FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 215 | BHOPAL | FRIDAY | JANUARY 17, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Day Five Drama Unfolds P.12 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: BHOPAL WORLD UJJAIN PRESS PUNE INDORE NASHIK Cinema Karishma calls incident scary P.14 RIC attracts Rs 32,520-cr investments Unit Proposed investment Torrent Power Limited Rs 18000 cr Bajrang Power and Steel Rs 3300 cr Select Builders Rs 2500 cr Sharda Energy & Minerals Rs 2500 cr JMS Mining Rs 350 cr DDTC Axim Limited Rs 1200 cr Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Investment proposals worth Rs 32, 520 crore were received in Shahdol Regional Industry Conclave (RIC) held on Thursday. They will create around 30,925 job opportunities in the region. Torrent Power Limited has given the biggest investment proposal of Rs 18,000 crore. It wants to invest in Time has come for development of Shahdol, Anuppur & Umaria districts Mohan Yadav Chief Minister the energy sector. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav said that investment proposals received for Shahdol, Anuppur and Umaria districts of Shahdol division are encouraging. These three districts are religiously important but their development was stagnant somewhere. Now time has come for their development. Target has been set to develop Shahdol division as an in- HINDENBURG CLOSES | BJP takes swipe at Rahul Gandhi; closure does not mean clean chit for ‘Modani’, says Congress Short-seller behind Adani rout shuts ops ‘MATTER GOES FAR DEEPER’ PTI WASHINGTON Hindenburg Research, a US investment research firm known for short-selling, and whose reports resulted in wiping out billions of dollars of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies, has been shut down, its founder Nate Anderson announced Wednesday. "As I've shared with family, friends and our team since late last year, I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research. The plan has been to wind up after we finished the pipeline of ideas we were working on. And as of the last Ponzi cases we just completed and are sharing with regulators, that day is today," Anderson announced. In the last few years, Hindenburg Research had launched a campaign against Has Rahul got 'contract' of Hindenburg's shop, asks BJP The BJP on Thursday took a swipe at Rahul Gandhi, asking him if he has now got the "contract" to run Hindenburg's "shop" which it said "works in sync" with the Congress to destabilise India. "Rahul Gandhi is in the complete grip of urban naxals' thinking process... Now that Hindenburg is closing its shop, have you Rahul Gandhi got the contract for it," BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Adani group. Its reports published since 2023 had resulted in billions of dollars of loss for the Indian billionaire. All the charges were denied by Adani and his companies. The sudden and surprising announcement by Anderson comes within days of a Republican Congressman, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, asking the Department of Justice to preserve all the documents and Car plunges into canal as youth films reel, two killed Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL In a tragic incident on Wednesday night, a car carrying three youths fell into a canal near Inayatpur village, resulting in the death of two and injuries to another. The police investigation reveals that the car was being driven by Vinit Daksha (22) while he was recording a video for a popular social media app. The driver lost control of the car while crossing a narrow culvert, leading to the vehicle plunging into the canal. According to police officials, the three youths—Palash Gaikwad (25), Vinit Daksha, and Piyush Gajbhiye (24)— were traveling in the car when the accident occurred around 11:30 PM. Vinit, who was filming the video, failed to notice the narrow culvert in time and lost control of the vehicle. As a result, the car plunged into the canal. Piyush Gajbhiye, the lone survivor of the incident, managed to break the back glass of the car and escape. He tried to rescue his friends by opening the doors, but was unable to. He raised an alarm, alerting locals who rushed to the scene and contacted the police. The authorities arrived with a JCB machine to extract the vehicle from the canal. Unfortunately, by the time the police arrived and retrieved the car, Palash and Vinit had already succumbed to their injuries. 4Continued on | P6 Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Thursday stated that the closure of Hindenburg Research doesn't mean a clean chit for the Adani Group. He believed the matter goes far deeper, involving abuse of Indian foreign policy, misuse of investigative agencies, and capture of institutions like SEBI. He pointed out that the Hindenburg report, which accused Adani of financial irregularities, was serious enough to prompt the Supreme Court to set up an Expert Committee communications related to the investigations of Adani and his companies. 4Continued on | P6 Google signs deal to buy carbon credits from Indian farms SINGAPORE Google will buy carbon credits from an Indian initiative that turns large amounts of agricultural waste into biochar - a form of charcoal that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and returns it to the soil, it said on Thursday. The deal - signed by Google and Indian supplier Varaha is one of the biggest ever involving biochar, and is the tech giant's first foray into India's carbon dioxide removal (CDR) sector. 4Continued on | P6 SpaDex India achieves space docking PTI BENGALURU In a major boost to India's ambitious future space missions, ISRO on Thursday successfully performed the docking of satellites as part of the Space Docking Experiment (SpaDeX) and announced that post docking, control of two satellites as a single object was also achieved. "India docked its name in space history! Good Morning India ISRO's SpaDeX mission accomplishes historic docking success. Proud to witness this moment!", ISRO said in a post on 'X'. SpaDeX project satellite during a trial attempt of its docking process. With the successful docking of satellites --Chaser and Target-- India has become the fourth country after the US, Russia and China to accomplish the technological feat. In space, docking technology is essential when multiple rocket launches are required to achieve common mission objectives. The docking experiment is crucial for the smooth conduct of the country's ambitious future missions, including Chandrayaan-4, Gaganyaan, setting up a space station and landing an astronaut on the moon. Last October, the government announced that India will have its own Space Station by 2035, known as the "Bharatiya Antriksh Station". Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a post on 'X' greeted the scientists for the achievement. He said: "Congratu- lations to our scientists at @isro and the entire space fraternity for the successful demonstration of space docking of satellites. It is a significant stepping stone for India's ambitious space missions in the years to come." Further, ISRO said: "Post docking, control of two satellites as a single object is successful. Undocking and power transfer checks to follow in coming days." Hailing ISRO, Union Minister of State for Science, Technology and Space, Jitendra Singh said on 'X': "Congrats #ISRO. 4Continued on | P6 E-paper Edit A fragile truce in West Asia P.8 NO DEAL WITH MILITARY TO COME OUT OF JAIL: IMRAN Torrent Power to invest Rs 18k cr MUMBAI dustrial hub. Going retrospective, he said all necessary work has been done in connection with the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) received in the previous six regional summits. He was speaking to media persons after Shahdol Regional Industrial Summit. He added that every youth of the state will receive work according to his skills. GDP of the state will be doubled in the next five years. 4Continued on | P6 PM approves 8th pay panel New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday approved setting up the 8th Pay Commission to revise salaries of nearly 50 lakh central government employees and allowances of 65 lakh pensioners. The chairman and two members of the Commission will be appointed soon, I&B Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters here. "Prime Minister has approved 8th Central Pay Commission for central government employees," the minister said. The term of the 7th Pay Commission will end in 2026. Saif stabbed by intruder at Mumbai home PTI MUMBAI Bollywood star Saif Ali Khan was repeatedly stabbed with a knife by an intruder inside his 12th floor apartment in upscale Bandra early Thursday in a shocking attack that raises intriguing questions about security, motive, and celebrity life. Khan, 54, was "out of danger" following an emergency surgery, said the doctors at the Lilavati Hospital where he was rushed following the incident that took place around 2.30 am at his apartment in `Satguru Sharan' building. A 2.5-inch piece of knife was removed from his spine, the doctors said, adding he was on "100 percent recovery path". Police registered a case of `armed robbery with attempt Suspect in actor Saif Ali Khan knife attack incident to cause death or grievous hurt'. The attacker fled using the building's staircase, a senior police official said, adding that his CCTV visuals was traced on the sixth floor, and 10 teams have been formed to nab him. Khan's domestic help, who raised alarm first, also sustained a minor injury to her hand during the scuffle. She later lodged a police complaint. 4Continued on | P6 Knife removed from actor's spine Bollywood actor Saif Ali Khan sustained a major injury to the thoracic spinal cord due to a lodged knife in the spine and surgery was performed to remove a 2.5-inchlong knife from the actor's spine and repair his 'leaking spinal fluid', said a doctor of the Lilavati Hospital Shah to visit Bhopal for Samvidhan Gaurav Abhiyan Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL A political storm raised by Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s remark on BR Ambedkar has now reached Madhya Pradesh. Before Rahul Gandhi’s rally in Mhow on January 27, the BJP is trying to woo the people of SC/ST community. Several central leaders of the BJP are set to visit MP as part of the Samvidhan Gaurav Abhiyan. Nadda will be in Jabalpur; Gadkari will visit Indore; Tawde will go to Rewa Shah’s programme will be held in Bhopal, and Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari will be in Indore. Similarly, BJP’s national president JP Nadda will be in Jabalpur, and its national general secretary Vinod Tawde will take part in an event in Rewa. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav will participate in a function in Gwalior. The BJP may also organise events as part of Samvidhan Gaurav Abhiyan in Ujjain and Sagar. 4Continued on | P6