World Public Transport Day Monday, November 10, 2025 | Vol. 69 No. 30 | 28 Pages Reg.No MCS/048/2021-23; RNI No. 1541/1957 M.p.c.s office Mumbai. PIN 400001 THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL INDIA EDITION | www.freepressjournal.in ● Leader in E-paper circulation GAMES NATION Legal aid not merely an act of charity but a moral duty, says CJI Gavai Indian football shrouded in uncertainty after AIFF’s bid for commercial partner for ISL fails RAGING ROW | Bhagwat: If not recognised, how could govt ban the organisation thrice? Cinema Sudhanshu Pandey opens up on depression battle Edit The changing face of savings and investment in India ‘Doc’ held over Ricin terror plot RSS registration a ‘dharma’ yudh Agencies Kerala to probe kids’ train song BENGALURU or 40 years, Rashmi Misra has been empowering children, youth, and women through holistic education and skill development. Turn to the Mumbai page to find out how. SEE CITY F NO N-TEST, SAYS RUSSIA President Vladimir Putin has not ordered a nuclear test and Russia remains committed to the moratorium on testing this weapon of mass destruction, Kremlin reiterated on Sunday, days after US president Trump's statement on nuclear weapons' tests. In a veiled remark against Congress leaders criticising RSS for operating without registration, Sangh's chief Mohan Bhagwat on Sunday said his organisation is recognised as a body of individuals. "RSS was established in 1925, so do you expect us to have registered with the British government?" Bhagwat asked while replying to a question during an in-house question and answer session organised by the RSS. He added that after Independence, the Indian government did not make registration compulsory. "We are categorised as body of individuals, and we are a recognised organisation," Bhagwat explained. According to him, IT department and courts have termed RSS as a body of individuals and the organisation was exempted from income tax. "We were banned thrice. So government has recognised us. If we were not there, whom did they ban," the RSS chief asked. Agencies THIRUVANANTHAPURAM Bhagwat added there are many things, which are not registered. "Even Hindu dharma is not registered," he remarked. Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah declined to comment on his remarks. "We cannot respond to all that Bhagwat has spoken," he told reporters. The Kerala government on Sunday ordered a probe into the singing of an RSS song by school students onboard the newly inaugurated Vande Bharat Express from Ernakulam to Bengaluru, even as Union ministers justified the incident, saying it is a patriotic song. Kerala's General Education minister V Sivankutty instructed the Director of Public Instructions to conduct an inquiry and submit a report on the incident. In a statement issued by the minister's office, Sivankutty said the government views the incident with utmost seriousness. CM Pinarayi Vijayan had earlier condemned the reported act of the Southern Railway, saying it deserves to be protested. The opposition Congress continued to slam the incident and demanded action against the school authorities for allowing children to be used for "communal purpose". 4Contd on | nation 4Contd on | nation Even Hindu dharma is not registered RSS was established in 1925, so do you expect us to have registered with the British govt? We are categorised as body of individuals, and we are a recognised organisation Mohan Bhagwat RSS chief Agencies AHMEDABAD The 'doctor' with a Chinese MBBS degree had prepared chemical poison Ricin and conducted recce with 2 aides in Lucknow, Delhi and Ahmedabad, Gujarat ATS said Countdown in Bihar Dheeraj Kumar PATNA The Gujarat Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) has busted a suspected terror syndicate by arresting a 'doctor' with a Chinese MBBS degree, who was allegedly preparing highly lethal chemical poison 'Ricin', and whose handler is associated with the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP), and two others. Dr Ahmed Mohiyuddin Saiyed, and the two other arrested accused, identified as Azad Suleman Sheikh and Mohammad Suhail Mohammad Saleem, had conducted a recce of several sensitive locations in Lucknow, Delhi and Ahmedabad, a senior ATS officer said on Sunday. "Dr Ahmed Mohiyuddin Saiyed is highly educated and radicalised, and had planned to collect funds and recruit persons as part of a conspiracy to carry out major terrorist activities", Gujarat ATS DIG Sunil Joshi told reporters. 4Contd on | nation Tharoor hails LK, AKASH ON Cong sneers again CLOUD 6 Agencies SURAT FPJ News Service The high-octane campaign for the second phase of Bihar Assembly election ended on Sunday, as a total of 122 constituencies spread across 20 districts will go to the polls in this round. These constituencies border Nepal, Uttar Pradesh, and Jharkhand. The Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB) has already sealed the border with Nepal till Nov 11, the day of voting. A total of 1302 candidates – including 1165 men, 136 women, and one from the third gender – are in the fray. 4Contd on | nation 4See also | nation NEW DELHI The Congress on Sunday distanced itself from MP Shashi Tharoor's remarks praising veteran BJP leader LK Advani, saying he speaks for himself and the fact that he continues to do so as a CWC member reflects the party's democratic and liberal spirit. It came after Tharoor, reacting to criticism over his birthday greetings for Advani, said reducing the BJP leader's long years of service to one episode, however significant, is unfair. He said when the totality of Jawaharlal Nehru's From Op Sindoor to dynasty politics, Tharoor has recently made remarks that has vexed his party career can’t be judged by the China setback and Indira Gandhi's by the Emergency alone, "we should extend the same courtesy to Advaniji". 4Contd on | nation Meghalaya's Akash Kumar entered the record books on Sunday, becoming only the third player in first-class cricket to smash six sixes in an over (where data is available). Hitting eight sixes in a row for an 11-ball fifty in a Ranji Trophy match against Arunachal Pradesh, the 25-year-old also scored the fastest fifty in first class cricket. Across all formats, Yuvraj Singh's 12-ball 50 was so far the fastest for India. Sir Garfield Sobers of the West Indies and India's Ravi Shastri are the other two players to have hit six sixes in a row in a first class match.