<span style="color: #222222;">In Madhya Pradesh, the state government has postponed graduate and post-graduate examinations due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation.<br />'' <br />'' Graduate exams were to be held from June 29 to July 31 while PG exams were scheduled from tomorrow to July 31, both conducted by the state Higher and Technical Education department.<br />'' <br />'' Meanwhile, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has claimed there has been a significant improvement in curbing the spread of COVID-19 in the state.<br />'' <br />'' Officials informed that all COVID-19 parameters in the state have improved significantly. Now active cases have been only 2,666.<br />'' <br />'' The doubling time of cases in the state has increased to 34.1 days while the recovery rate has gone up to 71.1 per cent.<br />'' <br />'' Madhya Pradesh stands second in the country in terms of recovery rate after Rajasthan.<br />'' <br />'' Madhya Pradesh reported 10,802 COVID-19 cases and 459 deaths due to the disease.<br />'' <br />''<br />''A senior health official informed that Indore ranked 7th among the 15 cities most affected by COVID-19 in the country but the state capital Bhopal, which was earlier in the list, is not among them now.</span>