Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh’s poll battle has turned virtual with bot h BJP and Congress ready to take on each other with Cyber Yodhas and Rajiv ke Sipahi respectively. At the district level, both the parties have full-fledged plans. While the BJP has planned workshops to equip and educate its cyber[Read More…]
Amid the spate of ongoing FIFA world cup, few farmers of the silk industry, who had been on strike for not getting wages, were seen playing football with the photos of MP’s CM Shivraj Singh stuck around the ball. On arrival of such reports to the police, the football game[Read More…]
Mandsaur (Madhya Pradesh): Mounting a strong attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s on issues concerning farmers and youth, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday promised to waive farm loans in 10 days if his party is voted to power in Madhya Pradesh. Launching the Congress campaign in the state where[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Election Commission on Sunday formed four teams to look into allegation levelled by Congress that lakhs of bogus voters were registered in Madhya Pradesh. The EC has formed teams consisting of two members each to verify electoral rolls in Narela, Bhojpur, Hoshangabad and Seoni Malwa Assembly constituencies.[Read More…]
Bhopal: Congress’ Madhya Pradesh chief Kamal Nath on Sunday indicated that the party would not have a chief ministerial face in the upcoming assembly elections. The state’s oppressed farmer, unprotected women and the jobless youth would be the party’s face. The Congress would fight the election with these lakh of[Read More…]
Sihore: A 28-year-old woman was gang-raped by two persons working for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, following which a case was registered and one person arrested, police said on Sunday. Ashta police station SHO V.D. Veera told IANS that the young woman worked at a skilling centre run by one[Read More…]
New Delhi: Veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath, who was Thursday appointed party chief in poll-bound Madhya Pradesh party chief, said he was not “hungry” for the Chief Minister’s post and his selection came as the party believed he could “take everyone along”. The former Union Minister also said that his selection[Read More…]
Mandla: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday claimed all villages in the state will be electrified by October and Rs 2 lakh crore spent on development of tribals in five years. Speaking at the National Panchayati Raj Day event in Ramnagar here in the presence of Prime Minister[Read More…]
Indore: A four-month-old girl was sexually assaulted and murdered in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore town, police said, adding that the accused has been arrested. The incident occurred in the M.G. Road area. The infant was abducted, raped and killed in a vacant basement space just 50m away from where her parents[Read More…]
Bhopal: With the death of one more person, the toll in the police action during protests against the Supreme Court’s dilution of a law aimed at preventing atrocities against Dalits and tribes has risen to seven, officials said on Tuesday. Police said three deaths each had been reported from Gwalior[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former Independent MLA from Madhya Pradesh and activist Paras Saklecha joined the Congress party here on Tuesday. Saklecha, who is popularly known for raising the Vyapam irregularities issue in the state, represented the Ratlam City assembly seat from 2008 and 2013. “He is popularly known as an activist in[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Madhya Pradesh Abhay Mishra joined the Congress on Monday. Mishra was an MLA from Semariya in Rewa and is currently Zila Panchayat President in Rewa. His wife is a sitting MLA from Semariya. “We welcome him in the Congress party. He has[Read More…]
Congress candidate Mahendra Singh Yadav is leading by 2139 votes in Madhya Pradesh’s Kolaras after 5th round of counting. The vote count of parties stands at: Congress – 19556 BJP – 17417 NOTA – 208 Bhopal: The Congress on Wednesday took a lead in both Mungaoli and Kolaras assembly seats in Madhya Pradesh.[Read More…]
Bhopal: More than 45 per cent polling was reported in five hours in two assembly by-elections in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday that were being keenly contested by the ruling BJP and its rival Congress. An Election Commission official here said that while Mungaoli in Ashoknagar district reported 47 per cent[Read More…]
New Delhi: The Congress on Monday approached the Election Commission to complain of “massive discrepancies” in the voters list ahead of the two assembly bypolls in Madhya Pradesh, accusing the state’s BJP government of “conspiring to murder democracy”. The party delegation, which included party leader Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mohan Prakash, R.P.N[Read More…]
Bhopal: Former Gujarat Chief Minister Anandiben Patel on Tuesday took oath as the Governor of Madhya Pradesh. Chief Justice of Madhya Pradesh High Court Justice Hemant Gupta administered the oath of office to Patel in a function at the Raj Bhavan. Parliament Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan[Read More…]
Ujjain city of Madhya Pradesh, better known for its Mahakaleshwar temple, has turned into the centre of political activities these days, with both RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and BJP president Amit Shah present there. While Bhagwat has been camping in Ujjain since December 30, Shah arrived in the city on[Read More…]
Right-wing Hindutva activists attacked Catholic carol singers in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district and also set a priest’s car ablaze, accusing them of religious conversion. The police detained over 30 members of the Catholic choir group, including priests. The incident occurred on Thursday evening. Instead of taking action against the attackers,[Read More…]
The Madhya Pradesh government has started a one-year course on astrology and ‘vaastu’, “studies which impact even climate change”, state Education Minister Vijay Shah said on Tuesday. The course will also include a study to becoming a priest (purohit vidya) also. “Astrology, vaastu, and purohit Vidya, are an important part[Read More…]
The CBI on Thursday filed a chargesheet against 592 persons in the multi-crore Vyapam examination scam linked with 2012 Pre Medical Test (PMT) case. Of the total persons named in the chargesheet filed in a Bhopal court, 245 are new names while remaining 347 are those who have already been[Read More…]
A day after the CBI gave him a clean chit in the Vyapam scam case, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan slammed the opposition for levelling “false” allegations and said he was clean. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of a function to observe the state’s foundation day on[Read More…]
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who was in the news for unfavourably comparing American roads with those in his state, on Sunday attributed “studies” to claim that 92 per cent of US roads are in bad shape. “My tour has been in news a bit too much this[Read More…]
Following the lead of Maharashtra and Gujarat, the Madhya Pradesh Government on Friday slashed the Value-Added Tax (VAT) on prices of petrol by 3 % and diesel by 5 %. An additional Rs. 1.50 have also been reduced on the same. Earlier the Centre had announced that the excise duty[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh chief minister, Shivraj Singh Chouhan, announced on Friday that his government will introduce a Bill in the state assembly that will ensure that child molesters are hanged. He was speaking at a Surakhshit Bachpan, Surakhshit Bharat (Safe Childhood, Safe India) programme, which was organised by Nobel Laureate and[Read More…]
Jyotiraditya Scindia will lead the Congress party in Madhya Pradesh polls next year, said senior party leader Kamal Nath in Guna, the Lok Sabha constituency of Scindia on Wednesday. “There was no opposition to the name of Scindia as the leader of the party in the state,” Zee News quoted[Read More…]
