THE FREE PRESS JOURNAL Vol. 67 No. 246 | TUESDAY | JULY 16, 2024 | 30 Pages | `5 & for Pune `6 only www.freepressjournal.in NATION Trinamool winner from Bagda is ‘mum’ on Citizenship Amendment Act issue EDITIONS: MUMBAI INDORE PUNE Reg.No MCS/048/2021-23; RNI No. 1541/1957 M.p.c.s office Mumbai. PIN 400001 BHOPAL NASHIK KONKAN E-paper GAMES Member: Audit Bureau of Circulation (Jan to Dec 2023) Cinema Kalki director Nag Ashwin opens up Mikel Oyarazabal stars as Spain beat England to clinch their fourth Euro title Edit Lessons from the by-polls verdict Temple remnants in Bhojshala ASI findings on the disputed complex – whether it is a Saraswati temple or a mosque Online Report INDORE Orange alert again today Rucha Kanolkar The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) on Monday submitted its scientific survey report on the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula mosque complex in Dhar to the Indore bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court. The ASI, in its report, has said that its investigation has revealed that the "existing structure was made from the remnants of erstwhile temples.’’ ‘‘From art and architecture of decorated pillars and pilasters, it can be said that they were part of earlier temples and were reused while making colonnades of the mosque over a high platform. A pillar decorated with niches in all the four directions depicts mutilated images of deities. Another base of a pillar also depicts a deity image in a niche. Stand- ing images on two pilasters have been chopped off and are beyond recognition." The ASI studied a total of 94 sculptures, sculptural fragments, and architectural members with sculptural depiction. “Sculptures of four armed deities were carved on windows, pillars and beams used in the existing structure. Images carved on these included Ganesh, Brahma with his consorts, Narasimha, Bhairava, gods and goddesses, human and animal figures. Images of animals in different mediums include lion, elephant, horse, dog, monkey, snake, tortoise, swan, and bird…,” the ASI report states. 4Contd on | nation MUMBAI Incessant rain lashed the city in the past 24 hours, with the BMC’s disaster management department reporting significant precipitation. Between 8am and 6pm on July 15, Mumbai received a total of 18.63mm of rainfall, while the eastern suburbs got a whopping 165.53mm and the western suburbs recorded 148.34mm, according to the disaster management department. Despite the heavy rains however, the city reported no major incidents. There were tree or branch falls reported in the city, eastern or western suburbs.  Heavy rainfall was accompanied by high tides, with the first one occurring at 4.43am on July 15, reaching 4.32metres, and the second one at 5.09am reaching 4.50 metres.  The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had earlier issued a yellow alert for Mumbai, which was changed to orange for Monday morning, with heavy to very heavy rain expected. The orange alert has now been extended to July 16 in Mumbai, Palghar, Thane, Ratnagiri, and Sindhudurg in the Konkan region, with a similar alert in Pune, Kolhapur and Satara. Raigad district has been put on red alert, with extremely heavy rainfall expected at isolated places. The highest rainfall in the region was in Ratnagiri at 90.8mm, while the lowest was in the Thane Belapur Industries Association region, at 10.6mm. WPI inflation at a 16-month high of 3.36% FPJ News Service NEW DELHI Wholesale inflation in the country surged to a 16-month high of 3.36 per cent in June on account of rise in prices of food articles, especially vegetables and manufactured items. This is the fourth consecutive month when wholesale inflation has witnessed an upward trajectory. The wholesale price index-based inflation was 2.61 per cent in May. It was (-) 4.18 per cent in June 2023. WPI inflation had touched a high of 3.85 per cent in February 2023. "The positive rate in June 2024 is primarily due to increase in prices of food articles, crude petroleum & natural gas, mineral oils, other manufacturing etc," the Ministry of Commerce & Industry said in a statement on Monday. As per data, inflation in food articles spiked 10.87 per cent in June, as against 9.82 per cent in May. Inflation in vegetables was 38.76 per cent during June, up from 32.42 per cent in May. Onion inflation was at 93.35 per cent, while potato was 66.37 per cent in the month under review. Pulses inflation rose 21.64 per cent in June. During the month, inflation in other food items like fruits stood at 10.14 per cent, cereals at 9.27 per cent, and milk at 3.37 per cent. The uptick in June 2024 was broad-based, driven by all the major segments, except fuel and power, ICRA Chief Economist Aditi Nayar said. 4Contd on | nation SURREAL | Says he has been given a chance to bring the country together Actor’s brother, 13 others held Divisive Trump’s in Hyderabad narco swoop unity moment FPJ News Service NEW YORK After the assassination attempt that has the Democrats completely nonplussed, Donald Trump has rewritten his convention speech that will call a new effort at national unity in a country further polarised by the shooting. In Milwaukee, as the Republican National Convention kicks off the delegates are set to officially nominate Trump for the presidency. In an exclusive interview with the Washington Examiner, a day after being nicked in his right ear by a sniper’s bullet, Trump said he wanted to take advantage of the historic moment and draw the country together. He told the Examiner: “The speech I was going to give on Thursday was going to be a humdinger.” “Had this not happened, this would have been one of the most incredible speeches” aimed mostly at the policies of President Joe Biden.  “Honestly, it’s going to be a whole different speech now.” He has switched, he said, from planning to excite his voter base to one that demonstrates his belief that the attack on him at a rally in Pennsylvania had changed the election campaign entirely. Trump noted that he was saved from death because he turned from the crowd to look at a screen showing data he was using in his speech.  4Contd on | nation Dharmesh Thakkar MUMBAI Bollywood actor Rakulpreet Singh’s brother Amanpreet Singh was arrested along with 13 others in a joint operation by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Special Operations Team (SOT) of the Hyderabad Police on Monday. Amanpreet and four others were allegedly involved in establishing a drug supply network in Hyderabad. Their urine samples tested positive for cocaine. Incidentally, Rakulpreet was summoned and questioned last year by the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Mumbai, in an alleged drug trafficking and consumption case registered by the NCB in 2022, in which actors Rana Daggubati, Charmy Kaur, Navdeep, Ravi Teja and Puri Jagannadh were also questioned. In a joint operation conducted by the NCB and Rajendra Nagar SOT of Cyberabad Police, Amanpreet was arrested along with the other accused identified as Aniketh Aman Preet Singh, brother of a popular Bollywood actress Rakul Preet Singh Reddy, Prasad, Madhusudhan and Nikhil Daman. Police also arrested drug peddlers Onuoha Blessing, Azeez No- haam Adeshola, Alla Satya Venkata Gowtham, Sanaboina Varun Kumar, and Mohammad Mahaboob Shareef while two others, Divine Ebuka Suzee and Ezeonyili Franklin Uchenna, were absconding. Rakulpreet’s younger sibling Amanpreet is the founder and CEO of a talent discovery platform, ‘Starring You’ and with his sister, has been promoting digital content with videos on the Instagram handle of Starring You India. 4Contd on | nation