Ratlam, July 13 (IANS) A pediatrician and his 80-year-old father-in-law were killed and five other family members were injured in a road accident on the Ratlam-Indore four-lane highway in the early hours of Sunday, police said on Monday. Dr. Manish Singh, a pediatrician at the Government Children’s Hospital in Ratlam, died on the spot, while Shivnarayan Rajauria, 80, succumbed to injuries during treatment at the government Medical College Hospital on Monday morning.The accident occurred around…
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Jaipur, July 8 (IANS) Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari, Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, and Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma will inspect the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Wednesday to assess the progress of construction work and the condition of the roadway. The inspection will cover the stretch from the Laban Interchange to the Dara Tunnel. Gadkari will travel by road from Delhi to Kota, inspecting the expressway en route.CM Bhajanlal Sharma will arrive at the Lab…
Ratlam, July 6 (IANS) Retired Senior Loco Pilot Rajendra Rao Jadhav, who was driving the Sabarmati Express during the 2002 Godhra train burning incident and later became the complainant in the case, passed away in Ratlam on Sunday (July 5) after a prolonged illness, railway officials confirmed. He was 67. Officials of the Ratlam Railway Division confirmed Jadhav’s death and said he had retired from service in 2018 after a long career with the Indian Railways. He had been undergoing treatment for…
Bhopal, July 5 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh has become the first state in the country to reconstitute its Waqf Board under the new provisions of the Waqf Act. Chief Minister Mohan Yadav took the initiative, and a formal notification has been issued in the Madhya Pradesh Gazette.The state government, exercising powers under Section 13(1) of the Waqf Act, 1995 (as amended in 2025), has formed the new Waqf Board in accordance with Section 14 of the Act. Sanwar Patel has been appointed as the Chairman of t…
Ahmedabad, July 2 (IANS) A senior officer of the Ahmedabad Crime Branch was injured and a history-sheeter was shot in the leg after the suspect allegedly attacked police with a kitchen knife during questioning following the recovery of illegal firearms in the Chandola area of the city on Thursday. According to the police, Crime Branch officers, acting on specific intelligence, raided a hut near Chandola Lake after receiving information that Mohammad Kalim alias Kalim Bhai Akbarkhan Pathan, 34, h…
Ratlam, June 26 (IANS) Three people were killed and at least seven others injured after a Tazia came into contact with a high-tension power line during a Muharram procession in Madhya Pradesh’s Ratlam district, police said on Friday. The incident occurred in Hatnara village under the Piploda police station area when the Tazia was being carried through the village as part of the Muharram procession on Thursday night.Around 200 people were participating in the procession when the structure reporte…
Bhopal, June 5 (IANS) The Meteorological Centre in Bhopal has issued a warning of thunderstorms, lightning, hailstorms and gusty winds reaching speeds of 50-60 kmph across Madhya Pradesh over the next five days, as several parts of the state recorded widespread rainfall.According to the weather office, Bardanagar received 58 mm of rainfall, Sailana 50 mm and Kolar 40 mm, among other places.Strong winds were recorded in Sehore at 91 kmph, Bhopal at 59 kmph and the Guna-Ashoknagar region at 50 kmp…