An artist giving final touches to a statue of freedom fighter Tantya Bheel, in a tableau for the R-Day celebration.

Tension in Dhar

Indore, Jan 17: Communal tension gripped Dharampuri town and adjoining Kalibawadi village in Dhar district in western Madhya Pradesh following a fracas over parking of vehicles. The shops remained closed in Dharampuri town yesterday, while seven kiosks were set on fire by a mob in adjoining Kalibawadi village this morning.

Maximum medal

Bhopal, Jan 17: Madhya Pradesh Sports and Youth Welfare Minister Tukojirao Puar has extended his best wishes to youths who brought fame to this state by receiving the maximum medals in the National Youth Festival 2008 held at Chennai from January 12 to 16.

Power theft cases

Bhopal, Jan 17: About one-third of the electricity consumers inspected in Bhopal and Gwalior regions of the Madhya Pradesh State Electricity Board were found involved in power theft or other irregularities, official sources said.

BJP legislators are tense over ‘Modi formula’

Bhopal, Jan 17: The BJP legislators are tense over possibility of ‘Modi formula’ getting implemented in Madhya Pradesh during the ticket distribution for assembly elections scheduled in November this year. In the recently held Chintan Baithak (brain storming meeting) of party leaders at Sanchi, it was decided that all ‘non-performing’ MLAs could be denied ticket by implementing Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi’s formula. Modi won the elections because he changed almost one third of the sitting MLAs.

Shivraj urges PM for including districts in study

Bhopal, Jan 17: Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan urged the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that Satna, Rewa and Sidhi districts of Vindhya region of Madhya Pradesh should be included in the study for long-term measures against drought by an inter-ministry central team in six districts of Bundelkhand region ie Sagar, Damoh, Tikamgarh, Chhatarpur, Panna and Datia.

More public participation for wildlife

Bhopal, Jan 17: More public participation would be mobilised in Madhya Pradesh for better conservation of wildlife. Decision to undertake efforts in this direction was taken at the general meeting of Madhya Pradesh Tiger Foundation which was presided over by Forest Minister Vijay Shah. Minister of State for Forest Narain Singh Kushwah also took part in the meeting.

Ban on purchases after February 1

Bhopal, Jan 17: In order to check the tendency of hasty purchases made during last months of financial the state government has imposed a total ban on government purchases after February 1 till completion of the current financial year. This would also rule out the possibility of violation of prescribed procedures and fiscal discipline in purchases. The ban is imposed every year in the last months of financial year.

Healthcare for adult wards of gas victims to continue

Bhopal, Jan 17: The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed a Madhya Pradesh government order depriving the adult children of the victims of the 1984 Bhopal gas leak tragedy from availing of free healthcare from six speciality hospitals built for the affected people. The bench of Chief Justice KG Balakrishnan, Justice RV Raveendran and Justice JM Panchal, however, found no harm in the hospitals providing medical care to general public as well if that was not at the cost of the victims.