chouhan goes on a three-day visit to dubai
Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan left on a three-day visit to Dubai on Tuesday evening. He would be in Dubai till August 22. He will hold discussions with prospective investors in the context of Global Investors Summit to be held at Indore in ensuing October. The Chief Minister is accompanied by Commerce and Industries Minister Yashodhara Raje Scindia, Urban Administration & Development Minister Kailash Vijayvargiya and Higher Education Minister Umashankar Gupta. Besides Principal Secretary (PS) of the chief minister secretariat SK Mishra, PS Industries Mohammed Suleman and secretary to chief minister Arun Bhat are also accompanying Chouhan. During the visit, Chief Minister Chouhan and the delegation will hold discussions with prospective investors over investment in various sectors including construction, tourism, infrastructure development, petrochemicals processing, food processing and export of vegetables, fruits and spices. Chief Minister Chouhan will reach Dubai on August 20 and leave Dubai for Mumbai in the evening of August 22.
sunil joshi murder: nia submits challan
Bhopal: The National Investigating Agency (NIA) on Tuesday submitted challan in the court of Special Judge Vijay Kumar Pandey, against eight accused including Pragya Thakur in the Sunil Joshi murder case. Sources said that the investigation in the case had taken a new turn in 2011, when few people were arrested from Mhow and Dewas in connection with Malegaon blast case. In the first charge-sheet submitted by the Dewas police, four persons Rajendra Choudhary, lokesh Sharma, Jitendra Sharma and Balbir Singh. They have also been made accused in the Joshi murder case.
The NIA in the investigation has claimed that the reason behind Sunil Joshi murder could be that Joshi was Pragya Thakur’s attraction. The Dewas police had already made Pragya Thakur accused in Joshi murder case and she is also one of the accused in the Malegaon blast case.
‘Hindi month 2014’ kicks off at bhel
Bhopal: ‘Hindi Month 2014’ kicked off here on Tuesday at BHEl, Bhopal with an essay competition being organised at this juncture, in which more than 120 participants actively participated. Vishwas Bhave, General Manager, MM and logistics was present as the Chief Guest while Binoy Kumar, Additional General Manager, HRM was present as the Guest of Honour. Vikash Singh, Engineer, HCM and Subhas Verma, Assistant Engineer, WTM were present as the members of the jury. Bhave addressing the gathering said that, “25-30 years back from now, BHEl, Bhopal had more than 20,000 employees on the rolls of the company, with participation rate accounting to not more than 50 in competitions based on Hindi. Today when I witness the massive involvement, I feel elated to see the affection of the employees for Hindi”. He further wished the gathering to spread similar affection for Hindi in their day to day working. Harish Singh Bagwar, Manager, Rajbhasa & TSX briefed the gathering about the details of the programme to be conducted under the aegis of Hindi month, wishing the participants glory for the forthcoming competitions. Suresh Verma, Assistant Officer, Rajbhasa made the participants aware about the rules and regulations of the competition.
5 booked for assaulting police constable
Bhopal: Five people have been booked on charges of assaulting a police constable posted at Kamla Nagar Police Station limits, police said. While 'Matki Phod (breaking of the pot)' competition was underway during Janmashtami celebrations on Monday, constable Rishikesh Tyagi tried to nab Umesh, whose activities were being monitored by police since some time. However, Umesh and his friends attacked the constable and injured him. He was admitted to hospital. A case has been registered against Umesh, Deepak, Dinesh, Golu and lara. The accused are absconding.
expelled bjp ex-mp returns to party
Bhopal: Six years after he was expelled from the party for remaining absent during the confidence vote in the lok Sabha against then United Progressive Alliance (UPA) regime, former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Chandrabhan Bhaiya Singh on Monday returned to the party folds.
Katni District BJP president Vijay Shukla told over telephone that Singh joined the party in the presence of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during a programme at Bahoriband. Singh had joined the Congress after he was expelled by the BJP in 2008.
assistant teachers to raise promotion issue
Gwalior: A delegation of assistant teachers from the Chambal division will take part in the ‘Shikshak Mahapanchayat' to be held in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain district on Sunday and raise the issue of promotions during the programme. A decision in this regard was taken during a meeting of assistant teachers from Gwalior, Datia, Shivpuri, Ashoknagar, Guna, Morena, Sheopur, and Bhind here on Monday. Assistant Teacher Sanyukt Sangharsh Morcha Sangh's Regional Convenor Subhash Sharma and Gwalior Chambal Division Convenor Dinesh Chakankar said assistant teachers who have been serving since past 25 years were deprived of promotions.
woman killed, 5 hurt as car overturns
Indore: A woman was killed on Tuesday and five others sustained injuries when a car in which they were travelling overturned here. The accident took place on the Indore-Khandwa road, about 15 kms from here, when in order to prevent a collision with a truck coming from the opposite direction, the car slipped down the roadside and then overturned, a sub-inspector at Simrol police station said. The deceased has been identified as Sushila Bai (65), he said, adding that out of the five injured, one was stated to be in a serious condition.