Governor Mangubhai Patel visited the Buddhist Stupa and Forest Eco Park at Satdhara in Raisen district on Sunday. During the visit, he inquired about the construction period of the stupas, the materials used in their construction and the archaeological importance. During the visit, Governor Patel said that Satdhara is full of natural beauty. Here natural beauty is scattered in every particle. He said that by coming here the mind experiences inner peace. Governor Patel also interacted with the employees ..

The Kalidas Sanskrit Academy, Ujjain, held a discussion titled ‘Vanyasanskriti’ under the Gamak cultural series on Sunday. Presiding over the discussion in context of the Hindu epic ‘Ramayana’, senior Sanskrit scholar, Professor Kedarnarayan Joshi from Ujjain said that the continuum of forest culture is eternal which is in existence since the Vedic era. He said that Maharishi Valmiki is an Adikavi and his poetry is called Adikavya. Underlining the characteristics of forest culture, he asserted that ..

With an objective to provide job-oriented courses to children of Madhya Pradesh Police families, a MoU was signed between Police ITI Bhopal and between Police ITI Bhopal and School of Broadcasting and Communication, (SBC) Mumbai. Special Director General of Police (Training) Aruna Mohan Rao and SBC Director Dr Tushir Choudhary signed the MoU. Children of police families can take admission in short-duration job-oriented courses such as Public Relations, Video Editing, Mobile Journalism, Podcasts, Reporting, ..

Divisional Commissioner Kavindra Kiyawat has directed the departments concerned, including district and police administration, to take serious action to prevent pollution in the State capital. In the Divisional Commissioner’s meeting room, Kiyawat reviewed air pollution situation in Bhopal and measures being taken. Kiyawat has directed that the district administration and Transport Department should stop operation of commercial diesel vehicles that are above 15 years along with setting up of PUC centres ..

By seeing the festive season of Navratri and many other festivals to follow in coming days, police have beefed security arrangements to ensure strict law and order situation in state capital. Police officials could be seen doing vehicle checking at various identified points of city. On Tuesday, police also took the help of Bomb Disposal Squad and sniffer dogs to ensure water tight security arrangements. BD&DS went to railway station, bus stand, shopping malls and other sensitive public places and ..

A splendid player of Madhya Pradesh Archery Academy, Muskan Kirar has bagged her place in the Indian compound team, which will participate in the 22nd Asian Archery Championship to be held at Bangladesh’s Dhaka from November 19 to 26. Apart from Kirar, PSPB’s Jyoti Surekha, PB’s Praneet Kaur and Rajasthan’s Priya Kaur have also been selected for the team. Notably, 5 archers from the MP Archery Academy; Muskaan Kirar, Srishti Singh, Ragini Marco, ..

Ramleela Utsav, organised by Directorate of Culture, Madhya Pradesh from October 10 to 14 at Ravindra Bhavan, witnessed Lord Ram’s coronation, Kaikeyi-Manthara dialogue, Ram’s exile, Kewat’s introduction, Dasharatha’s death, Bharat and Ram milaap and Sita Haran on second day of the programme. The cultural programme on the second day of Utsav began with the announcement of the coronation of Lord Ram. King Dasharatha, Lord Ram’s father, announces the coronation of Lord Ram, but after the conversation ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday handed over the key of ‘Take Home Ration Plant’ costing Rs 17.35 crore to Women Livelihood Industrial Co-operative Society in Shivpuri in Jan Kalyan and Suraaj Abhiyan. Chief Minister Chouhan said..

senior Rugby teams of Khandwa and Dewas districts have secured their place in the men’s finals of the Senior and Junior Rugby state Championship, being played at Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (LNCT), Bhopal. In the senior women’s finals, the Dewas and Raisen teams, while in the final Junior boy’s category, Shajapur and Dewas and in the final Junior girl’s category, the teams of Betul and Shajapur have seized their place. In the semi-finals of the 3-day championship, the senior men’s team from ..

Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner KVS Chaudhary inspected the Bhanpur Khanti area on Thursday. During the inspection, he directed to uproot and clean the unwanted plants near the Gumbadnuma mound, conduct plantation in the area to make it clean and green, water the plants and the trees, complete the boundary-wall construction works and get a board installed at the mound propagating the message “Welcome to Bhopal”. Commissioner Chaudhary cautioned to impose a penalty if the works are ..

Players of MP State Athletics Academy, Abhishek Thakur and KM Deeksha, aced it at the National Under-23 Athletics Championship to bag one silver medal. The 3-day championship, organised at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, New Delhi, concluded on Wednesday. The athletes scaled this success by competing in the 800-meter race at the event. Notably, this is for the first time that the top-seeded players are participating in the Under-23 National Athletics Championship. In the final men’s event, Somnath Chauhan, ..

Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya (IGRMS) is observing ‘Official language fortnight’ from September 14 to 30 in which various competitions and programmes are being organised. To promote Hindi amongst employees, photography competition was organised. This competition was organised by Tapas Biswas, Photographic Officer. Biswas told participants present about the competition that Godari Pathera is a unique structure designed by Gond clay/mud artists of Dindori and Mandla districts of Madhya ..

A grand parade and colourful programme was organised on the 37th Foundation Day of the Railway Protection Force (RPF) at Railway Stadium, on Monday. General Manager, West Central Railway (WCR), Shailendra Singh inspected the parade as the chief guest. Speaking on the occasion, Singh highlighted the remarkable works done by the RPF and called upon the officers and jawans of the force to continue to provide security to the railways as well as security of passengers in the same manner...

Vice-Chancellor, Lakshmi Narain College of Technology (LNCT) University, Kolar Road, Bhopal, Professor NK Thapak signed a memrandum of understanding (MoU) with Brigadier Sanjay Ghosh of National Cadet Corps (NCC) Group Headquarters. On this occasion, Professor N K Thapak said that NCC has been included as a credit course in the undergraduate level courses of the university. Under this course, students of BA, BCom, BSc, BBA and BCA courses can avail the benefit of this course...

On the directions of Collector Avinash Lavania, an amount of more than Rs 4 crore for land acquisition has reached the accounts of 26 farmers of Manjitgarh Panchayat in Berasia within a week. Even as the Public Hearing was shut down due to coronavirus, these farmers had reached collectorate to meet the collector. The Collector had assured to resolve their problem within eight days. The farmers told the collector that land of 200 farmers in village Majitgarh is going into the submerged area of Tem ..

The State Bank of India (SBI) has come up with attractive offer of home loan during festival season. Now customers will get home loan at attractive rate from SBI. Chief General Manager, SBI, Umesh Kumar Pandey informed that the campaign to sanction home loans at subsidised rates will take place in two phases. The first phase will be in force from September 1 to October 31, 2021, while the second phase will begin from November 1 to continue till December 31, 2021. During this duration, interested customers ..

The outbreak of dengue is increasing continuously in the State capital, nine dengue patients have found in the testing of 21 samples, in the past 24 hours. With this, the number of dengue patients in the city has reached 203 this year. Significantly, four dengue patients were detected earlier in the day in city. So far this month, more than 100 dengue patients have been found. One-third of the samples tested every day are being found infected. CMHO Dr Prabhakar Tiwari said that the number of dengue ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that he has come to make an appeal, not as a Chief Minister but as a member of family, to keep vigil against dengue and adopt preventive measures. He was speaking during launch of State-wide mega campaign against dengue from Nehru Nagar in Bhopal on Wednesday. Insisting that one should get cent percent vaccinated against corona pandemic, he also urged everyone to regularly follow precautions against corona. He stated that State Government and its agencies ..

Collector Avinash Lavania and Bhopal DIG Irshad Wali inspected the immersion sites of the state capital on Tuesday. They directed the concerned officials and Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) to ensure that there is no congregation of devotees and spectators during immersion at the sites on the final day of Ganesh Chaturthi festival, to avoid any untoward incident...

To protect citizens from mosquito borne diseases, particularly dengue, Bhopal Municipal Corporation is doing fogging through machines and at the same time, it is conducting door to door survey to find out dengue larvae. BMC team is going to homes and checking utensils used to store water and other vessels lying unused at roofs and gallery of houses. BMC employees are asking people not to allow storage of water for long time as it becomes breeding place for mosquitoes. They are advising people to ensure ..

As per the directions of Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Prabhakar Tiwari and under the leadership of District Malaria Officer (DMO) Akhilesh Dubey, Dengue and Malaria camps were organised at Roshanpura locality of Bhopal on Tuesday. During Larvae inspection in the camp, Larvae were detected in Zone 3, Ward No 12, Sharda Nagar, Nariyalkheda, which were destroyed after checking the containers. The team informed the general public about the ways to prevent malaria, dengue, chikungunya and ..

Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has arrested seven accused, including two directors and four employees, of a private company and a private person in an ongoing investigation of a case related to allegations of committing irregularities in the ongoing JEE (Main) Examination-2021. The three arrested accused were produced before the Competent Court at Delhi and remanded to police custody till September 9. CBI has registered the instant case on 01.09.2021 against a private company and others, including ..

Under online series Gamak, “Dwij” Katha play presented by Ustaad Alauddin Khan Sangeet avam Kala Academy. It was presented under the direction of theater artist Puneet V Trivedi. The uniqueness of this play is this that it was presented in Bundeli language. It was artists of Rang Sarokar Natya Prasar Samiti who essayed the role of different characters. In play, it was shown that Dwij means second birth. Ups and downs come in life of people. Some people face them bravely but some give up. In play it ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan observed the filtration camp organized on the handicraft skills of Kalbelia community. In the camp organized at the Tribal Museum, he observed Gudadi (mattress made of clothes), Bead Jewellery, Glass Art Work, Surma (antimony)and indigenous cuisine Crafted by the Kalbelia community. Principal Secretary Culture and Public Relations Shiv Shekhar Shukla apprised Chief Minister that Kalbelia community is skilled in making other clothes along with Gudadi. The fashion ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the Jal Jeevan Mission is a very ambitious scheme of the government, through which drinking water will be provided to every household in the state through taps. There should not be any compromise in the quality of the work and the pipes and other materials used in the scheme. To ensure contractors do not install inferior quality pipes and materials, do Continuous monitoring and cross checking. He said that in the Atmanirbhar Madhya Pradesh campaign, ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan honoured corona warriors in a programme organised at Karunadham Ashram. He felicitated nine persons who fulfilled their duties of performing the last rites of those who passed away due to corona at Bhadbhada and Subhash Nagar Vishram Ghats. On this occasion Sudesh Shandilya Maharaj of Karunadham Ashram, wife of Chief Minister Sadhna Singh and MLA P C Sharma were present. CM honoured Lad Singh Sen, Pradeep Kanojia, Jai Malviya, Vishal Kansotia, Rajesh Hans, Yogesh ..

“The author of any literature is an expert of that subject and he can also criticise his work with proficient skill and ability. If the satirist himself criticises his satirical works, then that critique emerges with utmost expertise in that subject and then presents it in a fair manner on that subject. The ability to be an expert is not God-gifted; hence it is important to discuss expertise in the literature.” The above views were expressed by Director of Sahitya Academy Vikas Dave in a discussion ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the State Government is continuously working for the welfare of the poor. Along with this, the quality of life of the poor is being improved through public welfare schemes. The government is determined to bring the light of development to the poor. We are working on the concept of inclusive development of the poor and Sabka Saath-Sabka Vikas. In the state, arrangements of bread, clothes, houses, education and medicines are being ensured for the poor. ..

Monsoon is on the brink of wrapping up its course in the city, post which the downpours in Bhopal have rendered the roads in tatters. To make matters worse, water-logging has posed a major threat to the commuters on roads which are teeming with pits and potholes. The roads in Bhopal face aforesaid plight for almost the entire year, excluding a month or two when the road repair work is underway. Following the shoddily repaired roads, they revert to the ramshackled condition. Many a local has expressed ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan visited K N Katju COVID Vaccination Centre and inspected the arrangements in State capital on Wednesday. In the Mega Vaccination Campaign-2, special arrangements have been made for the Divyangs and the elderly at the Katju Vaccination Centre. Here both Covaxin and Covishield vaccines are available. An observation room has also been set up at the centre. CM also discussed with the people who came for vaccination including the staff of the vaccination centre...

Rains have taken break in most regions of the State. Only sundry parts of state are receiving rains in the form of drizzling and light showers. Sky is mainly cloudy. In Bhopal, a spell of drizzling tried to drench the soil. In the meantime, rains are likely in few regions of state. Rainfall and thunder activities are likely in some places of Rewa and Sagar divisions. Rains are also likely in sundry parts of Shahdol, Jabalpur, Bhopal, Hoshangabad, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, Chambal divisions...

Former Minister and Congress MLA PC Sharma is on expedition to protest against pathetic roads of city. On Tuesday, he and Congress men protested against pathetic condition of roads in Kolar locality. Demonstrators led by PC Sharma gathered at Mandakni square and protested against the bad conditions of roads in Kolar. They were carrying banner and flags of Congress party. They raised slogans against the bad condition of roads which are becoming a cause of road accidents. They said that pit riddled ..

Electricity Minister Pradhyuman Singh Tomar said that energy department will purchase electricity produced by farmer. He was addressing a workshop organised for solar energy producers under PM Kusum Yojana- “A” at Minto Hall in State Capital on Tuesday. New and Renewable Minister Hardip Singh Dang said that there will be estimated expenditure of Rs 10 lakh on establishment of solar plant (to be installed by farmers) and it will generate income of Rs 50 lakh to Rs 60 lakh. Solar plant will give income ..

In his message to the people of the state on the occasion of Rakshabandhan, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that they should protect themselves, family, state and country by getting both the doses of corona vaccine. This would be a true gift from brothers to sisters. Chief Minister Chouhan said that along with regular vaccination in the state, a vaccination mega campaign would be launched on August 25 and 26. Every eligible person above the age of 18 years must get both the doses. Chouhan ..

Jan Ashirwad Yatra of Union Minister Virendra Khatik received overwhelming response in Bhopal on Friday. BJP leaders welcomed him with garlands. Virendra Khatik also participated in various local programmes. ..

A spell of light showers brought delight on the faces of people in Bhopal on Friday. Spell of light showers infused mild coolness into the air. People enjoyed the changed weather conditions to the hilt. Sky remained cloudy throughout the days. Rains also occurred in many places of state as well. Weather Department has issued warning of heavy to very heavy rains in sundry parts of Rajgarh, Vidisha, Raisen, Bhind, Khandwa, Badwani, Ujjain, Dewas, Khargone, Guna districts respectively. ..

Bhopal Municipal Corporation (BMC) Commissioner KVS Chaudhary on Thursday inspected garbage transfer station of the city. He observed aggregation, transportation and execution of garbage. Apart from getting information about the aggregation of garbage. He also commanded to speed up the construction work of hydraulic platform at Arif Nagar, Yadgar-e-Shahjahani and Danapani stations...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that the second phase of the two-day Covid-19 vaccination mega campaign will be conducted on August 25 and August 26 in the State. Mega campaign will be conducted in all districts of the State. For this the campaign will be intensified. For the purpose of wider public awareness, message of benefits of vaccines, necessity and utility of the second dose, will be disseminated to the public through subject-experts via various media. The Chief Minister was ..

Collector Avinash Lavania inspected the ongoing construction of oxygen plant at JP Hospital and directed to start the operation of all oxygen generation plants in the district by September 1. Also, the collector feted the doctors and other staffers of JP Hospital for bagging the second prize in the state-level Kayakalp award. Collector Lavania said that there is no bigger service than humanity and the doctors have proven this by giving relentless services during the coronavirus period. Lavania inspected ..

Under online Gamak series, Tribal Folk Arts and Dialect Academy presented Gondi “Swaraj Geet” and” Matki Dance” on Tuesday. Both programmes created a unique ambience and left everyone enthralled. The first performance was “Gondi Swaraj Geet” presented by Roopsingh Kushram and team, Dindori. Roopsingh Kushram and team gave soulful presentation of Gondi patriotic songs. They gave voice to songs such as “Bharat Mata ke”, “Bharat Ladni ko”, “Lehki Tarna”, “Dhire Gaayle”, “Choye Mandiven”, “Durga Rani”, ..

  Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that three new MEMU (Main Line Electric Multiple Unit) trains are being started for the convenience of the general public. These trains will be equipped with all modern facilities like GPS, digital display, CCTV, bio-toilet etc. Through these trains, general public will be able to travel faster and conveniently. This will be very useful, especially for daily commuters.He said that rail, road and phone connectivity is constantly increasing in Madhya ..

Governor Mangubhai Patel has said that cooperation, discipline comes through playing and the confidence of getting success is generated through continuous efforts. Sports are very important in everyone's life. He has said that the attitude of the government and society towards sports has changed in the country. Governor was addressing the felicitation ceremony of Olympic players held at Raj Bhawan on Thursday. Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Hockey Coach Ashok Dhyan Chand, ..

On the occasion of International Youth Day #DisposeSafely Campaign was held in MP Nagar, by Relive Eco Foundation, to spread awareness on safe disposal of mask and gloves, an ongoing environmental issue, currently being faced globally. Environmentalist Zeeshan Khan, aka ‘Eco Man of India’, who first launched this campaign on Earth Day, told ‘The Hitavada’ that a recent report of World Wide Forum for Nature became public during lockdown...

On the suspicion of adulteration, the district administration officials along with a team of Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) raided Golden Toast factory in Govindpura on Wednesday. As festive season is round the corner, the administration has turned stringent towards those involved in adulteration and has taken third such action in three consecutive days on orders of Collector Avinash Lavania...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that 8832 persons have been rescued and 32 000 persons have been shifted to safely to relief camps in the flood affected areas of the state. NDRF and SDRF teams deserve special appreciation for saving the lives of people by risking their own lives. The work of relief and rehabilitation of flood victims should be done with full readiness and dedication. Hand pumps should be repaired. All the 12 departments of the Task Force Committee should undertake relief ..

Minister for Tourism, Culture and Spirituality, Usha Thakur said that now the tourists will be able to get handicrafts of the region-specific handicrafts at the tourist place itself. For this, the Tourism Department has trained the craftsmen of Mahor and Ladpura in Niwari district, Basari in Chhatarpur, Madla in Panna, and Uchehra in Satna district in the new techniques of handicrafts. She was observing a three-day prototype exhibition organised by the Madhya Pradesh Tourism Corporation at a local ..

Former Chief Minister Kamal Nath said that BJP led state government want to run away from burning issues and this is the reason that it has convened short session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly. He was addressing the Congress MLA squad meeting convened on Sunday evening. He stated that Congress will rake up public issues with full strength in assembly session starting from Monday. He said that he recently toured the flood affected parts of Gwalior and Chambal and found that situation is fearsome. Belongings ..

The nation is celebrating the remarkable performance of oor nation’s players winning medals in the Tokyo Olympic Games but the players who are earning name and fame for the State by winning medals in national competitions are deprived of due benefits as declared by the State Government. Shockingly. a large number of players from different disciplines have been given half or less than half of the prize money declared by the Government. Annoyed with the apathetic working of the Madhya Pradesh Sports ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that it is important to constantly evaluate and improve the effectiveness of Government schemes being run for development and public welfare, otherwise the governments will remain unaware of the reality. Development is meaningless unless it does not reach the poor. The Chief Minister was addressing the MoU signature programme organised at Minto Hall for institutional partnership between NITI Aayog and Atal Behari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and ..

Two boys in Madhya Pradesh have been selected for National Youth Award. This award is organised by Union Government’s Youth Programme and Sports Ministry. Shubham Chauhan of Bhopal has been selected for the award belonging to session of 2018-19 and on the other hand, Himanshu Kumar Gupta from Jabalpur has also been selected for the award belonging to the session of 2017-18. Both the young guns have been invited to Science Centre, New Delhi on August 12, where they’ll be awarded...