Students from People’s Medical College sweeping road during their protest against fees hike by college administration.

Counting in Betul

Bhopal, Apr 15: Votes polled in the Betul Lok Sabha by-election on April 12 will be counted on Wednesday. Amid tight security, votes polled in six assembly segments of Betul district will be counted at Betul high school and those polled in Harda and Timarni segments will be counted at district town of Harda.

Bharat Mata temple

Tikamgarh, Apr 15: RSS Chief KS Sudarshan on Tuesday inaugurated a 'Bharat Mata' temple, built by public cooperation, at Mamon hill three kms from here. A 'kalash yatra' would be taken out from the temple to every district in Madhya Pradesh till May 10 by the priest Shyamsundar Das to commemorate the sacrifice of martyrs of war of independence.

Foreign study panel

Bhopal, Apr 15: The state government has constituted a committee for selecting candidates belonging to OBC for higher education in foreign countries. Additional Chief Secretary and PS Backward Classes and Minorities Welfare would be the Chairman of the committee.

Bhopal, Apr 15: Molten lava emanated from earth at Industrial Area in Sendhwa block of Badwani district on Tuesday afternoon. The ember orange coloured fluid continued to spring out of earth for more than an hour and then got deposited after cooling down. The molten fluid reportedly heated up the vicinity creating panic among the few factory owners.

Cong on war-footing for assembly polls

Bhopal, Apr 15: Madhya Pradesh Congress in the leadership of PCC president Suresh Pachauri working on war-footings to make party battle ready for November 2008 assembly elections. As a first step, the party has decided to raise orgnaisaitonal structure in the assembly segments where most of the conventional party leaders and their family members have joined ruling BJP in past four and a half years.

Fund for conservation of primitive tribes

Bhopal, Apr 15: Directives have been issued to the concerning officers in connection with funds allocated for conservation-cum-development schemes for primitive tribes for the year 2007-08. According to directives, they have been asked to approve on priority basis the schemes under this Rs 10 crore plan. Principles laid down by the Union government have also been incorporated in it.

Ensure spare parts for hand pumps

Bhopal, Apr 15: The Minister for Public Health Engineering Choudhary Chandrabhan Singh has instructed the officers concerned to ensure availability of spare parts required for repair of hand pumps to proper drinking water supply during the summer season. He directed that the hand pump technicians should be assigned works with spare parts and vehicles.

Service is the only mission: Chouhan

Bhopal, Apr 15: The Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that service of people is the one and only mission of his life. He said that he is working with commitment to make Madhya Pradesh one of the leading states of the country and solicited active public cooperation for this. Chouhan was responding to a felicitation accorded to him by Mahamai Seva Samiti at Sironj in Vidisha district on Tuesday.