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Focus on job-creating textile sector: MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan

Madhya Pradesh offers a 5 to 7 per cent interest subsidy on loans for machinery, rebates on discounted tariff, infrastructure development help

MP: Hotel of BJP leader, accused of murder, demolished amid public outrage

A special team from Indore blasted 60 dynamites on Tuesday evening to demolish the hotel

MP govt to provide plots of land free to poor families: CM Shivraj

The Madhya Pradesh government announced on Tuesday that it will provide plots of land free of cost to the families which do not own a house. The announcement by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan at a cabinet meeting came when Assembly elections are only a year away in the BJP-ruled state. The scheme, named the Mukhyamantri Bhu Adhikar Yojna, will be introduced in Tikamgarh district from Wednesday and later in other parts of the state, he was quoted as saying in an official release. When I visited Tikamgarh during the election campaign in Prithvipur Assembly seat, some people stopped me and said they do not have a house to live in," Chouhan said. When he asked where they were currently living, they said they lived in their ancestral homes, but with the size of the family growing, there was no room for all the members and they took turns to sleep inside, the CM said. This prompted him to come up with the scheme, he said. Initially 10,500 families in Tikamgarh district will be .

All conversions can't be illegal: SC on HC order on MP anti-conversion law

Madhya Pradesh High Court, in its decision in November 2022, had restrained the state government from prosecuting "adult citizens if they solemnise marriage on their own volition"

Cold wave in Madhya Pradesh till Jan 4; Guna records 5.6 degrees Celsius

Madhya Pradesh has started the new year on a severe cold note and the MeT has forecast a cold wave across the state till January 4 that will cause the mercury to remain below 10 degrees Celsius

It should be a win-win situation for both MP and investors: CM Chouhan

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan talks about investment scenario in the state

Election later this year in MP could change a lot of equations in the BJP

The BJP has been in power in MP for nearly two decades (barring a gap in 2018-20), but the strain of anti-incumbency is beginning to show

10 women gas tragedy survivors go on hunger strike in Madhya Pradesh

A group of 10 women survivors of Bhopal gas tragedy on Friday started an indefinite hunger strike demanding that the state government and the Centre provide correct figures of victims before the SC

23,000 acres of land freed from mafia in Madhya Pradesh in 2022: Govt

More than 23,000 acres of land worth Rs 15,000 crore was freed from the clutches of land mafia in Madhya Pradesh in 2022, the state government said on Friday. "'Suraj Colonies' for the poor homeless families would come up on this land, and work has started on one such project in Neelbad area in Bhopal, said an official release.

Tribal economy set to get a fillip; Madhya Pradesh govt notifies PESA Act

According to the state forest minister Vijay Shah, in this year's Van Mela, forest products worth Rs 3 crore were sold

Madhya Pradesh govt issues security alert to ensure peace, communal harmony

After receiving inputs from the central agencies that communal harmony may be disrupted in the state around the New Year, the Madhya Pradesh government has issued a statewide security alert

Balanced use of water is everyone's responsibility, says MP CM Chouhan

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday called for a balanced use of water, with focus on water conservation, organic farming and the protection of the environment

PM-Kisan grows from strength to strength amid calls for raising the amount

For the April-to-July 2022 installment (11th overall), a sum of around Rs 22,500 crore was distributed to over 10.45 crore farmers

MP Congress wants treason case against Pragya Thakur; BJP defends her

Madhya Pradesh Congress has demanded that a case of treason be registered against Bharatiya Janata Party's Lok Sabha member Pragya Singh Thakur for her keep weapon at home remark, while her party defended the statement saying it was for women's self-defence. Thakur, while addressing a programme in Shivamogga (Karnataka) on Sunday, said Hindus have the right to respond to those who attack them and their dignity, as she spoke about the killing of Hindu activists. The parliamentarian from Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh had also called on the community to at least keep the knives in their homes sharp, as everyone has the right to protect themselves. Madhya Pradesh Congress media department's chairman KK Mishra told PTI that the Centre should now take action by registering a case for treason as Thakur "incited people for violence". "She is now talking about a knife after holding a bomb in her hands. The acts of former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma and Thakur are alike," he claimed. Thakur is

MP govt to offer posts of Dy SP to Olympics, Asian Games medallists: CM

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said players from the state winning medals in the Olympics and Asian Games will be appointed as deputy superintendent of police and deputy collector. Chouhan made the announcement on Monday while addressing the state government's sports awards distribution programme, which was also attended by Union Minister of Sports Anurag Thakur. On the occasion, Chouhan and Thakur unveiled the logo of 'Khelo India Youth Games-2022', scheduled to be held in Madhya Pradesh next year. The CM said parents are worried about the careers of their children and prevent them from indulging in sports. He said the state government had appointed hockey player Vivek Prasad Sagar, who was part of the Indian team that won the bronze in the Tokyo Olympics, as deputy superintendent of police and gave him a house worth Rs one crore in Bhopal. "We have decided that the players who win medals in the Olympics and Asian Games will be appointed to the posts of .

2022: MP becomes home of African cheetahs, Ujjain gets Mahakal Lok corridor

Madhya Pradesh was in global spotlight in 2022 when it became home to eight Namibian cheetahs, while a mega corridor came up near Ujjain's Mahakaleshwar Temple and the Congress' Bharat Jodo Yatra passed through the state during the year, which also saw an alleged serial killer targeting security guards in sleep. Khargone city was under curfew for 24 days in April-May following violence during a Ram Navami procession. On a positive front, Indore maintained its numero uno position as the cleanest city in the country in 2022. The most important event for the state in the year was the airlifting of eight African cheetahs from Namibia and their release in the Kuno National Park (KNP), their new home in Sheopur district, rekindling hopes of revival of an animal species declared extinct in India 70 years ago. The spotted cats, the world's fastest land animal, were brought in a special aircraft from Windhoek in Namibia to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh and then moved to KNP. Prime Minister ...

Former PM Vajpayee's grand memorial to be built in Gwalior: MP CM Chouhan

A huge statue of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee will be installed and a research centre will be built as part his grand memorial in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said. He was speaking on Sunday at the 'Gwalior Gaurav Diwas' function to mark the late leader's 98th birth anniversary. The event was also attended by Union ministers Jyotiraditya Scindia and Narendra Singh Tomar. Vajpayee was born in Gwalior on December 25, 1924. Chouhan told the gathering that a grand memorial of Vajpayee will be built in Gwalior, which will have an e-library and a research centre to highlight his life and works through audio visual medium. The work on the project will start soon, he added. The Madhya Pradesh government has allotted nearly 4,050 hectares of land in Sirol area of Gwalior to build a memorial of Vajpayee, according to Gwalior Divisional Commissioner Deepak Singh. Hailing the former PM for the Pokhran nuclear test that was conducted by evadi

On Scindia's assurance, minister wears shoes forsaken for road completion

Madhya Pradesh Minister Pradyumna Singh Tomar on Sunday started wearing shoes on the assurance of Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia 66 days after he gave them up seeking completion of road works in his Gwalior constituency. The state energy minister, a staunch loyalist of Scindia, was offered a pair of shoes by the latter during the day. "Tomar had stopped wearing shoes for the construction of roads in his area. The chief minister (Shivraj Singh Chouhan) has given approval for these road works and they will be soon completed and inaugurated," Scindia told reporters. Tomar was among several Congress MLAs who quit the party in March 2020 along with Scindia, leading to the collapse of the Kamal Nath government. He won a bypoll on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket in 2020 and was made energy minister in the Chouhan government.

Green peas growers in MP stage protest, demand fixed MSP for open market

Farmers engaged in the cultivation of green peas have staged a protest on Jabalpur-Bhopal national highway after getting low prices for their produce and demanded the Madhya Pradesh government fix a minimum support price for it in the open market. The protest staged by farmers on Saturday is significant since the Madhya Pradesh government has selected green peas under one-district one-product scheme for Jabalpur district, Bharatiya Kisan Sangh national spokesperson Raghvendra Patel told PTI on Sunday. Green peas are grown on a large scale in the district and supplied to various other states, he said. "The farmers want the state government to fix the minimum price for the trading of green peas in the open market, he said. This has been a long pending demand of farmers from the district, he said. Currently, in the absence of such norms, farmers incur losses in the production of green peas if the rate per kilogram goes down in the open market - below the actual production cost per kg

SP to contest all seats in Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections next year

The Samajwadi Party (SP) has announced that it will contest all seats in the Madhya Pradesh (MP) Assembly polls, scheduled next year