Dhar, May 25 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Mohan Yadav, on Monday visited the historic Bhojshala in Dhar district and offered special prayers to Goddess Vagdevi on the occasion of Ganga Dussehra.The visit was significant as it was Yadav’s first trip to Bhojshala after the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, in its May 15 order, declared the disputed Bhojshala-Kamal Maula complex a Hindu temple.The court had observed that the site was originally dedicated to Goddess Saraswati…
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Bhopal/Dhar, May 25 (IANS) Two youths, who were reportedly employees of a private cement company, drowned in the deep waters of the Narmada River while bathing at the Semalda Narmada Ghat in Manawar tehsil of Dhar district, officials said on Monday.The incident happened on Sunday evening. After a prolonged rescue operation lasting nearly 15 hours, divers recovered the bodies of both young men on Monday morning. The deceased have been identified as Pooran Yadav and Dinesh Yadav, both residents of…
Bhopal/Dhar, May 25 (IANS) Two of four friends who went for a swim in the Narmada River drowned in deep waters, while the other two were safely rescued in Semalda village, within the Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh. The missing youths were residents of Kotputli, Rajasthan, and were employed at a cement company.The police, divers, and local boatmen continued rescue operations until late in the evening.According to police officials, Pooran (son of Phoolchand Yadav, 40) and Dinesh (son of Devkaran …
New Delhi, May 21 (IANS) The Muslim side has moved the Supreme Court challenging the recent verdict of the Madhya Pradesh High Court which recognised the Bhojshala complex in Dhar as a Hindu temple and granted exclusive worship rights to the Hindu community.As per details available on the apex court’s official website, a Special Leave Petition (SLP) has been filed by Quazi Moinuddin, and the matter has been registered as Diary No. 32281/2026.The plea, filed at around 8.30 p.m. on Thursday, is …
Dhar, May 19 (IANS) In a major anti-corruption drive, the Lokayukta Police in Indore arrested Pradeep Kumar Khare, District Project Coordinator of the District Education Centre in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, red-handed while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh. The arrest took place on Monday and has sent shockwaves through the region’s education department.According to Lokayukta officials, the bribe was allegedly demanded by Khare from a subordinate engineer in connection with the con…
Bhopal/Dhar, May 16 (IANS) Following a significant judgment by the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, the Archaeological Survey of India has issued a comprehensive official order regarding the Bhojshala complex situated in the Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh. It has granted unrestricted access to the Hindu community to the Bhojshala complex to observe the ancient practices of learning and the worship of Goddess Saraswati. The order, bearing dated May 16, 2026, implements immediate ch…
Dhar (Madhya Pradesh), May 16 (IANS) Following the verdict of the Indore Bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court, the historic Bhojshala complex in Dhar witnessed its first formal day of daily Hindu worship on Saturday. The court, in its ruling delivered on Friday, May 15, officially recognised the eleventh-century structure as a temple dedicated to Goddess Vagdevi Saraswati.This decision effectively ended a decades-old arrangement and triggered an atmosphere of immense jubilation among devotees …
Bhopal/Dhar, May 15 (IANS) Congress MLA Arif Masood on Friday described the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s judgment on the Bhojshala complex as “one-sided”, contending that the court judgment relied solely on the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI)’s report and did not take into account other material facts and objections raised by the Muslim side. Masood said the court’s decision was based entirely on the ASI’s findings, which he alleged were prepared without full involvement of all petitioners d…
Dhar, May 15 (IANS) Advocate Vishnu Shankar Jain, who represented the Hindu side in the Bhojshala Temple-Kamal Maula Mosque dispute, on Friday termed the Madhya Pradesh High Court’s verdict “historic” after the Indore bench declared the disputed complex in Dhar as belonging to Raja Bhoj and granted Hindus the right to worship. Speaking to the media after the court pronounced its judgment, Jain said, “The Indore High Court has delivered a historic verdict, partially setting aside the A…
Bhopal/Dhar, May 9 (IANS) Police in Madhya Pradesh’s Dhar district have registered an FIR against around 26 Congress leaders and hundreds of party workers for allegedly blocking a National Highway during a statewide farmers’ protest organised by the Congress at Khalghat on May 7.FIR copy available with IANS stated that protesters parked tractors and other vehicles on the Khalghat four-lane stretch of the Indore-Ahmedabad National Highway, disrupting traffic for several hours and causing seve…