Category: Madhya Pradesh
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Winter Session of M.P. Assembly begins with protests over cough syrup tragedy, short duration of session
The four-day-long session began with members paying their condolences to various people, including film actor and former Lok Sabha MP Dharmendra, former Union Minister Shriprakash Jaiswal, and the victims of the explosion near Delhi’s Red Fort
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Plea in Indore court seeks FIR against IAS Santosh Verma over controversial remarks
Shailendra Dwivedi, an Indore-based lawyer, filed a plea before the Judicial Magistrate First Class seeking directions for the police to register an FIR against IAS Santosh Verma while alleging that his statement was “vulgar, obscene and cheap”
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Trouble in ‘soy State’: Madhya Pradesh soybean farmers lose interest over multiple factors
Madhya Pradesh is India’s largest soybean producer, but young farmers are losing interest in farming, facing key issues such as improper implementation of minimum support price, seed quality, input cost and the possibility of the import of soybean and soybean meal from the United States. A.M. Jigeesh reports on a brewing crisis
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Supreme Court asks Madhya Pradesh government to pay ₹25 lakh to convict for over 4 years in jail beyond term
Sohan Singh Yadav was only released from Sagar Central Jail on June 6 this year, after advocate Mahfooz A. Nazki wrote to the prison authorities and the M.P. State Legal Services Authority flagging the matter
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Stone pelting near Ujjain over ‘love-jihad’ tableau in Ganpati procession
Police said that the situation was peaceful but adequate force has been deployed as a preventive measure
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Asia’s oldest elephant ‘Vatsala’ dies at Panna Tiger Reserve; MP CM pays tributes
For years, Vatsala was centre of attraction for tourists and being the oldest, she led the entire group of elephants in the reserve
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Madhya Pradesh High Court notice to State govt. over recently notified promotion rules
The provisions under the new rules include 20% reservation for the ST and 16% for the SC communities, while the employees from the two communities will also be eligible for promotions based on merit.
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CBI arrests two from Kolkata for ₹183 crore fake bank guarantee fraud in M.P.
‘The arrests exposed an inter-state gang involved in helping companies obtain fake bank guarantees to secure government projects in various States,’ the CBI said.
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M.P. turning into ‘rape capital’: Congress asks PM Modi to get State a ‘full time’ Home Minister before May 31 visit
Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Vikrant Bhuria, Adivasi Congress president, termed the incident as “Adivasi Nirbhaya case”, linking it with the infamous Nirbhaya case in 2012 in the national capital
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Vijay Shah remark row: Congress protests outside Raj Bhavan demanding dismissal of M.P. Minister
The Congress questions BJP’s ‘inaction’ against its Minister Vijay Shah and also State Deputy CM Jagdish Devda for his ‘Forces bowing down to Modi’ remarks