FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. 14 No. 351 | BHOPAL | WEDNESDAY | JUNE 4, 2025 | Pages 14 ` 3 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. mpeng/2010/35815 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports Smriti nominated for ICC Women’s Player of the Month P.13 ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: BHOPAL WORLD Cong needs chargers, not lame horses: Rahul Our Staff Reporter ‘PM Narendra turned surrender Modi, when Trump called’ iting an example, Rahul said the BJP and the RSS came under pressure very easily. Citing the example, he said, “When pressure came from the US President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned Surrender Modi.” He claimed that the then PM Indira Gandhi was also threatened by the USA president. She was told that the USA would send its 7th Fleet, but Indira Gandhi was not scared and did what was the best for the nation. C BHOPAL Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, has said the Congress needs chargers, not the lame horses. Rahul made the statement at a meeting with party leaders at Ravindra Bhawan in Bhopal on Tuesday. He also launched the party’s Sangam Srujan Abhiyan (Organisation’s Rejuvenation Campaign) to bolster the party at the grassroots ahead of the 2028 assembly election. Sixty-one AICC observers, together with the 183 PCC observers, have asked to select the DCC presidents. Congress MP from Rae Bareli told the fp Briefs Lesson for PAC members KARACHI 200 prisoners escape in Pak Over 200 prisoners have escaped from a high-security jail in Pakistan's port city of Karachi after chaos erupted following an earthquake, a minister said on Tuesday. Hundreds of prisoners broke down the doors of their cells after they felt tremors at Malir Jail in Karachi, which was hit by three low-intensity earthquakes on Monday, police said. Sindh Home Minister Zia-ul Hasan Lanjhar confirmed on Tuesday that 216 prisoners had escaped the jail. ashing out at the Centre, Rahul Gandhi said the centre had agreed to conduct the caste census, but they would not do it. They took a decision on women’s reservation, but they never carried it out, so they would just delay it, Rahul said. He asked the party leaders to conduct the caste census on the lines of Telangana because it covers all aspects of the welfare of the society. L R party leaders to select at least six names and send them to the AICC before June 30. “I do not need one or two leaders from Madhya Pradesh. I need 52 leaders. The district Congress committee presidents will be account- able and responsible for the party,” he said. PUNE INDORE Our Staff Reporter this, the government will be under a debt of Rs 4,31,240 crore. The debt of the state government is more than its yearly budget. Before this, a sum of Rs 5,000 crore was taken. A sum of Rs 2,000 crore is taken for 16 years. The government has to pay interest on the loan till 2041. A sum of Rs 2,500 crore is taken for 18 years. The opposition is criticising the government for taking loans. But the government says it has borrowed money for development works. NASHIK MUMBAI E-paper Edit A deluge of systemic flaws P.6 Cinema Salman’s priceless advice for Neil P.12 Arbitration plea of Turkish firm Celebi rejected Agri innovation hub with MPSEDC as co-partner gets Cabinet nod IANS Offices of Principal Revenue Commissioner, Commissioner, Land Records, to be restructured NEW DELHI Celebi Ground Handling India’s arbitration application for interim measures against Ahmedabad International Airport over the cancellation of security permits has been dismissed, according to an exchange filing by the Turkish firm’s parent company. "The arbitration application filed by our company, Celebi Ground Handling India Pvt Ltd, in which our company owns 61 per cent of the capital, against Adani Ahmedabad International Airport Limited in the Ahmedabad Commercial Court on 27.05.2025, seeking interim measures due to the cancellation of security clearances by the Civil Aviation Security Bureau in relation to its operations at Ahmedabad International Airport, was rejected on 02.06.2025," the company stated. 4Continued on | P8 Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL In a significant decision, the Cabinet on Tuesday approved the restructuring of the offices of the Principal Revenue Commissioner and the Commissioner, Land Record Offices. The unified office will be that of the Commissioner, Land Resource Management. The office will have a headquarters and an auxiliary headquarters. At the meeting held at the Raj Bhawan in Pachmarhi in honour of Raja Bhabhoot Singh, the Cabinet also approved the establishment and operation of an agriculture hub or an innovation hub for agriculture. The Madhya Pradesh State Electronics Development Corporation (MPSEDC) would be a copartner in the project. 4Continued on | P8 The state government is again going to take a loan. It plans to borrow Rs 4,500 crore from the market. The loan will be worth Rs 2,000 and 2,500 crore. After Astronaut Shukla's space flight postponed to June 10 PTI NEW DELHI Axiom Space's mission to the International Space Station (ISS), carrying Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla and three others, has been postponed to June 10 at 5:52 pm IST, onboard SpaceX's Falcon9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida. The announcement was made during a virtual press conference with the Axiom-4 mission crew members, who are currently in quarantine before their travel to the ISS. 4Continued on | P8 IANS The second phase of the consecration (Prana Pratishtha) ceremony at the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi temple in Ayodhya began on Tuesday. Deveshacharya Ji Maharaj of the Siddha Peeth Hanumangarhi expressed his joy over the event, stating, “It is a matter of great joy for all Sanatanis and devotees of Lord Ram. The establishment of Pachmarhi Sanctuary to be renamed after Raja Bhabhut Singh hief Minister Mohan Yadav, while addressing ministers before the Cabinet meeting, said that the Pachmarhi Sanctuary will be known as Raja Bhabhut Singh Pachmarhi Sanctuary. The life struggle and valour of Raja Bhabhut Singh will be displayed in the sanctuary. There is a deep impact of Raja Bhabhut Singh on the tribals. ˘ 4Continued on | P8 C NOT A ‘KAMA(A)L’ APOLOGY FP Online T he Karnataka High Court came down heavily on Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan on Tuesday for his recent "Kannada is born out of Tamil" statement. Asking him to apologise to the Kannadigas, the HC said that the actor had the right to speech, but not the right to hurt sentiments. As Haasan moved the HC on Monday to secure a release for his upcoming film, Thug Life, in Karnataka amid boycott threats, the court said that it will not "permit anyone to take 3-DAY RITUALS he Ram Darbar Prana Pratishtha ceremony will span three days and conclude on June 5, coinciding with Ganga Dussehra, a highly auspicious occasion in the Hindu calendar. T Ram Darbar, the royal form of Lord Ram, at the upper part of Lord Ram Lalla’s birthplace is a very auspicious and joyous PTI ‘Pak wanted 48-hr op, we shut it down in 8’ akistan launched multiple attacks on early May 10 aiming to bring India to its knees in 48 hours but it had to fold up the offensives in eight hours and reach out to New Delhi for talks seeking an end to the hostilities, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said Pakistan launched multiple attacks on early May 10 aiming to bring India to its knees in 48 hours but it had to fold up the offensives in eight hours and reach out to New Delhi for talks seeking an end to the hostilities, Chief of Defence Staff Gen Anil Chauhan said on Tuesday. Professional militaries are not affected by temporary losses as overall outcomes are much more important than such setbacks, he said and used cricketing metaphor to P draw a clear distinction between initial setbacks and the overall outcome. Suppose you go into a cricket test match and you win by an innings, then there is no question of wickets and balls etc, he said. public sentiments for a ride". "Why can't you apologise? Withdraw that statement... that is all. Crores can be earned from Karnataka... but if you don't need the people (of Kannada) then leave the revenue," the court said. (see nation) 2.0 event.” Mahamandaleshwar Vishnu Das Ji Maharaj, who participated in the rituals, said, “From today, the Prana Pratishtha ceremony of Ram Darbar will begin, which will continue for three days. I visited the Ram Temple at 5 a.m. this morning. Lord Ram's idol was anointed with water from the Saryu River, and the worship is currently ongoing.” 4Continued on | P8 or exceptional depravity on the part of the respondent. The bench of Justice Vivek Chaudhary and Justice Brij Raj Singh held “The proviso to Section 14 (1) of the Act, 1955 is an exception to the necessity for expiration of a period of one year since the date of marriage to enable a party to file a petition for divorce. Once an application under Section 14 (1) of the Act, 1955 is filed before the court, certainly the court has to see whether there is exceptional hardship to the petitioner or exceptional depravity on the part of the respondent.” Parties got married on 05.08.2024 and marriage was registered on 12.08.2024. Parties again solemnized their marriage according to Hindu rites and customs on 03.09.2024. Thereafter, due to hostilities, husband raised a complaint on IGRS portal claiming threat of false FIR by the wife. In retaliation, the wife lodged an FIR under Sections 115(2), 352 and 351(3) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. Subsequently, the wife lodged another FIR under Sections 376 and 506 IPC and Section 3⁄4 POCSO Act. 4Continued on | P8 4Continued on | P8 RCB’s 18-Yr itch ends with maiden IPL Trophy I n its second attack against Russia in two days, Ukraine on Tuesday hit its Crimea bridge with over 1,000 kilograms of underwater explosives. As per the official statement issued by Ukraine's SBU secret service, Kyiv "conducted a new unique special operation and hit the Crimean Bridge for the third time -this time underwater." This attack from Ukraine two days after it carried out 'Operation Spider's Web' and targeted Russian military areas and airbases. In the video released by the Ukrainian SBU, a blast coming out of the water is seen with debris flying around. Damage to the side of the bridge is also visible. "Previously, we hit the Crimean Bridge twice, in 2022 and 2023. So today we continued this tradition underwater," the SBU said in its statement, adding that this operation had been prepared over several months. In an address at the Savitribai Phule Pune University, the top military commander appeared to reject criticism against him for acknowledging three days ago that India lost an unspecified number of combat jets during the initial phase of Operation Sindoor. Gen Chauhan, who played a key role in planning India's response to the Pahalgam terror attack as well as subsequent Pakistani offensives, threw light on various aspects of the conflict. INDORE LAD RAJAT FULFILS KOHLI’S DREAM Online Report Big HC order on marriage dissolution Section 14 of the Act mandates that no divorce petition can be presented before any court within 1 year of marriage. Proviso to Section 14(1) provides that such application can be entertained if the Court before which it is filed if there is exception hardship faced by the party presenting it In the first detailed account of India's clashes with Pakistan, Gen Chauhan said India's response to the Pahalgam terror attack was to draw "limits of tolerance" to cross border terrorism and not tolerating Islamabad's nuclear blackmail. Ukraine hits key Crimea Bridge with 1,000kg explosives offgrid T T PUNE RCB's Virat Kohli plays a shot during an IPL 2025 T20 final match against Punjab Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad on Tuesday PTI Foreign Embassy staffer puts up Netanyahu’s ‘wanted’ poster in Delhi A H M E DA B A D : T h e wait of nearly two decades finally ended for Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) fans as their team lifted its maiden IPL trophy on Tuesday night at the Narendra Modi Stadium, defeating Punjab Kings in a dramatic final by six runs. Batting first, RCB posted a competitive 190/9 in 20 overs, powered by Virat Kohli's composed 43 off 35 balls. In reply Punjab managed to score 184/7 in their stipulated 20 overs. MANN’S ‘ONE NATION, ONE HUSBAND’ REMARK ROW PTI PTI NEW DELHI he Allahabad High Court has held that if after filing of criminal case by one spouse against other, the parties have approached the court for divorce by the mutual consent, the same must be granted by invoking the proviso to Section 14 (1) of the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. Section 13-B of the Hindu Marriage Act provides for divorce by mutual consent. he Cabinet has also approved the transfer of Composite Logistic Hub Pawarkheda project, operated by M/S Kesar Multi Model Logistic Limited, to M/S D.P. World Multi ModelLogistic Production Limited. The Cabinet gave its nod to amend three labour lawsto simplify the process in labour laws and to lessen the burdenof implementation on small, medium institutions and Industries. 4Continued on | P8 AYODHYA RAM TEMPLE PRANA PRATISHTHA NEW DELHI Online report COMPOSITE LOGISTIC HUB PROFESSIONAL MILITARIES NOT Govt to take loan of `4.5k cr again AFFECTED BY LOSSES: CDS CHAUHAN NEW DELHI The government on Tuesday announced new reservation and domicile polices for the Union Territory of Ladakh, reserving 85 per cent jobs for locals and one-third of the total number of seats in the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils for women. English, Hindi, Urdu, Bhoti and Purgi languages have been made the official languages in Ladakh. Government won’t conduct caste census ahul told the members of the political affairs committee to bring the party to power. They have to work together for the wellbeing of the party, sinking personal differences to defeat the BJP.” BHOPAL New quota rules for Ladakh PRESS 27 killed in Gaza aid site firing, 3rd incident in 3 days RAGA IN BHOPAL | He launched party’s Sangam Srujan Abhiyan to bolster the party at the grassroots DCC presidents will get more teeth and talk to LoP directly UJJAIN The Delhi Police has informed the home ministry about an embassy staffer of a Western European nation allegedly putting up "wanted" posters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Chanakyapuri area here, an official said on Tuesday. The incident came to light at around 7.30 am on May 29, when personnel from the Chanakyapuri Police Station noticed two such posters on electricity poles near the Carmel Convent School on Malcha Marg and the American Embassy School, he said. Chanakyapuri houses several embassies and international institutions, and is under heightened surveillance. "The beat staff alerted senior officers, and instructions were issued to remove the posters," a senior police officer said. Subsequently, police teams launched an investigation and scanned CCTV footage to ascertain the identity of the person responsible. "Upon reviewing the footage, a man in a blue shirt and black trousers was seen arriving on a bicycle at around 5.30 am. 4Continued on | P8 CHANDIGARH A political controversy erupted on Tuesday over Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's "one nation, one husband" remark, with the BJP accusing him of insulting the widows of those killed in the Pahalgam terror attack. Mann Tuesday took a dig at the BJP over Operation Sindoor, accusing it of seeking votes in the name of 'sindoor' (vermillion) and asked if it had started a "one nation, one husband" scheme. Calling Mann's remarks "disgraceful", Union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu said the chief minister has "insulted" the widows of those killed in the Pahalgam attack. (SEE NATION)