Madhya Pradesh is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal,and the largest city is Indore,with Gwalior,Jabalpur,Ujjain,Dewas,Sagar,Satna,and Rewa being the other major cities. Madhya Pradesh is the second largest Indian state by area and the fifth largest state by population with over 72 million residents. It borders the states of Uttar Pradesh to the northeast,Chhattisgarh to the east,Maharashtra to the south,Gujarat to the west,and Rajasthan to the northwest.
Bhopal is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and the administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and Bhopal division. It is known as the City of Lakes, due to presence of various natural and artificial lakes near the city boundary. It is also one of the greenest cities in India. It is the 16th largest city in India and 131st in the world. After the formation of Madhya Pradesh,Bhopal was part of the Sehore district. It was bifurcated in 1972 and a new district,Bhopal,was formed. Flourishing around 1707,the city was the capital of the former Bhopal State,a princely state of the British ruled by the Nawabs of Bhopal until India's independence in 1947.
The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh,India. In what is considered the world's worst industrial disaster,over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC). Estimates vary on the death toll,with the official number of immediate deaths being 2,259. In 2008,the Government of Madhya Pradesh paid compensation to the family members of 3,787 victims killed in the gas release,and to 574,366 injured victims. A government affidavit in 2006 stated that the leak caused 558,125 injuries,including 38,478 temporary partial injuries and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries. Others estimate that 8,000 died within two weeks,and another 8,000 or more have since died from gas-related diseases.
Shankar Dayal Sharma was an Indian lawyer and politician from the state of Madhya Pradesh who served as the ninth president of India,from 1992 to 1997.
Nawab Begum Sajida Sultan Ali Khan Pataudi was the daughter of the Nawab of Bhopal,Hamidullah Khan,and the wife and Begum Consort of Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi,the 8th Nawab of Pataudi,and in her own right,the 12th Nawab Begum of Bhopal.
The Gundecha Brothers are Indian classical singers of the dhrupad genre of the Dagar vani. From 1985 to 2019 the duo consisted of brothers Umakant Gundecha and Ramakant Gundecha and were awarded the Padma Shri for art for 2012. Following the death of Ramakant Gundecha in 2019,his son Anant began to perform with Umakant in the Gundecha bandhu.
Raja Bhoj Airport is a domestic airport and a seasonal international airport serving Bhopal,the capital of the state of Madhya Pradesh,India. Named after the 10th century Paramara king,Raja Bhoj,it is the second busiest airport in Madhya Pradesh in terms of passenger and aircraft movements. It is the largest airport in the state by area. It is located in Gandhi Nagar,15 km (9.3 mi) away from Bhopal Junction railway station in the city centre,and 20 km (12 mi) away from Habibganj railway station in the south of the city. The airport is also near the intersection of National Highway 46 (NH-46),which forms a ring road around Bhopal,and State Highway 18 (SH-18),which connects Bhopal to Indore.
Abūal-Fath Abd al-Rahman Mansūr al-Khāzini or simply al-Khāzini was an Iranian astronomer,during the Seljuk Empire. His astronomical tables written under the patronage of Sultan Sanjar is considered to be one of the major works in mathematical astronomy of the medieval period. He provided the positions of fixed stars,and for oblique ascensions and time-equations for the latitude of Marv in which he was based. He also wrote extensively on various calendrical systems and on the various manipulations of the calendars. He was the author of an encyclopedia on scales and water-balances.
Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya is an Indian television actress. She is known for playing Vidya Pratap Singh in Zee TV's Banoo Main Teri Dulhann and Dr. Ishita Iyer Bhalla in Star Plus's Yeh Hai Mohabbatein. In 2017,participated in the dance reality show Nach Baliye 8 and emerged as the winner. In 2021,she participated at Fear Factor:Khatron Ke Khiladi 11 as a contestant where she emerged as the runner-up.
Ujjain Junction railway station is the main railway station of Ujjain city in the western part of Madhya Pradesh. Its code is UJN. Ujjain Junction falls under the administrative control of Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways. Ujjain Junction is A –category railway station of Western Railway Zone. It consists of 8 railway platforms.
Bhopal Junction railway station is a major railway junction of India and main railway station of Bhopal,the capital of the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. This station also serves as a connecting point for various pilgrims from Asia to visit the Stupa of Sanchi,an important Buddhist stupa,which is about 40 kilometres (25 mi) from this station.
The Bhoj Metro is an under construction rapid transit system intended to serve the city of Bhopal,India,the capital of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. The total system consists of 6 corridors covering a distance of 104.87 kilometres (65.16 mi). The first phase of the Bhopal Metro project consists of 28 km (17.40 mi) of line 2 &5 being under construction. This project will cost ₹80 billion (US$1.0 billion) approximately. There will be three types of run –on road,on bridges,and underground in some locations.
Indian Institutes of Information Technology (IIITs) are centrally funded technical institutes located across India. They are a group of 25 interdisciplinary technology-based-engineering research institutions in India which are focused on information technology. Five of them are established,funded and managed by the Ministry of Education (MOE). The other 20 are set up on the public-private partnership (PPP) model,funded by the central government,state governments and industry partners in the ratio 50:35:15.
The Indore Metro is a rapid transit system which is under construction for the city of Indore,in the state of Madhya Pradesh,India. The total system consists of 11 corridors (lines) covering a distance of 124 kilometres (77 mi). This project will cost approximately ₹12,000 crore (US$1.5 billion). The cost per km will be 182 crores and total cost is 15,000 crores. The metro system will be elevated,underground and on ground. The Indore Metro project has been subject to serious contestation due to the inappropriate shifting of Seismic zone-II to Seismic zone-IV category which has led to increase in budgetary cost for the entire project.
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Bhopal is a medical research public university and Institute of National Importance,located in the Saket Nagar suburb of Bhopal,Madhya Pradesh,India. It is one of the All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) established by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare under the Pradhan Mantri Swasthya Suraksha Yojna (PMSSY).
Sanjar Fayziev is an Uzbekistani tennis player.
The 2017 Bhopal–Ujjain Passenger train bombing was a terrorist attack that occurred on March 7,on the Bhopal–Ujjain Passenger,a passenger train which runs between Bhopal Junction railway station of Bhopal,the capital city of Madhya Pradesh and Ujjain Junction railway station. The bombing occurred at Jabri railway station in the Shajapur district of Madhya Pradesh,injuring 10 passengers. It was stated to be the first-ever strike in India by the Islamic State. One of the suspected terrorists was later killed in an encounter in Lucknow. The police stated that the module was self-radicalised and did not receive any financial support from the group. Six persons were later arrested. National Investigation Agency (NIA) probe reports stated that the ISIS-inspired module had also conspired to bomb a rally of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Pragya Singh Thakur,better known as SadhviPragya,is an Indian politician and Member of Parliament representing Bhopal and belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party. During her college days,she was an active member of Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) and later joined various affiliate organisations of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).
Bhuri Bai is an Indian Bhil artist. She was born in Pitol village,situated on the border of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat. Pitol is a village of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh. Bhuri Bai belongs to the community of Bhils,the largest tribal group of India. She has won many awards including the highest state honour accorded to artists by the Madhya Pradesh government,the Shikhar Samman. She was awarded India's fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021.
Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice and Director of the Centre for Research in Race &Education at the University of Birmingham. Her work explores the achievements and experiences of minority ethnic groups in education with a focus on how processes of racism,exclusion and marginalisation operate in predominantly White spaces.
