Bhopal: It is not easy to tell a complaint by listening to the sound of a bike. The fact that you have to identify the complaint without having a look would make it difficult for most of us, isn't it? Well, not for Munne Blind of Bhopal, whose name is synonymous with the Enfield motorcycles in Bhopal.
As his name suggest, Munne is visually impaired since 1972. The fact that he is visually impaired does not deter the mechanic from craving a name for himself as a top class modifier of bikes. His special talent - identifying faults in Enfield Bullets, just by hearing their roar!
However, it has not been a smooth ride for Munne. He lost his vision in 1972, when he was 20-year-old. Then, the only thing he could do was to repair motorcycles. Realising that he has a family to take care of, he took up the job of repairing and modifying Enfield motorbikes. And within no time, his reputation gained fame far and wide.
"My experience and practice has helped me. I tried to do the job to the best of my ability and people come to me from very far off places," says Munne. In what could only come through practice, Munne could tell the condition of an enfield motorbike engine just from the sound it made. He could inform his customers about alignment and structure-related problems just by the bare feel of the machine. Needless to say, he converted this
10:45 PM, Jun 18, 2013
Bhopal: Upset over not clearing the standard 12th CBSE examination, a girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of Madhya Pradesh Mantralaya building in Bhopal, police said. Nikita Swami (17), whose father worked at Mantralaya, had gone there to check result on the internet. Preliminary investigation revealed that she took the extreme step after learning the result, police said. She was taken to government-run JP Hospital but...
04:57 PM, May 27, 2013
Bhopal: A local court here on Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others. Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist...
10:30 AM, May 21, 2013
Bhopal: A local court in Bhopal Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others. Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist...
12:29 AM, May 21, 2013
Bhopal: A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms. What's more is that in 2012, it had refused to admit students under merit quota, after which the state government had moved court. The...
01:18 PM, May 14, 2013
Bhopal: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi was not an issue for his party, which believes in fighting ideological battles in which personalities do not matter much. He dismissed the BJP stalwart as a creation of 'media hype' and challenged his claim of having ushered a new era of growth in Gujarat, where BJP is in power since mid 1990s. "Modi is a...
06:41 PM, Apr 28, 2013
Bhopal: Rescue and search operations have been completed at the BHEL-run Kasturba Hospital in Bhopal, where the ceiling of the women's ward collapsed on Friday evening. Fifteen people have been rescued with minor injuries and two people have died in the mishap. "The bodies of two persons identified as Jameel and Arun were found when the rescue team started removing debris of the collapsed structure," Collector Nikunj Shrivastava said on...
09:19 AM, Apr 27, 2013
Bhopal: Two people were confirmed dead by late Friday evening in the Kasturba hospital ward ceiling collapse. The ceiling of the women's ward of the BHEL-run hospital had collapsed at around 5.00 pm on Friday. Between 5 to 10 people are still believed to be trapped under the debris. Several people have been rescued. All of them are said to be safe, reporting only minor injuries. Around 20-25 people were...
09:28 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Bhopal: At least 20 people are feared trapped when the ceiling of the first floor of a hospital run by the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) in Bhopal collapsed on Friday evening. Sources said that the section of the two-storey Kasturba hospital that collapsed housed the women's ward and had 20-25 patients, although none of them was critical. Nearly 15 people have been rescued so far, Additional DM, Bhopal said....
06:25 PM, Apr 26, 2013
Jabalpur: Madhya Pradesh High Court on Friday issued notices to seven persons, convicted in the Bhopal gas tragedy case, following a petition filed by the CBI demanding their retrial. Justice MA Siddiqui issued notices to all seven convicts, seeking replies within four weeks. The CBI in its petition is demanding the retrial of all seven for culpable homicide not amounting to murder under section 304-II of Indian Penal Code. Assistant...
12:45 AM, Apr 13, 2013
Bhopal: Senior Congress leader Ajay Singh on Monday hit out at BJP Vice President Uma Bharti for her remarks that the 'final rites' of Congress would be performed during the Assembly elections later this year. Uma on Monday said that she had decimated Congress in 2003 and added that, "in 2008 its last rites took place. In 2013, I am sure its pind-daan' (rituals after cremation) will be performed." Ajay...
06:06 PM, Apr 09, 2013
Bhopal: Claiming that Madhya Pradesh was "ahead of Gujarat" in development, BJP Vice President Uma Bharti on Monday said the party would add to its tally in this year's assembly elections under leadership of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. In the past, Bharti had bitterly resented elevation of Chouhan as Chief Minister and had left the party in a huff eight years ago. Bharti and other newly-appointed members of BJP's...
10:18 PM, Apr 08, 2013
Bhopal: Balatant violation of norms of the National Institute of Open School (NIOS) Learning have come up. CNN-IBN has accessed a report by an NIOS flying squad. During spot checks at government schools in Bhind last year it found that at an exam centre in Gohad, 82 students registered for secondary science exam were absent. So were 16 students registered for the senior secondary exam. But later when NIOS declared...
08:59 AM, Apr 07, 2013
Chennai: A day-long general strike demanding permanent closure of the copper smelter plant of Sterlite Industries (India) Ltd will be held on Monday at Tuticorin, said MDMK party general secretary Vaiko on Saturday. The company is part of Britain-based Vedanta Resources Group. In a statement issued here, MDMK founder Vaiko said the anti-Sterlite movement has called for a one-day general strike demanding the permanent closure of the copper smelter plant...
01:25 PM, Apr 06, 2013
The extradition request of former Union Carbide chairman Warren Anderson, main accused in the Bhopal Gas Tragedy case, is still under examination as no decision has been taken by the US' Department of Justice in this regard, the CBI said in its status report filed with a local court. The status report was submitted in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) following a petition filed by the organisations working...
02:31 AM, Apr 03, 2013
In order to prove the charges against the accused in the March 15 Swiss woman gangrape case, police said they would count more on the scientific evidence than traditional methods like identification parade. ...
04:35 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Five persons, suspected to have SIMI links, were arrested by Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) from Seoni district with a cache of crude bombs and firearms. ...
03:15 PM, Mar 23, 2013
The Opposition Congress will stage statewide protests on Monday over the gangrape of a Swiss woman in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh. While the state Congress president Kantilal Bhuria will stage a protest in Bhopal, the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Ajay Singh will stage a sit-in at Datia to highlight the rising crime against women in the state, the party sources said. ...
07:40 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Two days after a group of men allegedly gangraped a tourist from Switzerland and assaulted her husband in Madhya Pradesh, the state's Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta, while calling the incident "unfortunate", said more often than not, "foreign nations fail to follow rules of the state". He added that if the foreigners inform the Assistant Superintendent of Police after entering the state, additional security arrangements could be made for them....
06:06 PM, Mar 17, 2013
In a fast-track trial, a person was on Thursday sentenced to death by a local court for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in February near state's Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta's residence in Bhopal. The sentence was awarded by District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla in just nine working days to Nandkumar Tamoli for raping and killing the minor girl on February 2. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 14, 2013
