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Salman Khan to promote tourism, heritage in MP

Film star Salman Khan has promised that he will help Madhya Pradesh in the field of tourism and heritage, announced chief minister Kamal Nath on Thursday.

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Published on Mar 07, 2019 10:16 PM IST

ByPunya Priya Mitra

Panna: A success story of tiger relocation that started a decade ago

Panna National Park was the second tiger reserve in India after Sariska to loose all its native tigers. Though tigers were repopulated in Sarsika before Panna, the latter has three times the number of the tigers in the former.

Panna National Park has three times the number of the tigers in Sarsika.(HT File Photo)

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Published on Mar 03, 2019 11:42 AM IST

Hindustan times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Tigers kill their own in Kanha, Sariska reserves, experts say it’s ‘rare’

On Thursday, forest officials confirmed that a male tiger in Kanha national park killed two sub-adults and a tigress in the past month and had also eaten some parts of their bodies.

A tiger in Madhya Pradesh’s Kanha has reportedly cannabalised three other big cats in what wildlife experts describe as “rare” but not “unheard of” instance of cannibalism among the biggest of the big cats.(PTI)

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Updated on Mar 01, 2019 06:38 AM IST

Hindustan Times | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Devendra Bhardwaj

MPSBB notice to 500 companies under bio-diversity act

Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board (MPSBB) appears to have got its act together and has given notices to over 500 manufacturing companies who are using forest based bio-resources of the state.

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Updated on Aug 19, 2019 01:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Top cop keeps father’s body for a month, says being treated by ayurvedic doc

Madhya Pradesh Police said that they were not sure how to respond to the situation as there was no complaint.

The official residence of Additional Director General of Police of Madhya Pradesh Rajendra Kumar Mishra in Bhopal.(HT PHOTO)

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Updated on Feb 14, 2019 07:22 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar

Two booked under National Security Act for ‘illegal transportation of cattle’ in Madhya Pradesh

The development came two days after NSA was invoked against three people, including two brothers in Khandwa district — 271km south of Bhopal, accused of cow slaughter.

Police said the accused, both in their 20s, have previous cases of illegal cattle transportation registered against them.(AFP/Picture for representation)

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Updated on Feb 08, 2019 09:27 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Agarmalwa/Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) | ByPramod Carpenter and Punya Priya Mitra

‘Ram Bhakt’ Rahul Gandhi to address farmers’ rally in Bhopal today

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who will kick off his party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh with a farmers’ rally in Bhopal on Friday, is being shown as a Ram Bhakt, who will build the Ram temple in Ayodhya, and the future prime minister in posters put up to welcome him.

This will be Rahul Gandhi’s first visit to the state after the Congress formed the government in Madhya Pradesh in December last year after a gap of 15 years.(Raj K Raj/HT Photo)

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Updated on Feb 08, 2019 08:18 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Doctor has affair with driver’s wife, hacks him, dissolves pieces in acid

The accused Dr Sunil Mantri (58), who lives in Anand Nagar, an upscale locality in Hoshangabad, has confessed to killing his servant, Birendra alias Biru Pachauri (30), police said.

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Updated on Feb 05, 2019 09:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Rishi Kumar Shukla’s journey from MP top cop to CBI chief

A 1983-batch IPS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Shukla was on leave for six weeks from October 15 -- Assembly elections were held in the state at that time -- because of a bypass surgery. He resumed charge as DGP on December 4 under the new Congress government headed by Kamal Nath.

An undated photo of the former DGP of Madhya Pradesh Rishi Kumar Shukla who was on Saturday, Feb 2, 2019, appointed as new CBI Director.(PTI)

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Updated on Feb 03, 2019 08:49 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar

MP forest dept take drone route to take on mining mafia, encroachers

In a first, the Madhya Pradesh forest department will deploy drones to take on the mining mafia, illegal loggers and encroachers of forest land

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Published on Jan 29, 2019 07:37 PM IST

Bhopal, Hindustan Times | ByPunya Priya Mitra

RSS worker who faked his own death is now a murder suspect, say cops

A desire to claim ₹20 lakh life insurance that RSS activist Himmat Patidar had taken out in his own name in December 2017 appears to be main motive behind the murder, police said.

Police in Madhya Pradesh say that the body of murdered RSS worker has turned out to be that of his alleged murder and the murder was committed for insurance fraud (Representative Photo)(AFP)

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Updated on Jan 28, 2019 07:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Two-year-old falls into 70-foot-deep borewell in MP, rescued

A two-year-old boy who fell into a 70-foot-deep borewell in Kerhar village of Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district has been rescued, district collector Anurag Chaudhary said on Sunday.

Officials said the incident took place at around 8am on Sunday when the boy, Tej Pratap Singh, was playing near the borewell. The village is located some 675 km east of Bhopal, bordering Uttar Pradesh.(ANI/Twitter)

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Published on Jan 27, 2019 02:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

RSS worker murdered in Madhya Pradesh

An RSS worker of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh was on Wednesday found brutally murdered near his field, spreading anger among BJP workers and members of other saffron organizations

Police line tape. Crime scene investigation. Forensic science.(Getty Images)

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Published on Jan 23, 2019 10:42 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Merit not seniority to decide public prosecutor’s assignments

Merit and not seniority will decide the court in which public prosecutors will appear in Madhya Pradesh, signaling a major shift in the way in which public prosecution is carried out in the state

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Updated on Aug 16, 2019 05:54 PM IST

Bhopal, Hindustan Times | ByPunya Priya Mitra

BJP worker arrested for murder of Mandsaur civic body chairman

Madhya Pradesh police arrested a ‘BJP worker’ for the murder of Mandsaur municipality chairman Prahalad Bandhwar, 54, who was shot dead Thursday. Besides Manish Bairagi, a declared history-sheeter, police arrested the person who had supplied the pistol.

Accused Manish Bairagi had walked up to Prahlad Bhandhwar (pictured), touched his feet, and chanted ‘Jai Siya Ram’ before opening fire on him — he shot him once in the stomach and twice on his head, police said.(ANI/Twitter)

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Published on Jan 19, 2019 11:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Mandsaur | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Rohit Soni

Vyapam Scam: CBI finds no evidence against former BJP minister, 7 others

The transport constable recruitment exam was one of the most significant cases related to the multilayered Vyapam scam because most of the accused are from Maharashtra’s Gondia, the native place of former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s wife, Sadhana Singh.

Madhya Pradesh’s scam-hit Vyapam has now been renamed Professional Examination Board. (File photo)(HT Photo)

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Published on Jan 19, 2019 10:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByShruti Tomar and Punya Priya Mitra

Municipality chairman of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh gunned down

Mandsaur municipality chairman and BJP leader Prahalad Bandhwar (54) was shot dead by lone motorcycle borne sharpshooter near the busy BPL crossing on Thursday evening.

Police said Prahlad Bandhwar was standing outside the district cooperative bank when the assailant, who was riding an Enfield Bullet motorcycle came up and shot him on the head. Bandhwar collapsed and died on the spot.(ANI/Twitter)

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Published on Jan 17, 2019 11:59 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal\Mandsaur | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Rohit Soni

Vulture count rises by 12 per cent in MP

Additional principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) Alok Kumar said, “It is great news that the count has increased in most of the area, showing that vulture habitat is safe in Madhya Pradesh that accounts for the highest number of vultures in the country

Vulture at Panna national park HT photo...

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Updated on Aug 21, 2019 02:19 PM IST

Punya Priya Mitra, Bhopal, Hindustan Times | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Five held for killing MP Cong worker, plot inspired from Drishyam movie

The killers were inspired by the Hindi film Drishyam, in which the police are misled by a killer who plants a dog’s body in a place where the police expect to find human remains, the police said.

With the arrest of a local Bharatiya Janata Party functionary, his three sons and a fifth person in Indore, the police claim to have solved the murder of a 22-year-old woman Congress worker who has been missing for the past two years .

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Updated on Jan 13, 2019 04:13 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

MP bureaucrat takes to social media after rebuke by senior, seeks transfer

“17 years of government service, transfer in 10 districts and 19 shiftings, I was always made to feel untouchable, like a German Jew. Khan surname hounded me like a ghost.” Niyaz Ahmed tweeted.

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Published on Jan 10, 2019 10:01 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Din likely over deputy speaker polls in Madhya Pradesh assembly

For the post of deputy speaker, the ruling party has fielded Hina Kawre, MLA from Lanji, Balaghat district, and BJP has nominated Jagdish Devra, MLA from Malhargarh, Mandsaur district.

Bhopal, India - January 8, 2019: Congress MLA NP Prajapati is welcomed after his election as the speaker of the house, at Madhya Pradesh State Assembly, in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, on Tuesday, January 8, 2019. (Photo by Mujeeb Faruqui / Hindustan Times)(Mujeeb Faruqui/HT Photo)

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Updated on Jan 10, 2019 11:57 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Madhya Pradesh’s Lokayukta seeks fresh nod for 245 pending cases’ trial

A retired high court or Supreme Court judge heads Madhya Pradesh’s Lokayukta, which has its own police wing to deal with corruption cases involving public servants. The officials said that prosecution sanction is awaited against 92 class I and class II officers, including an Indian Administrative Service officer, and 199 class III and IV officials.

Madhya Pradesh’s Lokayukta has sought fresh sanctions from the state’s new Congress government to prosecute 281 people in 245 cases.(Getty Images/Picture for representation)

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Updated on Dec 28, 2018 08:08 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

‘Couldn’t meet SRK, will return’: Pak national sent back after 19-month jail

The two were handed over to Pakistan Rangers by the officials of the Border Security Force at 2:20 pm at Wagah border. Warsi went back after a 10-year jail term in Bhopal and Shah was in jail for 19 months in Amritsar.

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Updated on Dec 26, 2018 06:34 PM IST

Amritsar/Bhopal | ByAnil Sharma and Punya Priya Mitra

CM Kamal Nath to induct 20 ministers in Madhya Pradesh cabinet today

The names of the ministers have been finalised keeping in view regional and caste equations as well as national polls due next year, Congress leaders said.

Congress leader Kamal Nath would induct 20 ministers into his cabinet over a week after he took over as the Madhya Pradesh chief minister.(PTI)

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Updated on Dec 25, 2018 12:01 AM IST

ByPunya Priya Mitra

Test for Congress as urea crisis looms in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan

Farmers in Raisen and Guna districts in Madhya Pradesh staged protests and blocked roads after the cooperative societies ran out of the urea on Thursday.

A farmer casts urea on her mustard field.(REUTERS)

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Published on Dec 22, 2018 09:54 AM IST

Hindustan times | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Aabshar H Quazi

Hard disks seized in Madhya Pradesh e-tendering row, clerk test on radar

A day after Kamal Nath took over as Madhya Pradesh chief minister, the police informed the state government on Tuesday that the Centre’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has seized 11 hard disks related to the e-tendering scam.

The e-tendering scam was an election issue for the Congress.(PTI)

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Updated on Dec 19, 2018 07:42 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: Congress strikes note of caution with meet on poll counting

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: A crucial meeting of Congress candidates who contested the recently-concluded polls will be held on Thursday where the party will give its nominees tips to ensure that they are not short-changed on counting day.

Congress leaders said that polling agents have been asked not to proceed with counting of the next round of voting until the election observer signs the tabulation sheet of the earlier round.(AP/File Photo)

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Updated on Dec 06, 2018 05:00 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: Congress cries foul as Shivraj Chouhan calls for cabinet meet

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: The cabinet meeting is to be held at 10.30 am on Wednesday at Vallabh Bhavan. Congress has termed the meeting ‘unwarranted’ and ‘without precedence’ and complained to state chief election officer V Kantharao.

The Congress is up in arms against the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government’s decision to hold a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, before the results are declared on December 11 for the November 28 Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.(PTI/File Photo)

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Updated on Dec 05, 2018 07:21 AM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar

74.61% voter turnout in Madhya Pradesh, Congress complains of faulty EVMs

74.61% turnout recorded, higher than that in 2013; Cong complains of faulty EVMs, demands re-polling.

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Updated on Nov 28, 2018 11:57 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Bhopal | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar, Bhopal

Rahul Gandhi defending those who abused my parents: PM Narendra Modi

Speaking at a public meeting in Vidisha, Modi said, “Two days ago they dragged my mother’s name during a rally and today I read in social media that they had dragged my father’s name who died 30 years ago and had nothing to do with politics, and ‘Namdaar’ (Gandhi) is defending them.

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Updated on Nov 25, 2018 11:55 PM IST

Hindustan Times, Vidisha/Alwar | ByPunya Priya Mitra and Rakesh Goswami

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He is the bureau-in-charge in Indore looking after administration and crime

Film star Salman Khan has promised that he will help Madhya Pradesh in the field of tourism and heritage, announced chief minister Kamal Nath on Thursday.

Panna National Park was the second tiger reserve in India after Sariska to loose all its native tigers. Though tigers were repopulated in Sarsika before Panna, the latter has three times the number of the tigers in the former.

On Thursday, forest officials confirmed that a male tiger in Kanha national park killed two sub-adults and a tigress in the past month and had also eaten some parts of their bodies.

Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board (MPSBB) appears to have got its act together and has given notices to over 500 manufacturing companies who are using forest based bio-resources of the state.

Madhya Pradesh Police said that they were not sure how to respond to the situation as there was no complaint.

The development came two days after NSA was invoked against three people, including two brothers in Khandwa district — 271km south of Bhopal, accused of cow slaughter.

The accused Dr Sunil Mantri (58), who lives in Anand Nagar, an upscale locality in Hoshangabad, has confessed to killing his servant, Birendra alias Biru Pachauri (30), police said.

A 1983-batch IPS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Shukla was on leave for six weeks from October 15 -- Assembly elections were held in the state at that time -- because of a bypass surgery. He resumed charge as DGP on December 4 under the new Congress government headed by Kamal Nath.

In a first, the Madhya Pradesh forest department will deploy drones to take on the mining mafia, illegal loggers and encroachers of forest land

A desire to claim ₹20 lakh life insurance that RSS activist Himmat Patidar had taken out in his own name in December 2017 appears to be main motive behind the murder, police said.

A two-year-old boy who fell into a 70-foot-deep borewell in Kerhar village of Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district has been rescued, district collector Anurag Chaudhary said on Sunday.

An RSS worker of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh was on Wednesday found brutally murdered near his field, spreading anger among BJP workers and members of other saffron organizations

Merit and not seniority will decide the court in which public prosecutors will appear in Madhya Pradesh, signaling a major shift in the way in which public prosecution is carried out in the state

Madhya Pradesh police arrested a ‘BJP worker’ for the murder of Mandsaur municipality chairman Prahalad Bandhwar, 54, who was shot dead Thursday. Besides Manish Bairagi, a declared history-sheeter, police arrested the person who had supplied the pistol.

The transport constable recruitment exam was one of the most significant cases related to the multilayered Vyapam scam because most of the accused are from Maharashtra’s Gondia, the native place of former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s wife, Sadhana Singh.

Mandsaur municipality chairman and BJP leader Prahalad Bandhwar (54) was shot dead by lone motorcycle borne sharpshooter near the busy BPL crossing on Thursday evening.

Additional principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) Alok Kumar said, “It is great news that the count has increased in most of the area, showing that vulture habitat is safe in Madhya Pradesh that accounts for the highest number of vultures in the country

The killers were inspired by the Hindi film Drishyam, in which the police are misled by a killer who plants a dog’s body in a place where the police expect to find human remains, the police said.

“17 years of government service, transfer in 10 districts and 19 shiftings, I was always made to feel untouchable, like a German Jew. Khan surname hounded me like a ghost.” Niyaz Ahmed tweeted.

For the post of deputy speaker, the ruling party has fielded Hina Kawre, MLA from Lanji, Balaghat district, and BJP has nominated Jagdish Devra, MLA from Malhargarh, Mandsaur district.

The two were handed over to Pakistan Rangers by the officials of the Border Security Force at 2:20 pm at Wagah border. Warsi went back after a 10-year jail term in Bhopal and Shah was in jail for 19 months in Amritsar.

The names of the ministers have been finalised keeping in view regional and caste equations as well as national polls due next year, Congress leaders said.

Farmers in Raisen and Guna districts in Madhya Pradesh staged protests and blocked roads after the cooperative societies ran out of the urea on Thursday.

A day after Kamal Nath took over as Madhya Pradesh chief minister, the police informed the state government on Tuesday that the Centre’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has seized 11 hard disks related to the e-tendering scam.

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: A crucial meeting of Congress candidates who contested the recently-concluded polls will be held on Thursday where the party will give its nominees tips to ensure that they are not short-changed on counting day.

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: The cabinet meeting is to be held at 10.30 am on Wednesday at Vallabh Bhavan. Congress has termed the meeting ‘unwarranted’ and ‘without precedence’ and complained to state chief election officer V Kantharao.

74.61% turnout recorded, higher than that in 2013; Cong complains of faulty EVMs, demands re-polling.

Speaking at a public meeting in Vidisha, Modi said, “Two days ago they dragged my mother’s name during a rally and today I read in social media that they had dragged my father’s name who died 30 years ago and had nothing to do with politics, and ‘Namdaar’ (Gandhi) is defending them.

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