MONDAY 09 SEPTEMBER 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 ‘BJP LEADERSHIP OF TRYING TO CREATE FEAR AMONG HINDUS IN J&K’ CPM IN A TIGHT SPOT IN KERALA OVER ADGP’S MEET WITH RSS LEADER P5 P4 WEATHER Mostly cloudy. Showers late at night. Maximum and minimum temperatures likely to be around 33°C and 28°C respectively. P6 Huge ‘Reclaim the Night’ gatherings across city Massive protests mark one month of the RG Kar Hospital rape-murder RAINFALL: NIL RELATIVE HUMIDITY Max. 89% TEMPERATURE Max: 33.2˚C SUN RISES 05:21 hrs MOON RISES 10:22 hrs Min. 77 % Min: 28.6˚C SUN SETS 17:45 hrs MOON SETS 21:20 hrs Full Moon on 18 September THUMBNAILS STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE KOLKATA, 8 SEPTEMBER People walk at the Kartavya Path amid rainy weather conditions, in New Delhi on Sunday. n ANI Ajit Doval on Moscow mission: National Security Advisor Ajit Doval is leaving for Moscow this week amid speculations that India could play a role in resolving the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. Mr. Doval is visiting Russia primarily to attend a conclave of NSAs of BRICS (Brazil-Russia-IndiaChina-South Africa) countries that is taking place at a time when efforts are on to bring the prolonged conflict to an end. His visit comes close on the heels of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's trip to Ukraine. P eople from all walks of life hit the streets in Kolkata and elsewhere in Bengal for another ‘Reclaim the Night’ demonstration tonight, reflecting continuing public anger over the brutal rape and murder of a junior doctor at the R G Kar Medical College and Hospital a month ago. Multiple protests and rallies took place across the city earlier in the day, involving, among many others, artists and technicians of the Bengali film industry, sculptors of Kumartuli. and a group At Rashbehari Avenue on Sunday night. n SNS of hand rickshaw pullers who took out a rally from Hedua in North Kolkata to College Street. There was a 14-kilometre-long human chain stretching from Sodepur in North 24-Parganas district to Shyambazar Five- point crossing in the city. In south Kolkata, around 4,000 former students of over 40 schools walked a distance of 2 km demanding justice for the victim. In the night, there were huge ‘Reclaim the Night’ gatherings at Jadavpur ENGLAND ALL-ROUNDER MOEEN ALI RETIRES FROM INT’L CRICKET SETBACK TO TRUDEAU 8B bus terminus, where protesters called for justice with slogans and song, and were joined by the parents of the victim, and at Shyambazar, Rashbehari Avenue, Razabazar, Garia and Salt Lake, among many other locations. This was the third occasion that women had hit the streets to ‘Reclaim the Night’ after the rapemurder of the secondyear postgraduate doctor on 9 August that shocked the country, and triggered an unprecedented outpouring of outrage and anger among citizens. The Supreme Court, meanwhile, is slated to continue hearing on Monday the matter where it has taken suo moto cognisance of the rape and murder of the junior doctor. A 3-judge bench, headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud will consider the status reportoftheCentralBureau ofInvestigation(CBI),which is investigating the RG Kar case. The Bench, also comprisingJusticesJ.B.Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, could notassembleon5September due to the non-availability of CJI Chandrachud. TMC MPJawharSircar to resign from RS: Page 3 P12 Suspected Mpox case under investigation: Health Ministry The development of this case is consistent with the earlier risk assessment done by the NCDC and there is no cause of any undue concern, the ministry said STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE NEW DELHI, 8 SEPTEMBER A young male patient, who recently travelled from a country currently experiencing Mpox (monkeypox) transmission, has been identified as a suspect case of the viral disease, said Union Health Ministry on Sunday. The patient has been isolated in a designated hospital and is stable, it said. "Samples from the patient are being tested to confirm the presence of Mpox. The case is being managed in line with established protocols, and contact tracing is ongoing to identify potential sources and assess the impact within the country," it said. The development of this case is consistent with the earlier risk assessment done by the NCDC and there is no cause of any undue concern, the ministry said, adding that the country is fully prepared to deal with such cases and has robust measures in place to manage and mitigate any potential risk. We consider you as our own, Rajnath tells people of PoK STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE JAMMU, 8 SEPTEMBER Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Sunday asked the residents of Pakistan-occupied Jammu & Kashmir (PoK) to come and join India, as “we consider you as our own unlike Pakistan which treats you as foreigners”. Mr Singh was addressing BJP election rallies in Ramban and Banihal areas of the Jammu division. The Defence Minister said that recently an affidavit was filed by the additional solicitor general in Pakistan stating that PoK is a foreign land. “I want to tell PoK residents that Pakistan is considering you a foreigner but the people in India do not consider you as such. We consider you as our own and so come and join us,” Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said. Under the BJP government in J&K there will be so much development on this side that the people in PoK on seeing this would say that we do not want to live with Pakistan and instead will go to India, he said.