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Bhopal: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has termed the rail budget as disappointing saying that it has not given a fair deal to Madhya Pradesh. Injustice has been done to the people of the state by not including various pending rail projects forwarded by the state government. Due attention has also not been paid to improving rail infrastructure in the state. However, he hailed the announcement for developing two railway stations of Madhya Pradesh as model stations and upgrading another two stations to world class.

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress gets its voice back with the formation of media department and appointment of one media Chairman and two spokespersons. The new set up of media has been prepared on the line of All India Congress Committee (AICC). For the past one month, the state Congress was facing problems as all the media persons were sacked. Only State Congress president Suresh Pachauri and a couple of general secretaries and secretary were active opening front against state government.

Bhopal: The State-level probe panel formed for looking into the mysterious disappearance of tigers from Panna has started its proceedings from Friday. The four members of the team conducted a field visit on Friday for assessing the present status inside the park. The team is expected to conduct a public hearing on Saturday. The four members of the state level Panna probe panel, which landed at Panna National Park, conducted a field visit across the park to start the proceedings on Friday.

Bhopal: Van Vihar National Park's second aged and about 17-year-old leopard-Trega -- which has lived 20 per cent more than its normal life, has fallen ill and is being treated by medicos. Trega was brought here when he was only two-and-a-half-years old in 1994 from Sidhi and has spent 15 years in the Park. Park Sources said that population of aged wildlife animals is more in Van Vihar as compared to other zoos. Besides, India's aged lioness 'Rihana', one of the country's most aged leopards, is here.

Bhopal: The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh has decided to please its neglected workers and local leaders by introducing Mohalla Samitis at ward-level. This exercise has raised eyebrows of opposition party as civic body elections are approaching in November this year. Recently, State BJP President and Member of Parliament Narendra Singh Tomar had a meeting in this regard with Urban Administration and Development Minister Babulal Gaur at his residence.

Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President Suresh Pachauri in a memorandum to the Governor Rajeshwar Thakur demanded to instruct the state government for taking strict action against crime on women. Expressing concern over the increasing crime and atrocities on women, Pachauri said, “The state once known as the island of peace and amiability now tops the list of crime on women.

Bhopal: The sensational Bhopal gang rape case on Wednesday took a dramatic turn when the Mumbai-based bar dancer victim disclosed that the man whom she had earlier stated as her husband also sexually assaulted her with two other men in the moving Sports Utility Vehicle. Police sources said that the victim, 25, who was native of Kanpur district of Uttar Pradesh but settled down in Mumbai, disclosed various surprising facts in her preliminary interrogations here.

Bhopal: Expressing concern over disappearance of tigers from Madhya Pradesh's Panna Tiger Reserve, Union Minister of State (Independent charge) for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh wrote a letter to state Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to initiate action against the concerned officials. The minister also sent the report of Special Investigation Committee along with the letter.

Bhopal: Chancellor and Governor Rameshwar Thakur has instructed universities' vice-chancellors that convocations of their respective institutions should be held every year in a graceful manner. He told the vice-chancellors to set the date of convocation this year and intimate him about it at the earliest. Thakur gave these instructions while talking to Principal Secretary Higher Education Sewa Ram on the higher education setup and arrangements at the Raj Bhawan here today.

Bhopal: The dejected Bharatiya Jan Shakti (BJS) in Madhya Pradesh got some consolation here on Tuesday when some leaders of other parties along with their supporters joined the party in a function at Gandhi Bhavan. Those who joined the BJS on the occasion mainly include former state vice president of the Samajwadi Party (SP) Amit Verma who was immediately named as the national president of the youth wing of BJS, Yuva Jan Shakti.