Chandigarh 4th March: Today the State unit of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Chandigarh held protest demonstration against the ban on Indian Hockey Player Shivender Singh. The demonstration was addressed by State BJP President Sh. Sanjay Tandon, State General Secretaries S. Satinder Singh & Sh. Arun Sood and other Yuva Morcha leaders.
The protesters highlighted the high headedness of Tournament Director Ken Read in imposing a 3 match ban on Shivender Singh. It has been established by the appellate committee that the incident that happened in the India-Pakistan match on Sunday was …

Bhopal:Thursday, March 4 : Madhya Pradesh Tourism has bagged the Tourism Ministry’s National Award of Excellence under the category – Best Tourism Promotion Collateral Publicity Materials for the year 2008-09. The award was received by Shri Hari Ranjan Rao, Managing Director of Madhya Pradesh State Tourism Development Corporation from the Vice President of India, Shri M. Hamid Ansari in a glittering function at the Vigyan Bhawan on 3red March, in the presence of the Union Minister of Tourism, Kumari Selja, Minister of State for Tourism, shri Sultan Ahmed and the …

4 March :  Congress President Sonia Gandhi described bills on Food Security and Women’s Reservation as “most important” legislative agenda of the government at Congress Parliamentary party meeting on Thursday.

Sonia has backed Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on budget and indicated there would be no roll back on fuel pricing.
She criticized the opposition for playing negative politics on price rise.
Addressing the Congress Parliamentary Party, she said, ” the government has many essential social obligations and it is necessary to raise resources to meet them”.
The Congress President further reiterated that Food Security …

Bhopal:Thursday, March 4 : A ship will be installed at the Upper Lake with the cooperation of Indian Navy with a view to attracting tourists. This information was given by Urban Administration and Development Minister Shri Babulal Gaur during inspection of area near the lake here today. He informed that during his recent visit, Naval Chief Admiral Nirmal Verma has assured to provide a small ship in view of Upper Lake’s importance.
Shri Gaur instructed advisor to MP State Tourism Development Corporation Naval Commander (retired) Rajendra Nigam to make arrangement for …

Under the aegis of federation of obstetric and gynecological societies of India (FOGSI) a workshop and a CME was organized by Dr.LK Dhaliwal, Dr. Vanita Suri and Dr. Vanita Jain at PGIMER, Chandigarh. Around 250 doctors from Chandigarh and neighboring states attended the workshop on critical care and eclampsia, conducted by Dr. Girija from Pune, Dr. Mandrupkar from Islampur and Dr. Suchitra from Kolkota. They highlighted the management of obstetric emergencies which are responsible for very high maternal mortality in India. Other speakers included Dr. Manjit, Dr. Nirja,  Dr. Yashbala, …

Chandigarh, 3rd March, 2010.:       BHIMA DEVI TEMPLE site located about 100 m from Yadvendra Garden or the Mughal Garden in Pinjore and was done up by the Hayana Tourism Corporation as an exquisite museum has been awarded the prestigious “Best Maintained Tourist Friendly Monument” by the Ministry of Tourism, Government of India. Mrs. Keshni Anand Arora, Financial Commissioner & Principal Secretary Tourism, Haryana received the award that was handed over by the Vice President of India in a well attended function in Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi on 3rd March, 2010.
The …

3 March : Legendary Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who has the highest number of Test wickets under his belt, is planning to quit cricket’s longer version after the tour of West Indies in October.
The spin wizard has already announced that he will quit all forms of the game after the 2011 50-over World Cup.
The 37-year-old off-spinner is just eight wickets shy of becoming first player to touch the magical 800-wicket mark in Test cricket.
“Maybe I will play one or two Test matches, that’s it, and then retire. The Tests …