Bhopal, April 1 (IANS) Veteran Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and newly appointed Chairman of the Madhya Pradesh State Finance Commission, Jaibhan Singh Pawaiya, on Wednesday, was accorded the status of a Minister in the current BJP-led state government. According to an order issued by the General Administration Department (GAD), for the purposes of protocol, 70-year-old Pawaiya will be entitled to a salary, allowances, and other facilities equivalent to those of a state Minister.Pawaiya, a…
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Bhopal, March 30 (IANS) The Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh is planning to intensify its attack on the ruling BJP on farmers’ issues, including delay in procurement of wheat at the Minimum Support Price (MSP) for the Rabi Marketing Year 2026-27.For this purpose, state Congress President, Jitu Pawari, held a meeting with Shiv Kumar Sharma, a key figure in national agrarian movements and ex-member of the Samyukt Kisan Morcha (SKM), who is popularly known as ‘kakka ji’ in Bhopal, and he…
Gwalior, March 28 (IANS) WWF India, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC), on Saturday organised awareness and outreach activities in Gwalior to mark 20 years of Earth Hour, with a nationwide call to “Give an Hour for Earth”. The activities were conducted under WWF-India’s Environmental Information, Awareness, Capacity Building and Livelihood Programme (EIACP) as part of the nationwide observance of Earth Hour.The programme was held in …
New Delhi/Gwalior, March 28 (IANS) Adani Defence & Aerospace, a leading player in India’s aerospace and defence, has delivered 2,000 indigenously manufactured ‘Prahar’ Light Machine Guns (LMGs) 7.62 mm to the Indian Army, marking a significant milestone in India’s small arms manufacturing capability, it was announced on Saturday.Looking ahead, the Gwalior facility is also geared to manufacture close quarter battle (CQB) weapons for the Indian Armed Forces, further expanding India’s ind…
Bhopal, March 27 (IANS) The Bhopal centre of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has forecast isolated rainfall accompanied by thunderstorms and lightning in several districts in Madhya Pradesh, including Gwalior, Datia, Bhind, Morena, Singrauli, Sidhi, Rewa, Satna, Shahdol, Umaria, Dindori, Katni, Jabalpur, Panna, Chhatarpur, Tikamgarh, and Niwari. Gusty winds of 30–40 km/h are also expected in these areas. The rest of the state is likely to remain dry.The IMD Bhopal centre authorities …
Gwalior, March 27 (IANS) Five members of a single family lost their lives and five people, including an autorickshaw driver were critically injured when a speeding Mahindra Scorpio rammed into their overloaded three-wheeler in Gwalior’s Thatipur area early on Friday morning.The collision occurred around 3 AM near the Jain temple ahead of the Parshuram intersection. The family of nine had been returning home after offering prayers at the Sheetla Mata temple near the bus stand when the SUV struc…
Bhopal/Gwalior, March 26 (IANS) Three persons have been arrested by the Behat Police in Gwalior for allegedly firing at a moving car, leaving a 60-year-old woman critically injured. The police claimed to have cracked the case within 48 hours of the incident.According to Superintendent of Police Gwalior, Dharmveer Singh, the accused chased a “Scorpio car” in a “Creta” vehicle and opened fire on it after an argument over passage on the road. A .315 bore gun, live and spent cartridge…
Raipur, March 19 (IANS) The tech-enabled drones, considered an urbane phenomenon is silently scripting a revolutionary change in the country’s wide agrarian stretches. And, leading this change are ‘Namo drone didis’, who have brought transformative change in farming methods, and also generating significant employment in the process. In Chhattisgarh’s Khairagarh, ‘drone didi’ Savitri Sahu is earning handsome amount of money and generating jobs for locals while deploying advanced agricultural tech…
Bhopal, March 17 (IANS) Wheat procurement at minimum support price (MSP) for the Rabi Marketing Year 2026-27 in Madhya Pradesh was set to begin a day before, however, it has been rescheduled and now the procurement process will start from April 1. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led state government in Tuesday told that the wheat procurement will begin in Indore, Ujjain, Bhopal and Narmadapuram divisions from April 1 and in the divisions of Jabalpur, Gwalior, Rewa, Shahdol, Chambal and Sagar, t…
Gwalior, March 13 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav, on Friday, transferred Rs 1,836 crore into the bank accounts of more than 1.25 crore women, the beneficiaries of the Ladli Behna Yojana. The Chief Minister transferred the amount through a single click during a ceremonial event — ‘Ladli Behna Sammelan’ organised at the Shabari Mata Temple in Gwalior. Union Communications Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, who is a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha MP from Guna constituency, al…