FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. XLI No. 140 | INDORE | SUNDAY | OCTOBER 27, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 4 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 www.freepressjournal.in Sports AB de Villiers responds to Kohli’s kind words after Hall of Fame induction P.16 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE WORLD TEL AVIV fp Briefs BHOPAL BJP FIR against Diggi, Umang and Katare BJP has filed a FIR against Leader of Opposition Umang Singar, Deputy Leader of Opposition Hemant Katare and Rajya Sabha Member Digvijay Singh for trying to defame its by-election candidate from Vijaypur assembly seat, Ramniwas Rawat on Saturday. On the complaint of BJP, Vijaypur police have registered the FIR against said Congress leaders. BJP said that a six years old video of Ramniwas Rawat was tampered and posted on X handle by the accused. BHOPAL Hingankar appointed OSD to CM House The state government has given contractual appointment for a year to senior IPS officer Rajesh Kumar Hingankar upon his retirement. He will be OSD to CM House. His contractual appointment will be from November 1 onwards. Agencies TEHRAN Tehran after several explosions were heard following Israel’s ‘precise strikes’ on military targets in Iran . Iran attacked Israel twice, including in locations that endangered civilians, and has paid the price for it Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari Israeli military spokesperson The reaction from Iran to the strikes was less than strident. Following the airstrikes, Iran's Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying it had a right to self-defence, and "considers itself entitled and obligated to defend against foreign acts of aggression." Israel's opposition leader, Yair Lapid, criticised the decision to avoid "strategic and economic targets" in the attack. "We could and should have exacted a much heavier price from Iran," Lapid wrote on X. 4Continued on | P6 Toota hai ghar ka ghamand! Haridev Pushparaj PUNE Toota hai ghar ka ghamand!.. was the overriding sentiment in the MCA Stadium Press Box as Tom Latham’s New Zealand recorded their first ever Test series win in India, and in the process, consigned the home team to their first home Test series loss in 12 years. The enormity of India’s historic defeat in Pune cannot be understated by any stretch of imagination given the kind of fortress the Indian team had built over the years, surrounded by the aura of being ‘Invincibles’ in home territory. This is an Indian team that was losing a Test series on home soil after winning 18 consecutive series at home, which included winning 42 Test matches out of the 54 played since 2012. To put that stat in perspective, no other team has won more than ten successive Test Dejected Kohli series at home during this period. An Indian team comprising some of the best batters in world cricket, Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma, along with arguably the best spin twins in home conditions, Ravichandran Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja, came unstuck against a NZ side who relied on collective effort, dynamic strategy and smarter game plans to outwit their more fancied opponents. Although Washington Sundar produced the finest moment of his career with figures of 7/59 in the first innings, NZ still managed 259 on a Pune track that put the Indian batsmen in all sorts of trouble. Indian batsmen have traditionally been known to be the best players of spin in world cricket from the days of Gavaskar and Vishwanath to the 90s legends like Tendulkar, Dravid and Laxman. Today, that halo which encircled them has been shattered to pieces by the subtle variations produced by the Kiwi's left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner, which bamboozled India’s batting superstars across both innings. This Test series loss will hurt the Indian team but there are no excuses as they played poor cricket, and in sport the law of averages eventually catches up. What goes up must ultimately come down. As in life, so in sport. Female bear dies ED finds irregularities after eating pressure bomb Fake tickets: Raids across the country FP News Service BALAGHAT A female bear died after eating a pressure bomb in Bijora village under Laugur forest circle in Maoist-affected Balaghat district, officials said on Saturday. The incident came to light when a patrolling party saw a bear lying dead i The female bear died after eating the pressure bomb which is generally used to kill wild boars, official sources said. On getting information, divisional forest officer Adhar Gupta and others rushed to the spot. A team of veterinary doctors performed its post mortem. Ashish Singh MUMBAI The Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted extensive search operations on Friday across Delhi, Mumbai, Jaipur, Chandigarh, and Bengaluru in connection with the alleged illegal sale of tickets for the upcoming Coldplay and Diljit Dosanjh Dil-Luminati concerts. The raids follow multiple FIRs filed nationwide regarding black-market ticket sales at inflated prices and the distribution of counterfeit tickets. According to ED officials, the investigation was launched under Coldplay Diljit Dosanjh the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002, with searches conducted at over 13 locations. Incriminating evidence, including mobile phones, laptops, and SIM cards allegedly used in the ticket scam, were seized. The probe centres on unauthorized sales for Dosanjh’s "Dilluminati" tour, beginning October 26 in Delhi NCR, and Coldplay’s "Music of the Spheres World Tour," scheduled for January 18-19, 2025, at Mumbai’s DY Patil Stadium. 4Continued on | P6 offgrid Pishori Pistas’ sweets @ Rs 24K per kg DIWALI SPECIAL SMITA BHOPAL A special Diwali sweet made of Pishori Pistas is selling for Rs 24,000 per kg in the city. Besides pistas, kesar and gold vark have been used to prepare the sweet. Pishori Pistas are imported from Pakistan and are named Sweets made of Pakistani Pishori Pistas after the place in the neighbouring country where they are grown. The sweet, perhaps the costliest one in the city, is NASHIK available at sweet shops in New Market. “Pishori Pistas are greener and tastier than other pistas and are full of nutrients”, says owner of a sweets shop Dharmendra Dang. He says that they have used Stevia, a sugar substitute made from a plant found in South America, as a sweetener. Ayurvedic texts say that gold and silver, taken in extremely small quantities, are also good for MUMBAI E-paper Cinema ‘I was scared’ P.14 MUTED RESPONSE FROM IRAN Agencies 4Continued on | P6 BHOPAL readers’ corner You Don’t Know a Mother’s Heart P.8 Israel strikes back fense systems and long-range missile production sites in Iran, as well as sites in Syria and Iraq. Israel said the attacks had concluded by 5 am. There was no immediate indication that oil or missile sites were hit - strikes that would have marked a much more serious escalation - and Israel offered no immediate damage assessment. PUNE Biggest-ever crowd at Harris-Beyonce rally RETALIATION | Israeli jets target air defence systems and long range missile production sites in Iran, Iraq as well as Syria Israel attacked military targets in Iran with a series of pre-dawn airstrikes on Saturday in retaliation for the barrage of ballistic missiles the Islamic Republic fired upon Israel earlier this month. The Israeli military said its aircraft targeted facilities that Iran used to make the missiles fired at Israel as well as surfaceto-air missile sites. The New York Times, quoting Israeli sources, reported that, Israel’s fighter jets focused on some 20 military installations, including air defense batteries, radar stations and missile production sites. At 2.30 AM local time the Israeli military said it was “conducting “precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” saying it was acting in response to more than a year of attacks on Israel by Iran and its allies across the Middle East. Israel said it had targeted air de- UJJAIN health, he adds. Another unique initiative is printing paintings by Gond artistes Padma Shri recipient Durga Bai Vyam and Venkat Raman Singh Shyam from the state on the covers of the tin boxes in which sweets are packaged. “The aim behind the initiative is to promote tribal art of the Madhya Pradesh., 4Continued on | P6 6 killed in two road accidents PTI BARWANI/CHHINDWARA Six persons were killed in two road accidents in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani and Chhindwara districts, police said on Saturday. In Barwani district, four people including a father-son duo lost their lives, while two persons were killed in Chhindwara district, officials said. A truck overturned on pedestrians after hitting a cow in Sendhwa town of Barwani district, crushing four persons around 1 am on Saturday, said an official. Sendhwa police said the victims were going home from a factory after work when the truck carrying red chillies from Maharashtra to Punjab tipped over and fell on them. 4Continued on | P6 Centre warns X, Meta over fake bomb threats Over 275 flights have received bomb threats since last week Agencies NEW DELHI The spate of fake bomb threats issued to airlines poses a threat to public order, the Centre has told social media platforms while ordering them to act against the spread of such misinformation at the earliest. It has also warned the social media companies that the exemption available to them for third-party content as intermediaries under the In- JOBLESS DELHI MAN ARRESTED New Delhi: A 25-year-old unemployed man from Delhi has been taken into custody for making hoax bomb threats, marking only the second arrest since a spate of such threats began being issued to airlines last week. Officials from the Delhi Police said the man admitted to making the threats to draw attention to himself after seeing reports of similar calls on television. Over 275 flights have received hoax bomb threats since October 14 and the Mumbai Police had taken a 17-year-old into custody last week. The Delhi Police said on Saturday that two threat messages were received at the capital's Indira Gandhi International Airport between Friday night and early on Saturday from a social media account. formation Technology Act will not apply if they don't follow their due diligence obligations or aid in committing an unlawful act. In an advisory sent on Friday, the Ministry of Elec- tronics and Information Technology said air travellers and security agencies have been affected because of the hoax bomb threats. 4Continued on | P6 Ex-IAS officer, now with BJP, to be SEIAA chairman Rakesh Shrivastava’s name proposed for SEAC Nitendra Sharma BHOPAL The state government has approved the names of the heads of two main organisations which give green nod for setting up industries. Retired IAS officer SN Singh Shrivastava Chouhan Chouhan is being made chairman of the State Level Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA) and Rakesh Kumar Shrivastava as chairman of State Level Expert Appraisal Committee (SEAC). Chief Minister Mohan Yadav has given his consent for both the names and approved the files. Now, the state government will put up these names before the Union Environment Ministry. Afterwards, the ministry will issue a notification of these names for these posts. Chouhan has been appointed from the BJP quota. He was a member of the BJP’s manifesto committee set up for the assembly election. Chouhan is also the state in-charge of the BJP’s FPO. He is closely connected to the BJP as well as the RSS. He has been appointed on the basis of the recommendations of the RSS, Rakesh Shrivastava, whose name has been proposed for SEAC chairmanship, is considered close to Deputy Chief Minister Rajendra Shukla. He was the OSD of Shukla. 4Continued on | P6