The New Indian Express Wishes its readers a SAMBALPUR l thursday l October 31, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 14 l CITY EDITION Buckingham Palace confirms TNIE report on Charles’ secret India visit The Buckingham Palace confirmed King Charles and Queen Camilla visited Bengaluru for wellness treatment before returning to the UK from Samoa Charles and Camilla during one of their previous visits for treatment | Source: SIHHC B’luru Stop was to break long trip to U.K. not connected to cancer treatment A Buckingham Palace spokesperson said the stopover was to help break the long journey to the United Kingdom from Samoa. “Their Majesties had a short private stopover in India to help break the long journey back from Samoa,” the spokesperson said. They arrived on October 27 and stayed at Soukya International Holistic Health Centre located in Whitefield, Bengaluru ■ ■ ■ Charles is under treatment for cancer after being diagnosed with the disease earlier this year. Sources said the visit was not connected to the cancer treatment, which he will resume upon return to the UK He planted a Jacaranda sapling in the Soukya campus, an official said Charles and Camilla were on a 10-day official trip to Australia and Samoa Our offices and press will remain closed today and there will be no issue of the paper on Friday 75-yr-old King Charles’ last visit to soukya retreat was in 2019 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 Disengagement complete, troops to swap sweets India, China wrap up troop pullback from Demchok & Depsang; joint verification is on cation process is progressing and talks are currently on Patrolling will soon begin about the routes, schedule, and at Demchok and Depsang the patrolling size. Each patrolPlains in eastern Ladakh, as ling unit will have a maximum Indian and Chinese troops have of 20 personnel, who will be completed disengagement at carrying their weapons. these friction points along the “The withdrawals are mutuLine of Actual Control (LAC), al and will proceed in phases. sources said on Wednesday To Patrolling may take time, de. mark the de-escalation of ten- pending on the removal of sions and improvestructures set up ment in the overall since the April 2020 mood, the military clashes. Physical personnel will celeverification and surbrate Diwali by exveillance are being changing sweets at conducted in these the traditional areas,” sources points along the said. 3,488-km long LAC. The current disSweet spots engagement is only “The disengagement is complete Troops will exchange for Depsang and and modalities for sweets at traditional D e m ch o k . A r my points — the five patrolling are being sources said that Border Personnel firmed up between talks regarding paground command- Meeting (BPM) huts trolling in other on each side of the ers,” said an Army stand-off points in source. Troops from Line of Actual Control Eastern Ladakh will both sides have dis- spread out in Eastern continue. Troops engaged and shuf- and Western Sectors from both sides have fled back to their already disengaged designated points as per the de- from five other friction points, cision firmed up between the which came up in May 2020 afCorps Commanders of India ter the People’s Liberation and China. Army moved in its personnel The disengagement process in these areas after the clashes involves joint verification on at the Finger Four on the North the ground regarding the troop bank of the Pangong Tso. The and equipment pullback to a patrolling limits and buffer mutually agreed distance from zones in areas found no menthe face-off sites. Sources told tion in the agreement for Demthis newspaper that the verifi- chok and Depsang Plains. MAYAN K SING H @ New Delhi JSW-POSCO JV steel project to come up in Keonjhar, CM Majhi’s home dist H e m a n t K u m a r R o u t @ Bhubaneswar The joint venture of JSW Group and South Korean steel giant POSCO will set up a mega steel plant in Keonjhar, the home district of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi. On Tuesday the two conglomer, ates announced plans at Mumbai to set up an integrated steel plant with a production capacity of 5 million tonne per annum (MTPA). A highly placed source said, the joint venture is keen on setting up the plant in the iron-ore rich Keonjhar district. The pact between the two steel majors was signed after preliminary rounds of talks between the promoters and a high-level delegation led by the chief minister during his inve s t o r s ’ m e e t i n M u m b a i recently . Two patches of land have already been identified for the proposed project in the district. While around 2500 acre is located in close proximity of Odisha Tea plantation Ltd (OTPL) at Taramakant area under Banspal block, another 1,956 acre is at Patna which was initially of fered to steel major ArcelorMittal. “The survey of the OTPL land has been completed. One of the two sites will be selected for the proposed steel plant after the visit of a high level team of senior officials from the joint venture. If things go as per plan, an MoU will be signed during the upcoming Utkarsh Odisha: Make-in-Odisha Conclave 2025 in January,” the source told The New Indian Continued on P7 Express.  Canada minister admits outing 5 of nomadic family killed, five abducted Shah’s identity in Nijjar case in internecine enmity in Sundargarh Y e s h i S e l i @ New Delhi A Canadian minister admitted before a parliamentary panel that he outed Union home minister Amit Shah’s name to a US newspaper as having allegedly ordered a campaign of violence, intimidation and intelligence-gathering targeting Sikh se paratists inside Canada. Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister David Morrison told members of the national security committee that he had confirmed Shah’s name to The Washington Post, which first reported the allegations in connection with the murder of Khalistani radical Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia in June last year. But Morrison did not share any proof of Shah’s alleged involvement in the case. “The journalist called me and Diwali celebration off P r a s a n j e e t S a r k a r @ Rourkela The annual Diwali celebration for the Indo-Canadian community at Parliament Hill was abruptly cancelled by Leader of the Opposition Pierre Poilievre. According to the organisers, the Overseas Friends of India Canada, this was communicated to them abruptly without any explanation asked if it was that person. I confirmed it was that person,” Morrison told the committee. Bilateral relations went into deeper freeze after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently alleged that the Indian government had a role in the killing Nijjar. Both sides expelled six diplomats each. While India accuses Canada of not even sharing a shread of evidence to support its theory, the latter claims it has ample proof. Around four persons are believed to be involved in the gruesome attack when the victims were asleep. It appears the assailants used weapons like spear and sticks in the incident Pratyush Diwaker, Sundargarh SP IN a bone-chilling incident, five members of a nomadic family were hacked to death and another five kidnapped in a bloody late night attack by a group believed to be of the same community near Karamdihi village under Sadar police limits of Sundargarh district on Tuesday . Of the five deceased, three were women. The kidnapped included four children and a woman. The nomadic community is originally from Maharashtra. At the time of the attack, around 20 family members were fast asleep in tents put up at a secluded place near Karamdihi village. Sundargarh police launched a massive manhunt and roped in support from neighbouring districts but no one has been arrested so far. Soon after the incident, DIG (western range) Brijesh Kumar Rai and Sundargarh SP Pratyush Diwaker rushed to the spot along with scientific team and dog squad. Diwaker said around four persons are believed to be involved in the gruesome attack when the victims were asleep. It appears the assailants used weapons like spear and sticks in the incident. The gruesome incident is believed to be fallout of an illicit relationship. Thirty-year-old Abinash Bima Pawar, a key witness who survived the attack, revealed he was in an illicit relationship with his wife’s sister which may have led to the attack. Pawar suspected his brotherin-law’s involvement in the crime. Diwaker said the suspected rival group has no permanent address but efforts were underway to trace the attackers and nab them. Around five days back, the family had settled at the spot in tents as part of their seasonal visit to the Continued on P7 district.