6 ruffians externed
Dewas: The district administration has externed six persons for six months. According to official information, District Magistrate and Collector Shamtesh Agrawal externed Saeed, Ravindrajeet Singh, Imran, Satyanarain Gurjar, Mithun, Antar Singh Choudhary and Kamal.
2-yr-old drowns
Satna: A two-year-old girl drowned on Friday at a pond in Gobrav village in Uchehra Police Station limits here, police said. Reshma’s house was near the pond. Her body was fished out later.
2 die after falling from train
Burhanpur: Two passengers, including a woman, died when they fell from running trains in Khandwa-Bhusawal Rail Division in this district, Government Railway Police said. The body of Kartikaram (36), a resident of Hazaribagh in Jharkhand, was found from tracks near Asirgarh Station yesterday. likewise, the body of a woman was found from Panch Pul area. The deceased could not be identified.
No women candidate in Khandwa
Khandwa: Even as the country debates over reservation for women in Parliament, no women candidate has been fielded by any political party ever from Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa parliamentary constituency. The constituency, with nearly half the electorate belonging to fairer sex, has witnessed 15 general elections and a by-election thus far. However, all the political parties had refrained from fielding women candidates. There are 8,46,349 women electorate out of total 17,58,671 - in the constituency. Assembly segment-wise, Burhanpur has the maximum number of women electorate at 1,29,437. Corresponding figures are Khandwa (1, 15, 013), Pandhana (1, 11, 170), Nepanagar (1, 07, 484), Bhikangaon (1, 00, 237), Bagli (98, 525), Badwah (95, 756) and Mandhata (88, 729).
Accidents claim 4 lives
Bhopal: Weather linked accidents claimed four lives in the state on Friday. lightning killed Morena District’s Mundrabazar village-resident Prahlad Kachhi (40) this afternoon when he was returning after casting his ballot, police said. In Chhatte Ka Pura village, Munnibai (40) met a similar fate. During a squall, a tree beside Bhind District’s Sharri-Jaganpura road fell on a motorbike killing Usha and her brother’s son Shantam on the spot while grievously injuring Shantam’s brother Sonu Sharma who hails from Sharri village. The trio was en route to Sharri. Sonu Sharma was admitted to the District Hospital.