FP The publishers permit sharing of the e-paper's pdf on WhatsApp and other social media platforms Vol. XLI No. 160 | INDORE | SUNDAY | NOVEMBER 17, 2024 | Pages 16 ` 4 | Regd. No. Indore MP/ICD 216/2024-2026 | RNI No. 38281/83 FREE www.freepressjournal.in Sports After Rohit, Gill also doubtful for 1st Test P.16 fp Briefs BEIJING 8 killed in stabbing spree Eight people were killed and 17 others injured when a 21-year-old student went on a stabbing spree in China's eastern city of Wuxi on Saturday evening, police said in a statement. The incident comes just days following an hit-andrun incident where thirtyfive people were killed and 43 others injured after a car drove into a group of people outside a sports centre in China's southern city of Zhuhai. HOSUR Jumbos damage crops An elephant herd entered villages near here from the Sanamavu reserve forest area and raided standing crops on Saturday, an official said. ESTD-1983 iii QUALITY @ VALUE EDITIONS: INDORE UJJAIN PRESS PUNE BHOPAL NASHIK WORLD Israeli troops reach deepest point in Lebanon since Oct 1 Cinema Nayanthara’s open letter fury P.14 Protesters try to storm CM’s house over hostage deaths PTI Bodies of 10 ‘ultras’ airlifted from Silchar IMPHAL Protesting against the death of six hostages from Jiribam, a mob tried to barge into the personal residence of Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh on Saturday evening, setting off another big escalation between security forces and the protesters in the violence-hit state. The security forces had to fire tear gas shells to disperse the protesters. A large mob, upset over lack of inaction and communication from government, had gathered and demanded to meet lawmakers in the state capital Imphal on Saturday. Earlier, protesters stormed the residences of two ministers and three MLAs in Manipur's Imphal on Saturday, demanding justice for the murder of three persons in Jiribam district, police said. The mob attacks on legislators' houses prompted the Imphal West administration People run past burning vehicles during a protest in Imphal on Saturday BODIES OF ALL SIX HOSTAGES FOUND The bodies of two women and a child, who had been missing since Monday from a camp for the displaced, were recovered from Barak River in Jiribam on Saturday, while three other bodies, including a woman and two children, were found on Friday night. All the six bodies, including those of three children, were sent to Silchar Medical College Hospital (SMCH) in Assam for post-mortem examinations. to impose prohibitory orders in the district for an indefinite period. According to an order issued by Imphal West District Magistrate Th Kirankumar, the curfew was imposed from 4.30 pm on Saturday. A mob stormed the residence of Health and Family Welfare Minister Sapam Ranjan in Lamphel Sanakeithel area, a senior officer said. 4Continued on | P6 Rameshwar, Hemant and many other leaders may be out of the race The process for organisational polls in the BJP is afoot. The party will soon elect its state unit president, and several leaders have begun to make efforts to get the position. Many legislators are also in the race and working hard to get the job. According to sources in the party, the Man held for assault on UP min’s staff Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL chances of legislators becoming the state party president are thin. Instead of a legislator, an MP or any other leader may be given a chance to lead the state BJP, sources said. Among the legislators, the names of Rameshwar Sharma, Hemant Khandelwal and Bhupendra Singh are doing the rounds. Among the ministers, Rajendra Shukla and Vishvas 4Continued on | P6 Sarang are also in the race. According to sources, none of them is going to be elected as state president. After Chhattisgarh was separated, an MP or any other leader has been elected as BJP’s MP unit president. Kailash Joshi, Satyanarayan Jatiya, Prabhat Jha, Nandkumar Singh Chouhan, Rakesh Singh and VD Sharma were the party’s state unit presidents. But none of them was elected during their tenure as legislator. Only Narendra Singh Tomar was an exception. He became the state unit president when he was a legislator. After becoming the president, Tomar did not contest the assembly election in 2008. When he became the president for the second time in 2012, he was an MP. 4Continued on | P6 UP govt orders three-tier probe into Jhansi hosp fire PTI LUCKNOW/JHANSI Man attacked the personal security officer of UP minister Manohar Lal and snatched his pistol following a road rage incident in Gwalior district, police said on Saturday. Police arrested the accused. ASP Gajendra Vardhaman, said that the accused also beat up another employee of the Uttar Pradesh minister in the incident that took place near Jaurasi village on Gwalior-Jhansi highway on Friday night. He said that the vehicle of the UP minister, who was on his way from Agra to Lalitpur, got stuck in a traffic jam following an accident involving a truck on the highway between Gwalior and Dabra in MP. The Uttar Pradesh government on Saturday ordered a three-tier probe into the fire incident at the children's ward of a medical college in Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi district that killed 10 newborns and also dismissed reports that the facility had expired fire extinguishers. Post-mortem of seven infants was carried out on Saturday while the autopsy of three could not be conducted as their parents have not been identified yet, Additional Superintendent of Police (City) of Jhansi Gyanendra Kumar Singh told PTI. According to Jhansi District Magistrate Avinash Kumar, the fire broke out around 10.45 pm on Friday in the NICU wards of the Maharani Laxmi Bai Medical College, one of the largest government hospitals in the state's Bundelkhand region, possibly due to an electrical short circuit. Deputy Chief Minister Brijesh Pathak dismissed media reports that the medical college had expired fire extinguishers. "All firefighting equipment in the medical college was completely fine," he said in a statement, adding a fire safety audit was carried out at the medical college in February and a mock drill was conducted in June. The principal of the medical college, Dr Narendra Singh Sengar, also termed the allegations "baseless". The blaze at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), Newborn babies after being safely rescued where the infants admitted were mostly prematurely born, has been doused but the air around is heavy with sorrow. 4Continued on | P6 crime Guwahati: The bodies of the 10 Kuki-Zo youths killed in a gunfight with security personnel in Manipur's Jiribam town were on Saturday airlifted to Churachandpur from Assam's Silchar town, where the autopsies were conducted. Earlier in the day, police had to resort to lathi-charge outside the Silchar Medical College Hospital (SMCH) after the family members of the youths clashed with forces, demanding the bodies be handed over to them. Assam Police officials tried to convince them that the bodies would be handed over to Manipur Police, and they could take the matter up with the authorities there. However, the agitated family members refused to accept the proposal, attacking police personnel and resorting to stone pelting, injuring several people. All the arrested are residents of Bihar, who used to sell fake ID proofs and SIM cards to cyber crooks for committing frauds across the country Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL ducted a raid on the gang’s call centre and arrested seven individuals, including six men and one woman. Bhopal police commissioner Harinarayanchari Mishra told the media that the accused used to manipulate official identification cards by altering photographs and linking fake documents to open fraudulent bank accounts. 4Continued on | P6 Agencies NEW DELHI 4 suspended for removing Scindia’s bust Our Staff Reporter BHOPAL BJP state president VD Sharma has strongly criticized the insensitive manner in which the bust of late Madhav Rao Scindia was shifted from Katni Bypass. He directed district collector and NHAI officers that the bust should be done at a better place and the spot should be beautified. He said that showing insensitivity while shifting busts of great leaders won’t be tolerated. After his intervention, NHAI Project Director suspended guilty Senior Engineer Manoj Verma, Engineer Ashish Singh Parihar, Team Leader Rajesh Kumar Nema and Assistant Bridge Engineer Deepak Soni with immediate effect. Meanwhile, late Scindia’s bust has not been placed at a proper place. The bust was coming in the way of road construction and the NHAI officials removed the bust without taking proper care of it. The Election Commission on Saturday sought explanations from the party presidents of the BJP and the Congress - the two principal rival parties at the national level - asking them to explain the comments made by their star campaigners Amit Shah and Rahul Gandhi. The comments allegedly violate the poll code. BJP's JP Nadda and Congress' Mallikarjun Kharge have to submit their responses by 1 am on Monday, two days before polls close for Maharashtra and Jharkhand (which will be conducting round two of polling). The BJP had filed a complaint against Rahul Gandhi, claiming that the Congress leader "falsely accused other states of stealing and snatching alleged opportunities from the State of Maharashtra" in a speech in Mumbai on November 6. "Rahul Gandhi with his statements is inciting the youths of Maharashtra which is immensely dangerous for the unity and integrity of the nation. As only expected and in line with his typical pattern of campaigning and general conduct, Rahul Gandhi's Rahul’s bag checked Ahead of the Maharashtra Assembly election, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi found himself under scrutiny as Election Commission officials inspected his bags upon his arrival at Amravati district today. This inspection, which took place just a day after a similar controversy over his helicopter being grounded in Jharkhand, has prompted Congress to accuse the poll body of unfairness speech was full of falsehood and lies, intending to create disaffection, enmity and ill-will between the states of Union of India. Rahul Gandhi with his misleading statement has tried to create a divide between the people of Maharashtra and Gujarat & other states," said the BJP in its complaint on November 11. The Congress in a counter-complaint alleged that Home Minister Amit Shah delivered a "slew of false, divisive, malicious, and slanderous statements about the Indian National Congress (INC) and its allies" during an election rally in Dhanbad on November 12. No room for vote banks, says PM FP News Service NEW DELHI In sync with his poll rhetoric in Jharkhand and Maharashtra, PM Modi on Saturday blasted non-BJP governments for bringing in schemes to mollycoddle vote banks. He said his government’s purpose was miles away from appeasement politics and it was propelled by the mantra of progress -- of the people, by the people and for the people. He was delivering the keynote address at an event in Delhi. He further said the nurturing of vote banks had inflicted inequities which had only widened over the years. He also asserted that terrorists now do not feel safe in their homes, unlike during the erstwhile regimes when terrorism made people feel unsafe. Modi said he is now looking forward to “meaningful” discussions at the upcoming G20 summit in Brazil that laid out the broad agenda for the grouping, building upon the legacy of India's presidency of the bloc last year. Modi made the comments before embarking on a 5-day visit to Nigeria, Brazil and Guyana. His first destination will be Nigeria from where he will travel to Brazil. grace of bharatnatyam Paintings on a wall of a school in Chhatribagh have caught the attention of the people in the city Anand Shivre Centre approves uniform protection protocol for users of Indian grid IANS NEW DELHI The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) on Saturday said it has approved the uniform protection protocol for users of the Indian grid for implementation on a pan-India basis. The protocol is for the users of the grid for proper coordination of the protection system in order to protect the equipment/system from abnormal operating conditions, isolate the faulty equipment and avoid unintended operation of the protection system.It aims to ensure grid stability, reliability, security and also support the government’s vision for integration of 450 GW renewable energy into the national grid by 2030 and an ambitious target of 2,100 GW of Renewable energy by 2047, said the Ministry of Power in a statement. The National Power Committee (NPC), in consultation with regional power committees (RPCs), has prepared the protocol for the users.The key features of the protocol are applicability, general philosophy of protection system, protection schemes, monitoring and audits and disturbance monitoring, analysis and reporting, performance monitoring and compliance monitoring. During a meeting of high-level officials from the sector, various other key issues of the Indian power sector were discussed. ISRO satellite to ride Musk’s SpaceX NEW DELHI Inter-state gang making fake IDs busted City’s Hanumanganj police on Saturday busted an interstate gang from Bihar accused of making and selling fake Aadhaar and PAN cards, SIM cards, and bank accounts mainly to cyber criminals across India. The Hanumanganj police con- EC notices to BJP, Cong over Shah, Rahul speeches MANIPUR ON BOIL: Mob targets houses of ministers, MLAs; curfew imposed in several parts of Imphal, internet suspended in 7 districts Chances of MLA becoming state BJP prez slim Nitendra Sharma E-paper readers’ corner Trump’s Return: A Global Challenge P.8 When will PM With the PM embarking on a three-nation tour, the Congress on visit Manipur Saturday asked when Modi visit the strife-torn state. BHOPAL MUMBAI The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is all set to launch its communication satellite aboard the Elon Muskowned SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. ISRO's launch vehicle Mark3 can put 4,000 kg into a geostationary transfer orbit, however, as GSAT-N2 weighs 4,700 kg, the space agency is using SpaceX's launch vehicle. This marks ISRO's first commercial launch using SpaceX. GSAT-N2 (GSAT-20) is a Kaband high-throughput communication satellite of The 4700-kilogram GSAT-N2 satellite aims to provide data or Internet services to remote areas. It will also enable the availability of Internet in aeroplanes across the Indian region NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), under the Department of Space and the commercial arm of ISRO. The satellite features multiple spot beams and aims to support a large subscriber base with small user terminals. According to ISRO: "GSATN2 has a mission life of 14 years. and is equipped with 32 user beams, comprising 8 narrow spot beams over the Northeast region and 24 wide spot beams over the rest of India. These 32 beams will be supported by hub stations lo- cated within mainland India. The Ka-Band HTS communication payload provides a throughput of approximately 48 Gbps". "This homegrown satellite when operational will fill that big hole of in-flight Internet connectivity that exists over India on the world Internet map," said Dr M Sankaran, Director of UR Rao Satellite Centre in Bengaluru. "This is India's highest throughput satellite and the only one operating exclusively in the much sought-after Ka-band," says Dr Sankaran. 4Continued on | P6