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16-year-old girl raped by two youths

Bhopal: A 16-year-old girl, who was allegedly, raped by two youths Sonu Seharia (20) and Sonu Sen (23) on Tuesday, and she has set herself on fire in Bajrangarh village of the district.

The girl took this extreme step on Wednesday. She has suffered 90 per cent burns and is battling for life in the district hospital of Guna. later, her mother took her to Barkhedagird Police Station for filing a report, but the police did not take any action in the matter, the victim's family. On Thursday, Guna Superintendent of Police (SP) KC Jain rushed to the village following which one of the accused was arrested by the police while the other one was nabbed on Friday. Inspector General (IG), Gwalior Division, Adarsh Katiyar also visited the victim at the hospital today and reviewed the progress made by police in the case.

TV journalist Chaurasia get injured at posterior

Indore: Television journalist Deepak Chaurasia was injured when he fell after his feet slipped after he alighted from aircraft at Devi Ahilyabai Holkar airport here last evening, sources said. Chaurasia had arrived here to take part in a programme. Chaurasia received serious injuries to his posterior. He was admitted to Bombay Hospital where doctors examined his injury and later flown back to New Delhi due to serious injury.

Bi-weekly Trains run between Indore & Patna

Indore: The Railways has decided to run bi-weekly special train between Indore and Patna from April 4 to June 27 to clear extra rush of passengers during summer. According to a Western Railway (Ratlam Division) spokesperson, the 09305 Indore-Patna special trains will leave Indore every Monday and Thursday at 1505 hrs in afternoon and reach Patna next day at 2000 hrs. The 09306 Patna-Indore special trains will leave Patna every Wednesday and Saturday at 0010 hrs and reach Indore next day at 0450 hrs. The train will halt at Dewas, Ujjain, Maksi, Guna, Malkhedia, Sagar, Damoh, Katni, Maihar. Satna, Manikpur, Chhibki, Mirzapur, Mugalsarai, Buxar, Ara and Danapur stations. Similarly, a special train will ply between Central Mumbai and Indore on April 1. The 09029 Central Mumbai-Indore special trains will leave Central Mumbai at 1225 hrs on April 1 and reach Indore next day at 0330 hrs. The train will halt at Borivali, Surat, Vadodara, Dahod, Ratlam, Nagda, Ujjain and Dewas stations.

Officers Association will stop checking vehicles

Indore: The Madhya Pradesh Commercial Tax Gazette Officers Association has declared that they will stop checking the vehicles in entire Madhya Pradesh from 1 April. Few days back the deputy commissioner of the commercial tax department PK Singh was arrested in Bhopal while accepting the bribe of Rs 2 lakh from the transporter. The MP commercial taxes gazette officers' association has demanded the State Government to ensure it that it must scrutiny carefully before allowing any enforcement agency to take action against any of its members by March 31. The transporters in the state are involved in heavy tax evasion and hence our members are right when they take action against them and ask them to pay their due taxes, said general secretary of the association RK Tiwari. An extraordinary general body meeting was held by the association to discuss the letter which has been sent by the official who is in the net of lokayukta police.

Nehru garden in bad shape at Dreamland square

Mhow: The Pandit Jawahar lal Nehru garden at Dreamland square is in bad shape as the cement concrete stairs and the path constructed in garden to reach the statue of Pandit Jawahar lal is broken at various places which causes inconvenience to the devotees who go to offer flowers to the statue. locals alleged few months back the Cantonment Board Mhow has spent lakhs of rupees for the renovation of garden. The poor construction done by the constructing agency and negligence of cantonment board authorities to check the quality of raw material used while construction has resulted in the poor quality construction. The statue is never cleaned as it is covered with dust. The garbage is scattered everywhere in the garden. When the quality of the construction is so poor at the main market of Mhow cantonment board what will be the condition of roads and other construction going on in the various parts of the Mhow town in which cantonment is spending crores of rupees.

Startford students performed brilliantly in KVPY

Bhopal: The students of Startford Academy performed brilliantly in the Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana, (KVPY) a National Program of Fellowship in Basic Sciences by Department of Science and Technology aimed to encourage the students towards research careers. Thirteen students of the Academy were selected in KVPY. The selected students of the academy are Mayank Tanwar( AIR-187),  Anaghya Puntambare (AIR -229) are students of class XI. Devesh Jain (AIR-82), Kshitij Sandeep Minocha(AIR-136), Sarthak Ajmera(AIR-296), Sidharth Rath(AIR-663), Manish Kumar Singh(AIR-741), Nikhil Agrawal(AIR-945), Nihar Yeolekar(AIR-1005) and Mohit Upmanyu (AIR-1029) are students of class XII. In the first round 15 students of the academy were selected and 13 out of 15 got selected. The selected candidates will be paid a scholarship of Rs 5000 to Rs 7000 per month. Recently Ayush Malpani of the academy topped in the state and was third in International Maths Olympiad. The selected candidates attributed their success to their parents and the guidance providence by the academy.