remove “posted in” and comments links in 2.3.3

I’m wanting to remove the “posted in” and comments links from the bottom of the indexes. I tried removing this from the main index and it made no difference.

<p class="postmetadata">Posted in <span class="cty"><?php the_category(', ') ?></span> | <?php edit_post_link('Edit', '', ' | '); ?> <span class="cmt"><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments »', '1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></span></p>

this is in index.php and the theme I’m using is Pop Blue