FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLII No. 42 | INDORE | SUNDAY | JULY 20, 2025 | Pages 20 ` 4 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports JHULAN’S WISH, LORD’S LEGACY P.14 A day after the United States State Department designated The Resistance front as a terrorist organisation, President Donald Trump  has claimed that up to five fighter jets were shot down during the military conflict  between  India  and Pakistan that followed the terrorist attack on Pahalgam. He did not specify the break up of the countries the jets belong to or their make. But he followed it up by saying he prevented the hostilites from escalating. He was making this claim the twenty fourth time in about seventy days. This time he made the remarks at a dinner with some Republican lawmakers at the  White House, without clarifying which side’s planes he meant. “In fact, planes were being shot out of the air. Five, five, four or five, but I think five jets were shot down actually," Mr Trump said while talking about the conflict. India has conceded that it had lost jets during the conflict but refused to clarify their number or nature. Pakistan claimed it had shot down six Indian aircraft in air-to-air combat, including the French Rafale. India said it had downed “a few planes”, a claim that was refuted by Islamabad, even though the country acknowledged its air bases had suffered hits.   India’s Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Anil Chauhan admitted to fighter aircraft losses during Operation Sindoor but denied Pakistan’s claim that it downed six Indian Air Force (IAF) aircraft, terming it “absolutely incorrect”. He told Bloomberg TV which had asked him “whether or not Pakistan downed an Indian jet or in fact more than that”.  “I think what is important is not jet being down but why..,” he responded. Pressed if he meant IAF jets were indeed downed to which he responded saying he was talking about why “they” were downed. “The good part is that we are able to understand the tactical mistake which we made, remedy it, rectify it, and then implement it again after two days and flew all our jets, again targeting at long range,” the CDS said. See Nation 4Continued on | P8 EDITIONS: INDORE WORLD 5 jets shot down in Indo-Pak clash: Don FP News Service iii QUALITY @ VALUE Trump sues Murdoch, WSJ, seeks $10 billion for article FRESH TRUMP CLAIM | US prez didn’t specify whether jets were downed by India or Pakistan MUMBAI ESTD-1983 Little group fading out fast: Trump on BRICS FP News Service WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday ridiculed BRICS referring to it as “a little group that's fading out fast” as he repeated his threat to slap a 10% tariff on imports from members of the BRICS group of developing nations and said the group would end very quickly if they ever formed in a meaningful way. Incidentally, India is taking over the leadership of the grouping for the year next year. Trump claimed that "nobody showed up" at the BRICS meeting a day after he threatened to slap 10% tariffs. "When I heard about this group from BRICS, six countries, basically, I hit them very, very hard. And if they ever really form in a meaningful way, it will end very quickly," Trump said without naming the countries. "We can never let anyone play games with us." 4Continued on | P8 UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Readers’ Corner KILL, EARN, EQUIP P.6 Cinema Why was Priyanshu's film stopped? P.16 For first time, no Dy Speaker in House for 5 yrs The session is beginning on July 28, but there are no signs of election to this position Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL It has happened for the first time there is not deputy speaker in the House for the past five years. In fact, the House does not have a Deputy Speaker for the first time after the formation of Madhya Pradesh in 1956. After the fall of the Congress government in 2020, when the BJP formed a government, the ruling party did not elect any Deputy Speaker. Afterwards, the 19-monthold Mohan Yadav government did not take any initiative to elect a Deputy Speaker. In the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker After fall of Cong govt in 2020, when BJP formed govt, the ruling party did not elect any Deputy Speaker runs the House, but neither the government nor the opposition seems to be serious about electing deputy speaker.  The monsoon session of the House is going to start on July 28. According to sources, there is no preparation for electing the deputy speaker. The post of Deputy Speaker is offered to the opposition, and former chief minister Sunderlal Patwa started this practice during his tenure.  Former chief ministers Digvijaya Singh, Uma Bharti, and Shivraj Singh Chouhan also continued this tradition. Former chief minister Kamal Nath, instead of giving the position of the Deputy Speaker to the opposition, made Hina Kaware of his own party the Deputy Speaker. When Chouhan became the chief minister again, he did not elect anyone as Deputy Speaker. The Congress demanded the post of Deputy Speaker, and some BJP leaders also tried for an election to the post, but neither the ruling party nor the opposition seriously mulled over the issue.  4Continued on | P8 Much gas in EU’s Superdam 15-yr-old Odisha oil sanction threat construction girl set on fire underway Ashwin Ahmad PTI PTI NEW DELHI BHUBANESWAR BEIJING India has reacted strongly to the sanctions announced by the European Union preventing countries from importing oil and gas from Russia. The sanctions package which is the 18th round of sanctions imposed by the 27-member bloc, targets Russia’s shadow fleet, Chinese banks that enable sanctions, and an Indian oil refinery. Located in Gujarat, Nayara Energy owns Vadinar oil refinery that has Russia’s energy giant Rosneft as the main shareholder. According to Reuters, Rosneft has a 49.13% stake in the refinery. Describing the sanctions as one of the “strongest sanctions package against Russia to date,” Kaja Kallas, the EU High Representative for For- eign Affairs and Security Policy, also announced that the dynamic price cap on Russian oil set 15 percent below the average market price of Russian crude, effectively lowering the cap from $60 per barrel, to about $47.6. “For the first time, we’re designating a flag registry and the biggest Rosneft refinery in India. We will keep raising the costs, so stopping the aggression becomes the only path forward for Moscow,” said Kallas. China on Saturday formally started the construction of a $167.8 billion dam over the Brahmaputra River in Tibet, close to the Indian border in Arunachal Pradesh. The hydropower project, regarded as the biggest infrastructure project in the world, raised concerns in the lower riparian countries, India and Bangladesh. Chinese Premier Li Qiang announced the start of the construction of the dam at a groundbreaking ceremony in the lower reaches of the Brahmaputra River, locally known as Yarlung Zangbo, at Nyingchi City, official media reported. 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 A 15-year-old girl was set on fire by unidentified persons in Odisha's Puri district on Saturday, officials said. The girl is undergoing treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar and she is in a critical condition, having suffered 70 per cent burn injuries, but she is able to speak, they said. Deputy Chief Minister Pravati Parida, who is in charge of the Women and Child Development Department, said the government will bear the expenses of the girl's treatment and that the police have been asked to arrest the culprits as soon as possible. The incident comes close on the heels of a 20-year-old college student of FM College in Balasore immolating herself over sexual harassment on July 12. She died on July 14. Victim may be airlifted to Delhi Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi on Saturday said the state government is considering airlifting the 15-yearold girl - under treatment at AIIMS Bhubaneswar with 70 per cent burns to AIIMS Delhi for advanced medical care BJD supremo and Leader of the Opposition in the state assembly, Naveen Patnaik, expressed deep anguish over the incident and said such cases point to a systemic failure of governance. The incident took place at Bayabar village in Balanga police station area around 9 am when the girl was returning from her friend's house. 4Continued on | P8