FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms FREE PRESS Vol. 14 No. 307 | BHOPAL | MONDAY | APRIL 21, 2025 | Pages 12 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 www.freepressjournal.in ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: Sports UJJAIN WORLD Kohli masterminds revenge P.10 BHOPAL Trump admin urges top court to allow expulsion PUNE INDORE NASHIK PTI RAMBAN/JAMMU Heavy rainfall due to cloudbursts triggered flash floods and landslides in several areas of Jammu and Kashmir's Ramban district early Sunday, leaving three people dead and damaging scores of houses and roads, while more than 100 people were rescued. Traffic on the strategic Jammu-Srinagar National Highway was suspended as the road was blocked at nearly a dozen places between Nashri and Banihal due to landslides and mudslides, officials said. Hundreds of commuters were left stranded on the 250kilometre highway, the only all-weather road linking Kashmir with the rest of the country. (See Nation) Briefs MOSCOW 3 astronauts return from ISS A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russians and one American from the International Space Station landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, ending their sevenmonth research assignment. According to Russian space agency Roscosmos, the capsule carrying Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner and astronaut Don Pettit of US space agency NASA landed on the Kazakh steppe near the city of Zhezkazgan at 6:20 a.m. Roscosmos said the parachute-assisted landing was a trouble-free descent. BENGALURU Ex-K’taka DGP found dead Former Director General of Police of Karnataka, Om Prakash, was found dead at his residence in Bengaluru on Sunday under mysterious circumstances, police said. The 68-yearold's body was found with injuries and was discovered in his house, raising suspicions of foul play. Prakash's spouse, Pallavi, informed police about the incident, they said. Senior police officials rushed to the spot immediately upon receiving the information. SRINAGAR Soldier dies at Siachen Glacier A soldier was killed on Sunday at Ladakh’s Siachen Glacier while performing duty at the world’s highest battlefield. The Defence Ministry said that Naib Subedar Baldev Singh made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty at the Siachen Glacier.The General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Army’s Leh-based Fire and Fury Corps paid rich tribute to the fallen soldier. P.6 Brand Sutra Brands, Meet Bharat P.12 CLOUDBURSTS WREAK HAVOC IN J&K’S RAMBAN fp E-paper Edit Ponmudy’s exit critical for DMK FLASH FLOODS & LANDSLIDES | 3 killed, 100 rescued, scores of houses damaged 4Continued on | P8 MUMBAI Trade pact top agenda as Vance begins India visit today IANS NEW DELHI US Vice-President J.D. Vance begins his four-day India visit on Monday with focus on a trade agreement, bilateral relations and the implementation of the outcomes of the India-US joint statement issued in February. Accompanied by his Indianorigin wife Usha Chilukuri and their three children, Vance's visit marks the first by a sitting US Vice- President to India in over a decade, with the last being former US President Joe Biden's visit in 2013. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to host Vance for talks and dinner at his official residence, 7 Lok Kalyan Marg, on Monday evening. The meeting is expected to cover the long-discussed India-US bilateral trade agreement and explore ways to deepen strategic and economic ties between the two democracies.National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishan- kar are expected to join the discussions. The US Vice-President will be accompanied by a fivemember high-level US delegation, including representatives from the Pentagon and the State Department.The Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement, "The visit will provide an opportunity for both sides to review the progress in bilateral relations and the implementation of the outcomes of the India-US Joint Statement issued on February 13 during the visit of the Prime Minister to the US. 4Continued on | P8 70-YEAR-OLD MAN DRAGGED IN HOSP IN CHHATARPUR Damaged vehicles lie buried under debris after a cloudburst triggered heavy landslides in Ramban on Sunday. CM releases 2 Kuno cheetahs into Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary Four cheetahs will be brought in from Botswana FP News Service NARMADAPURAM In a shocking incident near Malvi Hospital, resident Pooja Maurya and her daughter Pallavi Maurya were found murdered with sharp weapons on Sunday evening. One body was found in courtyard and the other was lying about 50 feet away. Police officials including SP Gurkaran Singh, reached the scene with a forensic team and collected evidence. Initial investigation suggests a family dispute, with both parties having criminal background. The bodies have been sent for post-mortem. Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL / MANDSAUR / NEEMUCH In the first translocation of cheetahs within the state, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav released Prabhash and Pavak, brought in from the Kuno National Park, into the Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary of Mandsaur on Sunday evening. Once out of the wooden boxes, the big cats sprinted into the grassland.  After releasing the cheetahs, the CM said that four more cheetahs will be brought in from Botswana in May and released into the Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary, bringing the total number of cheetahs there to six.  Expressing happiness over the relocation of the two cheetahs, the CM said that efforts will be made to ensure that the Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary has air connectivity. Woman, daughter murdered Journey to Mandsaur After tranquilising Prabhash and Pavak, the Kuno National Park officials left for the Gandhi Sagar Sanctuary at 8 am. A three-hour journey brought the cheetahs to Mandsaur. Around 5 pm, the CM released both the cheetahs in the presence of forest officials. Kuno National ParkField Director Uttam Kumar Sharma said that both the cheetahs were healthy. The cheetahs were released one after the other. Later, they got together to explore their surroundings. Talking about the Cheetah project, he said many countries have failed in the trans- Pak Hindu minister attacked in Sindh location of cheetahs. 4Continued on | P8 Bengal violence: Apex court to hear PIL today PTI IANS ISLAMABAD NEW DELHI A Pakistani Hindu Minister of State was attacked in Sindh by protestors opposing the federal government's controversial irrigation canal projects on the pretext that it would reduce the downward flow of rivers that are key for irrigation in the southern province. Kheal Das Kohistani, state minister for religious affairs in Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif-led government, was driving through the Thatta district of the province on Saturday when his motorcade was pelted with tom- The Supreme Court is slated to hear on Monday a public interest litigation (PIL) seeking the formation of a fivemember judicial enquiry commission under the chairmanship of a retired apex court judge to enquire into the violent protests erupted against the Waqf (Amendment) Act, 2025 in West Bengal’s Murshidabad. As per the causelist published on the apex court's website, a bench of Justices Surya Kant and N.K. Singh will take up the matter for hearing on April 21. atoes and potatoes. Officials said that Kohistani remained unharmed in the attack. Meanwhile, police have arrested Sindh Taraqi Pasand party's leader Syed Jalal Shah for his involvement in the attack on the convoy of Kohistani. 4Continued on | P8 Doctor, Red Cross worker fired; civil surgeon suspended Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL Deputy chief minister Rajendra Shukla sacked a doctor and a Red Cross society employee after the video of an elderly man being dragged by two men in a government hospital in Chhatarpur district recently went viral, said officials here on Sunday. The civil surgeon had been suspended, they said. The incident took place on April 17 when Uddhav Singh Joshi (70), a resident of Naugaon town, went to the district hospital in Chhatarpur for his wife’s medical check-up. It is alleged that the man was in the queue for a long time after getting the time slot slip. When his turn came, Dr Rajesh Mishra allegedly objected and then slapped and kicked him. In the viral video, two men can be seen holding the hands of Joshi and dragging him. The health department issued a notice to Dr Mishra and an FIR was registered against him at Naugaon police station under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) sections 115(2), 296, 3(5) and 351(3), the officials said. Deputy chief minister Rajendra Shukla terminated the services of Dr Rajesh Mishra and the Red Cross employee Raghvendra Khare with immediate effect. He also suspended the civil Surgeon Dr GL Ahirvar. A three-member committee investigated the incident, in which it was proved that contractual postgraduate medical officer Dr Rajesh Kumar Mishra dragged the elderly man on the hospital premises and misbehaved with him. 4Continued on | P8 PTI OTTAWA A gurudwara in Canada's Vancouver has been vandalised with pro-Khalistan graffiti, with its leaders blaming a small group of Sikh separatists for the act, according to a media report. The local police said it was in- vestigating graffiti sprayed on Saturday at the Ross Street Gurdwara, Vancouver Sun reported. Vancouver Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Steve Addison said Saturday that po- IMC LoP, two others held for attacking BJP leader Argument over petty issue leads to attack Our Staff Reporter INDORE Indore Municipal Corporation’s leader of opposition Chintu Chouksey, and his two supporters were arrested for allegedly attacking a BJP leader’s house and injuring him and his family members critically in the Hira Nagar area late on Saturday. In this attack, Chouksey’s nephew also received an injury. Chouksey and his supporters were sent to jail. Hira Nagar police station in charge PL Sharma informed Free Press that a case was registered against Chouksey, his son Ishan Chouksey, nephew Rohan, Radheshyam Chouksey, Gourav Chowdhary, Sumit Thakur, Subhash Yadav, Ravi Prajapat and others under sec- tions 109, 296, 35 (2), 115 (2), 333, 324, (4), 191 (2), 191 (3), 190 of the BNS. BJP leader Kapil Pathak’s father informed the police that the altercation took place over the issue of their tractor parked in the street in which they live in the Sukhliya area.  Chouksey’s son asked Kapil to park the tractor somewhere else.  The complainant assured that his driver would park the tractor at another place, yet Chouksey’s son allegedly used abusive words and misbehaved with Kapil, he added. The GenomeIndia Project -India's reference dataset for genetics and genomics -could help improve how disease is diagnosed, predict one's response to a drug and kick-start precision medicine efforts in India, according to a research article. Launched in 2020 by the Department of Biotechnology, GenomeIndia aims to build a database that captures the genetic diversity of India's population. In the first phase, genomes of 10,000 individuals were sequenced, data of which was published in January this year for future research. Writing in a comment, published in the journal Nature Genetics, researchers from over 20 institutes, including those of the Centre for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and All India Institute of Medical Opponents of President Donald Trump's administration took to the streets of communities large and small across the US on Saturday, decrying what they see as threats to the nation's democratic ideals. The disparate events ranged from a march through midtown Manhattan and a rally in front of the White House to a demonstration at a Massachusetts commemoration of "the shot heard 'round the world" on April 19, 1775, marking the start of the Revolutionary War 250 years ago. 4Continued on | P8 Sciences, have published preliminary findings of the genomic sequencing. Kumarasamy Thangaraj, CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at the CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, told PTI, "The comment was written to announce to the scientific community that India has completed the whole genome sequencing of 10,000 individuals. We have carefully selected the 83 population groups across India representing different linguistic groups and geographical regions." The team looked at four major linguistic groups of Indo-European, Dravidian, Austro-Asiatic and TibetoBurman. Within a broad geographic region, populations belonging to distinct lice are looking into the graffiti at the gurdwara, the newspaper said. He said the police do not have a suspect. The Khalsa Diwan Society, which runs the Ross Street Gurdwara, blamed the vandalism on a small group of Sikh separatists advocating Khalistan. 4Continued on | P8 FOLLOW UP Bank manager, cashier among 6 held in digital arrest case FP News Service GWALIOR bio-geographies were sampled. Further, genomes of about 160 unrelated people from each non-tribal group and 75 from each tribal group were sequenced. The researchers identified genetic variants, describing the extensive genetic diversity "hitherto uncaptured in the Indian population". In a significant breakthrough, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) has arrested six individuals, including a  bank manager  and a  female cashier, involved in a digital fraud case in Gwalior. According to reports, Ramakrishna Mission Ashram secretary Swami Supradiptananda was duped of Rs 2.52 crore over 26 days. As per the police, the fraudsters, posing as Nashik police officers, initiated contact with Swami on March 17. Claiming that he was an accused in the Naresh Goyal money-laundering case, they allegedly executed his ‘digital arrest’ via video call. Then, they allegedly coerced him into transferring money to various bank accounts, managing to siphon off Rs 2.52 crore over 26 days. Swami filed a complaint with the Gwalior police. During the investigations, police received tip-offs and arrests were made in Ujjain. 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 Genomic analysis may kick-start precision medicine PTI AP NEW YORK Gurudwara vandalised in Vancouver offgrid NEW DELHI Anti-Trump protesters rally across US