The Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group has been granted permission to explore Coal-Bed Methane (CBM) in the Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, official sources said on Thursday.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said here on Sunday that independence is incomplete as one-third of Kashmir remains occupied by Pakistan.

The case of 61 truck-loads (carried by 22 trucks) of explosives that went missing after the stock had been lifted from Dholpur in Rajasthan has acquired serious dimensions from the security point of view: on Friday the Sagar district police in Madhya Pradesh found four empty trucks involved in transporting the explosives abandoned in Rajgarh district, near the state capital.

A recklessly driven police bus went out of control near the Gandhi Medical College in the state capital on Saturday crushing to death seven persons, including two first-year medical college students, one woman and a child.

“The decision to keep the three orphaned cubs of the Jhurjhura tigress, killed on May 19 by a rashly driven vehicle inside the Bandhavgarh tiger reserve, in an enclosure at the same spot where they had been found as they were familiar with the area was taken during the visit of member secretary of National Tiger Conservation Authority to Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve on May 31 and June 1.”

Bajrang Dal activists went berserk and assaulted romantic couples, including a young married couple at Manua-Bhan ki Tekri, a religious-cum-tourist site here on Tuesday. The police registered a case but no one had been arrested till Wednesday evening.

The Union minister of state for environment and forest, Jairam Ramesh on Saturday shot a letter to the Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan to stop involving tourists in patrolling of protected areas and tiger reserves.

The Special Police establishment of Lokayukta has registered an FIR against Bharatiya Janata Party MLA Ramesh Mendola and 16 others under the anti-corruption law in a case relating to a major land scandal in Indore.

Suspended IAS officer Arvind Joshi, who belongs to the Madhya Pradesh cadre, had invested about Rs 300 crores in shares in different companies, according to a SEBI report received by the income-tax department here. The official residence of Mr Joshi and his IAS wife Tinoo Joshi in the state capital was raided by the income-tax

The Madhya Pradesh Public Services Guarantee Bill, 2010, which makes it mandatory for government functionaries to provide public services to the people within a fixed time-frame, was passed by the state Assembly on Friday — the concluding day of the Monsoon Session.