Madhya Pradesh News

Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Institute of Post-Harvest Engineering & Technology (CIPHET) will organise an industry interface fair on agro-processing and a kisan mela on October 3 to celebrate its 34th Foundation Day and showcase latest technology to attendees including industrialists, entrepreneurs, farmers and students. Director of ICAR-CIPHET, Nachiket Kotwaliwale, addressed a press conference on … Read more

One child was killed after a school bus carrying forty kids met with an accident in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar on Tuesday. The other children are safe, district official Deepak Arya told news agency ANI. Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said he mourned the child’s death and tweeted condolences. He said the injured would receive the … Read more

A school teacher in Madhya Pradesh was suspended after he allegedly asked a 10-year-old girl to take off her dirty clothes in front of other students. The incident came to light after pictures of the class 5 student surfaced on social media – in which she was seen in her undergarments, while the accused teacher … Read more

Madhya Pradesh panchayat minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia on Thursday ordered a probe after photographs showing schoolgirls cleaning toilets at a government school in Guna district triggered an uproar. With a broom in their hands, students of Chakdevpur village’s primary secondary school can be seen cleaning toilets and washing the floor by fetching water from a … Read more

BHOPAL: An independent inquiry will be held to probe allegations that a group of Muslim men detained in Madhya Pradesh’s Rajgarh district were forced to shave their beards by the prison officials, Madhya Pradesh home minister Narottam Mishra said on Tuesday. Congress MLA from Bhopal Arif Masood sought action against the jailor following allegations that … Read more

A man in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore runs a museum with over 400 types of typewriters which he claims has links to countries around the world. Rajesh Sharma, who started the ‘typewriter museum’ ten years ago, has managed to exhibit nearly 450 typewriters from America, England, Germany, France, among other countries, dating back to the 1890s. … Read more

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday condemned the rape of a child on a private school bus in Bhopal, calling it a ‘faith-shaking’ incident. He said “strict action should be taken against the guilty driver, female help, as well as the school management”. “The misbehaviour with a daughter in a private school … Read more

Madhya Pradesh on Monday reported 29 Covid cases at a positivity rate of 0.6 per cent, taking the state’s tally to 10,53,910, a health official said. The death toll remained unchanged at 10,770, while the recovery count increased by 22 to touch 10,42,905, leaving the state with 235 active cases, he added. The number of … Read more

Facing flak over rising commercial activities in residential areas, the municipal corporation (MC) demolished seven illegal under-construction shops in the residential area of Kundanpuri. The civic body officials said the building inspector came to know about the violation during routine inspection of the area, following which notice was served to owners. MC head draftsmen MS … Read more

Cracking a joke about a “bomb in the bag” at the Devi Ahilyabai International Airport in Indore proved costly for a family of three as they not only had to undergo intense questioning and search, but were let-off only after they submitted a written apology. They also missed their flight. A man on Monday night … Read more