Income Tax Department conducted a raid against a sugar manufacturing group based in Hoshangabad on Thursday. Along with this, some premises of group situated in Bhopal were also covered in the raid. Cash, incriminating documents suggesting huge tax evasion were also found during the course of raid. A senior Income Tax officer told ‘The Hitavada’ that raid was conducted against Hoshangabad based sugar manufacturing group Maheshwari...

The pair of tiger cubs, including a tiger and tigress, reached Van Vihar from Bandhavgarh National Park during the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday. Van Vihar officials have put them into quarantine. During morning hours of Thursday, Van Vihar Director Kamlika Mohanta and Deputy Director A K Jain reached Van Vihar to see the new pair of tiger cubs. Astonishingly, both big cats have developed a bond with their caretaker in a short span of time...

Van Vihar National Park welcomed pair of tigers from Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve (BTR) late on Wednesday evening. As both the tigers are siblings, they will be kept in separate display cage. After pair of lions, tourists have another reason to visit Van Vihar National Park. Both tigers (male and female) are three-year-old and they have been found medically fit. A team from Van Vihar National Park went to BTR on February 25 to bring the tigers...

Former Chief Minister Uma Bharti told that people are feeling duped as Congress Government has not fulfilled the promises made to them. Law and order situation has hit the lowest ebb. “What could be worse situation that even murders are happening close to police stations, she told. She even claimed that BJP by remaining in Opposition will make Congress Government helpless to fulfill the promises made to people. She gave above statement after blessing the newly-appointed BJP State President Vishnu ..

In the matter related to illegally doing business of making and selling of bidis in the name of Khargosh brand, the firm M/s Radhakishan Narayandas is allegedly illegally engaged in the manufacturing and marketing and the firm are mainly sent for sale in Uttar Pradesh and the firm has bidi making units in village Majhgawan, Indrana, Ghughra and Katangi in Jabalpur district, the single bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court comprising Justice Rajeev Kumar Dubey has dismissed the criminal revision with ..

Narmada Gau Kumbh opened amidst graceful presence of Seers and Saints at the bank of river Narmada giving message of protecting pious river Narmada and its diversity, cow and religion, on Monday. Amidst sea of belief, devotion and expressing the emotions of devoting to the service of Almighty God, rituals of Peshvai offering observed in gracious presence of religious heads, Saints from different parts of the country. Founder Patron of the organisation Jagadguru Dr Swami Shayamdevacharya Maharaj, Organiser, ..

In a tragic incident, a 14-year-old boy met his untimely death after being hit by a speeding car at Ukhri Square under the jurisdiction of Kotwali police station, on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Raunak Yadav (14), son of Santosh Yadav, a resident of JDA Block in Ukhri. SHO of Kotwali police station, R K Malviya informed that police received information from a private hospital that a boy was admitted for treatment of his critical injuries in a road accident...

Chichli police unfolded a blind murder mystery and succeeded in apprehending the accused. Man was killed by his younger brother for torturing him in drunken stupor. The accused has been identified as Hariom Kaurav (29), son of Badde Bhaiyya Kaurav, a resident of Thalbada village. Additional SP, Rajesh Tiwari disclosed this while addressing a press conference...

RECKLESS driving killed two men and left another seriously injured near Amjhar valley after a truck (MP 20 GA 8999) collided head on with a car going towards Jabalpur under Khamaria police station on Thursday night. The car was badly damaged in the mishap. According to information, two people died on the spot while another sustained serious injuries after a car collided head on with a truck. The car was carrying three people. The driver and another person sitting next to the driver died on the spot, ..

  OWING to western disturbance developed over the region, climatic conditions of the city and adjoining areas have changed suddenly. Changed weather conditions have raised both day and night temperatures. Minimum temperature has increased to six degrees within a day. Since morning, clouds started hovering over the city and sun played hide and seek with clouds throughout the day. Cloudy conditions have increased both day and night temperatures to above normal. Southern winds blowing with ..

“JOURNALISM is a religion for a journalist. A journalist should work fearlessly with impartiality in mind. A true journalist works for news without being biased,” said Padma Bhushan Prabhu Chawla, Editorial Director, The New Indian Express Group, while addressing Arunoday-2020: Arun Shukla Memorial Journalism Award, Maya Shukla Memorial Woman Journalist Excellence Award and Sushila Shukla Memorial Anganwadi Workers Excellence Award as chief guest on Thursday...

IN THE matter related to the petitioner, wife of corpus, alleging respondents Station House Officer, Sohagpur Police Station, Hoshangabad district, Kamal Patel, Balram Patel and Sukhwati Bai have detained her husband, single bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court comprising Justice Subodh Abhyankar has given time to the Government Advocate to file status report before the court after a week. During the hearing, Government Advocate K N Bundela, Counsel for the respondent State, further sought one week’s ..

A SINGLE bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court comprising Justice Vishal Dhagat in the habeas corpus petition said that ‘in view of facts and circumstances of the case, it is ordered that corpus Manisha Patel may be set free and she may exercise her option according to her freewill to go and live wherever she wants.’ Single bench heard the habeas corpus petition filed by Amit Kumar Chouhan. During the hearing, corpus of Manisha Patel has been produced before this court by Assistant Sub Inspector Mahendra ..

Breast cancer and lung cancer have emerged as major threat to mankind. If the symptoms are diagnosed in time, both life and health can be restored, informed Archana Johari, President of Mahila Kalyan Samiti, GCF. Johari was addressing a seminar on ‘Breast Cancer and Lung Cancer-Health Problem and its Treatment’ organised under Mahila Kalyan Samiti recently. Members of Mahila Kalyan Samiti GCF frequently rendered their services in various public welfare activities...

Cervical cancer is second leading cause of deaths due to cancer among Indian women. Persistent infection of high-risk genotypes of human papillomavirus (HPV) is the main cause of cervical cancer. Now, according to new findings, HPV 16 and HPV 18 are major causes of cervical carcinoma in Central India. HPV 16 was more prominent infection than HPV 18. Oncologists from Cancer Hospital, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College and ICMR Jabalpur recently conducted a study to estimate incidence of HPV ..

Amidst the growing speculations that relations between him and Jyotiraditya Scindia have gone sour, Chief Minister Kamal Nath has said that he does not get angry with anyone, not even with Shivraj Singh Chouhan then how he can be angry with Scindia? He was speaking to mediapersons on the sidelights of workshop on Alternative Finance for Projects which was attended by ex-Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission Montek Singh Ahluwalia in State capital on Tuesday...

Dr Jitendra Bhargava, Director, School of Excellence in Pulmonary Medicine, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Medical College has been invited to attend a one-day workshop on Alternate Project Financing to be organised at Minto Hall Bhopal on February 18...

Student life is a golden period in every individual’s life. Its all about having fun with friends and stay care-free about real life stresses, but it is equally important to set our future prospective. Hence, learning, experimenting and actively participating in constructive activities should remain an integral part of it, opined Union Minister of State for Tourism and Culture Prahlad Patel. ..

TRANSLOCATION of a herd of 13 swamp deer was successfully carried out from Kanha Tiger Reserve to Satpura Tiger Reserve, Hoshangabad, on Sunday. The herd of swamp deer includes 11 bucks and 2 hinds which were captured and transported under the direction of Field Director of Kanha Tiger Reserve L Krishnamurthy. Capture operation was carried out by a combined team of officers and employees of Kanha Tiger Reserve and Satpura Tiger Reserve under the supervision of team of veterinarians...

“JABALPUR is blessed with natural treasury of forest, wildlife, culture, heritage architecture and unmatchable geological topography. Cinema and tourism are complemented to each other and Jabalpur is naturally enriched for promotion of both the industries. Promotion of shooting in Jabalpur will explore its tourism and industrial potential to generate new employment opportunities and improve lifestyle of residents,” said Kamlesh Pandey, noted Screenwriter while talking to ‘The Hitavada’ during his ..

The growing rift in relations between Chief Minister Kamal Nath and ex-MP Jyotiraditya Scindia has come to fore once again. After the co-ordination committee meeting in Delhi, when mediapersons asked CM Kamal Nath about Jyotiraditya Scindia’s remark that if manifesto points including loan waiver were not fulfilled then he will hit the streets, CM Kamal Nath told bluntly that ‘Toh Utar Jain.’..

The Government of Madhya Pradesh has pledged to ensure overall development of Jabalpur. Having great scope for progress and employment, Jabalpur has more potential as compared to Indore and Bhopal, said Energy and District Minister Incharge Priyavrat Singh. The District Minister Incharge was addressing the inaugural ceremony of two-day Division-level Career Opportunity Fair at the campus of Government Mohanlal Hargovinddas Home Science and Science College for Women on Saturday...

Student activists from National Students Union of India (NSUI), Bhopal, met with the State Governor Lalji Tandon on Friday demanding enquiry against universities. NSUI alleged irregularities and scams in MP Bhoj (Open) University, Barkatullah University, RGPV, Medical University Jabalpur and Jiwaji University, Gwalior. They demanded enquiry against these universities. Governor assured them to act in this complaint.  NSUI submitting complaint to the Governor.  NSUI said that Vice ..

“TO conduct elections of State Bar Council of Madhya Pradesh (SBCMP) with transparency various initiatives have been taken for the first time. Besides, live recording of the counting of votes, live streaming of the process would be available for all the members and candidates from different parts of State.  Advocate General of MP Shashank Shekhar, accompanied by Chief Election Officer and Election Officer Prashant Dubey, addressing the press conference on Friday. (Pic by N K Budhodi) ..

To encourage innovation and to provide certain exclusive rights to the inventor or creator of that property, People’s University has signed an MoU (Memorandum of Understanding ) with Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys for IPRs (patent, copyright, trademark). To create the awareness of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) across various disciples, People’s University in association with Khurana & Khurana, Advocates and IP Attorneys also conducted a seminar on ‘Basics of Patenting Inventions ..

GOHALPUR police nabbed five accused involved in poaching of wild animal and seized meat of cheetal, Innova car, a licensed rifle, live cartridges and a knife from their possession on Amkhera road on Wednesday...

CODE Red team nabbed a miscreant for making a girl’s fake account in social media and uploading her photo and contact number of her mother to defame the family. The arrested has been identified as Gopal Raikwar (23), a resident of Lalmati area in Ghamapur. Code Red team, In-charge Sub-Inspector Aruna Vahane informed that on February 11, a 19-year-old college girl filed a written complaint that 10-12 days back she learnt that some unidentified person had registered a fake account in social media and ..

Madhya Pradesh has become one of the states in country which is pioneering in using renewable energy in big way to meet the power demand. Now it is going to move one step ahead by working on the concept of energy storage. The work on this policy has reached into final phase which aims to store energy coming from renewable sources. Under this project of energy storage, solar or wind energy can be stored and used for various purposes during odd hours. Moreover, Government is mulling to give incentives ..

AFTER hearing habeas corpus petition, single bench of Madhya Pradesh High Court comprising Justice Nandita Dubey has granted four weeks’ time to the State Government to file fresh status report before the court. During hearing, Government Advocate for the respondent State was granted four weeks’ time to file a fresh status report. The single bench has listed this matter after four weeks. In previous hearing of the case, Preetam Singh Valre, SDO (P), Gotegaon, Narsinghpur, had present in person before ..

Kamal Nath Government has done major Indian Police Service (IPS) reshuffle by giving fresh posting to 52 IPS officers on Monday. Kailash Makwana, ADG Administration, Police Head Quarters (PHQ), Bhopal, has been shifted as ADG Narcotics, PHQ. Ajay Kumar Sharma, ADG Narcotics PHQ, has been transferred as ADG Administration, GP Singh, ADG SCRB-PHQ, as ADG, Anti Naxal Operation, PHQ, Rajesh Chawla, ADG Home Guard (Jabalpur) as ADG SCRB PHQ, G Janardhan, ADG JNPA, Sagar as ADG Shahdol range, Makrand Deoskar, ..

After Van Vihar National Park shifted the pair of lions in display cage, large number of tourist are visiting the park to see lions. It seems that Bhopalites are much enthusiastic to see lions in city zoo. On Sunday, large number of tourists especially visited Van Vihar to see the lions. They kept on waiting for an hour to get a glimpse on animal. However, both lions are currently shying away from the crowd. Male Satya is spending maximum time with sister lioness Nandi. The park officials said that ..

Gun Carriage Factory (GCF) Jabalpur will soon award production of towed artillery gun system ‘ATHOS 155 mm/52 calibre’ under the transfer of technology (ToT) agreement with Israel. The Ordnance Factory Board (OFB) has obtained order from Ministry of Defence for production of 1,180 Autonomous Towed Howitzer Ordnance System (ATHOS). Gun Carriage Factory, Joint General Manager and Spokesman Sanjay Shrivastava, while talking to ‘The Hitavada ‘, informed that the indigenous production of Autonomous Towed ..

Tiger Reserve (BTR) has decided to release four tigers from enclosure by February end. Two tigers will be brought to Van Vihar National Park, Bhopal, while two more will be sent to Satpura and Bandhavgarh. Four tigers are enclosed in separate cages of the reserve. Deputy Director of Bandhavgarh Siddharth Gupta said the process to release four tigers from the enclosure has been started...

 Collector Bharat Yadav reviewed works of Revenue Department and gave necessary directions to officials concerned during a meeting held in the conference hall at the Collectorate on Friday. During the meeting, Yadav asked senior officials to expedite revenue recovery and strictly deal with those not paying tax on time. He asked officials to achieve the set target within fixed time. He said pending cases of marking, partition, mutation must be redressed within stipulated time. He also directed ..

  The Corps of Signals Contingent led by Captain Tania Shergill, after a splendid performance in Army Day and Republic Day Parade in New Delhi were accorded a rousing welcome on their arrival at Jabalpur Railway Station on Friday. Brigadier Rajiv Singh, Commandant, 1 Signal Training Centre welcomed Captain Tania Shergill and the contingent by presenting a bouquet and congratulated them for their prestigious achievements. The Corps of Signals Contingent has won trophies for ‘Best Marching ..