Punya Priya Mitra
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Articles by Punya Priya Mitra
Salman Khan to promote tourism, heritage in MP
PUBLISHED ON MAR 07, 2019 10:16 PM IST
Film star Salman Khan has promised that he will help Madhya Pradesh in the field of tourism and heritage, announced chief minister Kamal Nath on Thursday.
Panna: A success story of tiger relocation that started a decade ago
Hindustan times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
PUBLISHED ON MAR 03, 2019 11:42 AM IST
Panna National Park was the second tiger reserve in India after Sariska to loose all its native tigers. Though tigers were repopulated in Sarsika before Panna, the latter has three times the number of the tigers in the former.
Tigers kill their own in Kanha, Sariska reserves, experts say it’s ‘rare’
Hindustan Times | By Punya Priya Mitra and Devendra Bhardwaj
UPDATED ON MAR 01, 2019 06:38 AM IST
On Thursday, forest officials confirmed that a male tiger in Kanha national park killed two sub-adults and a tigress in the past month and had also eaten some parts of their bodies.
MPSBB notice to 500 companies under bio-diversity act
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON AUG 19, 2019 01:38 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board (MPSBB) appears to have got its act together and has given notices to over 500 manufacturing companies who are using forest based bio-resources of the state.
Top cop keeps father’s body for a month, says being treated by ayurvedic doc
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
UPDATED ON FEB 14, 2019 07:22 AM IST
Madhya Pradesh Police said that they were not sure how to respond to the situation as there was no complaint.
Two booked under National Security Act for ‘illegal transportation of cattle’ in Madhya Pradesh
Hindustan Times, Agarmalwa/Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) | By Pramod Carpenter and Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON FEB 08, 2019 09:27 AM IST
The development came two days after NSA was invoked against three people, including two brothers in Khandwa district — 271km south of Bhopal, accused of cow slaughter.
‘Ram Bhakt’ Rahul Gandhi to address farmers’ rally in Bhopal today
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON FEB 08, 2019 08:18 AM IST
Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who will kick off his party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh with a farmers’ rally in Bhopal on Friday, is being shown as a Ram Bhakt, who will build the Ram temple in Ayodhya, and the future prime minister in posters put up to welcome him.
Doctor has affair with driver’s wife, hacks him, dissolves pieces in acid
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON FEB 05, 2019 09:42 PM IST
The accused Dr Sunil Mantri (58), who lives in Anand Nagar, an upscale locality in Hoshangabad, has confessed to killing his servant, Birendra alias Biru Pachauri (30), police said.
Rishi Kumar Shukla’s journey from MP top cop to CBI chief
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
UPDATED ON FEB 03, 2019 08:49 AM IST
A 1983-batch IPS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Shukla was on leave for six weeks from October 15 -- Assembly elections were held in the state at that time -- because of a bypass surgery. He resumed charge as DGP on December 4 under the new Congress government headed by Kamal Nath.
MP forest dept take drone route to take on mining mafia, encroachers
Bhopal, Hindustan Times | By Punya Priya Mitra
PUBLISHED ON JAN 29, 2019 07:37 PM IST
In a first, the Madhya Pradesh forest department will deploy drones to take on the mining mafia, illegal loggers and encroachers of forest land
RSS worker who faked his own death is now a murder suspect, say cops
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON JAN 28, 2019 07:59 PM IST
A desire to claim Rs 20 lakh life insurance that RSS activist Himmat Patidar had taken out in his own name in December 2017 appears to be main motive behind the murder, police said.
Two-year-old falls into 70-foot-deep borewell in MP, rescued
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
PUBLISHED ON JAN 27, 2019 02:04 PM IST
A two-year-old boy who fell into a 70-foot-deep borewell in Kerhar village of Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district has been rescued, district collector Anurag Chaudhary said on Sunday.
RSS worker murdered in Madhya Pradesh
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
PUBLISHED ON JAN 23, 2019 10:42 PM IST
An RSS worker of Ratlam district in Madhya Pradesh was on Wednesday found brutally murdered near his field, spreading anger among BJP workers and members of other saffron organizations
Merit not seniority to decide public prosecutor’s assignments
Bhopal, Hindustan Times | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON AUG 16, 2019 05:54 PM IST
Merit and not seniority will decide the court in which public prosecutors will appear in Madhya Pradesh, signaling a major shift in the way in which public prosecution is carried out in the state
BJP worker arrested for murder of Mandsaur civic body chairman
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Mandsaur | By Punya Priya Mitra and Rohit Soni
PUBLISHED ON JAN 19, 2019 11:05 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh police arrested a ‘BJP worker’ for the murder of Mandsaur municipality chairman Prahalad Bandhwar, 54, who was shot dead Thursday. Besides Manish Bairagi, a declared history-sheeter, police arrested the person who had supplied the pistol.
Vyapam Scam: CBI finds no evidence against former BJP minister, 7 others
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Shruti Tomar and Punya Priya Mitra
PUBLISHED ON JAN 19, 2019 10:16 PM IST
The transport constable recruitment exam was one of the most significant cases related to the multilayered Vyapam scam because most of the accused are from Maharashtra’s Gondia, the native place of former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s wife, Sadhana Singh.
Municipality chairman of Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh gunned down
Hindustan Times, Bhopal\Mandsaur | By Punya Priya Mitra and Rohit Soni
PUBLISHED ON JAN 17, 2019 11:59 PM IST
Mandsaur municipality chairman and BJP leader Prahalad Bandhwar (54) was shot dead by lone motorcycle borne sharpshooter near the busy BPL crossing on Thursday evening.
Vulture count rises by 12 per cent in MP
Punya Priya Mitra, Bhopal, Hindustan Times | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON AUG 21, 2019 02:19 PM IST
Additional principal chief conservator of forest (wildlife) Alok Kumar said, “It is great news that the count has increased in most of the area, showing that vulture habitat is safe in Madhya Pradesh that accounts for the highest number of vultures in the country
Five held for killing MP Cong worker, plot inspired from Drishyam movie
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON JAN 13, 2019 04:13 PM IST
The killers were inspired by the Hindi film Drishyam, in which the police are misled by a killer who plants a dog’s body in a place where the police expect to find human remains, the police said.
MP bureaucrat takes to social media after rebuke by senior, seeks transfer
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
PUBLISHED ON JAN 10, 2019 10:01 PM IST
“17 years of government service, transfer in 10 districts and 19 shiftings, I was always made to feel untouchable, like a German Jew. Khan surname hounded me like a ghost.” Niyaz Ahmed tweeted.
Din likely over deputy speaker polls in Madhya Pradesh assembly
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON JAN 10, 2019 11:57 AM IST
For the post of deputy speaker, the ruling party has fielded Hina Kawre, MLA from Lanji, Balaghat district, and BJP has nominated Jagdish Devra, MLA from Malhargarh, Mandsaur district.
Madhya Pradesh’s Lokayukta seeks fresh nod for 245 pending cases’ trial
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON DEC 28, 2018 08:08 AM IST
A retired high court or Supreme Court judge heads Madhya Pradesh’s Lokayukta, which has its own police wing to deal with corruption cases involving public servants. The officials said that prosecution sanction is awaited against 92 class I and class II officers, including an Indian Administrative Service officer, and 199 class III and IV officials.
‘Couldn’t meet SRK, will return’: Pak national sent back after 19-month jail
Amritsar/Bhopal | By Anil Sharma and Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON DEC 26, 2018 06:34 PM IST
The two were handed over to Pakistan Rangers by the officials of the Border Security Force at 2:20 pm at Wagah border. Warsi went back after a 10-year jail term in Bhopal and Shah was in jail for 19 months in Amritsar.
CM Kamal Nath to induct 20 ministers in Madhya Pradesh cabinet today
UPDATED ON DEC 25, 2018 12:01 AM IST
The names of the ministers have been finalised keeping in view regional and caste equations as well as national polls due next year, Congress leaders said.
Test for Congress as urea crisis looms in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan
Hindustan times | By Punya Priya Mitra and Aabshar H Quazi
PUBLISHED ON DEC 22, 2018 09:54 AM IST
Farmers in Raisen and Guna districts in Madhya Pradesh staged protests and blocked roads after the cooperative societies ran out of the urea on Thursday.
Hard disks seized in Madhya Pradesh e-tendering row, clerk test on radar
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
UPDATED ON DEC 19, 2018 07:42 AM IST
A day after Kamal Nath took over as Madhya Pradesh chief minister, the police informed the state government on Tuesday that the Centre’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) has seized 11 hard disks related to the e-tendering scam.
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: Congress strikes note of caution with meet on poll counting
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra
UPDATED ON DEC 06, 2018 05:00 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: A crucial meeting of Congress candidates who contested the recently-concluded polls will be held on Thursday where the party will give its nominees tips to ensure that they are not short-changed on counting day.
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: Congress cries foul as Shivraj Chouhan calls for cabinet meet
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
UPDATED ON DEC 05, 2018 07:21 AM IST
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: The cabinet meeting is to be held at 10.30 am on Wednesday at Vallabh Bhavan. Congress has termed the meeting ‘unwarranted’ and ‘without precedence’ and complained to state chief election officer V Kantharao.
74.61% voter turnout in Madhya Pradesh, Congress complains of faulty EVMs
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | By Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
UPDATED ON NOV 28, 2018 11:57 PM IST
74.61% turnout recorded, higher than that in 2013; Cong complains of faulty EVMs, demands re-polling.
Rahul Gandhi defending those who abused my parents: PM Narendra Modi
Hindustan Times, Vidisha/Alwar | By Punya Priya Mitra and Rakesh Goswami
UPDATED ON NOV 25, 2018 11:55 PM IST
Speaking at a public meeting in Vidisha, Modi said, “Two days ago they dragged my mother’s name during a rally and today I read in social media that they had dragged my father’s name who died 30 years ago and had nothing to do with politics, and ‘Namdaar’ (Gandhi) is defending them.