According to the data of the Union government’s Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, India reported 1,07,851 new cases of leprosy in 2023-24, accounting for 57 percent of the global disease burden. During the same period, 2,363 visible disability cases were recorded, making up 25 percent of disabilities reported worldwide.
According to state government officials, Dr Yadav emphasised the growing cooperation between India and Japan, calling Japan’s investment in India, particularly in Madhya Pradesh. He stressed the need to accelerate efforts in this direction.
Three people travelling by road from Dhar to the Mahakumbh were killed and three others were seriously injured when their vehicle collided head-on with a truck in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday.
Facing allegations of amassing disproportionate assets worth crores, including cash and valuables, former Madhya Pradesh Transport Department constable Saurabh Sharma surrendered in the Special Lokayukta Court in Bhopal on Monday after being untraceable for over a month.
The tableau of Madhya Pradesh has again been chosen, for the second year in a row, to be part of the National Republic Day Parade in New Delhi on 26 January, and this year the state’s theme is ‘Cheetah’, the world’s fastest land animals that are present only in the state and nowhere else in the entire country.
Two cheetah cubs at the Kuno National Park (KNP) in the Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh were found dead three days after their birth.
At least four women were killed and four other people seriously injured after a powerful explosion inside a house resulted in the demolition of four houses in a colony in the Morena city of Madhya Pradesh at midnight on Tuesday.
Ruling BJP candidate Ramakant Bhargava registered a win over his Congress rival Rajkumar Patel in the Budhni Assembly by-poll in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, but the victory margin fell drastically as compared to the 2023 Assembly elections.Bhargava won by about 13900 votes against Patel.
In a major setback to the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh, party candidate and state Forest Minister Ramniwas Rawat lost to his Congress rival Mukesh Malhotra by more than 7,000 votes on Saturday in the Vijaypur bypoll.
Soon after the police released Patel from his initial confinement on Thursday evening, the MLA from Mauganj constituency again tried to go to the encroached site near the Mahadevan Temple in Devra with his supporters.
