New Delhi/Khargone, April 17 (IANS) Union Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, on Friday directed strict legal action and immediate compensation after complaints of crop loss due to substandard seeds in Madhya Pradesh.The minister met a group of young farmers from Dhar and Khargone districts at his official residence in New Delhi on Friday.The farmers informed him about severe losses in their bitter gourd crop. They said poor-quality seeds and saplings were responsibl…
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Indore, April 6 (IANS) The Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday commenced continuous and regular hearings in the long‑standing and highly sensitive Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute in Dhar district. A Division Bench comprising Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi conducted a nearly two‑hour hearing, during which Senior Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, appearing for the Hindu petitioners, including Ashish Goyal and the Hindu Front for Justice, presented deta…
Indore, April 2 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Thursday fixed April 6 as the date to commence detailed regular hearings in the long-standing Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute in Dhar district. Due to paucity of time, as the division bench was scheduled to sit only till 1.30 p.m., the matter could not be taken up in detail on Thursday.A division bench comprising Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla and Justice Alok Awasthi passed the order, stating clearly, “We fix all the matters for …
New Delhi, March 31 (IANS) The Supreme Court is slated to hear, on Wednesday, a plea filed by the Muslim side challenging the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s order in the long-standing Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute in Dhar district. As per the causelist published on the official website of the apex court, a Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Surya Kant and Justices Joymalya Bagchi and Vipul M. Pancholi will take up the Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed by the Maulana Kamaluddin W…
Bhopal, March 13 (IANS) A shocking incident unfolded in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district, around 50 km from Indore, where a group of people posing as Income Tax (IT) officers barged into the house of a contractor and escaped with cash and jewellery on Friday.According to information, the incident occurred around 11 a.m. when a group of people arrived at contractor Rajkumar Malvi’s house located in Dhar, posing as Income Tax officers.According to the police, the unidentified men told the family…
Barwani, March 2 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Leader of Opposition (LoP) Umang Singhar said on Monday that farmers of Nimar region were looking for some new schemes from the BJP government. “However, the meeting appears to be more a means of publicity and image-building than farmer welfare,” he said.Congress leader Singhar, who also belongs to the Tribal community from Dhar district of Nimar region, said, “The cabinet meeting attempted to cover up the situation by approving an irrigation project …
Pithampur, Feb 25 (IANS) In a shocking and distressing incident that has sparked widespread concern, a minor Class 10 student delivered a baby in the washroom of an examination centre while writing her board papers in Pithampur, an industrial area in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district. The incident occurred on Tuesday in the Sector-1 police station limits, at a private school serving as an exam centre for the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education examinations.The girl, appearing for her mathem…
Bhopal/Dhar, Feb 19 (IANS) Tensions flared in the tribal-dominated areas of Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh as villagers violently protested limestone quarry sampling activities on Thursday. The sampling was linked to a proposed cement factory, highlighting deep-seated concerns over land rights, environmental impact, and forced industrial projects on tribal territories.The incident unfolded in Kheladi village under Kukshi Assembly constituency, where a team from a cement producer was conducting …
Bhopal/Khargone, Feb 8 (IANS) After nearly forty-five years on the run, a sixty-five-year-old resident of Madhya Pradesh’s Khargone district has been arrested for his role in a theft so modest in value that it might have faded into obscurity for most people. Yet the wheels of the law turned relentlessly until they caught up with him.The story begins in 1980, in the Balsamund Kakad area near Balkhad village, under the jurisdiction of Balkawada police station, a group of seven young men, including…
Dhar, Jan 23 (IANS) In line with the Supreme Court’s interim directive, members of the Muslim community offered Friday (Jumma) namaz at the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula Mosque complex in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, without any untoward incident. The prayers, which lasted approximately 20 minutes, took place between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. as stipulated by the apex court on Thursday. Under stringent security arrangements, the administration facilitated the safe movement of Muslim representatives t…