Panic created in Barela market when unidentified person opened fire on a jewellery shop under the jurisdiction of Barela police station, on Friday night. The incident took place when the market was crowded with customers and residents were frightened with the loud noise of firing bullet. One of the suspects has been identified as Ajju Patel, a resident of Bilwara village in Barela who is a notorious criminal and earlier involved in several sensitive crime incidents.   Miscreant flashing ..

Existence of several illegal hostels in residential areas is vulnerable for untoward incidents in different posh areas of the city. A large number of boy and girl students and strangers lived at private hostels but the district authorities have no record of private hostels or occupants to maintain law and order arrangements.   Disappointing is the fact that the operation of private hostel at residential buildings is illegal as per the norms of Municipal Corporation but the corporation ..

Demand to develop Film City in Jabalpur is gaining attention of local administration as well as bids are being made by different organisations to attract attention of authorities in the State Administration. Nagrik Upbhokta Margdarshak Manch (NUMM) organised a joint meeting of various organisations and discussed the proposal to develop Film City in Jabalpur while also demanded the State Government to include Jabalpur in plan for development of Film City including Jabalpur. ..

DESPITE several efforts by the doctors and the entire team of foresters, the leopard undergoing treatment at School of Wildlife Forensic and Health, Jabalpur, lost the battle of life on Thursday. ..

Overlooking existence of leopard proved dear for Forest Department as it threatened life of a leopard. In fact, competent authorities already know about existence of leopards in their natural habitat but no concrete measure to protect this wild animal or conserving its territory has been taken so far. If wildlife experts are to believed there are several leopards in the district and most of them are located in and around restricted areas of Ordnance Factories and Dumna Nature Reserve...

“training is a significant part in which trainees have learnt new techniques of routine investigation and learnt law to work with full efficiency. Any appellant who reaches police station is already afraid and police officer needs to calm them and patiently hear their problem and take action to solve their problems and ensure justice with them,” said Jawaharlal Nehru Police Academy, Sagar, Director G Janardan while chairing a meeting of probationary DSPs and Sub-Inspectors at Police Control Room on ..

Archers of Madhya Pradesh State Archery Academy, Jabalpur proved their mettle by winning two gold, a silver and a bronze medal in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games in Guwahati, on Monday. Madhya Pradesh team secured top position with two gold, a silver and a bronze medal while Rajasthan and Andhra Pradesh remained on second and third positions...

After noticing increase in movement of tigers in eleven districts of State, the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department realised the need for developing safe corridors. The fresh report of Forest Department has proved that movement of tigers has increased rapidly in eleven districts. This also includes a few districts where there were no tigers a few years back. In such condition chances of territorial fight among tigers has been increased. It is the main reason behind tigers’ movement in other nearby states ..

Members of Bharatiya Janata Party Chikitsa Prakoshtha provided free medical services during Jan Samarthan Sabha of BJP National President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah at Garrison Ground, Sadar, on Sunday...

Chief Minister Kamal Nath inaugurated mobile banking facility like commercial and nationalised banks for the first time in Madhya Pradesh State Co-operative Bank (Apex Bank) at the Mantralaya. He also released the Apex Bank diary and calendar for the year 2020 on the occasion. The Chief Minister lauded the introduction of mobile banking facility for the customers of co-operative banks. The Chief Minister said that there is need to enable co-operative banks like commercial banks. The co-operative bank ..

JAWAHARLAL Nehru Agriculture University (JNAU) has been decorated with an international repute award presented by Multinational Fertiliser and Pesticide Company ‘Dhanuka’ for its innovations in agriculture and farming techniques. The award was presented in a ceremony held at ICAR Headquarters, New Delhi. Union Minister of Water Resource Gajendra Singh Shekhawat presented a felicitation plaque along with Rs 2.5 lakh cheque to Vice Chancellor of JNAU Dr Pradeep Kumar Bisen. Vice Chancellor ..

 BJP National President and Union Home Minister Amit Shah will address a grand public meeting at Garrison Ground, Sadar, at 1 pm on January 12. In order to review preparations for the public meeting, State BJP President and Member of Parliament Rakesh Singh, State Organisational Secretary Suhas Bhagat and other office-bearers inspected Garrison Ground and sought information about security arrangements and sitting arrangements for residents, senior leaders and party workers. State President Rakesh ..

STATE BJP President Rakesh Singh on Thursday called upon party office-bearers and workers to make high efforts for participation of maximum number of people from every panchayat of the district in the public meeting to be addressed by Union Home Minister Amit Shah on January 12. Addressing a meeting of rural unit of the party, Singh said that the BJP National President is arriving in the city to create awareness on Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)...

KEEPING in view proposed development of Defence Cluster in Madhya Pradesh, Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) Vivek Krishn Tankha met Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and gave him a letter on January 8. In the meeting MP Tankha apprised the Defence Minister Rajnath Singh about the proposal to establish a Defence Production Unit in Madhya Pradesh. Jabalpur boasts of four Ordnance Factories with a large trained manpower. At present, these factories are witnessing a lean period with massive manpower reduction. ..

Banking operations were badly hit during strike on Wednesday. Members of local units of All India Bank Employees Association (AIBEA), All India Bank Officers Association (AIBOA), Bank Employees Federation of India (BEFI), Indian National Bank Employees Federation (INBEF) and Indian National Bank Officers Congress (INBOC) attended the demonstration, dharna along with the support of various organisations of transporters, medical representatives, Anganwadi workers, porters and transporters...

Bandh against stone pelting on police in the city remained peaceful amidst tight security arrangements on Tuesday. Peaceful demonstration was staged at Ranital Square and motorcycle rally was taken out in support of Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). No untoward incident was reported during Jabalpur Bandh. Additional police force was deployed to avoid any kind of agitation during the protest. Superintendent of Police Amit Singh along with other senior officers regularly monitored the situation throughout ..

In a major breakthrough, a combined team of Crime Branch and Tilwara police nabbed five accused and seized three pistols, two country-made revolvers, a revolver and six live cartridges from them. The arrested have been identified as Shekh Asif Khan alias Chuttan (29), son of Shekh Muin, a resident of Jodhpur Padav village in Tilwara, Ankit Lodhi (19), son of Sukhdev, Bablu Maravi (27), son of Chhotelal Maravi, resident of Gautamji Ki Mariha in Garha, Neeraj Lodhi (26), son of Mahesh Singh Lodhi, a ..

On the second day of his Chhindwara tour, Chief Minister Kamal Nath dedicated Adarsh Gaushala in Pathadhana Chandan village. The Minister for Public Health Engineering, Sukhdev Panse, Minister for Higher Education Jeetu Patwari, Minister for School Education Dr Prabhuram Chowdhary, Member of Parliament Nakul Nath and former minister Deepak Saxena were present on the occasion. The Gaushala dedicated by the Chief Minister has been constructed on 1.31 hectare area...

“The effort of hampering communal harmony and peace of Jabalpur will never be tolerated. Stone pelting incident in Jabalpur is a blot on its communal harmony. Jabalpur police managed to control the situation but action against police officers mirrors the intentions of the Congress-led Madhya Pradesh Government. In order to charge the anti-national act of people of a community, residents have been united under the banner of Jabalipuram Hindu Mahasabha to prove their strength through Jabalpur Bandh ..

Chief Minister Kamal Nath said farmers of the State will be made prosperous by revolutionising agriculture sector. He mentioned that the State Government has fulfilled its promise by waiving off loans of 21 lakh farmers under the first phase of the scheme. He expressed these views while distributing certificates of loan waiver to 1,134 farmers of Satna district in the second phase of Jai Kisan Fasal Wrin Maafi Yojana in Satna, The Cm further added that work to ensure that farmers get right prices ..

At last the clear sunny day on Sunday came as blessing to people and peasants suffering due to severe cold and cloudy weather. The people heaved a sigh of relief as the clouds disappeared from sky by Sunday morning. However, the maximum temperature is still 4 degree below normal maximum temperature. Maximum temperature recorded on Sunday was 20 degree Celsius which is 4 degree below the normal maximum temperature. Whereas, maximum temperature registered on the same day in previous year was 27.1 degree ..

In a Cabinet meeting held under the chairmanship of the Chief Minister, Kamal Nath at Mantralaya on Saturday, a decision has been taken to implement Mukhya Mantri Karmchari Swasthya Bima Yojana in the State. About 12.55 lakh employees/officers of the State will be benefitted under the scheme. All regular Government Employees, Contractual employees, teacher cadre, retired employees, Home Guard, full-time employees getting salary from the contingency fund and employees serving in autonomous institutions ..

State Cyber Police Zone Jabalpur nabbed a boy for making fake Facebook account in the name of a girl to defame her to break her marriage. The accused has been identified as Prashant Rajak (22), son of Umesh Rajak, resident of Vallabh Nagar in Sagar district. Under the direction of Special Director General of Police (Cyber) Rajendra Kumar and Additional Director General of Police Milind Kanaskar, State Cyber Police Zone Jabalpur started a special campaign against persons involved in illegal use of ..

Till now 12 lakh quintal Paddy procurement work have been done in the district. The payment processing of the farmers against procured Paddy have been initiated. till now procurement of Paddy worth Rs 4 crore have been doneCollector Bharat Yadav carried out inspection of Baroda and Nuniyanullaha Procurement Centres and instructed to the officials to ensure transportation of procured paddy to the warehouses on priority. He asked officials to take stern action against the centre in-charges paying carelessnes..

Chief Minister opens Jal Mahotsav in Hanuvantiya of Khandwa districtChief Minister Kamal Nath said that the vast scope in the field of tourism will be linked with employment. We have been working on a strategy so that the tourism destinations could be transformed into attraction centers at national and international level and people could get employment on large scale. Kamal Nath was inaugurating the 4th Jal Mahotsav at Hanuvantiya tourist destination, situated at Indira Sagar Dam in Khandwa district ..

With an aim to review law and order situation a meeting of officers of administration and police was called upon on Thursday at Collectorate. The meeting was chaired by Collector Bharat Yadav in presence of Superintendent of Police Amit Singh and JMC Commissioner Ashish Kumar. The objective behind the meeting called upon has taken place in view of some alleged organisation having given call for Jabalpur Bandh, followed by arrival of Union Home Minister on 12.1.2019 and on the same day examination ..

Irregularities and unwarranted delay in completion of sewer line restoration work is proving dear to the denizens. Overlooking and alleged wrongdoings on the part of authorities concerned has become a curse for the city. During summer and winter, puff of dust billows throughout the day from the partially filled sewer lines cause serious respiratory problems to denizens while during rains it make roads marshy. The incomplete sewer line work has become painful to Jabalpurians...

The coulds hovering over the region welcomed the New Year with showers and thick fog besides severe cold wave marred the celebrations of many people. The spine-chilling cold made the routine life disturbed while the sun remained covered by clouds through out the day. Thick fog, cloudy weather badly affected the visibility. The trains and heavy vehicles were being run slowly due to bad visibility. The snow fall occurred in Himalayan region and north eastern wind blowing with speed of 2 km per hour ..

Due to extreme cold and fog in Northern part of India, several trained were delayed by eight to fifteen hours on Tuesday. Amritsar-Nanded and Sachkhand Express reached Bhopal station by fifteen hours late. Arrival time of this train at Bhopal station was 12:10 hours on Sunday but the train reached at 3 pm on Monday. Hazrat Nizamuddin-Habibganj Express reached at Habibganj by 9 hours late and the train was rescheduled at Bhopal station...

Union Minister of State for Culture and Tourism (Independent Charge), Prahalad Singh Patel during his short visit to city visited Polytechnic Kalan Niketan College building and premises on Monday. Patel was accompanied by his wife Pushplata Patel along with senior journalist Ravindra Bajpai, Dr Anupam Sinha, Raghvendra Singh Patel, Pabal Singh Patel, Rajkumar Singh and Mamlesh Sharma...

To drum up support for Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) conducted a social media campaign in State on Monday. BJP leaders twitted in support of CAA and tried to clear the air over it. BJP leaders, including Leader of Opposition Gopal Bhargava, BJP State President Rakesh Singh and ex-CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, twitted in support of the Citizenship Amendment Act. BJP State President Rakesh Singh said that CAA is to provide citizenship to minorities who are persecuted ..

“Members of Hindu, social and other organisations have been united under the banner of Jabalipuram Hindu Mahasabha to support the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA). In order to oppose the violent protest against CAA in the city and unnecessary transfers of police officers, Mahasabha has called Jabalpur Bandh on January 7. Organisations have raised demand to avoid protection of stone pelters and revoking the transfer of police officers for maintaining the morale of Police Department”, said Amit Khamparia ..

“GENDER disparity is the biggest setback in the society. Growth of women in all sectors is the key to eradicate social evil and ensure overall development of the nation. Increasing trend of adulteration is the most hazardous practice which is adversely affecting health of future citizens. There is need of public awareness to stop food adulteration and providing a better future to youngsters,” said Prakashi Tomar, fondly known as ‘Shooter Dadi’. Shooter Dadi was talking to the ..

 SNAKE Rescue Squad of Forest Department rescued two 9-feet-long pythons near a canal between Andhmuk by-pass and Sagra area, on Friday. Snake Rescue Squad Incharge Gulab Singh Rajput informed that they have received information that a farmer was working in the area when his leg was grabbed by a python on Thursday evening. Receiving the information, Snake Rescue Squad accompanied by Sarp Mitra Manish Kulshrestha reached the spot and successfully rescued two 9-feet-long pythons from water ..

Thousands of devotees took holy dip in sacred Narmada on Thursday after the end of solar eclipse. There was fair like scene at the main ghats of holy Narmada, Gwarigaht, Jilaharight, Kharighat, Tilwaraghat, Lamhetaghat, Bhedaghat. Soon after the end of solar eclipse, the devotees came out of their homes and started thronging the banks of holy Narmada. People not only from city but also from adjoining rural areas flocked the bank of holy Narmada. After taking holy dip, they not only offered prayers ..