With advance bookings touching nearly 95,000 passengers per day for the Shravan-Bhadau season, Ujjain is preparing for an unprecedented influx of devotees visiting the Mahakaleshwar Temple. Indian Railways will implement a one-way traffic system, deploy drones for crowd monitoring, run six additional trains, and establish a waterproof holding area to ensure smooth crowd management.

Madhya Pradesh told the Supreme Court April drone surveillance showed no fresh sand mining in the Chambal sanctuary; 12 arrests and 44 vehicles seized.