Farewell to retired staff
Bhopal: Farewell was given to 5 retired Government servants at a function at Mantralaya on Saturday. These Government servants had retired on May 31. Principal Secretary General Administration K. Suresh handed over dues to Section Officer Zahid Hussain, Personal Secretaries Suraj Prasad Verma and Saleem Arif, Assistant Grade-1 Param Sukh Ojha and Jamadar Ram Kumar. Gifts were also given away to the retirees. President of Mantralaya Employees Union Sudhir Nayak and Manager of State Bank of India's Vallabh Bhavan branch DR Bamraila were also present on the occasion.
15 injured as bus overturns
Satna: As many as 15 passengers were injured, some of them critically, when a bus overturned near Badkhar village. The Semaria-bound bus met with the accident on Friday evening. The injured were admitted to a Government Hospital here. Meanwhile, an 18-year-old girl died after falling from a hill in Gorsori area. Pushpa Jaisawal met with the accident when she went to collect woods in the jungle of the hill on Friday. She fell 20 ft below and sustained grave injuries. She was being rushed to hospital but died on way.
Elderly man dies of heat stroke
Guna: An unidentified elderly man died when he failed to bear excessive heat wave near Jaistambh Crossing here. The victim was sitting under a shed when he became unconscious on Friday. He was rushed to hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
Pilgrimage from june 29
Bhopal: Journeys for various centres of pilgrimage will commence under Mukhyamantri Tirth-darshan Yojana from June 29. In these rail journeys, pilgrims from Betul, Hoshangabad, Bhopal, Raisen, Sehore, Dewas, Indore, Neemuch, Mandsaur, Dhar, Ratlam, Shivpuri, Gwalior, Datia, Bhind, Khandwa, Khargone, Barwani, Harda and Chhindwara districts will be taken to Vaisho Devi, Rameshwaram and Tirupathi. Under the scheme, 201 pilgrims from Betul, 204 from Hoshangabad, 270 from Bhopal, 150 from Raisen and 151 pilgrims from Sehore district leave on June 29 via Betul-Hoshangabad-Habibganj. Similarly, 310 pilgrims from Neemuch, 330 from Mandsaur and 337 pilgrims from Ratlam will go from Neemuch to Rameshwaram on June 30 and 372 pilgrims from Indore, 215 from Dewas, 211 from Sehore and 180 pilgrims from Dhar will go from Indore to Rameshwaram on July 9. For Tirupathi, 260 pilgrims from Shivpuri, 301 from Gwalior, 206 from Datia and 209 pilgrims from Bhind will go from Shivpuri on July 10. Similarly, 215 pilgrims from Khandwa, 200 from Khargone, 153 from Barwani, 152 from Harda and 256 pilgrims from Chhindwara will go to Rameshwaram on July 14.