Bhopal: A 57-year-old BSF officer posted in BSF Academy, Tekanpur near Gwalior tested positive for coronavirus in Gwalior region on Saturday. “The state health department team that visited the academy found that the officer’s wife had recently gone abroad and could have carried the virus. The entire family is now isolated,” said the state government […]
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COVID-19: 5 more test positive, MP tally goes up to 20
Bhopal: With five more people testing positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours, the toll of infected people in Madhya Pradesh has risen to 20, health officials said on Thursday. The tally includes an Ujjain-based woman, who died on Wednesday in Indore, All the five new cases are in Indore, two are women. In […]
Shivraj Chouhan sworn in as Madhya Pradesh CM
Bhopal: Shivraj Singh Chouhan was sworn in as the 32nd Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh at 9 pm on Monday. Governor Lalji Tandon administered the oath of office and secrecy to him at an austere ceremony. Chouhan was re-elected the BJP Legislature Party chief in a meeting at the party’s state headquarters on Monday. This […]
Flight delayed over COVID-19 scare in Bhopal
Bhopal: COVID-19 scare forced the airport authorities at Bhopal to detain an Air India flight on Sunday for an hour after a woman passenger who showed flu like symptoms on disembarking, an official said. The woman has been rushed to government Jai Prakash hospital, he said. She along with 17 other passengers were de-planed from […]
Governor accepts Kamal Nath’s resignation
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon has accepted the resignation of Kamal Nath as Chief Minister; however, he has asked Nath to continue to work as acting Chief Minister till an alternative arrangement emerges. According to information from Raj Bhavan, “Chief Minister Kamal Nath submitted his resignation letter to Governor Lalji Tandon on Friday at […]
Operation Kamal trumps Kamal Nath in MP
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath announced resignation from his post, hours before the Supreme Court ordered trust vote deadline. This ended the 15-month-old Congress rule in the state. Kamal Nath’s government lost majority after the resignation of 22 MLAs, who are in support of Jyotiraditya Scindia, who recently moved to the BJP. Before […]
Kamal Nath may quit before floor test on Friday
Bhopal: With the Speaker of the Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha Narmada Prasad Prajapati accepting the resignations of the 16 legislators holed up in Bengaluru, it has become clear the Kamal Nath government will quit on Friday. In a frantic effort to pull off a near impossible win in Friday’s floor test, the Congress held three […]
MP Assembly adjourned till March 26 after Governor’s address
Bhopal: Amidst uproar in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly, the house was adjourned till March 26. Speaker N.P. Prajapati adjourned the house just after the governor finished his customary address. Governor Lalji in his address asked the MLAs to uphold democratic ideals. He also told the government to hold a floor test on Monday itself. Meanwhile, […]
MP Governor asks Assembly Speaker to conduct floor test on Monday
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Governor Lalji Tandon late on Saturday asked the Assembly Speaker Narmada Prasad Prajapati to conduct the floor test on Monday, days after 22 Congress MLAs resigned from pushing the Kamal Nath’s 15-month-old government on the brink of collapse. In view of the MP Assembly floor test, the Congress MLAs will depart to […]
With Shivraj by his side, Scindia files papers nomination for Rajya Sabha
Bhopal: Two days after Jyotiraditya Scindia switched to the BJP, he filed his Rajya Sabha nomination on Friday in Bhopal amid much fanfare and excitement. Though just three days old in the party, BJP workers accompanied Scindia to the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. Former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan and state BJP chief V.D. Sharma were by […]