Tag: Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: Even before the onset of summer, nearly 4,000 villages are staring at an acute drought in 36 out of 52 districts in Madhya Pradesh. A lean monsoon last year has left in its trail a grave crisis for the third successive year while the administration is cramped by the Model Code of Conduct for […]

Bhopal: Twenty-one-year-old Shashank Mangal has brought laurels to Madhya Pradesh by securing the first rank in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2019 with near-100 per cent marks. Shashank, hailing from Morena in the state, scored 989 marks out of 1000, according to the GATE results announced by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras […]

Bhopal: Income Tax officials on Tuesday continued to search for a third day the premises of close aides of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, claiming they have the details about transactions involving Rs 281 crore linked to businessmen, politicians and bureaucrats. The officials are searching the residences and offices of Ashwini Sharma, Manager of […]

Chhindwara: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath’s son and the Congress candidate from the Chhindwara parliamentary constituency, Nakul Nath, has moveable and immoveable properties in his name worth over Rs 600 crore. While his wife Priya keeps worth Rs 2 crore moveable and immoveable properties in her. According to the affidavit filed before the electoral […]

Jhabua: A panchayat here forced a woman to carry her husband on her shoulder and take rounds as punishment for eloping with her lover, police said on Sunday. The incident took place in the Dewali village of Jhabua district on Friday. The video of the incident went viral after which two people were arrested and a […]

Jabalpur: A wagon of a coal-laden goods train jumped off the track in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district on Wednesday, disrupting rail traffic on the route, an official said. The derailment took place near Makronia station in Sagar around 5.10 am, Jabalpur Divisional Railway Manager Manoj Kumar Singh told PTI. “Rail traffic on the up line […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday announced Rs 2 lakh ex-gratia for the family of each person who lost their life in the unseasonal rains and storms in various parts of the country on Tuesday night, and expressed his anguish over the incident. The Prime Minister also announced Rs 50,000 ex-gratia for those […]

Jaipur/Bhopal/Ahmedabad: Nearly 50 people were killed as rains coupled with thunderstorm and lightning hit several parts of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra overnight, officials said Wednesday. The unseasonal rains and storm also caused damage to property and crops in Gujarat and Rajasthan. Rajasthan witnessed the maximum casualties with 21 people killed in rain-related incidents […]

New Delhi: Nearly 40 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the 59 Lok Sabha seats in the sixth and penultimate phase of the elections till 2 p.m. on Sunday. Voting is taking place for 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, all 10 in Haryana, eight each in West Bengal, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh, four in Jharkhand […]

Khargone (Madhya Pradesh): Prime Minister Narendra Modi brushed aside his party’s embarrassment over the controversy sparked by Bhopal BJP candidate Pragya Thakur’s comments praising Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse, as he addressed his last rally of the general election on Friday in Madhya Pradesh, exuding confidence about the ruling BJP-led NDA winning over 300 seats. […]

Sagar: Five members of a family, including a boy, were shot dead allegedly by three relatives after a dispute over a strip of land for constructing a road in a town in Madhya Pradesh’s Sagar district, police said Saturday. A woman member of the family and two boys escaped unhurt as they had locked themselves […]

Barwani (MP): Five labourers were Saturday killed after a sand quarry caved in along the banks of Narmada river in Madhya Pradesh’s Barwani district, police said. They were loading sand on to a tractor-trolley when the mishap took place in Barda village, Superintendent of Police D R Teniwar said Sunday. He identified them as Lallu […]

Sundergarh: A minor girl of Dharuadihi area in Odisha’s Sundergarh district was allegedly sold off by a middleman to an elderly man in Katni area of Madhya Pradesh. The matter came to fore after the mother of the girl lodged an FIR at police station on Sunday. On June 5, on the pretext of giving […]

Bhubaneswar: Signalling an intense rural distress gripping the State, Odisha’s average annual wages of farm labour for the first time in last 5-years had posted a negative growth in 2018-19. The State finished at the bottom in farm wage growth. Moreover, Odisha farm labourers were the worst hit nationally as wages remain a whopping 23 […]

Bhopal: A 58-year-old man was beaten to death by a mob in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district on suspicion of stealing peacocks, police said on Saturday. Nine people have been arrested in connection with the case. Police also said that they have recovered four peacock carcasses following the incident in Lasuriya Aatri village on Friday night. […]