MONDAY 19 AUGUST 2024 www.thestatesman.com INDIA’S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER SINCE 1818 Pages 12 |` 5.00|LC X.com/thestatesmanltd. Fb/thestatesman1875 KOLKATA | NEW DELHI | SILIGURI | BHUBANESWAR TARGETING MIGRATION CHAMPAI SOREN HINTS AT NEW POLITICAL JOURNEY P5 WEATHER Generally cloudy sky with few spells of light to moderate rain / thundershower with one or two intense spells (2-3 cm per hour) of rain / thundershower very likely.Maximum and minimum temperatures likely to be around 31 °C and 27 °C respectively. P6 MHA asks states to submit reports every 2 hours Min. 78 % Min: 26.6˚C (+0.1) SUN SETS 05:15 hrs MOON SETS 03:17 hrs AGENCIES NEW DELHI, 18 AUGUST Full Moon on 19 August THUMBNAILS PARMOD KUMAR NEW DELHI, 18 AUGUST Women get their hands decorated with Henna on the eve of the Raksha Bandhan festival, in Prayagraj on Sunday. n ANI PM monitoring Mpox situation; PMO holds review: Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been continuously monitoring the MonkeyPox situation in the country, the PMO said on Sunday. As advised by the Prime Minister, Dr P K Mishra, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister, chaired a high-level meeting on Sunday to review the status of preparedness for Mpox in the country and related public health measures. T he Supreme Court has taken suo motu cognisance of the alleged rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor in Kolkata’s state-run RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and posted the matter for hearing on Tuesday, 20 August. The matter will be heard by a Bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, Justice J B Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra. Kolkata witnessed a huge uproar of protest that eventually spread to other parts of the country, including in the national capital, after the body of a post-graduate trainee doctor was found in the seminar room of RG Kar Hospital on 9 August. Calcutta High Court handed over the investigation into the alleged rape and murder of the post-graduate trainee doctor to the Central Bureau of Investigation after it expressed its dissatisfaction over the probe that was being carried out by the state police. On 16 August, two advocates, Ujjawal Gaur and Rohit Pandey, seeking the urgent intervention of the top court given the gravity of the incident, wrote to Chief Justice Chandrachud urging him to take suo motu cognizance of the case. “The nation looks to the judiciary as the ultimate guardian of justice, the last refuge for those whose cries have been silenced by brutality. The victim in this case, a young doctor whose life was dedicated to serving others, deserves nothing less than the full measure of justice that our legal system can provide. Her death must not be in vain, it must galvanize us to act, to ensure that AI cabin crew member assaulted in London hotel room AGENCIES NEW DELHI, 18 AUGUST An Air India cabin crew member was allegedly assaulted inside her hotel room in London, the airline has confirmed. Late Saturday night, Air India stated the "unlawful incident of intrusion" occurred at a London hotel. The airline P12 Matter will be heard by a three-judge bench headed by CJI D Y Chandrachud on Tuesday TEMPERATURE Max: 31.0˚C (-0.9) SUN RISES 05:15 hrs MOON RISES 17:15 hrs P4 SC takes suo moto cognisance of RG Kar rape and murder case RAINFALL: 65.2 mm RELATIVE HUMIDITY Max. 97 % LEWANDOWSKI'S BRACE GUIDES BARCA TO WIN K’TAKA CONGRESS TO PROTEST AGAINST GOVERNOR The accused is said to be a Nigerian citizen and has been arrested said it was providing not only immediate assistance "but also professional counselling to help her." The incident took place on Thursday night after an intruder entered her room. The accused is said to be a Nigerian citizen and has been arrested, according to some reports. Sources said the incident happened at a hotel in Heathrow, London, and the crew had on many occasions raised the issue of inadequate safety at the hotel where the crew had been stalked. As per media reports, the crew member was sleeping when the intruder attacked her in her room. Startled, she woke up and screamed for help. The assailant was caught and handed over to authorities. The victim suffered bruises as she tried to escape the hold of the intruder, the reports added. 188 Pak Hindus get Indian citizenship in Gujarat STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, 18 AUGUST Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah on Sunday distributed citizenship certificates to 188 refugees under the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) in Ahmedabad. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was present. Speaking on the occasion, Mr Shah said the CAA is not just to give citizenship to millions of people settled in the country, but to give justice and rights to millions of refugees. He said that due to the appeasement policy of the Congress governments, the people who took refuge in the country from 1947 to 2014 did not get justice. These people had to endure abuse not only in India’s neighbouring countries but also here. Mr Shah said that these people yearned for justice for three generations but due to the appeasement policy of the Opposition, they did not get justice. He said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given justice to these lakhs of people. The Home Minister said that at the time of Independence, India was divided on the basis of religion and there were severe riots. The Congress government then had promised that people from Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jain and Christian communities coming from neighbouring countries would be given citizenship, but the promise was not kept. The Union Home Ministry has asked all state police forces to submit situation reports every two hours on the ongoing protests by medical professionals and others against the alleged rape and murder of a junior doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata. In a communication to the state police forces, the home ministry said that the law and order situation of all states should be monitored in view of the protests. “Regarding two hourly law and order situation reports. The competent authority has desired to monitor the law and order situation no other woman suffers such a fate,” the lawyers wrote in their letter to the CJI. The letter said the time has come for the judiciary to send a clear and resounding message Mohun Bagan and East Bengal supporters protesting at Salt Lake Stadium on Sunday. n SNS report of your state/UT against the murder of a trainee woman doctor. Henceforth, a continuous two-hourly law and order situation report in this regard may kindly be sent to the MHA control room,” the notification from the home ministry directed. that such heinous crimes will not be tolerated, that the sanctity of life and the dignity of women must be fiercely protected by the full might of the law. (PHOTO: BISWAJIT GHOSHAL) Microplastic contamination in food: FSSAI launches project STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, 18 AUGUST The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) launched a project to tackle the growing concern of microplastic contamination in food, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. Recognising microplastic pollution as an emerging threat that requires immediate attention, the project titled 'Micro-and NanoPlastics as Emerging Food Contaminants: Establishing Validated Methodologies and Understanding the Prevalence in Different Food Matrices' was started in March this year to develop and validate analytical methods for detecting micro and nano-plastics in various food products, as well as assess their prevalence and exposure levels in India, it said. The Union Health Ministry said the primary objectives of the project include developing standard protocols for micro/nano-plastic analysis, conducting intraand inter-laboratory comparisons, and generating critical data on microplastic exposure levels among consumers.