On Sunday, the Madhya Pradesh Police rescued as many as 40 mentally ill people who were kept locked up awful circumstances. They were often beaten and chained up said the police after the force rescued the victims from Ratlam district of the state. The victims were allegedly brought to the[Read More…]
The Indore Police on Friday denied the death report of 17 patients (including two children) who died due to oxygen supply cut in the hospital. The police claimed that their illness was the cause of death. “No oxygen supply failure has been reported and no one died because of oxygen[Read More…]
Nearly 15 youth detained in Mohad village of Madhya Pradesh for ‘celebrating’ Pakistan’s win over India. The accused alleged conspiracy on part of the government. Their families said that they have been targeted for not voting for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. While talking to Hindustan Times, the families alleged[Read More…]
Marking their protest against the deaths of farmers in Madhya Pradesh’s Mandsaur, the Congress on Wednesday performed the ‘Shavaasana’ on the occasion of International Yoga Day. The party workers gathered at an installation in Bhopal and decided to perform this aasana to show their protest against the farmer killings. The[Read More…]
A 60-year old farmer allegedly hanged himself on Sunday in Madhya Pradesh. Pyare Lal Oud of Pipiliya Vyas village hanged himself from the branch of a tree in his field in Neemuch district. The recent death took the death toll of agriculture-related suicides in Madhya Pradesh to 13 since the[Read More…]
On Saturday, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said that “Sabka Vikas” (development of all) was not possible in Odisha till BJD remained in power in the state. “The nature has given all resources like water, forest, mineral and rich human resources to Odisha. Still, the state remains poor.[Read More…]
Amidst the nominations for upcoming Presidential elections, Anand Singh Kushwaha, a ‘chaiwallah’ and a veteran of 20 electoral defeats, has filed papers for the fourth time for the upcoming presidential polls. The 49-year-old lives in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, who remembers every election he has fought since 1994. “I am in[Read More…]
On Friday, a nationwide stir has been started by the farmers in Haryana and Rajasthan where they are blocking national highways as a part of their protest. The farmers have gathered in order to protest against the death of five cultivators in police firing in Madhya Pradesh and also against[Read More…]
In a shocking statement, activist and preacher, Sadhvi Saraswati, on Wednesday, said that she will “request” the Central government to hang people who eat beef as “status symbol”. She was speaking at the inauguration of a four-day All India Hindu Convention in MP, organised by the Hindu Janajagriti Samiti, which[Read More…]
In another unfortunate incident, a farmer killed himself in Madhya Pradesh’s Hoshangabad district on Thursday morning. This is the seventh such suicide case in seven days in a region that is rocked by aggressive farmer protests over plummeting crop prices. The farmer Narmada Prasad was an inhabitant of Hoshangabad’s Babai[Read More…]
On Monday, a debt-ridden farmer in Sehore, home district of Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, allegedly committed suicide by consuming a poisonous substance. District Collector, Sudam Khad, said that the reason behind the alleged suicide of Dulchand Keer, 55, is still not clear. Police said a case was registered[Read More…]
While mainstream media was busy hyping Madhya Pradesh CM’s ‘peace-fast’ act, there have been people in Madhya Pradesh who have been subtly protesting against the killing of farmers’ and other forms of police brutality in the region. 85 years old Kamlabai was beaten up by the Madhya Pradesh police, after[Read More…]
Soon after the Maharashtra government announced a loan waiver for farmers, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that states that want to waive off loans should arrange funds on their own. After the widespread farmers’ agitation, the Maharashtra government announced a loan waiver and decided to form a committee to[Read More…]
After 15 hours of fasting, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan ended his “peace fast” on Sunday assuring the farmers that their demands will be considered and acted upon. Last night, the families of four of the 6 farmers, who were killed in the police firing in Mandsaur, met[Read More…]
Farmers’ protest which was till now confined to Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh will now take a nationwide turn with 62 farmers’ organisations to hold a nationwide protest from Sunday. The action was decided in a meeting held in Delhi a day before. It is scheduled that from June 11 until[Read More…]
On the second day of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s fast, he swore to solve farmers’ problems. And he also ensured that he would take stern actions against the culprits. Last night, the families of four of the 6 farmers, who were killed in the police firing in[Read More…]
On Saturday, Congress asked for the imposition of President’s Rule in Madhya Pradesh, saying Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has no right to continue as he is evading from his constitutional duties. Lashing at the state government, Opposition in MP Assembly Ajay Singh, said that instead of consoling the families[Read More…]
Uttar Pradesh Power Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shrikant Sharma on Saturday blamed Congress for politicising the farmers’ issue in Madhya Pradesh. He said that Congress was not able to come to terms with the developmental works done for the farmers by the saffron party. The public knows[Read More…]
At the back of the farmer’s protest in Mandsaur in Madhya Pradesh, the Congress lashed out at the Centre, saying that they would stand with the farmers and if that is politics, then they are playing it. “As long as the farmers are in distress or in any kind of[Read More…]
On Thursday, Union agriculture minister Radha Mohan Singh commenting on the farmers’ protest said that yoga was the answer to the farmers’ problems. In Bihar, on a 3-day yoga festival organised by Baba Ramdev, when Singh was asked about the five farmers who have been killed in the protest, Singh[Read More…]
Shivkumar Sharma, former RSS leader and national convener of Rashtriya Kisan Mazdoor Sangh, who has organised leadership of farmers’ protest in Madhya Pradesh, had also led a farmers’ protest against shortage of gunny bags in Bareli town. This was in 2012 while he was the Bharatiya Kisan Sangh’s (BKS), general[Read More…]
On Thursday, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi has been detained at the Neemuch border while on his way to violence-hit Mandsaur. He was to meet families of five people who died in police firing during farmers’ protests on Tuesday. Rahul Gandhi on Thursday left Delhi for Mandsaur even as the local[Read More…]
Amidst the ongoing tension in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh on Thursday confirmed that five farmers have died in the region because of police firing. The confirmation of this news comes after the probe and the government suspended two top district officials. Manoj Kumar Singh, SP Neemuch, said[Read More…]
On Wednesday, an explosion at a firecracker factory killed at least 23 people in Balaghat, Bhopal. The blast sparked a blaze around 3 pm, which firefighters tamed in two hours. Police SP Amit Sanghi told the media that the incident happened at the Barsa fire cracker factory in Khari village,[Read More…]
On Wednesday morning, hundreds of people protesting under the leadership of social activist Medha Patkar have been detained by the Gujarat Police while they were moving from Madhya Pradesh to Maharashtra via Gujarat. The protestors have been stopped at the Gujarat Border and are not allowed to cross the Gujarat[Read More…]