The Journalists’ Association of the city, on Friday, held a condolence meeting to pay tributes to veteran journalist, founder and Chief Editor of Dainik Jailok, Ajit Verma. Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism, Prahlad Patel, senior office-bearers of various cultural, social organizations, public representatives, administrative, police officials and journalists participated in the programme. Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister Patel said Verma will always be ..

Justice Vijay Kumar Shukla dismissed the petition filed by Satya Narayav Pandey. The petitioner was working as Panchayat Secretary. By an impugned order the petitioner has been transferred from one Gram Panchayat to another on administrative ground. Counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was appointed as Panchayat Karmi in the Gram Panchayat and therefore his services ought to have not been transferred. Services of the petitioner are governed by the Madhya Pradesh Panchayat Service Gram ..

The Revenue Department of the Jabalpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) has expedited the ongoing tax recovery drive and taking strict action against tax payers who are not paying pending dues. Senior officials of all 16 divisions are seizing properties of defaulters against non-payment of tax. The officials are also making high efforts to fill the coffers of the civic body by realising maximum dues. Senior officials, on Thursday sealed a country liquor sh..

Vaishnavi Choubey, a Class VIII student of Joy Senior Secondary School bagged the first position under junior category in online public speaking Winter Challenge 2020 organised under the flagship of National Institute of Skills and Training (NIST) on October 10. The School administration said Joyians have proved their mettle once again not only at the sch..

GLORY of the sports field is now returning with disciplined gathering of players after the peak of COVID-19 pandemic. Players have started sweating it out on the field to maintain their physical fitness to prove their mettle in the upcoming sports season. Sports persons are also taking necessary precautions to maintain physical distancing and implementing COVID-19 protocol during their physical training. Upcoming players of non-contact and semi-contac..

A man lost his life in an accident on Sunday afternoon near village Dhusawani on Junnardeo road under Tamia police station of the district. In the freak mishap, the tanker filled with diesel and petrol collided with a Scooty even as the truck driver was trying tpo save the two-wheeler driver near Dhusawani on the route going from Tamia to Junnardeo around 1 pm in the afternoon...

Culmination of nine days’ festival of Durgaotsav essentially takes place with immersion of idols installed by various pooja pandals. Previously immersion of idols used to take place on river banks of Narmada at Gwarighat, Tilwaraghat and other banks. But in view of directives issued by the NGT on the issue of water pollution caused due to immersion of idols by various pooja committees, the district administration has over the years started with specific mode of immersion of idols...

Public representatives, journalists and people from all walks of life paid tributes to the journalists who passed away recently during a programme organised in press complex premises at civic center, on Sunday. The demise of senior journalists, Harish Choubey, Zaheer Ansari and Gopal Awasthi shook the entire fraternity. All the three journalists were known for their cheerful and sociable natures...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has criticised the Congress Vachan Patra released for by-poll bound 28 Assembly seats. Chouhan said “Kamal Nath has once again come up with Vachan Patra…it is not Vachan Patra rather Kapat (deceit) Patra”. Chouhan criticised Congress Vachan Patra while addressing public rallies held in support of BJP candidates in by-poll bound Assembly seats of Badamalhara (Chhattarpur), Surkhi (Sagar) and Devnagar (Sanchi) on Saturday...

More that 19,241 devotees took online darshan of various Maa Durga temples of the city on the first day of Navratri. The district administration has added Durga temple at City Bengali Club, on Saturday. With that now devotees will be able to worship Goddess Durga at temples and idols to be installed at various temples. The administration has added Maa Tripur Sundari, Tewar, Budhi Khermai, Badi Khermai temple Hanumantal, Chhoti Khermai Manas Bhawan an..

A memorandum of demand seeking to sack Dr Rajkumari Bansal, serving as FSL expert in Medical College in view alleged anti-national activities, was handed over to Divisional Commissioner B Chandrashekhar. The memorandum was handed over by a delegation of Hindu Sewa Parishad (HSP) who earlier staged demonstration in the campus of the Divisional Commissioner’s office. ..

Cops arrested the main accused in the barbaric thrashing of an auto-rickshaw driver reported on October 11 under Adhartal police station. as per reports, three goons had thrashed an auto-rickshaw operator after an accident in which two girls on a two-wheeler were injured in a mishap..

As weather conditions are passing through transition phase, unbearable humidity is giving torrid time to people. In last twenty-four hours, rainfall activities were recorded in Shahdol and Gwalior divisions. Badnawar received 1 cm rainfall. Meanwhile, Weather Department has forecast rainfall activities in sundry parts of Indore, Hoshangabad divisions and districts including Anuppur, Narsinghpur, Chhindwara, Seoni, Mandla, Balaghat etc...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan performed virtual bhoomipujan of 107 rural potable water schemes in 18 districts of the State, where by-elections are not taking place, from Minto Hall in State capital on Wednesday. On this occasion, he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has taken an initiative to provide clean water to every house under the ‘Jal Jeevan’ Mission for the people, dwelling in villages...

MLA Ashok Rohani conducted inspection of Government Civil Hospital Ranjhi. He was accompanied by Chief Medical and Health Officer, Civil Surgeon of District Government Hospital Jabalpur and District Health Officer. During the inspection, MLA Rohani proposed the contribution of necessary funds from his MLA’s fund for required upgradation of the hospital and proposed for establishing a dialysis unit service for patients at the Civil Hospital...

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) sent Video Chariots to by-poll bound 28 Assembly seats on Tuesday. These Video Chariots also called Digital Chariots will apprise people about various public welfare work done by State Government and will unmask Congress. Video Chariots will follow the protocol and norms issued in wake of corona pandemic. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, State BJP President V D Sharma, Ministers Gopal Bhargava, Bhupendra Singh, Om Saklecha and other BJP leaders flagged off Video Chariots ..

The NTPC Gadarwara has always been concerned about community development of nearby villages and under the aegis of R&R- CD programme, the power station, on Monday, donated a Community Centre and Aanganwadi Centre at Chor Baretha village of Gadarwara. It was inaugurated at the hands of MLA of Gadarwara, Sunita Patel in the presence of CGM, NTPC Gadarwara, Pradipta Kumar Mishra, GM (TS), Shri Vinay Kumar Garg and GM(HR), Rachana Singh Bhal...

The Central Government, while taking strict cognisance of the rise in crime against women, particularly on the rising cases of rapes, has decided to strictly deal with the situation and has issued certain advisories to State Government. Addressing the mediapersons, senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and MP Dr Saroj Pandey said that rape is not only a crime against a woman, but it is a crime which is shameful for the whole society, which considers itself educated and cultured. This crime will ..

The Jabalpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) is carrying out special drive to distribute masks to residents to protect them from the danger of global pandemic COVID-19. Senior officials and employees of the JMC are distributing masks to denizens at important squares and markets. They are giving mask to bikers and other pedestrians who are not applying this protective shield on face...

Taking into factor the COVID-19 impact on people belonging to various sections of society, in view of forthcoming season of festivities, the district administration has inaugurated online darshan arrangement. With the inception of online darshan started by NIC, excessive gathering of people at important worship places would be controlled...

Members of Jabalipuram Hindu Mahasabha and Sampoorna Brahmin Manch jointly staged demonstration and burnt the photos of Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Ashok Gehlot and Chandrashekhar Rawan to register their protest against murder of a priest in Rajasthan, on Sunday. Sampoorna Brahmin Manch’s Amit Khamparia charged the increasing number of attacks and murders of Hindu priests and termed it the attack against general category..

The Bharatiya Janata Party Central Election Committee led by BJP National President Jagat Prakash Nadda on Sunday announced the candidature of Dr Gambheer Singh for contesting the by-election being held at Marwahi Legislative Assembly on behalf of BJP. After his name was announced as BJP candidate from Marwahi, Dr Gambheer Singh, while extending his gratitude to central and state BJP leadership for the responsibility said, “now time has come when with help of the glorious traditions of Adivasis, we’ll ..

Two tiger cubs were found dead in Tala zone of Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) on Saturday. Both cubs are about one-month-old. The patrolling team found one unresponsive and a crying cub in Gohadi beat of Tala zone...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan reviewed the arrangements being made in connection with the purchase of paddy and other crops in State. Agriculture and Food Department was directed to make necessary arrangements for procurement as per the convenience of farmers during the meeting. The process of registration for sale of Kharif crops by farmers in the State is in progress. It was informed in the meeting that detailed instructions are being issued regarding procurement of paddy in the State...

  Kotwali police busted a den of Satta bookings and nabbed 13 bookies and seized cash of Rs. 73,820 and nine mobile handsets but kingpin of the network managed to escape from the spot, on Friday evening. The arrested have been identified as Piyush Chourasia (26) of Makravahini Mandir, Sanjay Singh Rajput (38) of Chandmari, Ghamapur, Surendra Sindhi (54) of Footatal, Belbagh, Mahendra Vishwakarma (41) of Victoria Hospital, Naresh Sonkar (40) of Khatik Mohalla, Belbagh, Anil Yadav (35) ..

Rendering its best services for the society, Prism Johnson Limited has been conferred with the 7th National Green Tech CSR India Award – 2020 for promotion of health and healthcare in a virtual award ceremony. Chief guest of the virtual programme was former Chief Justice of India, Deepak Mishra who virtually conferred the award to Prism Johnson Limited, Senior Vice-president (HRM, Admin, CSR and Corporate Affairs), MP Tripathi, Assistant Vice-president (Medical Services), Dr. DD Mishra, ..

An important meeting of Management Committee of Kendriya Vidyalaya, Garha was held to discuss significant issues, on Thursday. Collector and Chairman of the School, Karmveer Sharma chaired the meeting. Sharma directed concerned authorities to find land for school’s own building and it should be located in the surrounding area so that students studying in the school do not face much difficulty. It may be noted that the school, which started from the year 2007, is still being run in Rani Durgavati School ..

During the time of pandemic when the world is battling a virus and its spread and general public is facing grave health and financial stress, a few city doctors have really stood their ground, treating and attending patients with extended time and reduced fee. One of them is city dentist Dr C H Liao and his staff. Dr Liao said people are extremely scared to go to any hospital or clinic but whosoever is coming to the clinic or hospital means they are ..

With an aim to contain any further spread of COVID-19, the Jaablpur Municipal Corporation (JMC) has been consistent in ensuring that in areas earmarked as containment, disinfection with spray of chemicals and insecticides is carried out regularly. The work is being carried out seeking help from 89 corona warriors who have taken up the responsibility to disinfect 79 municipal wards falling under the ambit of JMC. Continuing with the disinfection drive, a team of JMC’s Health Department along with 89 ..

Collector Karmveer Sharma carried out inspection of district hospital to take stock of treatment being provided to patients. He instructed doctors to ensure that proper facilities were given to patients undergoing treatment. Later he carried out inspection and called meeting of medical officers. According to information, Collector Sh..

An 11-year-old boy met an untimely end when his bicycle skidded on the road in Sadar area under the jurisdiction of Cantt police station late night on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Akshat (11), son of Deepak Jaiswal, a resident of Sadar. SHO of Cantt police station, Vijay Tiwari informed that police received information of an accident in the area and police team reached the spot and learnt that a man sent the injured boy to his home. Police team reached the residence of boy and learnt ..

A team of District Excise Department raided an illegal kiln of country-made liquor at a house and nabbed a man in Kuchbandhiya Mohalla, on Tuesday. Excise team destroyed 1,200 kilograms raw materials used for production of liquor and seized 60 litres country-made liquor from the spot. The accused has been identified as Vinod Kuchbandhiya, son of Jangal Kuchbandhiya, a resident of Kuchbandhiya Mohalla, Sheetlamai Ward in Ghamapur...

Thanks to the indifference of traffic police that auto-rickshaw operators across Jabalpur city have once again are openly defying the preventive steps of coronavirus. Jumping red light signal remains unchecked by traffic cops. None of the auto operators follow covid protocol and openly indulge in gross violation putting lives of people at high risk by overloading of passengers beyond the prescribed capacity. Surprisingly traffic are turning a blind eye to take action against errant auto operators ..

In view of the forthcoming by -election in Madhya Pradesh, former Chief Minister and PCCI President Kamal Nath reached Jabalpur for a brief visit. He visited at Baglamukhi Maath, performed puja and sought blessing from Shankarcharya Swami Swaroopanand Saraswati...

Former Assembly Speaker and Congress MLA N P Prajapati has tried to corner BJP-led State Government over increasing rape cases in Madhya Pradesh. Prajapati claimed that within 15 days, women and girls have been raped in six districts, including Narsinghpur. Addressing a press conference at State Congress Headquarters, N P Prajapati said that a gangrape victim, a dalit woman in Narsinghpur district, ended her life as police was not lodging her complaint...

An important meeting of Crisis Management Committee was held to discuss and review in detail arrangements for treatment of corona patients and preparations being made to deal with future challenge at Collectorate, on Saturday. Member of Parliament Rakesh Singh chaired the meeting. During the meeting the Committee members appreciated the efforts made to increase the number of ICUs and Oxygen-equipped beds in Medical College and Hospital and Victoria Hospital...

Senior leaders of several trade unions started series of protest and demonstration prior to the nation-wide indefinite strike in Ordnance Factories from October 12. Series of protest and demonstration was started after garlanding the statue of Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary, on Friday. ..

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that best arrangements are being made to compensate losses caused to crops of farmers due to excess rainfall in state. After providing instant relief amount to farmers under short-term efforts, guidance related to agricultural work will also be provided to them under long term scheme. ..

On Thursday Gas survivors staged protest with ‘Khali Thali’ showcasing their financial constrain during COVID-19. They said that the widows need the pension during the pandemic as they are under severe financial crisis...

Seema Vineet, posted as senior staff nurse, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College Hospital and corona fighter, passed away due to COVID-19 at Super Specialty Hospital while undergoing treatment on Wednesday evening...

Madhya Pradesh Tourism will soon start ‘Drive-in Cinema’ in the city. Due to corona epidemic, cinemas across the country are closed. Due to the danger of infection of corona in the present circumstances, there is little hope of starting them soon...

A Combined team of Crime Branch and Garha police busted a hi-tech online IPL satta in a house at Shyamla Hills in Garha. Police have nabbed two accused and seized 14 mobile handsets, television set, a laptop, Rs 2,800 cash and records of online satta bookings from them. The two arrested have been identified as Abhinav Soni (21), a resident of near Bariya Wale Jain Mandir in Hanumantal and Prince alias Mayank Jain (30), resident of behind Bade Jain Mandir in Hanumantal...

Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Ajay Kumar Mittal unveiled re-printed and updated edition of The High Court of Madhya Pradesh Rules, 2008 along with The High Court of Madhya Pradesh Digitisation of Records Rules, 2018 and The High Court of Madhya Pradesh Video Conferencing and Audio-Visual Electronic Linkage Rules, 2020 on Tuesday...

BJP’s Election Management Committee meeting was held in State capital on Monday. By-elections preparations were reviewed in this meeting and decision was taken that from Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti, party workers and leaders will organise conventions in 127 mandals situated in by-election bound 28 Assembly seats. Info..

Tilwara police have solved the blind murder mystery of an auto-rickshaw driver and nabbed the three accused. The man was killed by his friends in drunken stupor with sharp edged weapon over a financial dispute. The arrested have been identified as Pawan patel (24), son of Vishnu Prasad Patel, resident of Bada Patthar, Tilwara, his younger brother Badal Patel (19) and Devidin Vanshkar (19), son of Mukesh Vanshkar, resident of Crusher Basti. Superintendent of Police, Siddharth Bahuguna (IPS) disclosed ..

Students of universities and colleges in Madhya Pradesh will soon be accessing their degrees and mark sheets through digi-locker under Government’s Digital India programme. Access to degree certificate through digi-locker will enable students in keeping their certificates safe in digital mode and provide them access anytime and anywhere. Students do not have to maintain the documents...

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that relief, support and encouragement for farmers will continue. Economic crisis does exist due to corona, but if support is needed, farmers will be provided relief even if one has to be done by borrowing money...

Apparently, the delayed directives issued by district administration on size of statues to be installed at various puja pandals with height restriction of maximum 6 feet has caused serious resentment among large number of sculptors in Jabalpur. Had the administration issued directives in advance would have proved helpful to sculptors to restrict size of idols but with start of Navaratri knocking at the door the size restriction on idols has caused insurmountable trouble for people involved sculptor ..

   “The entire system is toiling hard to ensure best possible treatment to each patient suffering from COVID-19. After ensuring effective treatment in Government hospitals, authorising 27 private hospitals in the city for treatment, now the Government has made it mandatory for these private hospitals and nursing homes to display their rate list promptly on the board at their reception counter. Simultaneously , directors of private hospitals and nursing homes will also submit ..

Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday celebrated 104th birth anniversary of Pt Deendayal Upadhyay, founder member and National President of Jansangh. Senior party leaders, office-bearers and members reached Deendayal Square and garlanded statue of Pt Deendayal. Programmes were also organised at all 892 booths of the city. Speaking on the occasion, senior party leaders shed light on life of Pt Deendayal Upadhyay and defined in detail ‘Ekatma Manavwad’ (integrated humanism), the thought of Pt ..