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Shruti Tomar

She is a senior reporter based at Bhopal. She covers higher education, social issues, youth affairs, woman and child development related issues, sports and business & industries.

Articles by Shruti Tomar

Bhopal: First foot-over-bridge of capital goes kaput

Two years after its inauguration, the city’s first foot over-bridge (FOB) has become non-functional. The steel bridge at Jyoti Talkies Crossing in MP Nagar was constructed at a cost of Rs 2 crore in April 2013.

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Updated on Apr 27, 2015 10:03 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: Father turns detective to solve young son’s murder in Pune

A 58-year-old man, who had never watched a crime scene or entered a police station in his life, has turned an investigator to track the murderer of his 25-year-old son, killed 10 months ago in another city.

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Updated on Apr 23, 2015 06:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

After SC order, MP to restart process for recruiting 1,646 college professors

The Madhya Pradesh government will re-start the process for recruiting 1,646 assistant professors to comply with a Supreme Court order upholding the University Grants Commission’s norms making national eligibility test or state level eligibility test mandatory for aspiring teachers.

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Updated on Apr 23, 2015 03:18 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

The unbreachable sand fortresses of Madhya Pradesh

As many as 170 villages along the mighty Chambal river in Madhya Pradesh have been taken over by the flourishing sand mafia, turning the vast swathe into a veritable fortress that even police dare not breach.

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Updated on Apr 24, 2015 01:23 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByNeeraj Santoshi and Shruti Tomar, Morena /sehore/bhopal

Bhopal: Barkatullah varsity VC returns Rs 1.11L after nine months

After a lot of hue and cry over the Denmark visit of Barkatullah University vice chancellor MD Tiwari, he has deposited Rs 1.11 lakh in the university's account after nine months and written to the registrar in this regard.

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Updated on Apr 20, 2015 11:48 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal civic body to probe 'safer water for politicians, VIPs in city' issue

Days after Hindustan Times reported that Bhopal politicians and VIPS get 'safer' water than residents, Congress corporator raised the "surprising" issue at a special session of Bhopal Municipal Corporation on Thursday.

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Updated on Apr 17, 2015 03:32 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal politicians, VIPs get 'safer' water than you

If you thought the water you get is the same as what the VIPs in Bhopal do, brace yourself for a nasty surprise. While the source of the water is the same for everybody, yours definitely isn't 'treated' as good.

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Updated on Apr 14, 2015 06:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

MP: BJP MLA alleges nexus between mafia and Morena police

An MLA from the ruling party has made a startling accusation that the police overlook instances of illegal sand excavation in Morena because they are "paid protection money" by the mining mafia.

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Updated on Apr 07, 2015 04:02 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: Rs 5 lakh for vector, epidemic control not enough, says Cong

Seventy-five H1N1 flu and six dengue deaths later epidemic and vector control section continues to remain low on Bhopal Municipal Corporation's (BMC) priority list.

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Updated on Apr 03, 2015 05:41 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

MP: Sunita's last lesson to her sons — Don't chew tobacco

Sunita Tomar’s last piece of advice to her sons was exactly what she had been preaching for a major part of her short life — don’t chew tobacco. The woman from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer in a hospital in Gwalior.

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Updated on Apr 02, 2015 04:16 PM IST

Hindustan Times | BySubhash Jain and Shruti Tomar, Bhopal/bhind

Bhopal: Mayor tables Rs 2,700 crore budget for 85 wards

Bhopal mayor Alok Sharma on Tuesday presented a budget of Rs2,700 crore for the newly carved 85 wards of the city.

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Updated on Apr 01, 2015 03:26 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar

MP: Face of anti-tobacco campaign dies after battling cancer

Sunita Tomar, who shot to prominence as the face of an anti-tobacco campaign, died after a long battle with mouth cancer in a Mumbai hospital on Wednesday, just two days after expressing her shock at BJP MP Dilip Kumar Gandhi's contention that there were no Indian studies to show tobacco caused cancer and other diseases.

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Updated on Apr 01, 2015 09:05 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar and Yogendra Pratap Singh, Bhopal

MP college asks girls not to hide faces after police ‘advice’

A government college in Madhya Pradesh’s capital has barred girls from covering their faces citing security reasons, the institute’s principal said on Monday, drawing angry response from students and activists.

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Updated on Mar 30, 2015 10:40 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Another World Cup over, but MP CM’s stadium promise unfulfilled

The 2015 World Cup tournament has ended but chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is yet to deliver on his promise made after India’s 2011 victory to build an international cricket stadium in Bhopal. Madhya Pradesh has two international cricket stadiums — Holkar Cricket Stadium is located in Indore and Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior.

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Updated on Mar 30, 2015 04:54 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Ragpickers inspire Vidisha to keep town clean, paint it red

Strangely, in this neighbouring Vidisha town ragpickers inspire locals to clean and paint the walls of the area with their imagination to dissuade them from throwing garbage on roads.

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Updated on Mar 29, 2015 03:25 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: Acid attacks find a head in crime record bureaus

For the first time, the state and the national crime record bureaus have recorded acid attack cases under a separate head, which will help analyse and preempt future cases, experts say.

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Updated on Mar 25, 2015 04:38 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Hint of saffron in Bhopal locality names

Three years after the BJP government of Madhya Pradesh rolled back a move to rename the state capital Bhopal as Bhojpal, the local civic body has framed a proposal to name 19 newly created zones primarily after Sangh Parivar figures and leaders without any close association to the city.

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Updated on Mar 18, 2015 07:53 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

GIS: Scrutiny brings down investment by Rs 1 lakh crore

In just four months, investment proposals received at the much-hyped Global Investors Summit (GIS) in Indore have come down by Rs 1 lakh crore.

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Updated on Mar 16, 2015 04:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

BHEL Bhopal expects rise in profits with new coal block policy

Coal block scam has not only affected the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) Bhopal unit in the last two years, its profit margin has also reduced substantially.

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Updated on Mar 12, 2015 05:37 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Women's Day: Bhopal's bravehearts take up the fight to emerge saviours

At a time of renewed focus on violence against the fairer sex, several women of Bhopal have shown over the past year that they are more than capable of taking on criminals by foiling robberies and even saving the lives of their relatives.

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Updated on Mar 08, 2015 05:27 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

MP: Fix accountability for PEB scam, demand RSS volunteers

Amid charges and counter-charges between Congress and BJP over PEB scam, a group of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionaries along with students and parents, are demanding greater transparency in organising competitive examinations for admission into prestigious courses and recruitment in various government jobs.

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Updated on Mar 04, 2015 05:06 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bees, the latest bugbear in MP: Two killed in attack

A swarm of honeybees chased a BJP parliamentarian and his men away when they were spearheading the Swaccha Bharat mission at Damoh. There have been six incidents of honeybee attacks in different parts of the state in which 70 people were reported hurt.

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Updated on Mar 03, 2015 05:43 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: Begging, backbone of most families, say kids

Six-year-old Suresh wakes up in the morning not with the thought of going to school, playing with toys or wearing new clothes but to somehow earn more than Rs 50 as alms during the day.Suresh says all he aims is to contribute as much as he can to his family’s income.

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Updated on Feb 22, 2015 11:09 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

MP: ‘Poaching’ blot fades state’s gold shine in National Games

Madhya Pradesh with a total medal tally of 91 medals in National Games appeared impressive. But unfortunately it’s due to "poaching" of talent from other states by offering them hefty cash reward. Out of total medals, 24 medals were won by players of other states.

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Updated on Feb 17, 2015 11:55 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

MP athlete Ankit becomes world No 1 in long jump

After his record leap of 8.04m in the recently concluded National Games, Madhya Pradesh's Ankit Sharma became the world number one long jumper in senior outdoor category, the International Association of Athletics Federation declared.

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Updated on Feb 16, 2015 10:13 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Special girl too singed at Bhopal shelter home for bed wetting

The caretaker of the NGO-run girls’ shelter home also singed the private parts of a special child along with three other inmates for bedwetting. She happens to be the fourth victim of the caretaker, as the medical report has already confirmed the brutal act with three other girls.

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Updated on Feb 15, 2015 09:49 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: 10-yr-old girl sent to observation home for burning minor girls, caretaker gets bail

A 10-year-old girl, who had allegedly singed the private parts of shelter home inmates to prevent them from bed-wetting at the caretaker's behest, sent to the girls' observation home. The caretaker has been given bail.

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Updated on Feb 13, 2015 08:50 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: RSS holds camp for college students, talks about 'achievements' of Indians

Indians invented aeroplane and Pythagoras Theorem. These were among the messages purportedly spread by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its closed door camp for college students in Bhopal.

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Updated on Feb 02, 2015 06:56 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: Congress develops software to assist voters

Supporters of Congress nominee of ward no 30 Seema Praveen Saxena used a special software to distribute voter slips. This is apparently the first time when such a technology has been used to confirm the polling booths of voters and provide them voting slips from the tables.

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Updated on Feb 01, 2015 06:04 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

Bhopal: New software at Barkatullah University soon to check thesis plagiarism

Bhopal-based Barkatullah University will soon become the first university in MP to have a mechanism in place to stop plagiarism. The university has decided to purchase a software that will help detect plagiarism.

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Updated on Jan 29, 2015 05:39 PM IST

Hindustan Times | ByShruti Tomar, Bhopal

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Shruti Tomar

She is a senior reporter based at Bhopal. She covers higher education, social issues, youth affairs, woman and child development related issues, sports and business & industries.

Two years after its inauguration, the city’s first foot over-bridge (FOB) has become non-functional. The steel bridge at Jyoti Talkies Crossing in MP Nagar was constructed at a cost of Rs 2 crore in April 2013.

A 58-year-old man, who had never watched a crime scene or entered a police station in his life, has turned an investigator to track the murderer of his 25-year-old son, killed 10 months ago in another city.

The Madhya Pradesh government will re-start the process for recruiting 1,646 assistant professors to comply with a Supreme Court order upholding the University Grants Commission’s norms making national eligibility test or state level eligibility test mandatory for aspiring teachers.

As many as 170 villages along the mighty Chambal river in Madhya Pradesh have been taken over by the flourishing sand mafia, turning the vast swathe into a veritable fortress that even police dare not breach.

After a lot of hue and cry over the Denmark visit of Barkatullah University vice chancellor MD Tiwari, he has deposited Rs 1.11 lakh in the university's account after nine months and written to the registrar in this regard.

Days after Hindustan Times reported that Bhopal politicians and VIPS get 'safer' water than residents, Congress corporator raised the "surprising" issue at a special session of Bhopal Municipal Corporation on Thursday.

If you thought the water you get is the same as what the VIPs in Bhopal do, brace yourself for a nasty surprise. While the source of the water is the same for everybody, yours definitely isn't 'treated' as good.

An MLA from the ruling party has made a startling accusation that the police overlook instances of illegal sand excavation in Morena because they are "paid protection money" by the mining mafia.

Seventy-five H1N1 flu and six dengue deaths later epidemic and vector control section continues to remain low on Bhopal Municipal Corporation's (BMC) priority list.

Sunita Tomar’s last piece of advice to her sons was exactly what she had been preaching for a major part of her short life — don’t chew tobacco. The woman from Madhya Pradesh’s Bhind died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer in a hospital in Gwalior.

Bhopal mayor Alok Sharma on Tuesday presented a budget of Rs2,700 crore for the newly carved 85 wards of the city.

A government college in Madhya Pradesh’s capital has barred girls from covering their faces citing security reasons, the institute’s principal said on Monday, drawing angry response from students and activists.

Strangely, in this neighbouring Vidisha town ragpickers inspire locals to clean and paint the walls of the area with their imagination to dissuade them from throwing garbage on roads.

For the first time, the state and the national crime record bureaus have recorded acid attack cases under a separate head, which will help analyse and preempt future cases, experts say.

Three years after the BJP government of Madhya Pradesh rolled back a move to rename the state capital Bhopal as Bhojpal, the local civic body has framed a proposal to name 19 newly created zones primarily after Sangh Parivar figures and leaders without any close association to the city.

In just four months, investment proposals received at the much-hyped Global Investors Summit (GIS) in Indore have come down by Rs 1 lakh crore.

Coal block scam has not only affected the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) Bhopal unit in the last two years, its profit margin has also reduced substantially.

At a time of renewed focus on violence against the fairer sex, several women of Bhopal have shown over the past year that they are more than capable of taking on criminals by foiling robberies and even saving the lives of their relatives.

A swarm of honeybees chased a BJP parliamentarian and his men away when they were spearheading the Swaccha Bharat mission at Damoh. There have been six incidents of honeybee attacks in different parts of the state in which 70 people were reported hurt.

Six-year-old Suresh wakes up in the morning not with the thought of going to school, playing with toys or wearing new clothes but to somehow earn more than Rs 50 as alms during the day.Suresh says all he aims is to contribute as much as he can to his family’s income.

Madhya Pradesh with a total medal tally of 91 medals in National Games appeared impressive. But unfortunately it’s due to "poaching" of talent from other states by offering them hefty cash reward. Out of total medals, 24 medals were won by players of other states.

After his record leap of 8.04m in the recently concluded National Games, Madhya Pradesh's Ankit Sharma became the world number one long jumper in senior outdoor category, the International Association of Athletics Federation declared.

The caretaker of the NGO-run girls’ shelter home also singed the private parts of a special child along with three other inmates for bedwetting. She happens to be the fourth victim of the caretaker, as the medical report has already confirmed the brutal act with three other girls.

A 10-year-old girl, who had allegedly singed the private parts of shelter home inmates to prevent them from bed-wetting at the caretaker's behest, sent to the girls' observation home. The caretaker has been given bail.

Indians invented aeroplane and Pythagoras Theorem. These were among the messages purportedly spread by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) in its closed door camp for college students in Bhopal.

Supporters of Congress nominee of ward no 30 Seema Praveen Saxena used a special software to distribute voter slips. This is apparently the first time when such a technology has been used to confirm the polling booths of voters and provide them voting slips from the tables.

Bhopal-based Barkatullah University will soon become the first university in MP to have a mechanism in place to stop plagiarism. The university has decided to purchase a software that will help detect plagiarism.

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A 10-year-old girl, who had allegedly singed the private parts of shelter home inmates to prevent them from bed-wetting at the caretaker's behest, sent to the girls' observation home. The caretaker has been given bail.