Deshmukh appointed pro-tem Speaker Assembly
Bhopal: Senior BJP MlA KD Deshmukh has been appointed as pro-tem Speaker of Madhya Pradesh Assembly, official sources said. After the death of Speaker Ishwardas Rohani during electioneering for the recently held Assembly polls in the state, Gyan Singh was appointed as the pro-tem Speaker by Governor Ram Naresh Yadav, they said. But, following the induction of Gyan Singh as minister in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s Cabinet, the Governor yesterday appointed Deshmukh, who won the Assembly election from Katangi seat, as pro-tem Speaker. Deshmukh will work as an acting Speaker till the appointment of a full-time Speaker of the House, sources added.
National Craft fair underway at IGRMS
Bhopal: National Craft and Demonstration fair-KRITI 2013 is underway at Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya. With the participation of about 250 traditional artists across the country from Assam, Manipur, Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Himachal Pradesh, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Bihar, Odisha, West Bengal and Jammu Kashmir, this programme features various attractive handicrafts and other items such as terracotta, textile, jewellery, metal, wood, paper art and much more to amuse visitors and audience. Saris from more than 12 different states with larger variety and innumerable colors have cheered up the ladies. Young girls love the jewellery and accessories available at the fair.
Nine injured as bus overturns
Ujjain: As many as nine people were injured, some of them critically, when a passenger bus overturned in Jhangoria police station limits on Sunday, police said. The Ujjain-bound bus met with accident near Chikli turning this morning. The injured were rushed to hospital.
Plastic park in MP gets Centre’s nod
Bhopal: In a written reply in the lok Sabha, on December 17, the Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers Srikant Kumar Jena, informed that Centre has given final approval for setting up of plastic parks in Madhya Pradesh at Tamot Village, Gohargunj Tehsil, of Raisen District and Odisha at Siju Village, Kujanga Tehsil, in Jagatsinghpur District and. ‘In principle approval’ has also been accorded to the proposed plastic parks in Assam, Tinsukia District and in Tamil Nadu at Voyalur Village, PonneriTaluk of Thiruvallur District. Jena said that the Government of India provides grant funding up to 50% of the project cost, subject to a ceiling of Rs 40 crore per project under the scheme. He said indiscriminate littering of used plastic bags and the absence of organized segregation/cleaning of plastic wastes in urban centers is a major area of concern. Accordingly, the Ministry of Environment and Forest has notified the Plastic Waste (Management and Handling) Rules, 2011 under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986. These Rules regulate the manufacture and usage of certain plastic products, and the management of plastic waste. The minister added that the virgin plastic bags are not per-se injurious to health or hazardous to environment as Plastic is a chemically inert substance, but recycled / coloured bags are.
Old man beaten, burnt
Betul: A 65-year-old man has been beaten and severely burnt by four relatives over a festering land dispute in Semla village, police said. Dasroo was admitted to the District Hospital after saturday’s incident. Raghunath, Goloo and two others are absconding.
Robbery in retired DSP’s house
Seoni: Dacoits looted jewellery and cash from a retired deputy superintendent of police’s house before injuring his father at police colony in Simria village. “Seven unidentified dacoits barged into Bl Singh’s house and attacked his father Cl Singh last night. The robbers decamped with five tola gold and Rs 4,000 in cash,” Sub-Divisional Police Officer Sanjeev Wikey said here on Sunday.
Postal department official chargesheeted
Bhopal: An official of postal department was chargesheeted by a special court of the Central Bureau of Investigation here for siphoning off over Rs eight lakh through fraudulent means, official sources said. The then sub-post master of Raisen district’s Salamatpur sub-post office committed the crime in between 2010 and 2012 thorough fake signature from accounts. The court charge-sheeted him on Friday.
‘US should extradite ex-chair of union carbibe corp’
Bhopal: In the wake of arrest of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade, an NGO working for the cause of victims of 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy on Saturday demanded that the US should extradite Warren Anderson, former chairman of the Union Carbide Corporation. Anderson is the prime accused in the Bhopal gas leak case. Abdul Jabbar, convener of Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghatan, said India should learn from the US Government which was sticking to its guns even after giving humiliating treatment to Indian Deputy Consul General Devyani Khobragade on trivial charges. “On the other hand, our government not only released Anderson, the prime accused in Bhopal gas case (in 1984), but also apologised for arresting him here at the time,” Jabbar said, speaking at a protest organised by gas tragedy victims here. Court has declared Anderson as an absconder and an arrest warrant was pending against him since March 1992, he pointed out, saying that the Centre did not bring him to the country on the pretext that it would jeopardise the relations between the two countries and hit the foreign investment. Gas tragedy victims burnt effigies of US and Indian governments at the Yaadgar-e-Shahjahani Park in old city area in protest over Anderson issue.