With Madhya Pradesh slated to gofor Assembly elections later this year, union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia appears to be the front-runner for the post of chief minister, if Congress emerges victorious.
In a move that goes against all economic logic and also breaks quite a few laws, faced with the shortage of
Rs. 5 coins, shopkeepers in Bhopal have introduced a parallel currency - which they are willing to trade with.
Ashutosh Shukla reports.
"No man will harass a woman till she looks at him in a suggestive manner," Satyadev Katare, a former minister, said at a Congress rally in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district.
Madhya Pradesh tribal affairs minister Vijay Shah's relentless efforts at trying to pacify an angry Shivraj Singh Chouhan could not save the day for him.
Madhya Pradesh can expect a big jump in wildlife tourism, as Palpur Kuno, set to get lions from Gir, would be the only habitat in the world to have three big cats, the lion, the tiger and the panther in one habitat. Rahul Noronha reports.
Lokayukta and other anti-corruption agencies proceed unhindered against small fries like a patwari, revenue inspector, clerk or a teacher, but when it comes to action against All-India Services officials, they are seldom allowed to proceed to the prosecution stage.
Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Tuesday submitted a status report in the court of chief judicial magistrate (CJM) on extradition of Warren Anderson, a prime accused in the gas disaster criminal case. Anderson was the chairman of Union Carbide Corporation at the time of gas tragedy and is a proclaimed absconder by the trial court.
The state Congress on Tuesday described the government’s scheme - Atal Jyoti Abhiyan - to provide 24-hour electricity supply in the state as a political gimmick and a fraud with the electorate of Madhya Pradesh.
A sub-engineer was killed when his car fell into a well in Berasia on Friday.
A total of 15 rakes of proposed double-decker train between Habibganj and Indore have been rolled out from Kapurthala coach factory on Friday. The rakes are expected to reach Bhopal by Sunday evening.
Having kept himself away for long from the social networking sites there seems to be no holds barred for chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan once he has joined the microblogging site Twitter.
Notwithstanding the fact that the recurring episodes of thundershowers and hailstorm wrought havoc on crops in many parts of the state this month, the weather condition also ensured that Bhopal experienced coolest March in a decade.
The panchayat of a tribal village in Betul on Friday ordered tonsuring of the head of a woman, who had allegedly eloped with her married uncle, a father of two, recently.
A retired deputy general manager (DGM) of Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) committed suicide by consuming poison at his residence in Alkapuri in Bagh Sewania, the police said on Friday. His body was discovered in a decomposed state on Thursday.
The central valuation committee met in Bhopal on Thursday evening and approved the collector guidelines for 2013-14 with sources saying that the determination of market value of flats/apartments in multi-storey buildings will now be done on the basis of "built up area" instead of "super built up area".