FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms QUALITY AT VALUE FREE PRESS VOL. 13 NO. 359 | BHOPAL | MONDAY | JUNE 10, 2024 | PAGES 14 r Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 `3 r RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 www.freepressjournal.in - EDIT DE&I AT THE BACKBONE OF D&AD FOCUS ON INFRA, ECONOMIC GROWTH BRANDSUTRA WEATHER EDITIONS: INDORE, BHOPAL, UJJAIN, MUMBAI, PUNE 40.60c. 25.60c Sunrise : 05.42 Sunset : 07.07 MAJOR COLLABORATION CINEMA Modi 3.0 with 72 ministers takes oath, 9 new faces in Cabinet NEW DELHI MODI CABINET Prime Minister Narendra Modi took oath today along with 72 ministers of the new coalition government. Thirty of them are Cabinet Ministers, five independent charge, and 36 Ministers of State. The portfolios will be announced later. PM Modi, 73, will head a coalition government in his third term, or Modi 3.0, for the first time since he became Prime Minister in 2014 following a huge "Brand Modi" victory after 10 years of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) rule. He is the second Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru to be elected for a third term in a row. PM Modi won the Lok Sabha election from Varanasi by 1.5 lakh votes, a margin much narrower than the 4.6 lakh lead he had over his nearest rival in the 2019 election. The oath ceremony is being held at the lawns of the Rashtrapati Bhavan, with the weather office forecasting a maximum temperature of 42 degree Celsius in the national capital. President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath to PM Modi. Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah took oath after him. Nitin Gadkari was the fourth leader to be administered the oath of office by the President. JP Nadda, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Nirmala Sitharaman, S Jaishankar, and Manohar Lal Khattar followed in taking oath. HD Kumaraswamy of the Janata Dal (Secular), who took oath after Mr Khattar, was the first leader from any of the BJP's allies in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) to take oath. Soon after, Janata Dal (United) leader Lalan Singh, a close aide of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, also took oath. Sarbananda Sonowal was the first leader from the northeast to take oath today, Kiren Rijiju the second. l Rajnath Singh l Amit Shah l Nitin Gadkari l JP Nadda l Shivraj Singh Chouhan l Nirmala Sitharaman l S Jaishankar l Manohar Lal Khattar l HD Kumaraswamy l Piyush Goyal l Dharmendra Pradhan l Jitan Ram Manjhi l Rajiv Ranjan Singh Shivraj, Scindia, Veerendra, Savitri, Uike become ministers from MP State becomes important as BJP wins all 29 seats alias Lalan Singh Newly sworn-in Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets President Droupadi Murmu after taking oath for the third consecutive term, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi on Sunday Virendra Kumar, a prominent Scheduled Castes face of the BJP and eight-time MP, was inducted into the Narendra Modi government. He won the election from Madhya Pradesh's Tikamgarh reserved seat. Supporters of leaders who have been called to the stage clapped and cheered loudly, as they saw their leaders walk towards the mic to be administered oath by the President. Jyotiraditya Scindia's induction into the Modi 3.0 council of minister has cemented his importance in the BJP since he left the Congress four years ago, marking the beginning of his second stint in the Union cabinet. Hardeep Singh Puri, the former diplomat who helped India navigate through two back-to-back oil crises, was among the ministers sworn in today. Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan has solidified his status as the "real" political heir of his father, Ram Vilas Paswan, Over 8,000 present at ceremony NEW DELHI Political veterans and debutants, business leaders and showbiz stars, almost everybody who is anybody in India, and many who are not... more than 8,000 people packed into the Rashtrapati Bhavan forecourt on Sunday as Narendra Modi was sworn in as prime minister for a third consecutive term. As the blazing sunny day dulled into a warm evening, the swearingin ceremony of the Modi 3.0 government unravelled against the backdrop of the magnificent sandstone dome of the columned presidential palace lit in saffron, white and green. It was the final chapter of a 44-day election that saw the Modi-led BJP come to power with 240 seats, more than 60 seats less than 2019, and now dependent on its allies in the NDA. There were bugles, ceremonial guards, flowers and all the trappings of a grand spectacle as President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office. But the political overtones dominated them all. The list of potential ministers was analysed and speculated on endlessly to see which allies would be accommodated, how many from the partner NDA parties -- particularly from the TDP and the JD-U, which together won 28 seats -- which leader would be repeated, which of the newbies would get a berth. CONTD. ON P6 l Sarbananda Sonowal l Dr Virendra Kumar l Kinjarapu Ram l Mohan Naidu l Pralhad Joshi l Jual Oram l Giriraj Singh l Ashwini Vaishnaw l Jyotiraditya Scindia l Bhupender Yadav l Gajendra Shekhawat l Annapurna Devi l Kiren Rijiju l Hardeep Singh Puri l Mansukh Mandaviya l G Kishan Reddy l Chirag Paswan l CR Patil l Rao Inderjit Singh after he was inducted into the Narendra Modi government today. With this, Chirag Paswan makes a remarkable comeback in Bihar's turbulent political landscape. Leaders from India's neighbourhood and the Indian Ocean Region including Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu, and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina attended the event l Chouhan takes oath as Union Minister for 1st time l Two tribal, two OBC and one SC MPs get cabinet berths OUR STAFF REPORTER BHOPAL Five MPs from the state have been inducted into the Union Cabinet led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Jyotiraditya Scindia and Veerendra Khatik were sworn in as cabinet ministers on Sunday. Savitri Thakur and Durgadas Uike took oath as ministers of state. MPs were administered oath according to their seniority. As Chouhan has been the four-time chief minister, he Sharp rise in temp in NHAI project director in CBI net for Bhopal, other cities accepting bribe of Rs 10 lakh Ved Lahoti from Delhi zone tops JEE-Advanced NEW DELHI Ved Lahoti from the Delhi zone has topped the IIT entrance exam JEE-Advanced securing 355 out of 360 marks, the highest ever, officials said on Sunday. T h e previous highest was 352 in 2022. According to IIT Madras, which conducted the Joint Entrance Exam (JEE)-Advanced this year, Dwija Dharmeshkumar Patel from IIT Bombay zone is the topper among female candidates with 332 marks. Her all-India rank is seven. Four of the top 10 rankholders are from IIT Madras. The second rank has been bagged by Aditya (Delhi zone) followed by Bhogalpalli Sandesh (Madras zone) at the third position. CONTD. ON P6 Relief expected around June 15 Alert for rain, hail, wind @ 50-60 kmh in 40 districts OUR STAFF REPORTER CITY.BHOPAL@FPJ.CO.IN There was sharp rise in day temperature enhancing the discomfort level in Bhopal. Bhopal recorded rise of 5.5 degrees Celsius in day temperature which stood at 40.9 degrees Celsius while it recorded night temperature 28.4 degrees Celsius. Sunny weather in the afternoon gave way to cloudy sky in the evening, but it increased humidity, giving people a tough time. The period of relief from heat wave proved short-lived. The southwesterly winds changed course and started blowing from the west once again. This shift ushered in dry weather conditions, leading to a significant rise in temperatures and a potential resurgence of the heat wave, with areas potentially experiencing severe heat wave conditions. Indore recorded day temperature 37.4 degrees Celsius after rise of 4.6 degrees Celsius while it recorded night temperature 25.2 degrees Celsius. Day temperature rise ranged up to 7 degrees Celsius. Ujjain recorded rise of 6.7 degrees Celsius while Dhar recorded rise of 6.4 degrees Celsius. Orange alert has been issued for rain, hail in districts like Dindori, Chhindwara, Seoni, Mandla, Balaghat, Pandurna. Lightning with speedy wind are likely in Burhanpur, Khandwa, Khargone, Badwani districts. Yellow alert for lightning with speedy wind at 50kmh have been issued for districts like Bhopal, Vidisha, Raisen, Sehore, Rajgarh, Narmadapuram, Betul, Harda, Alirajpur, Jhabua, Dhar, Indore, Ujjain, Dewas, Shajapur, AgarMalwa, Guna, Ashok Nagar, Shivpuri, Anuppur, Shahdol, Umaria, Katni, Jabalpur, Narsingpur, Panna, Damoh, Sagar, Chhatarpur, Maihar. According to meteorological department, intense heat was due to continued flow of hot, dry westerly winds originating from Sindh Balochistan and the Thar desert in Rajasthan. Clear skies with relentless sunshine further amplified the heat. However, a temporary reprieve arrived with a shift in wind direction. Southwesterly winds from the Arabian Sea brought much-needed moisture. This resulted in scattered dust storms, thunder storms, and rainfall. The increase in humidity levels brought a drop in temperatures and the heat wave subsided. CONTD. ON P6 Seven acused arrested OUR STAFF REPORTER CITY.BHOPAL@FPJ.CO.IN < Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has apprehended a senior officer of NHAI who is general manager and project director, National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), Chhatarpur, while accepting bribe of Rs.10 Lakhs from accused employees of a private company for showing undue favour to the said company, officials said on Sunday. The CBI also arrested six other accused including an FIR against……… Directors of M/s PNC Infratech Limited Yogesh Jain and T R Rao, M/s PNC Infratech Limited. The police have also registered FIR and have arrested the four employees including Satyanarayana Anguluri, Brijesh Mishra, Anil Jain and Shubham Jain. Purushottam Lal Choudhary, Sharad Verma Consultant, NHAI, Chhatarpur and Prem Kumar Sinha Resident Engineer (RE) of NHAI Consultant NHAI consultant and the resident engineer, four employees of the private company, in the said case of bribery. A case was registered by CBI on June 8, against 10 accused including the 7 arrested accused and two directors of a private private on allegations that two directors of the said private company in conspiracy with its accused employees had been obtaining undue favours from the accused NHAI officers for obtaining final handing over as well as issuance of no objection certificate and processing of the final bill in respect of Jhansi-Khaju- The southwest monsoon reached Mumbai on Sunday, two days earlier than usual after making an early onset over Kerala and northeastern region on May 30, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). Last year, the primary rainbearing system reached Delhi and Mumbai together on June 25, first time since June 21, 1961, with Cyclone Biparjoy impacting its progress over southern India and the adjoining western and central parts of the country. Normally, the monsoon reaches Kerala by June 1, Mumbai by June 11, and the national capital by June 27. On May 15, the weather office had announced the onset of monsoon over Kerala by May 31. Weather scientists said was given due respect and was the fifth MP to take the oath. Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP won all the 29 Lok Sabha seats, CONTD. ON P6 Close shave for aircraft at Mumbai airport MUMBAI Aviation regulator DGCA is probing an incident of an IndiGo plane landing and an Air India aircraft takingoff from the same runway in less than a minute at the Mumbai airport, officials said on Sunday. The watchdog has derostered the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) who was on duty at the time of the incident on Saturday, while IndiGo has initiated a probe into the matter, they added. A purported video of one plane landing and another taking off from the same runway has been shared on social media. CONTD. ON P6 Plea before SC to order probe J-K: 9 feared dead, 33 injured into June 4 stock market crash in terror attack on pilgrims NEW DELHI A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking directions to the Centre and the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to submit a detailed report into the stock market crash on the day of election results on June 4, when investors lost billions of rupees. The plea, filed by advocate Vishal Tiwari, also sought direction to the government and the SEBI to submit a status report on the orders given on January 3 for considering the suggestion of the expert com- mittee, headed by Justice A M Sapre, made in its report on the PIL in Adani-Hindenburg matter. The top court had said the Centre and the SEBI should constructively consider the suggestions of the expert committee and take any further action necessary to strengthen the regulatory framework, protect investors and ensure the orderly functioning of the securities market. "It is said that after announcements of exit polls in respect to the Lok Sabha 2024 results, the share market went high, but when the actual re- sults were announced the market crashed," the plea said. "Stock market volatility again emerged. As per news reports, the loss was Rs 20 lakh crore. This again has raised question mark on the regulatory mechanism... despite this court's direction, nothing has changed," the petition said. Following the exit poll prediction of a resounding BJP victory, BSE benchmark Sensex shot up on Monday by 2,507 points or 3.4 percent to settle at a new closing peak of 76,469. CONTD. ON P6 Monsoon reaches Mumbai 2 days early New Delhi raho Project awarded to the said private company by NHAI. CBI laid a trap and caught the accused, GM and project director Chattarpur Purushottam Lal Choudhary, redhanded while accepting bribe of Rs 10 lakh from employees of private company. Searches are being conducted at premises of the accused persons at various locations, including Chhattarpur, Lucknow, Kanpur, Agra and Gurugram and incriminating documents, including the digital devices have been recovered. Officials said investigations are still going on in the case. Kulaste, VD out Veerendra Kumar and Jyotiraditya Scindia have found a place in the cabinet, but Faggan Singh Kulaste who was a minister in the first two terms of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was not included in the cabinet. In place of Kulasta, DD Uike and Savitri Thakur have been given berths in the Union Minister at tribal leaders. BJP’s state unit president VD Sharma could not get into the cabinet. Sharma may remain party’s state president for some time more. In the coming days, Sharma may be adjusted in the central organisation of the party. cyclone Remal, which ripped through West Bengal and Bangladesh in May-end, pulled the monsoonal flow to the Bay of Bengal, resulting in an early onset over the northeast. The simultaneous onset of monsoon over Kerala and the northeast is quite rare and has happened on four occasions earlier -- 2017, 1997, 1995 and 1991. The normal monsoon onset date is June 1 for Kerala and June 5 for Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur and Assam. Between 1971 and 2024, the earliest onset of monsoon over Kerala was in 1990 when the annual rains reached the coastal state on May 18. The onset of monsoon over Kerala happened on May 22 in 1999, and on May 23 in 1974 and 2009. Retaining its April forecast, the IMD in a May-end presser said the country could see above-normal rainfall in the four-month monsoon season (June to September) with cumulative rainfall estimated at 106 per cent of the longperiod average of 87 cm. Below-normal monsoon rainfall is expected in northeast India, normal in northwest, and above-normal in central and south peninsular regions of the country. CONTD. ON P6 JAMMU AND KASHMIR About nine people are feared dead, while 33 others have been injured after a bus carrying pilgrims to Shivkhori in Reasi district came under terrorist attack on Sunday, said an official. Speaking to ANI about the bus accident, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Reasi, Mohita Sharma, said, "It is a very unfortunate incident. Initially, what we received in reports suggested that the bus came under a terrorist attack after they opened fire at the passenger bus." "The bus had been arriving from the Shivkhori shrine and was on its way to Katra. After the terrorist firing, the bus driver lost control and the bus fell down into a gorge," said the SSP. Adding further, the official said, "Rescue operations are complete. Nine are feared dead and 33 injured. They were immediately referred to Naraina and Reasi District hospitals. The passengers were not locals. Their identities were not clear but from initial reports, they belonged to UP," said Sharma. "Shiv Khori shrine was secured and area domination was done," added the SSP. Earlier, Deputy Commissioner Reasi Vishesh Mahajan said, "10 people died as a bus rolled down a gorge in Jammu and Kashmir's Reasi." Further details on the matter are awaited.