“Musalman o hindu hain do, ek, magar, unka pyala, Ek, magar, unka madiralaya, ek , magar, unki hala, Dono rehte ek na jab tak masjid mandir mein jaate, Bair badhate masjid mandir mel karati madhushal ।” Many of us, poetry lovers, have enjoyed these lines of “Madhushala” sung by Manna[Read More…]
Tag: Madhya Pradesh
MP Minister gifts ‘washing bats’ to brides to fix drunk husbands
If you can’t decide on what to gift your married friend, Madhya Pradesh panchayat and rural development minister Gopal Bhargava has a solution for you. Recently, he gifted wooden bats/mogri to nearly 700 brides at a mass marriage ceremony. Though this wooden plank/mogri is made to wash clothes, but Bhargava[Read More…]
MP: 16 guest teachers sacked for sloganeering at CM’s event
Man told to marry off his 7-year old daughter for killing a calf
A caste panchayat of the Banjara community in Guna district of Madhya Pradesh had ordered a man to get his seven-year-old girl married to an eight-year-old boy as punishment for killing a calf three years ago, New Indian Express reported. Jagdish Banjara, had already been punished when the incident happened[Read More…]
‘Undeserving’ people given ‘Bharat Ratna’ before 1990: BJP MP
A BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh sparked controversy after he said that the country’s highest civilian award, the Bharat Ratna, was given to “undeserving” people before 1990. It was the same time when the then VP Singh government conferred the honour to dalit icon BR Ambedkar posthumously. The statement attracted[Read More…]
MP by-polls: Congress’ Hemant Katare defeats BJP’s Arvind Bhadoria by 857 votes
Congress candidate Hemant Katare has defeated BJP’s Arvind Bhadoria by 857 votes in the by-poll held in Ater constituency in Madhya Pradesh. The counting of votes for Ater constituency began at 8 am on Thursday. The Election Commission has made three-tier security arrangements during the counting of votes to ensure[Read More…]
MP bans plastic or polythene bags from May 1
EC’s only aim is to bring BJP to power: Kejriwal
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday said that the Election Commission’s only aim was to bring the BJP to power at any cost. Kejriwal said 18 Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) had surfaced in Dholpur in Rajasthan which voted only for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) no matter which button[Read More…]
BSP supports Congress in Madhya Pradesh by-poll
EVM accuracy beyond doubt, says EC
EC should consider paper ballots instead of EVMs: Congress
The Congress party on Monday asked the Election Commission to introspect and explore possibility of shifting voting from EVMs to the alternative system of paper ballots. The party also added that EC should not be an advocate for electronic voting machines (EVMs) and should conduct polls to the satisfaction of[Read More…]
MP: Hospital vandalised after death of RSS leader
A group of people vandalised a hospital in Indore after the death of a RSS leader Himmat Rathore due to alleged medical negligence. A video footage showed an angry mob destroying furnitures, breaking glass panes and overturning stretchers at the Gokul Das Hospital. #WATCH Indore(Madhya Pradesh): Gokul Das Hospital vandalized after[Read More…]
MP govt set to bring in law to award death penalty to rapists
Madhya Pradesh government will bring in law for awarding death penalty to rapists in the forthcoming monsoon session said, chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday. Chouhan said, MP government will propose a bill in the monsoon session of the assembly in which there will be a provision for death[Read More…]
Speeding car kills five, injures 12
A speeding car near a village in Ujjain district killed five persons, including three children while12 others injured. The victims were standing on a roadside when the speeding car hit them, said reports. “Five persons, including two women and three children, died on the spot when they were crushed by[Read More…]
India should focus on rural development says Dalai Lama
Tibetian spiritual leader Dalai Lama said on Sunday that India‘s prosperity depends on the development of the villages and not the big cities. The process of development should begin in the villages and that should be the focus of the country, he said in addressing a gathering in Dewas district[Read More…]
MP: 45 detonators, 30 gelatin rods seized from temple godown
Madhya Pradesh police seized more than 45 detonators and 30 gelatin rods from the godown of Shri Vireshwar Hunuman Mandir in Kandilpura area on Friday. Police said the accused might have stocked the explosives for stone quarries. According to a Times of India report, the raids were conducted after crime[Read More…]
NIA takes over probe in Ujjain train blast
They killed 56, we sent 2000 to the graveyard: RSS leader on Godhra riots
Madhya Pradesh spy ring: AAP demands SC monitored SIT probe
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…]
Political storm in MP over CM’s picture with ISI agent
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…]
Madhya Pradesh govt to spend Rs 86,000 crore to develop cities
Percentage of girls dropping out of school in MP rises to 8.5%
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…]
MP farmers get ‘original’ Rs 2,000 notes without Mahatma Gandhi’s image
Farmers from a Madhya Pradesh were literally shocked when they received newly printed Rs 2,000 notes without Mahatma Gandhi’s image on it. According to a Times of India report, farmers from a remote village in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur district received newly printed Rs 2,000 notes without the image of Gandhi from[Read More…]
BJP leader and former Madhya Pradesh CM Sunderlal Patwa dies at 92
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…]
The boss is saying kill them all: New Bhopal encounter audio raises doubts
Almost three days after two mobile phone videos challenged Madhya Pradesh police’s version that eight fugitive SIMI suspects were killed in an encounter, a newly circulated audio recording has raised further doubts. According to a news report published by News18, the audio recording, purportedly from the police control room, suggests[Read More…]