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PIN 400001 THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL INDIA EDITION | www.freepressjournal.in ● Leader in E-paper circulation World Radiography Day GAMES NATION SC advises govt to adopt Blockchain technology to make property registration easy India look to end Australia series with a resounding victory in Brisbane in fifth T20I today Cinema Vicky Kaushal, Katrina Kaif blessed with baby boy Edit Next intelligence revolution will create thinking cities ON A LEASH | Supreme Court orders removal of stray dogs from schools, hospitals, bus stands and depots, railway stations, public sports complexes Ground shift for stray dogs PARTH PAWAR LAND DEAL IS SCRAPPED FPJ News Service MUMBAI FPJ News Service NEW DELHI Having regard to the “alarming rise of dog-bite incidents,” the Supreme Court on Friday directed all states and Union Territories to ensure that stray dogs are removed from the premises of educational institutions, hospitals, public sports complexes, bus stands, depots, and railway stations. A bench of Justices Vikram Nath, Sandeep Mehta, and NV Anjaria passed the directions in the “City Hounded By Strays, Kids Pay Price” versus the State of Andhra Pradesh case. It said that such premises must be Could travel to India next year, says Prez Trump PTI NEW YORK/WASHINGTON US President Donald Trump said he could travel to India next year, emphasising that PM Narendra Modi “wants” him to visit while calling him a “great man” and a friend. “He's (PM Modi) a friend of mine, and we speak... He wants me to go there. We'll figure that out. I'll go. I will have a great trip there with PM Modi, he's a great man. And I'll be going,” Trump said at the Oval Office on Thursday in response to a question. When asked if he is planning to go to India next year, Trump said, “It could be, yeah.” India will host leaders from Australia, Japan, and the United States for the Quad summit in New Delhi after the 2024 summit was held in Wilmington, Delaware. However, the dates for the summit in India are yet to be announced. Meanwhile, Trump once again claimed that India has stopped buying oil from Russia. “It's great, going good. He (PM Modi) stopped... Largely he stopped buying oil from Russia,” Trump said in response to a question on how talks with Modi and trade discussions with India are progressing. In his remarks before the press, Trump also reiterated his claim that he stopped the war between India and Pakistan in May using trade. 4Contd on | nation properly fenced to prevent the entry of stray dogs, Live Law and Bar & Bench report. It will be the responsibility of the local self-government institutions concerned to pick up stray dogs from these areas and shift them to designated shelters after vaccination and sterilisation in accordance with the animal birth control rules. The court made it clear that the dogs picked up from these places must not be released back to the same location. “Permitting the same would frustrate the very purpose of liberating such institutions from the presence of stray dogs,” the bench observed. The bench also ordered that the local bodies must carry out periodic inspections to ensure that no stray dog habitat exists in such premises. Each institution must designate a nodal officer for the upkeep of its premises, and the local municipal authorities or panchayats must inspect such premises at least once every three months. It directed that the states and UTs identify within two weeks all educational and health institutions requiring fencing and complete the work preferably within eight weeks. 4Contd on | nation 4See also | city THE COURT MADE IT CLEAR THAT THE DOGS PICKED UP FROM THESE PLACES MUST NOT BE RELEASED BACK TO THE SAME LOCATION. PM, Kharge trade choruses over Vande Mataram stanzas Gaurav Vivek Bhatnagar Marking the 150th anniversary of the national song, Modi says Congress dropped stanzas from the original and sowed seeds of partition. Kharge says BJP and RSS avoided singing the song NEW DELHI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday criticised the Congress for removing “important stanzas” from Vande Mataram song in the party’s 1937 Faizabad session. He charged that “Vande Bharat was broken into pieces. This also sowed the seeds of Partition.” Speaking at an event to mark the inauguration of year-long commemoration of 150 years of the national song ‘Vande Mataram’ at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium here, Modi also asked: “Why was this injustice done?” He insisted that “the same divisive ideology remains a challenge for the nation.” Earlier in the day, BJP spokesperson CR Kesavan had alleged in a post on X that “the Congress committed the historic sin and blunder of linking the song with religion. Congress under Nehru citing religious grounds deliberately removed stanzas of Vande Mataram which hailed Goddess Ma Durga.” Congress president Kharge hit back hard at both the BJP and its ideological mentor, the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh, saying “the self-proclaimed guardians of nationalism — the RSS and the BJP — have never sung Vande Mataram or our national anthem Jana Gana Mana in their shakhas or offices. Instead, they continue to sing Namaste Sada Vatsale, a song glorifying their organisations, not the nation.” No blame on AI 171 pilot: SC FPJ News Service NEW DELHI The Supreme Court on Friday observed that no blame could be attributed to the pilot of the Air India flight to London that crashed in Ahmedabad in June this year, claiming 260 lives. A Bench of Justices Surya Kant and Joymalya Bagchi was hearing a plea filed by Pushkar Raj Sabharwal, the father of Commander Sumeet Sabharwal, one of the pilots of the flight, seeking an independent judicial probe into the tragedy, Live Law reports. On the petitioner’s concern that his late son might be unfairly blamed for the accident, Justice Kant said, “It’s extremely unfortunate, this crash, but you should not carry the burden that your son is being blamed. Nobody can blame him for anything.” Justice Bagchi also clarified that there was no insinuation Kharge also claimed that, “since its founding in 1925, the RSS has avoided Vande Mataram, despite its universal reverence. Not once in its texts or literature does the song find mention.” 4Contd on | nation 4See also | city, nation MEA ON PAK N-TESTS: TYPICAL! PTI NEW DELHI That is nasty reporting. No one in India believes it was the pilot’s fault. Justice Surya Kant against the pilot in the preliminary report of the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB). “One pilot asked whether the fuel was cut off by the other; the other said no. There’s no suggestion of fault in that report,” he noted. Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan, appearing for the petitioner, contended that the ongoing AAIB investigation was not independent. He said, “I am the father of the commander of the plane. I am 91 years old. This is a non-independent investigation. It should have been independent. It has taken four months.” India on Friday said that Pakistan’s “clandestine” nuclear activities were consistent with its history of smuggling and export control violations, while taking note of US president Trump’s remarks about Pakistan testing nuclear arms. Last week, Trump named Pakistan among the nations testing nuclear weapons, while defending US plan to resume testing of nuclear assets. “Clandestine and illegal nuclear activities are in keeping with Pakistan's history, that is centred around decades of smuggling, export control violations, secret partnerships,” MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said. 4Contd on | nation 4Contd on | nation ATC glitch in Delhi hits Mumbai flights Dhairya Gajara MUMBAI While the technical glitch delayed hundreds of flights at Delhi’s IGI Airport, it also affected operations at Mumbai, Lucknow, Jaipur, Varanasi and several other airports Flight operations at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) were significantly disrupted on Friday following a major technical failure in the air traffic control (ATC) system located over 1,400 kilometres away in Delhi. The malfunction caused delays to hundreds of domestic and international flights and was not resolved until late in the evening. The disruption led to cascading delays across India’s air travel network, with Mumbai, a critical aviation hub, bearing the brunt of the impact. The problem originated from a failure in the ATC’s Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS), the essential software that automatically processes and transmits flight plan data to air traffic controllers. With the AMSS system down, controllers were forced to manually process every single departure and arrival, drastically slowing the pace of air- craft movements. “Controllers are processing flight plans manually, leading to some delays. Technical teams are working to restore the system at the earliest,” read a statement from the Airports Authority of India (AAI). While the technical glitch delayed hundreds of flights at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, it also affected operations at Mumbai, Lucknow, Jaipur, Varanasi and several other airports. 4See also | city A day after widespread criticism greeted a 40-acre land deal in Pune worth Rs 1800 crore which had been sold for a mere Rs 300 crore by paying a pittance of Rs 500 as stamp duty, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar said on Friday the deal involving his son Parth had been scrapped. Government land in Mundwa near Koregaon Park had been transferred in the name of Amadea Enterprises LLP, in which Parth has huge stakes. Pawar also said Parth and his business partner were not aware the Pune land which their company purchased belonged to the government. The announcement came after Pawar met CM Devendra Fadnavis at the latter’s official residence Varsha, along with NCP’s state unit chief Sunil Tatkare and senior leader Praful Patel. Pawar told the media he had been informed that the sale deed registration process had been called off and the documents cancelled. There has been no transaction of money, said the NCP chief, adding that the rest of the allegations concerning the land deal were part of the investigation for which a 6-member committee under Additional Chief Secretary Vikas Kharge had been appointed. The committee will probe whether any wrongdoing had taken place. It has also been asked to suggest measures to restore the land to the government and ways to avoid such deals in future, says a government resolution (GR) issued by the Revenue Department. 4See also | city Day after polling, Congress, AAP claim Bihar vote fraud FPJ News Service NEW DELHI / BANKA The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress on Friday levelled serious allegations against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), accusing it of sending voters from Delhi to cast votes in the ongoing Bihar Assembly elections and misusing voter lists to commit largescale electoral fraud. AAP alleged that the BJP had arranged special trains to transport its supporters from Delhi and Haryana to Bihar for voting, while the Congress claimed that BJP leaders who had voted in Delhi had also exercised their franchise in the first phase of the Bihar polls. AAP Delhi unit president and former minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, in a series of Rahul Gandhi posts and interviews, accused the BJP of orchestrating “vote theft” by moving voters across states. He shared photos and social media posts to substantiate his claims, including those allegedly showing BJP Rajya Sabha MP Rakesh Sinha voting in both Delhi and Bihar. “Rakesh Sinha ji is an RSS ideologue and works for the BJP and RSS. He first voted in the Delhi Vidhan Sabha and then again in the Bihar Assembly. He is getting caught in his own statements. Now he claims to have shifted his vote from Delhi to Bihar. How can someone who still teaches Political Science at Delhi University’s Motilal Nehru College say he has permanently shifted to Bihar?” Bharadwaj said. He claimed that Sinha got a new voter ID made in Bihar on April 28 this year, while continuing to teach in Delhi University. He also alleged the BJP MP had sought votes during the Delhi University Teachers’ Association (DUTA) elections held on September 4. 4Contd on | nation 4See also | nation