Demchok areas, and will inform the other prior to stepping out on patrol "to avoid any miscommunication". 4Continued on | P6 A series of tragic road accidents in Madhya Pradesh claimed the lives of eight individuals and left five others injured in the early hours of Friday. The most catastrophic incident occurred on the UjjainJaora State Highway near Nagda town, where a head-on collision between a speeding Innova car and a truck resulted in the deaths of four people, all residents of Indore, who were returning from Ajmer Sharif Dargah. Emergency services quickly responded to the scene, where three additional individuals were found to be seriously injured. In a second incident on the Agra-Betul Road near Ruthiyai town in Guna district, a car veered to avoid a cow, struck a culvert, and fell into a ditch. This mishap led to the deaths of three people, identified as Rohit Shrivastava (31), Lakhan Sharma (35), and Ajay Chidar (28), with one more passenger sustaining injuries. 4Continued on | P6 CS TO EXCISE COMM: You should have been in IT dept Nutritious food is filling the pockets of some people: Jain Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Excise commissioner Abhijeet Agarwal’s suggestions have impressed Chief Secretary (CS) Anurag Jain so much that he wanted to know from where he studied. Agarwal said that he had studied in IIT, Kanpur. Jain said, “You are in the excise department. You should have been in IT Department.” At a meeting with CS on Friday, Agarwal also said how he had worked when he was in MP State Electronics Corporation. Jain took an innovative step by holding a meeting with the heads of various departments and managing directors of corporations and boards. It happened for the first time that a CS, without principal secretaries, directly held meeting with such officers as are looking after the work as HoDs. Jain took feedback on the work of Women and Child Development Department (WCD) and said the schemes should benefit those who are entitled to it. Funds sanctioned for providing nutritious food to the ensure that labourers should not become proxy buyers for some other person, the scheme has created a rider. After buying the vehicle, the labourer will not be allowed to sell it for the next three years. Another condition is that labourer shall have a minimum registration of five years with BOCB. The scheme covers both men and women labourers. Labour department officials said several subsidy claims have already been made and more are expected in the coming months. children are filling the pockets of some people, he said. He told the director of WCD Sufiyah Faruqui Wali to review some project. Jain directed the officials to carry out e-office system by January, 2025, which would help boost efficiency. Jain urged the officers of the all departments to get acquainted with technology, and search for new sources of income to make the state more prosperous. He said the officials should continuously keep in touch with the investors to increase investments in the state and work for carrying out the proposals for investment. He directed the officials to dispose of the complaints received through CM Helpline and to get e-KYC of farmers under the Prime Minister’s Kisan Samman Nidhi by launching a campaign. ‘90K German visas for skilled Indians’ Agencies NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday hailed the strengthening ties between India and Germany, citing recent collaborations as evidence of their deepening friendship. Speaking at the 18th AsiaPacific Conference of German Business 2024, PM Modi said, "On one hand, the CEO Forum meeting is being held here, on the other hand, our navies are practising together. German naval ships are on a port call in Goa. And in a short while from now, the seventh inter-governmental consultations between India and Germany are also to be organized. "That is, the friendship between India and Germany is deepening at every step, on every front," he added. PM Modi said that this year marks the completion of 25 years of India-Germany strategic partnership and added that the next 25 years are going to take this partnership to new heights. 4Continued on | P6 PM Modi and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz during a press meet in Hyderabad House, New Delhi on Friday. Join India’ growth story: PM PM Modi today said this is the right time to join India's growth story. Modi said the time is ripe for foreign investors to participate in India's growth story, and join the 'Make in India' initiative and 'Make for the World'. Germany has expressed that India's skilled manpower is amazing as the European nation has decided to increase visas for the skilled Indian workforce from 20,000 to 90,000. India anchor of stability: Scholz At the 7th IGC, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz described India as an anchor of stability and requested Modi to work jointly to bring about political solutions to the twin conflicts that have been raging for long. "The ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and West Asia are a matter of concern for both countries. India has always been of the view that war cannot be a solution to problems.” REWA GANG RAPE Seven detained, over 100 rounded up Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Rewa police have detained seven accused out of eight involved in the gang rape case of a newlywed woman that took place on October 21, said police on Friday. More than 100 people were rounded up to search for culprits in the case. SP Rewa, Vivek Singh told Free Press that on Monday the husband and wife had gone to a picnic spot in Gurh tehsil. The woman told the police that one of the five persons who allegedly sexually assaulted her had tattoos on his hand and chest. The couple approached the Gurh police station around 1.30 pm on Tuesday. "The FSL staff (forensic science laboratory) and DSP Himali Pathak rushed to the spot. The medical test of the survivor was conducted and an FIR was registered the same day at 7 pm," the SP said. The SP added that in the incident eight people were involved, three to four of them had caught hold of the husband and taken away far from the spot and five of them had raped the woman. The victim was admitted to Sanjay Gandhi Memorial Hospital in Rewa. She told police that after offering prayer, they (the couple) were sitting at a place when a group of persons came and overpowered them. house - s a large-scale "terror factory" run by Hafiz Saeed, Syed Salahuddin, and Masood Azhar - the bosses of the Lashkar, Hizbul, and Jaish terror outfits. All three are on anti-terror agency NIA's list of mostwanted terrorists. 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 4Continued on | P6 New terror factory in Laden’s base at Abbottabad Online report Three terrorist outfits - the Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizbul Mujahideen, and Jaish-e-Mohammed, all banned by the Indian government - have set up a joint training camp in Pakistan's Abbottabad, in a campus belonging to that country's Army, intelligence community sources told NDTV on Friday morning. The camp, sources said, is 'completely safe' since there is a Pakistani Army camp right next door, making outsiders' access to training terrorists almost impossible without permission of the military. An unnamed General, posted to Pak's intel agency ISI, is believed to be supervising the camp, which is training young men and women in multiple aspects of combat, including handling weapons. Abbottabad was where former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden lived and operated a safe house - inside a walled compound that was targeted by a United States special forces military unit in May 2011. bin Laden was shot and killed in the attack. Pakistan demolished that structure in 2012. Intel sources have told NDTV the new training camp - it is unclear if it has been built over the ruins of bin Laden's former safe Agencies NEW DELHI Proscribed outfit 'Sikhs For Justice (SFJ)' chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun has announced a bounty of 1 million dollars for anyone who shares 'intel' on Union Home Minister Amit Shah's foreign trips. In a video released recently, Pannun accused the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) of committing atrocities in Punjab in 1984. "CRPF officials, from KPS Gill to Vikash Yadav, are responsible for extrajudicial killings of Sikhs. It happened first in Punjab and now happening in foreign countries," he said. Pannun accused Amit Shah, stating that he is heading the paramilitary force, and is responsible for hiring mercenaries. He called for a complete shutdown of CRPF schools on October 26 in Nagpur, Delhi (Rohini and Dwarka), Sonipat, Pinjore and Jalandhar. Pannun's call comes after a mysterious blast near a CRPF school in Delhi’s Rohini area on October 20, sparking a security alert. The blast appeared to be triggered by a crude bomb, partially damaged the school’s wall and a few cars parked nearby. No casualties were reported. offgrid NEW DELHI Pannun offers $1mn for intel on Shah's foreign trips