A police officer, who was body-shamed by writer and columnist Shobhaa De on Twitter, cleared that his 180-kilo weight was because of an insulin imbalance and not because he “overeats.” Lately, De posted a picture of Daulatram Jogawat with a caption that reads, “heavy police bandobast in Mumbai today.” The[Read More…]
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday demanded a Supreme Court monitored SIT probe into the spy ring, recently busted in Madhya Pradesh, alleging that some accused in the case were local BJP workers. “Nobody knew that BJP, who had invited ISI to probe the Pathankot terror strike, was nurturing Pakistan[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Monday cancelled the degrees of 634 doctors and said the admissions obtained through a mass fraud called “Vyapam scam” could not be excused. “The actions of the appellants are founded on unacceptable behavior and in complete breach of rule of law. Their actions constitute acts[Read More…]
At least two prisoners escaped from Morena Jail in MP on Monday. Four policemen have been suspended after initial probe. According to local media reports, the two prisoners have been identified as Omprakash Jaat (36) & Anil Dhanela (26) both of whom had been booked for murder, loot and rape.[Read More…]
A widely circulated picture in the social media showed one of the accused in the Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)-backed spy racket, busted in Madhya Pradesh on February 9, in the company of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. The picture sparked a political storm in the BJP-ruled state. Opposition parties expressed[Read More…]
Udayan Das, who admitted to have killed and entombed his girlfriend in Bhopal, took inspiration from the drama series Hollywood film Devil’s Knot. “He got the idea bury Akansha Sharma under a marble tomb by watching these,” Bankura Superintendent of Police Sukhendu Hira said. Das had been brought to Bankura.[Read More…]
67 students, including 16 kids belonging to scheduled caste category, of a government primary school are reportedly not having lunch prepared by a Dalit woman for the mid-day meal since July 2016. The incident came to light after the school headmaster Ramgopal Gupta sent a letter to Jatara Janpad CEO[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh is among the top three states in the country where the percentage of out-of-school girls is the highest, according to an education status report for 2016. Despite the government trying to convince students to enroll in schools by offering freebies like books, bicycle and uniforms along with scholarships,[Read More…]
An ATM at a village in Khargone, Madhya Pradesh dispensed two new Rs500 denomination with one blank side. Although the bank officials said the misprinted notes were received as such from the Reserve Bank of India. “We have changed these ‘misprinted’ currency notes after the consumer’s complaint. We are now[Read More…]
As on January 2, more than 2.3 crore cases are pending in district courts across India, of which, nearly 1.5 crore are criminal cases, and 72 lakh, civil, reveals a data piled up by the National Judicial Data Grid. The data comprises figures of the district judiciary of the nation but[Read More…]
Former Madhya Pradesh CM Sunderlal Patwa died at a private hospital in Bhopal on Wednesday after suffering a heart attack. He was 92 years old. Patwa was chief minister for a brief period of two months from January 20, 1980 to February 17, 1980 when he was in the Janata[Read More…]
In a unique tripartite initiative, Mumbai’s famed Taj Mahal Hotel, Tata Strive Entrepreneurship Programme and Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) have joined hands to help youth in Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh. The collaboration aims to provide financial, infrastructural and skill support to students for setting up small eateries in their villages,[Read More…]
BJP sweeps Assam, MP; TMC takes West Bengal; AIADMK in Tamil Nadu The results of bypolls to four Lok Sabha and nine Assembly seats will boost the morale of BJP as the party has cleaned sweeped Madhya Pradesh and Assam. Counting of votes took place on Tuesday for four Lok[Read More…]
A traffic constable of Madhya Pradesh Police offered to donate one of his kidneys to External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, a day after she tweeted about her kidney failure. “I wish to donate one of my kidneys to Sushmaji,” 26-year-old Gaurav Singh Dangi told PTI. “I got worried about her[Read More…]
A day after eight alleged SIMI operatives escaped Bhopal prison and were killed in an police encounter, families of the deceased have approached the Madhya Pradesh High Court seeking a CBI probe into the ‘cold-blooded murders’. “The families of the deceased have come to me and are weeping inconsolably for[Read More…]
Staff members at Bhopal jail were in for a rude shock as eight operatives of the Students of Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) broke out of the prison on Monday. A major man hunt was launched and within hours all terror suspects were killed in an encounter, outside the city.[Read More…]
8 members of banned SIMI outfit escaped from Bhopal Central Jail after killing a security guard using a “steel plate and glass” and scaling the prison wall with bed sheets. “8 SIMI activists escaped around 2-3 AM by killing a jail security guard,” DIG Bhopal Raman Singh told PTI. They[Read More…]
In what comes across as a case of racial profiling, a government college in Mandsaur, Madhya Pradesh has come under attack for distributing bags which say “SC/ ST scheme” to students. About 250 of the 600 undergraduate and post-graduate SC/ST students of Rajiv Gandhi Government PG College in Mandsaur have received these[Read More…]
Indore resident, Amit Yadav (24) made a fake Facebook account of a woman by the name of Atharva and befriended Priya Rawat (17). When Yadav revealed his true identity to Priya, she broke all ties with him. The enraged techie then reached Priya’s flat on Tuesday and attacked the girl[Read More…]