CBI has conducted searches in six States
Bhopal: Central Bureau of Investigation has conducted searches at 26 locations spread over in six States including Bhopal, Sehore, Ratlam, Umaria (all in Madhya Pradesh); New Delhi; Fatehabad, Faridabad (Haryana); Bhubaneswar, Ganjam (Odisha); Guwahati, Kamrup, Lakhimpur (Assam) and Gangtok (Sikkim) at the premises of officials working in National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS), ex-officials of NIOS; study centres and private persons in an on-going investigation of a case.During searches, around 200 items such as hard disk drives, mobile phones and various incriminating documents including admit cards, vouchers, passbooks, mark sheets, cheque books, seals, diaries, answer sheets of NIOS, payments received from candidates, fees payment made to NIOS & seating plan of examination hall etc. have been recovered.CBI had on July 23, 2018 registered the case under sections 120-B, 420, 467, 468 and 471 of the IPC and sections 13 (2) and 13 (1) (d) of PC Act on the complaint of Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi on the allegations that there was malpractices in the conduct of examination with respect to large number of students (around 1800) in the class X and XII examinations, conducted by National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) in April, 2017.
IndiGo introduced daily non-stop flights
Bhopal :Private low-cost airline IndiGo on Wednesday introduced daily non-stop flights between Bhopal-Hyderabad and Jabalpur-Hyderabad at the price of Rs 1999.In Madhya Pradesh, Bhopal and Jabalpur will be the second and third cities IndiGo will be flying to, after Indore. Additionally, the airline will also operate its fourth daily return flight between Hyderabad-Tirupati. All new services will commence effective January 2019, IndiGO Chief Commercial Officer William Boulter said here.