FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 96 | BHOPAL | THURSDAY | SEPTEMBER 19, 2024 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Rishabh’s comeback a great example for all: Parthiv ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL In a shocker, a three-yearold girl was allegedly raped by her school teacher in Kamla Nagar on Monday. The incident came to light when the girl’s mother found wounds around her private parts. fp Briefs WASHINGTON Trump to meet Modi In a bid to woo the large Indian diaspora, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Tuesday said that he will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi next week during his visit to the United States. The former president made the surprise announcement at a Town Hall event in Michigan, while he was speaking about US trade with India. However, he gave no details on where the two leaders would meet. It is not sure if Trump made this rather hazy announcement at the spur of the moment. MALAPPURAM (KERALA) Second Mpox case in India Kerala reported a confirmed case of monkeypox (Mpox) on Wednesday, marking the second known such case of infection in the country following the recent global outbreak of the disease. Last week, a new case of monkeypox (Mpox) emerged in the national capital when a 26-year-old resident from Hisar, Haryana, tested positive for the virus and was admitted to the LNJP Hospital, a government facility in Delhi. 4Continued on | P6 T basis to ensure speedy justice to the three-yearold girl. Govt caught napping: Patwari CC Chief Jitu Patwari said that rising crime against women, specially rape, in- P dicated that the state government and the home department was lacking in action. Cong calls it 'unconstitutional, anti-federal', attempt to distract Our Staff Reporter 4Continued on | P6 Pays through UPI; Gets 4 gifts from artisans, a saree from CM Our Special Correspondent INDORE Exquisite craftsmanship of artisans at Mrignayni Emporium of Indore left President Draupadi Murmu overwhelmed on Wednesday evening. She even bought two sarees of Kosa Silk and Chanderi Silk worth Rs 33,000 and made payment through UPI. She was also gifted four handicrafts and handloom items, including Bagh and Maheshwari sarees, Gond painting and Jhabua doll, by artisans. Even CM Mohan Yadav gifted her Chanderi saree on behalf of people of MP. President Murmu arrived in Indore for two days visit to the city and Ujjain. After landing at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport, she drove straight to Mrignayni Emporium at MG Road. Mrignayni Emporium is a re- tail outlet of MP Small Scale Industries Corporation, where handicrafts and handloom items of state artisans are offered for sale. She interacted with national award winner artisans and appreciated handloom made silk and cotton sarees. FAMOUS BAGH PRINT SAREES artisan Mubariq Khatri told the President that last 11 generations of his family were engaged in this trade. He also gifted a Bagh print saree to her. 4Continued on | P6 REGULARISATION OF GUEST TEACHERS Apologise or face protest: Assn Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL BOOST TO SPACE PROGRAMME PTI NEW DELHI In a boost to the space programme, the government on Wednesday approved the Chandrayaan-4 mission to bring back moon rocks to earth, to send a spacecraft to orbit planet Venus and to expand the Gaganyaan project to build an Indian space station. The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also approved a proposal of the Department of Space to build a Next Generation Launch Vehicle capable of placing heavier payload in orbits, which could also be key to achieving the targets of setting up a space station and landing an Indian astronaut on the moon. 4Continued on | P6 Lebanon: Now, walkie talkies explode; 9 dead PTI AP BEIRUT In a significant move, India has served a formal notice to Pakistan seeking a review of the 64-year-old Indus Water Treaty, citing "fundamental and unforeseen" changes in the circumstances and impact of persistent cross border terrorism. Notice was issued to Pakistan on August 30 under Article XII(3) of Indus Water Treaty (IWT), government sources said on Wednesday. Explosions went off in Beirut and multiple parts of Lebanon in an apparent second wave of detonations of electronic devices, Hezbollah officials and state media said Wednesday, reporting walkie-talkies and even solar equipment being targeted a day after hundreds of pagers blew up. At least nine people were killed and 300 were wounded, the Health Ministry said. Several blasts were heard Several blasts were heard at the funeral in Beirut for three Hezbollah members and a child killed by exploding pagers the day before at the funeral in Beirut for three Hezbollah members and a child killed by exploding pagers the day before, according to Associated Press journalists at the scene. 4Continued on | P6 State education minister Uday Pratap Singh believes that guest teachers are “Athithi hai aur kya athithi ghar par kabza kar lenge, (Designation itself is guest teacher. Can guests take over our house).” Referring to their demands SATNA detected the problem Betu was suffering from. The doctors of the district veterinary hospital operated upon him and extracted it. According to veterinary doctor at the hospital Brihaspati Bharti, it happened for the first time that a bird has been operated upon in the hospital. Betu is alright now. Vishwakarma brought a parrot 20 years ago. As he raised the parrot as a family member, he baptised the bird as Betu. The parrot stopped eat- 4Continued on | P6 Guest teacher Association state secretary Ravikant Gupta said, “If he doesn’t apologise, we will stage state-wide protest on October 2.” He also said that guests stay for two days or a month but never for years like guest teachers. “We have been here for years. In fact, minister is a guest as he is elected by public only for a few years,” he added. unil Singh Parihar, state president of the teachers’ organisation, said that on October 2, on the occassion of Gandhi Jayanti, they will protest against the State education minister Uday Pratap Singh’s statement on guest teachers by taking out a silent procession in the state. STATE GOVT ALLOCATES 2.16 HECTARE LAND Nirukt Bhargava UJJAIN State government has allocated 2.16 hectare in Government Ujjain Engineering College premises in Goylakhurd village for setting up of IT Park in the city of Mahakal. MP Industrial Development Corporation’s executive director Rajesh Rathore said, “In the initial phase, we are expecting an investment of Rs 70 crore thus creating 2,000 jobs. A number of companies have evinced interest in setHyderabad and Pune ting up softare units, offers great opporAI, call centres, busitunity to Ujjain’s perness processing outfect ecosystem. source etc in the IIT-Indore’s off campark,” and added pus too is proposed SPECIAL that the infrastrucin the engineering tural work for the part college premises. IT would be completed within Park in Mahakal City would three years. add to diversification of econHe further said that saturaomic activities and check tion of IT cities like Bengaluru, brain drain. FP Tumour extracted from parrot Ravi Shankar Pathak of permanent jobs, he said that the government would have to make financial provisions for their salaries and added that the number of guest teachers had decreased vis-a-vis last year. ‘Will protest on Gandhi Jayanti’ S Ujjain’s IT Park turns into reality CM TO VISIT successful surgery Twenty-year-old chatterbox parrot, Betu, stopped whistling, beak-grinding, and crackling. He also stopped eating as there was a 20gram tumour in his throat. Betu’s owner Chandrabhan Vishwakarma took him to the district veterinary hospital where the doctors President Droupadi Murmu buys saree from Mrignayani Emporium, Indore Guest teachers demand apology Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI 4Continued on | P6 PREZ BUYS SAREES AT MRIGNAYNI Can guests take over our house: Edu min NEW DELHI Outgoing Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will give up all government facilities, including security, and move out of his official residence in 15 days to live like a commoner, AAP said on Wednesday, a day after he tendered his resignation. The first thing Kejriwal talked about after submitting his resignation was his decision to leave the official residence of the Delhi chief minister, senior party leader and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh said at a press conference here. 7 dead, 11 injured as dumper turns turtle on auto in Jabalpur Seven labourers were killed and 11 injured when a dumped turned turtle and fell on an auto-rickshaw near Nunja village under Majhgawa police station in Jabalpur, police said on Wednesday. Angry over the mishap, villagers later blocked road. Expressing grief over the incident, CM Mohan Yadav announced Rs 2 lakh exgratia each to deceased’s families. Collector Deepak Saxena said that Rs 4 lakh would be given to families under government scheme. Local MLA gave Rs 5000 to the affected families immediately and announced that another Rs 15,000 would be given to them for the last rites on Thursday. SP Aditya Pratap Singh said that 18 labourers were returning to Pratapura village after harvesting soybean crop. Dumper driver tried to overtake the auto but lost control over wheels owing to speed. NEW DELHI Kejri to give up security E-paper World Being prez dangerous biz: Trump to Harris P.9 aking cognisance of the incident, CM Mohan Yadav assured strict action against the accused. He said that Chief Secretary had been ordered to present the case before High Court on priority 1 India’s notice to Pak on Indus Water Treaty MUMBAI Edit What are the benefits of simultaneous elections? P.8 Speedy justice: CM NATION ELECTION 4Continued on | P6 NASHIK BHOPAL Cabinet gives nod to In another step towards implementing the “One nation, one election” plan, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Kovind panel report on simultaneous polls. Announcing the decision, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the Cabinet, which met under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the report of the high level committee on “one nation, one election”. The panel was headed by former President Ram Nath Kovind and had submitted its report in March this year, just before the Lok Sabha elections were announced. BHOPAL ‘Middle-income trap biggest threat to India’s growth’ 3-year-old KG student raped by school teacher A complaint was lodged on Tuesday late night and the accused was arrested on Wednesday, said the police. Kamla Nagar police station TI Nirupa Pandey told Free Press that the girl (3) studies in a private school. On Monday, after returning home from school, she told her mother that her school teacher was bad. She also told her the bad things that her teacher had done. PUNE MONEY BHOPAL HORROR | School administration dithered on action Accused held; CM assures of strict action & speedy trial UJJAIN PRESS ing, chattering and whistling. The tumour was increasing and could have infected the eyes, Bharti said. When Bharti agreed to operate upon Betu, Vishwakarma admitted his pet to the hospital. A team of doctors took two hours to extract the tumour from the parrot’s throat. 4Continued on | P6 KOLKATA TO WOO INVESTORS Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL In its first term, UPA government had signed a MoU with Japan for ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor with Ujjain being developed as ‘Knowledge City’. Major IT companies were to open units at Vikram Udgoypuri, some 15 km from Ujjain on Dewas Road. 4Continued on | P6 CM Mohan Yadav will head to Kolkata on Friday to woo investors for Global Investors Summit scheduled for February in Bhopal. During one-to-one meeting and round table conference with investors and industrialists, he would give a presentation on investment possibilities in MP. He would apprise them about available mineral resources, land, better law and order situation, road and rail connectivity etc and government policies. CM has already visited Coimbatore, Mumbai and Bengaluru to woo investors. Phase-1 of J&K polls peaceful 59% TURNOUT JAMMU: A turnout of about 59 percent -- the highest in the past seven elections -was recorded in the first phase of assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir on Wednesday, Chief Electoral Officer P K Pole said, adding polling passed off peacefully. Voters show their fingers marked with indelible ink after casting votes in Kishtwar See Nation