SPACEX LAUNCHES MISSION TO BRING BACK SUNITA WILLIAMS Falcon 9 rocket carrying Dragon spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral with NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov on board, leaving two seats empty for Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore. The spacecraft will return with all four in February 2025. By then, Williams and Wilmore will have logged over eight months in space | AFP BHUBANESWAR MONDAY SEPTEMBER 30, 2024 `9.00 PAGES 12 LATE CITY EDITION CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOGGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI Now, Qaouk killed in Israeli airstrikes Govt overhauls top BHARATPUR FALLOUT WATCH LIVE ACTION TODAY! VS 7:00 PM ONWARDS AGENCIES TWO days after Hezbollah suffered its biggest blow in recent times in the loss of its longtime chief Hassan Nasrallah, yet another high-profile leader of the Lebanese group was killed in an Israeli air strike on Sunday . Nabil Qaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah’s Central Council was the seventh senior Hezbollah leader to be killed in Israeli attacks in a little over a week. Hezbollah has confirmed Qaouk’s death. He was killed in a targeted strike on Beirut on Hezbollah’s activities. “Qaouk was close to HezbolIran on Sunday sought a meeting lah’s senior commanders and of the United Nations Security was directly engaged in terrorCouncil to discuss the killing of ist attacks against the State of Hezbollah leader Hassan Israel and its citizens,” Israel Nasrallah and Israel’s ongoing Defense Forces (IDF) said in a attacks on Lebanon post on X. In the post announcing his death, IDF Sunday . warned that it will Qaouk was one of continue to strike and the earliest members eliminate the Hezbolof Hezbollah and led lah commanders. the force against IsraHezbollah also conel in the 2006 war. firmed on Sunday that Since 2020, he was unanother senior comder US sanctions for mander Ali Karaki his involvement in Sheik Nabil Qaouk w a s a m o n g t h o s e Iran seeks UNSC meet killed along with Nasrallah in Friday’s attack. Among other senior figures killed in recent are Nasrallah’s right-hand man Fuad Shukr, head of the elite Radwan Force Ibrahim Aqil. Israel has stepped up its attacks on Lebanon in recent days, carrying out a number of air strikes on targets in southern Lebanon and other parts of the country Reports quoting . Lebanon’s health ministry said 24 people were killed on Sunday in Israeli raids in BaalbekHermel. Israel said it hit over 120 Hezbollah targets in the latP9 est attacks. ‘Would have given Pak more money than IMF...’ friends, why are you keeping distance from us. You are our DEFENCE Minister Rajnath neighbouring country. Our beSingh on Sunday said that India loved leader and former Prime could have given a larger bailout Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee package to Pakistan than what used to say that you can change it is begging from the IMF, had the friends but not the neighIslamabad maintained friendly bours,” Singh said. relations with New The defence minister Delhi. said that whatever mon“The money that Paey the central governkistan is begging from ment spends in J&K, it IMF, our government is for the region’s develhas spent more money opment and to improve than that in Jammu the living standard of and Kashmir,” Singh people. “In contrast, Rajnath Singh said while addressing Pakistan has been misan election rally in border area using the financial assistance of Gurez, close to Line of Con- granted to it by other countries. trol in Jammu and Kashmir on After taking money, Pakistan is Sunday . running a factory of terrorism,” The IMF recently approved $7 he said. billion to Pakistan under a In a stern warning to Paki37-month loan programme, with stan, Singh said, “I want to tell $1 billion earmarked for imme- them that if a big terrorist atdiate disbursement. tack takes place in India then we “I am saying to my Pakistani will strike inside Pakistan.” F AYA Z W A N I @ Srinagar THIS EDITION INCLUDES 36 PAGES MEDICARE 2024 BOOKLET 5 CRPF MEN INJURED IN NAXAL BLAST Five CRPF personnel, including an assistant commandant, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast triggered by Naxalites on Sunday in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar area, police said | P8 J&K POLLS CAMPAIGNING ENDS FOR FINAL PHASE PARTIES IN FRAY BJP 40 seats up for grabs Voting on: Oct 1 415 no. of candidates MAJOR ISSUES Statehood Congress Article 370 NC Jobs PDP Power tariff RESULTS: OCT 4 WON’T DIE TILL MODI IS REMOVED: KHARGE Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge, 83, on Sunday fell unwell while addressing a poll rally in Kathua. After receiving medical attention, he said he is fine and won’t die till Prime Minister Narendra Modi is removed from power. “I am 83 years, I am not going to die so early. I will stay alive until PM Modi is removed...” he said IPS ranks, transfers CP and capital DCP A S H I S M E H TA @ Bhubaneswar CID-CB ADG Arun Bothra, who was leading the investiFACED with a huge embar- gation into the alleged asrassment over the recent sault on the army officer and Bharatpur police station in- his fiancée after the agency cident where an army officer took over the case, was also was allegedly assaulted and transferred and posted as his fiancée sexually harassed ADG Railways and Coastal by cops, the Odisha govern- Security Bothra was relieved . ment on Sunday effected an from the additional charge overhaul of the top IPS of managing director of ranks, shifting the Capital Region Urban Twin City commisTransport (CRUT) sioner of police Santoo. jeeb Panda as well as Vinaytosh Mishra Bhubaneswar DCP replaced Bothra and Prateek Singh. was appointed as Panda was transADG CID-CB. ferred and posted as Mishra, earlier DiADG (Training) and re c t o r o f S t at e director of Biju PatCrime Records BuCommissioner naik State Police reau, has now a cruSanjeeb Panda Academy (BPSPA). cial responsibility has been He had been apat hand as CB has transferred and pointed as the poso far made signifiposted as ADG lice commissioner cant progress in the (Training) and only nine months alleged custodial director of Biju back. torture case. He will Patnaik State Police Academy The government have to ensure that has selected Suresh the agency’s probe Govt notification Dev Datta Singh as continues with the the new Twin City same pace and it arpolice commissioner. Singh rives at a conclusion. T he gover nment has was earlier posted as ADG (Operations) and tasked with transferred at least 49 IPS an important responsibility officers from top to bottom. to curb the Naxal menace in Senior most IPS officer and director of Printing, Stathe state. Prateek Singh has been ap- tionary and Publication pointed as the new Cuttack A r u n Ku m a r R ay h a s Rural SP and Puri SP Pinak b e e n p o s t e d a s D G Mishra has replaced him as Prisons and Correctional Services. CONTINUED ON P5 the new Bhubaneswar DCP.
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