Tag: Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: Noted music composers Usha Khanna, Bappi Lahiri, Anu Malik and playback singers Alka Yagnik and Udit Narayan have been selected for the Madhya Pradesh government’s prestigious National Lata Mangeshkar Award. The artistes will be honoured for their contribution in the field of music composition and singing, an official said today. “The award, instituted in […]

Umaria/Seoni: A tigress and a male cub died in different forest areas of Madhya Pradesh in the last 24 hours, officials said today. A two-year-old tigress was yesterday found dead in a well in the area of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) in Umaria district. “The tigress might have fallen into the well while running away […]

Bhopal: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today petitioned the police here seeking action in connection with what it called a big scam in National Institute of Open Schooling, under which 1,200 candidates in Madhya Pradesh who did not even write the exam were allegedly declared pass in June this year. “Even before the AAP’s intervention, […]

Bhopal: A class 8 Sanskrit textbook being taught in the CBSE-affiliated schools in Madhya Pradesh has got the facts wrong about the 1962 Sino-Indian war, as it claims that India had defeated China. A chapter on the country’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, in the textbook titled ‘Sukritika’, says “with Nehru’s efforts, India defeated China”. […]

Bargarh: Odisha Governor Ganeshi Lal today laid the foundation stone for establishment of the second generation (2G) ethanol Bio-Refinery, first in the country to produce ethanol from rice straw at Baulasingha village under Bhatli in Bargarh district. Union Petroleum and Natural Gas (PNG) Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, Minister of Handloom and Textiles of State Snehangini Chhuria, […]

Bhubaneswar: Odisha’s Stalin Mishra won the Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Professional Excellence Award 2018 in social work and youth empowerment. Mishra, who works in an IT company in Bengaluru, was honoured during an international seminar held at Chandra Sehkhar Azad Government PG College in Sehore of Madhya Pradesh. The award was jointly given by APJ […]

At least 45 people were arrested in connection with a clash during the Hanuman Jayanti Hindu festival in a town in Madhya Pradesh's Neemuch district while curfew remained in force as a precautionary measure, police said

The Anil Ambani-led Reliance Cement, emerging as the highest bidder on the first day of coal block auctions, today won the Sial Ghoghri mine in Madhya Pradesh containing 5.61 million tonne of reserves

New Delhi: Newly appointed Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) chief Rishi Kumar Shukla took charge of the probe agency on Monday. Shukla, 59, took over the reigns as the agency clashed with the Kolkata Police on Sunday over questioning of its Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar over a ponzi scheme scam. The confrontation has led to […]

Jabalpur: An Odisha man, who was summoned by CBI in connection with irregularities in manufacturing of Dhanush artillery gun at Jabalpur Gun Carriage Factory (GCF), was murdered, revealed autopsy report today. Sarada Charan Khatua of Kokilpur village of Jagatsingpur, who was working as a Junior Works Manager (JWM) at the Gun Carriage Factory in Jabalpur […]

Bhopal: Even before the onset of summer, nearly 4,000 villages are staring at an acute drought in 36 out of 52 districts in Madhya Pradesh. A lean monsoon last year has left in its trail a grave crisis for the third successive year while the administration is cramped by the Model Code of Conduct for […]

Bhopal: Twenty-one-year-old Shashank Mangal has brought laurels to Madhya Pradesh by securing the first rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2019 with near-100 per cent marks. Shashank, hailing from Morena in the state, scored 989 marks out of 1000, according to the GATE results announced by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras […]

Bhopal: Income Tax officials on Tuesday continued to search for a third day the premises of close aides of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, claiming they have the details about transactions involving Rs 281 crore linked to businessmen, politicians and bureaucrats. The officials are searching the residences and offices of Ashwini Sharma, Manager of […]

Chhindwara: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s son and the Congress candidate from the Chhindwara parliamentary constituency, Nakul Nath, has moveable and immoveable properties in his name worth over Rs 600 crore. While his wife Priya keeps worth Rs 2 crore moveable and immoveable properties in her. According to the affidavit filed before the electoral […]

Jhabua: A panchayat here forced a woman to carry her husband on her shoulder and take rounds as punishment for eloping with her lover, police said on Sunday. The incident took place in the Dewali village of Jhabua district on Friday. The video of the incident went viral after which two people were arrested and a […]