Work on the project was put on hold a year ago Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh has lifted the stop-work order on the Maheshwar Hydel Power Corp Ltd., implying that he was yielding to pressure from the Prime Minister's office and madhya pradesh politicians across political lines. However, while project promoters are now free to construct the remaining five spillway gates of the dam, the lowering of the...

Procurement of wheat for the public distribution system on Friday crossed the last year's level although it remained lower in Punjab and Uttar Pradesh, compared to the corresponding period last year, due to late arrival or delayed reporting. As per the latest data released by the Centre, the Food Corporation of India and State agencies had procured 20.92 million tonnes of wheat compared to 20.61 million tonnes procured last year in...

The Income Tax department has recommended CBI action against four senior IAS officers of madhya pradesh and Chhattisgarh who had been raided by the department last year and assets worth hundreds of crores recovered from them. Arvind Joshi and his wife Tinoo Joshi, both 1979 batch IAS officers; M A Khan, a retired IAS officer; Babulal Agarwal, a 1988 batch IAS officer and two executive engineers were raided by the I-T...

In what eyewitnesses termed an extremely shocking incident, a Forest department team of the Panna Tiger Reserve in madhya pradesh allegedly beat up a pregnant woman during a raid, resulting in a miscarriage leading to the death of her unborn twins on the spot. According to eyewitnesses, a Forest department team raided the house of Rakesh Adhikaari of Kunjaval village on Wednesday and tried to take him away for allegedly hunting...

“Declare State GM organisms-free on the lines of M.P., Bihar” Farmer groups here on Sunday demanded that Rajasthan be declared a genetically modified (GM) organisms-free State on the lines of madhya pradesh, which has recently decided to prohibit any environmental release, including field trials, of GM seeds and crops in view of their safety and impact on human beings and environment still being in doubt. madhya pradesh is the second State in...