
Indore’s Choithram Mandi Swamped by Tomato Overflow
Indore’s biggest wholesale market is choking on a sudden surge of tomatoes, with crates outstripping daily demand and traders demanding more space, cleaner conditions and transparent fees.
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Indore’s biggest wholesale market is choking on a sudden surge of tomatoes, with crates outstripping daily demand and traders demanding more space, cleaner conditions and transparent fees.

Madhya Pradesh food safety officials seized roughly 10,500 litres of edible oil worth Rs 21 lakh from a Malharganj warehouse and a Siyaganj trader, sending samples to Bhopal's state lab for testing.

Madhya Pradesh's Food Safety Administration seized over Rs 8 lakh worth of edible oil during a surprise Indore inspection, sending five brand samples for lab testing while clearing Blinkit and Zepto warehouses of expired stock.

An Indore family spotted familiar jewellery in a photo on their former domestic worker's Instagram account, leading police to recover valuables worth around Rs 3 lakh and make an arrest.

Indore's Crime Branch arrested two men and seized 14.9 grams of MD drugs hidden inside an e-rickshaw dashboard on MR-4 Road, police said Thursday, as the city's 2026 NDPS tally keeps climbing.

Surprise inspections at five upscale Indore hotels, including Marriott and both Radisson properties, uncovered hygiene and labelling violations, prompting officials to seize spoiled seeds and pull samples for testing.

The ED has attached three commercial land parcels in Hukmakhedi, Indore, worth Rs 3.91 crore, in a money laundering probe connected to a Rs 307.44-crore bank fraud case involving Neo Corp International Limited.

Dairy farmers across Indore district submitted memoranda at more than fifty Sanchi milk cooperative societies on Thursday, demanding higher prices, pending bonuses and warning of an intensified agitation ahead.

Indore's Devlalikar Kala Veethika, the city's oldest art institution, is getting a ₹75 lakh renovation ahead of its 2027 centenary, with the original 1927 building's architecture staying untouched.

Two cousins from Indore drowned at the notorious Lodhiya Kund waterfall near Mhow after a weekend trek turned into a swim that went wrong, police said, reviving concerns about the spot's hidden currents.

A car bearing a DCP nameplate was filmed swerving across an Indore road and hitting a child on a bicycle and an elderly scooter rider, both of whom escaped serious injury. Police have launched an inquiry.