Leaders, including ex-MP, MLAs from Madhya Pradesh, join BRS

Leaders, including  ex-MP, MLAs from Madhya Pradesh, join BRS

BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao with leaders from Madhya Pradesh who joined the party in Hyderabad on Tuesday. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement A new leaf was added to the expansion of Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on Tuesday with several leaders from Madhya Pradesh including a former MP and a few former MLAs from Bharatiya … Read more

Cost overruns decline to 20.34% in April, says new MoSPI report

Cost overruns decline to 20.34% in April, says new MoSPI report

The anticipated costs of 1,605 infrastructure projects as on May 1 were 20.34% higher than original cost, according to a report by the infrastructure project monitoring division of the ministry of statistics and programme implementation released on Tuesday.The total anticipated cost at Rs 27.5 lakh crore was Rs 4.65 lakh crore higher than the original … Read more

Summer crop area marginally down YoY

Summer crop area marginally down YoY

The sowing of summer crops is marginally down at 69.20 lakh hectares this year against 70.30 lakh hectares a year ago, according to the latest data released by the agriculture ministry. The sowing area under pulses and coarse cereals is higher year-on-year, while the acreage of rice and oilseeds is lower. About 19.61 lakh ha … Read more

Digvijaya and Nath caused more damage to M.P. than coronavirus: CM Chouhan taunts Congress leaders

Digvijaya and Nath caused more damage to M.P. than coronavirus: CM Chouhan taunts Congress leaders

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. File | Photo Credit: PTI Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on April 27 took a swipe at senior Congress leaders Digvijaya Singh and Kamal Nath, alleging that they have caused more damage to the State than coronavirus. His remark comes a day after Digvijaya Singh said … Read more

Wheat crop loss likely to be 1-2 MT due to untimely rains, overall output to reach record level, says government

Wheat crop loss likely to be 1-2 MT due to untimely rains, overall output to reach record level, says government

The government on Friday said wheat production loss due to recent inclement weather is likely to be in the range of 1-2 million tonnes but overall production will reach a record 112.2 million tonne in the current year on higher acreage and yield. The government’s wheat procurement at minimum support price (MSP) is underway and … Read more

‘Ladli Behna Yojana’ | Madhya Pradesh CM launches scheme for women with eye on polls

‘Ladli Behna Yojana’ | Madhya Pradesh CM launches scheme for women with eye on polls

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Sunday reached out to women in the BJP-ruled State by launching a scheme to provide ₹1,000 monthly aid and slammed the previous Congress Government for “stopping” welfare measures meant for women, months ahead of the Assembly polls. Mr. Chouhan, who is celebrating his 65th birthday on Sunday, … Read more

Congress slams Madhya Pradesh Govt for distributing ‘assembled in China’ tablets to MLAs

Congress slams Madhya Pradesh Govt for distributing ‘assembled in China’ tablets to MLAs

Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President Kamal Nath has already returned the tablet. File | Photo Credit: A.M. Faruqui Opposition Congress on Thursday hit out at the BJP Government in Madhya Pradesh for handing out tablet computers “assembled in China” to the MLAs. The tablets had been given to the lawmakers for reading the maiden e-budget tabled … Read more

Madhya Pradesh Budget | Polls in sight, focus on women, jobs and tribal welfare; no new taxes

Madhya Pradesh Budget | Polls in sight, focus on women, jobs and tribal welfare; no new taxes

Madhya Pradesh Finance Minister Jagdish Devda presents the State Budget 2023-24 in the Assembly, in Bhopal on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is also seen. | Photo Credit: PTI The Shivraj Singh Chouhan government in Madhya Pradesh has kept its last Budget of the outgoing Assembly a youth-and women-centric … Read more

‘Join BJP or else CM’s bulldozer is ready,’ MP minister warns Congress members

‘Join BJP or else CM’s bulldozer is ready,’ MP minister warns Congress members

Mahendra Singh Sisodia. File | Photo Credit: Facebook/@iamsisodia1 A Madhya Pradesh minister has stirred a controversy by reportedly asking Congress members in the state to join the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) or face the threat of demolition by the Chief Minister’s bulldozer. A video of Panchayat Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia making the remarks at … Read more

Two-day ‘Think-20’ meeting under G20 in Bhopal from January 16

Two-day ‘Think-20’ meeting under G20 in Bhopal from January 16

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan will attend the inaugural function of the event, to be held at the Kushabhau Thackeray International Convention Centre in Bhopal. File. | Photo Credit: ANI Bhopal A two-day ‘Think-20’ meeting under the G20 will be held in Bhopal from January 16 during which experts and foreign guests will … Read more