FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLI No. 328 | INDORE | TUESDAY | MAY 6, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.in ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN MONEY Nation Will Bihar CM’s Raj-Neeti work? P.8 PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK Cinema Babil Khan returns to Insta... P.14 ‘How Rafale acts, India moves will be clear in couple of days’ Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL BJP’s national co-organisational general secretary Shivprakash has said the action of Rafale will be clear in a couple of days. Shivprakash’s statement came in the wake of the tension between India and Pakistan. The terrorists are either running away or uttering Bharat Mata ki Jai, Shivprakash said at an event organised by the Bijesh Lunawat Foundation in the state capital on Monday. How Rafale lands will be clear and how India is moving ahead will be clear in a couple of days, he said. The country is following zero-tolerance policy, he said. Shivprakash’s statement is seen as India’s reply to the killing of 28 tourists by terrorists in Pahalgam. The leaders of the country were once shaking hands with terrorists, he said. They were eating Biryani at the prime minister’s residence and getting funds, Shivprakash said. He alleged Farooq Abdullah was a member of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF). There will be no slackness in internal security which is on the government’s top priority, he said. Before Shivprakash, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Home Minister Amit Shah indicated India would take a major action. Singh said the country would reply according to its people’s wish. Shivprakash participated in a meeting held with BJP’s national president JP Nadda and general secretaries in Delhi on Monday. His statement in Bhopal has certain significance. SPEAKS ON MAOISTS Shivprakash said the Maoists had been surrounded from all sides in a place. They are pleading for talks now, he said. According to him, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the country would be Naxal-free by next year. E-paper Edit Mamata’s Hindu outreach P.6 Oil prices drop as OPEC+ accelerates output hikes WARNING TO PAK | BJP co-organisational general secretary says the country follows zero-tolerance policy and will reply according to its people’s wish There will be no slackness in internal security which is govt’s top priority: Shivprakash MUMBAI MOCK CIVIL DEFENCE DRILLS TOMORROW For the first time since the 1971 India-Pakistan war, the Ministry of Home Affairs has asked several border states and others to conduct security mock drills on May 7 to prepare for “effective civil defence in the event of a hostile attack”. The preparation for these drills comes at a time when both the countries are again staring at a conflict following the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack Putin backs India's fight against terrorism BJP national co-organisational general secretary Shivprakash addresses an event organised by the Vijesh Lunawat Foundation in the state capital on Monday Defence portals face cyber-attack A group of Pakistan-based hackers on Monday claimed to have breached the websites of multiple Indian defence institutions, leaving sensitive data compromised. The hacker group, describing itself as the Pakistan Cyber Force, claimed that it has hacked the portals of leading defence establishments, including the Indian Military Engineering Services, the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, and other websites Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a phone call that Russia fully backs India's fight against terrorism and that the perpetrators of the Pahalgam terror attack must be brought to justice. A Russian embassy readout said Putin described the terror attack as "barbaric" and that both the leaders emphasised the need for an "uncompromising fight" against terrorism in all its manifestations. It also said that President Putin accepted the prime minister's invitation for the annual India-Russia summit to be held in India this year India demands ADB to cut funding for Pakistan India has demanded that the Asian Development Bank cut funding for Pakistan, as New Delhi continues to extend its punitive moves against Islamabad in the aftermath of the Pahalgam terror attack. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in a meeting with Asian Development Bank President Masato Kanda on Monday, demanded that the bank cut its funds to Pakistan, sources said. According to sources, the demand for cutting the fund to Pakistan was one of the agenda of the meeting among various other issues. Nirmala Sitharaman met with ADB President Masato Kanda during the 58th ADB Annual Meeting in Italian city of Milan. India has sharply downgraded diplomatic ties with Pakistan after the April 22 terrorist attack on tourists in Jammu and Kashmir's Pahalgam, leading to the death of 26 individuals and several other injured, mostly tourists. MP Board class 10, 12 results today Our Staff Reporter INDORE The Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) will declare the results for Class 10 and Class 12 examinations on Tuesday at 10 am. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav will officially announce the results in a press conference, here. He will share the overall pass percentage, gender-wise pass performance, toppers, merit and other details during the press conference. After the announcement, the link to MP Board 2025 10th, and 12th Results will be activated on the official website, mpbse.nic.in. 4Continued on | P8 How to download results Visit the official website, mpbse.nic.in. Navigate the link to the 'MP Board 10th and 12th results' It will redirect you to the login page. Enter your credentials, such as registration number, date of birth and click on 'submit'. MP Board 10th and 12th results will appear on the screen. Download and save MP Board 10th and 12th results for future reference. MMS SCANDAL AT IIITDM BTech girl detained for filming fellow students in bathroom FP News Service JABALPUR The city police have detained a girl student (BTech Computer Science second year) of Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra Indian Institute of Information Technology – Design Manufacturing for allegedly taking video of fellow students in the bathroom of girls hostel. CSP Ranjhi Satish Kumar Sahu said that accused student was detained and electronic devices including a laptop and mobile phone were seized for further investigation. A case has been registered under several sections of the BNS and IT Act, police said. IIITDM director Bharatendu Kumar said that a threemember committee has been formed to investigate the matter thoroughly. The girls’ hostel warden received complaint from a  girl student of B-Tech fourth year that she suspected someone was shooting a video in the bathroom on Sunday night. She told the warden that she saw a hand holding a mobile phone taking video and when she shouted the girl ran away. The hostel warden took cognizance on the complaint and checked the mobile phones of some of the girls in the hostel and found incriminating videos in the accused’s mobile. The police were then called in. Meanwhile, 150 students of the institute staged demonstration in front of Dumna police post under Khamaria police station and demanded immediate action against the accused. They claimed that the videos were being shared on social media, threatening the privacy and dignity of more than 400 female students at the institute. Reports said that accused used to send videos to her boyfriend in Delhi and this MMS scandal had been ongoing for the past two years. Question on Durgavati’s ‘tomb’ instead of ‘samadhi’ sparks row RANI DURGAVATI UNIV EXAM FP News Service fp Briefs DHAKA Chinmoy Das faces murder charge A Bangladesh court on Monday ordered the detained Hindu leader Chinmoy Krishna Das' arrest in connection with the murder of a lawyer, who was hacked to death outside a Chattogram court in November last year. A former ISKCON leader, Das was arrested at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on November 25 last year in a sedition case over alleged defamation of the national flag. AMROHA Shami gets death threat India national cricket team fast bowler Mohammed Shami has allegedly received a death threat through email along with a demand for Rs 1 crore, officials said on Monday. A case has been registered at the cyber police station, and an investigation is underway, Amroha police said. Today in IPL SIT to probe, control cases of ‘Love Jihad’ Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL With multiple cases of ‘Love Jihad’ along with rape and blackmail of Hindu girls in many districts, a state-level special investigation team (SIT) has been constituted by DGP Kailash Makwana. The SIT will be headed by IG Bhopal (rural) Abhay Singh and will be assisted by Addi- tional Commissioner of Police Pankaj Srivastava and three senior officials of PHQ including Assistant Inspector General of Police, Woman Safety and Superintendent of Police (State Cyber Cell). As per the order, the SIT has been formed after it came to the fore that girls/women belonging to marginalised and socially unsafe and KOLKATA, 3.30 PM (DETAIL ON SPORTS PAGE) 4Continued on | P8 Rahul, CJI meet PM to look for next CBI chief Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar NEW DELHI Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, and CJI Sanjiv Khanna on Monday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his office to discuss the appointment of the next director of the CBI. The incumbent CBI chief Praveen Sood is a 1986-batch IPS officer who had earlier served as commissioner of police in Bengaluru and Mysuru. He had taken over as CBI director on May 25, 2023. Since the Central Vigilance Commission Act 2003 had fixed the tenure of the CBI director at two years, the Appointments Committee comprising Modi, Gandhi and the CJI met to discuss the prospective candidates. 4Continued on | P8 CJI leaves Waqf law case for successor Agencies NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Monday said the pleas challenging the Waqf (Amendment) Act's constitutional validity would be taken up now by a bench headed by CJI-designate Justice BR Gavai on May 15 as the incumbent CJI demits office on May 13. The clutch of petitions was listed for hearing before the bench of CJI Sanjiv Khanna and Justices Sanjay Kumar and KV Viswanathan. As soon as it came up, the CJI said, "There are certain aspects which you (Centre) dealt with, but that require clarification. I do not want to reserve any judgment or order at this interim stage. 4Continued on | P8 Top court chides ED rain rush High-velocity winds and a downpour lashed Indore again on Monday night, pushing May’s total rainfall past a 10-year record See pg3 Pic by Pintu Namdev MATCH NO. 56 MI Vs GT weaker sections were targeted and subjected to physical, mental and social exploitation after being lured into love traps and threats in an organised manner. Moreover, the victims were forced into religious conversions either through allurements, threats and pressure. JABALPUR The SC rebuked the ED on Monday for making allegations against an accused in the Chhattisgarh liquor scam "without any evidence". "This is a pattern adopted by the ED in a number of cases. You just make allegations without any evidence. The prosecution won't stand before the court in this manner," a bench of Justices Abhay S Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan said. Protests erupted following a controversial question asked in the exams conducted by Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur, with both ABVP and NSUI staging demonstrations demanding action against those responsible for the error. The controversy started on May 3 during the foundation course examination of BSc second year. The question paper asked, “Where is the ‘Tomb‘ of Rani Durgavati?” Notably, tombs or (makbara) are a part of Islamic culture, whereas Hindus refer to it as ‘Samadhi’. There was outrage when this question became com- mon knowledge.   NSUI staged a demonstration and said those responsible should give an apology. Jabalpur Mahanagar unit of ABVP submitted a memorandum to the university administration during their demonstration. ABVP's state secretary, Makhan Sharma demanded that university administration take action against the paper setter, moderator, comparer, and controller of examinations Israel okays plan to seize all of Gaza AP TEL AVIV Israel approved plans on Monday to capture the entire Gaza Strip and remain in the territory for an unspecified amount of time, two Israeli officials said, in a move that if implemented would vastly expand Israel’s operations in the Palestinian territory and likely bring fierce international opposition. Israeli Cabinet ministers approved the plan in an early morning vote, hours after the Israeli military chief said the army was calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers. The new plan, which the offi- President Donald Trump on Sunday fired a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the U.S. In a post Sunday night on Truth Social, Trump said he has authorized the Department of Commerce and the Office of the U.S. Trade Represen- tative to slap a 100% tariff “on any and all Movies coming into our Country that are produced in Foreign Lands.” “The Movie Industry in America is DYING a very fast death,” he wrote, complaining that other countries “are offering all sorts of incentives to draw” filmmakers and studios away from the U.S. “This is a concerted effort by other Nations and, therefore, a National Security threat. It is, in addition to everything else, messaging and propaganda!” “Other nations have been stealing the movie-making capabilities from the United States,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Sunday night after returning from a weekend in Florida. “If they’re not willing to make a movie inside the United States we should have a tariff on movies that come in.” It wasn’t clear how any such tariff on international productions could be implemented, both large and smaller films include production both in the U.S. and other countries. Big-budget movies like the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning,” for instance, are shot around the world. Yet tariffs are designed to lead consumers toward SC junks plea claiming possession of Red Fort PTI American products. And in movie theaters, Americanproduced movies overwhelming dominate the domestic marketplace. The Motion Picture Association, which comprises Hollywood's biggest production houses, didn’t respond to the development. The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the plea of a woman, who claimed to be the widow of great-grandson of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar-II, seeking possession of the Red Fort here on account of being the legal 'heir'. A bench comprising Chief Justice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice Sanjay Kumar termed the plea as "misconceived" and "meritless" at the outset and refused to entertain the petition filed against the Delhi High Court order. "The writ petition filed initially was misconceived and meritless. It cannot be entertained," the CJI said. The bench did not allow the counsel for petitioner Sultana Begum to withdraw the plea. "The petitioner is the family member of the first freedom fighter of the country," the counsel said. The CJI said if the arguments are considered then "why only Red Fort then why not forts at Agra, Fatehpuri Sikri etc". 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 cials said was meant to help Israel achieve its war aims of defeating Hamas and freeing hostages held in Gaza, also would push hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to southern Gaza, what would likely exacerbate an already dire humanitarian crisis. 4Continued on | P8 100 % US tariffs on non-Hollywood films AP 4Continued on | P8 NEW DELHI offgrid NEW YORK for such negligence and error, and the controller of examinations be removed from their post. The university administration said that they were trying to find out how such a mistake happened. University's examination controller Professor Rashmi Tandon said, “It is extremely wrong to use the word 'Tomb' in the question related to Rani Durgavati.”