27 November 2003: Satyendra Dubey (30 years old) becomes one of the first whistle-blowers in the country to have been shot dead on this day and his body thrown on the roadside. His sin: He had exposed the corruption in the Rs60,000 crore Golden Quadrilateral highway construction project initiated in 2001 by the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Sitasharan Sharma, Hoshangabad MLA, has announced that whichever village in his constituency in Madhya Pradesh completes 100 per cent vaccination first, Rs 10 lakh will be given as a reward.