Unidentified assailants open fire at diamond showroom
Mandsaur: Unidentified assailants opened fire at a diamond showroom here, triggering panic in the area and causing injury to one person as a glass pane fell on him. The motorcycle-borne assailants fired four rounds at the showroom last night, damaging its glass pane which crashed over a man standing nearby, hurting him, City Superintendent of Police (CSP) Sandhya Roy said. The injured, Ayush Soni, has been admitted to a hospital.
While the rider was wearing a helmet, the person on the pillion was masked. They fled the spot after firing at the diamond showroom, police said. Few days ago, an unidentified caller had threatened the showroom owner Sunil Soni over phone, the official said, adding, search is on to track and nab the accused.
Schoolchildren urge locals for ‘cashless india’
Khargone: Taking inspiration from the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's appeal for making "Cashless India" in his Mann Ki Baat programme, schoolchildren in the town have started encouraging locals to use mobile transaction app for utility and other necessary payments.
The children are not only making people aware of mobile transaction apps, but also teaching them how to use it for paying power, telephone and municipal taxes among other things. "We took inspiration from the Prime Minister's Mann Ki Baat programme to make a Cashless India and started knocking doors of the citizens to encourage them to use mobile apps for making payments of the utilities like electricity, telephone and municipalities," KK Convent School's Hussain Malkapur and Paridhi Rathore told. The school has also set up a helpline desk to raise awareness among the parents to go for cashless transactions, the school founder, lavesh Rathore said. The parents were also encouraged to make payments through cheques, he said. Motipura area's Nilesh Gupta who was approached by children on the issue welcomed their initiative and added that it will help in rooting out black money from the system.
HC issues notice to Centre, RBI on Cash crunch PIl
Indore:The Madhya Pradesh High Court today issued notice to the Centre and Reserve Bank of India seeking their replies on a PIl on cash crunch being faced by people post demonetisation. The division bench of justices PK Jaiswal and Virender Singh also issued notice to the Madhya Pradesh government and Indore Collector on the PIl filed by lawyer Akhilesh Sharma. The petitioner urged the court to give directions to the government to ensure that people don't have to face difficulties of standing in long queues in front of ATMs and banks for withdrawing their own money.
each Civic body is important for us: SEC
Bhopal: Every vote is valuable and each Civic body is important for us. Election of Nagar Parishad Council-Amarkantak is as important as election of Municipal Corporation Indore. State Election Commissioner R Parshuram said this at a training programme of Deputy District Election Officers and Returning Officers of Harda, Anupur and Dhar districts. Parshuram said that lapses of any kind should not occur in the elections. Make full use of new tool Online Integrated Application System IEMS. Take training seriously and clear doubts if any immediately. Secretary Sunita Tripathi said that we have to undertake not only fair work but it should be seen. Otherwise trustworthiness will come under doubt. She further mentioned that work with full capabilities in the elections. Deputy Secretary Deepak Saxena informed about the use of Integrated Online Application and randomization of EVM Moreover, Deputy Secretary Girish Sharma informed about law-order arrangements, vulnerable mapping, model code of conduct and communication plan on the occasion. Under Secretary Pradeep Shukla imparted training about nomination forms and master trainers gave training about various election processes. Deputy District Election Officers, Returning and Assistant Returning Officers, District level Master Trainers and E-Governance Manager of Harda, Anuppur and Dhar districts participated in the training programme.
IGRMS to organise programme on World Disability Day
Bhopal: Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya under the activities of with support of ‘Aarushi’ is organising a programme, on the occasion of “World Disability Day”. On Saturday, December 3, differently-abled children will participate in a painting and sports competitions at Veethi Sankul premises of IGRMS from 11 am. On this occasion, launch of album in Brail on Traditional Technology open air Exhibition is at 11.15am.