Indore, March 30 (IANS) The female software engineer who was killed after objecting to the use of a penthouse for commercial activities in her residential complex here was planning to sell her flat and shift elsewhere, as her family was fed up with persistent late‑night nuisance in the society, her husband has said.Shampa Pandey, who was run over by a car during an altercation at Shiv Vatika Township on March 26, had decided to move out after repeated disturbances caused by commercial activiti…
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Bhopal, March 28 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh government on Saturday conveyed that it has sent a proposal for a Geographical Indication (GI) tag for three crops, Sitahi Kutki (millets), Nagdaman Kutki, and Purple Pigeon Pea, to the Geographical Indications Registry in Chennai for examination. The necessary documents to secure a GI tag for these specialised and traditional crops, mainly cultivated in tribal regions of Madhya Pradesh, have been prepared by Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University,…
Indore, March 27 (IANS) Kuldeep Choudhary and his 18‑year‑old son Mohnish, accused of killing software engineer Shampa Panday (42), who had recently shifted with her family into a new flat at Shiv Vatika Township in Indore, were sent to two days’ police custody on Friday. Police produced them before a district court and sought custody to proceed with the investigation. A police official said they will now be taken to the crime spot for identification in the presence of residents of the …
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 …
Bhopal, March 27 (IANS) The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), Bhopal Zonal Office, has provisionally attached movable and immovable properties valued at approximately Rs 83.24 lakh under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), 2002. The action comes in connection with a disproportionate assets case against Prabhakar Shukla, Assistant Manager (Survey) at South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL), Korba, Chhattisgarh, a press release said on Friday. The investigation was initiated following an…
Chhindwara, March 27 (IANS) A day after a tragic road accident claimed the lives of 10 people, including children and women, and left over 30 others injured in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara district, Chief Minister Mohan Yadav met the injured and the families of the deceased on Friday.Chief Minister Yadav, who was in Delhi, arrived at Chhindwara airport around 3 p.m. on Friday and then reached Karer village in Mohkhed tehsil, where he met the families of those who lost their lives in the bus acc…
Jabalpur/Chhindwara, March 27 (IANS) A team of senior doctors, including surgeons from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, has arrived in Chhindwara district hospital where the treatment of people injured in a late night accident is going on. Ten people were killed and 39 were injured after a bus they were traveling in collided head-on with a pickup truck on Thursday night.Civil Surgeon at Chhindwara district hospital, Dr. Sushil Dubey told IANS on Friday tha…
Bhopal/Chhindwara, March 26 (IANS) As many as 10 people were killed on Thursday when a bus returning from Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s beneficiary programme, collided head-on with a garlic-laden pickup truck near Umranala in Chhindwara district. The accident occurred around 7 p.m. while the bus was attempting to overtake another vehicle, resulting in a severe head-on collision that caused the bus to overturn.Nearly 40 passengers were travelling in the bus at the time of the mishap…
Jabalpur, March 25 (IANS) The Lokayukta police of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday said it has arrested a woman RTO constable and one of her private male aides for allegedly taking bribes from a vehicle owner. The action came when the constable and her aide were caught red-handed while accepting Rs 4,500 bribe on the Jabalpur-Nagpur Highway under the pretext of facilitating the vehicle’s passage.A complaint regarding the demand for money was filed with the Lokayukta by Prashant Dattatray Jadh…
Bhopal, March 19 (IANS) The Enforcement Directorate’s Bhopal Zonal Office, on Thursday, filed a charge sheet against Jagdish Prasad Sarwate, former Deputy Director of Madhya Pradesh’s Adim Jati Kalyan Vibhag (Tribal Welfare Department), under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2002. The charge sheet was filed before the Special PMLA Court in Jabalpur on March 18. On being called, Sarwate appeared before the court and received a copy of the charge sheet and relied upon documents. The ED init…