Amid growing clamour to declare Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi as the prime ministerial candidate of BJP, party vice president Uma Bharti said on Sunday that people look at him as a strong leader, as they want someone who can tackle issues like terrorism and naxalism.
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.
Dubbed the “pride of Gujarat”, Asiatic lions -- so far found only at the Gir reserve of the state -- will get a second home at the Palpur Kuno sanctuary, 300 km north-west of Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh.
The man who had allegedly burnt his wife nearly six months ago at their house in JP Nagar here has finally been arrested.
A four-year-old boy died allegedly due to 'unavailability' of blood and negligence of staff at JP Hospital, the district government hospital here. The matter came to light Sunday night.
Initially FIR was not registered, we were told to first get her treated, says relative.
A man threw acid on his wife in Tamia town of Chhindwara district late on Friday night and escaped with their child after dumping the woman in a ditch. Chhindwara is about 275 kilometers south east of Bhopal.
As IT biggie Infosys plans to open its Special Economic Zone in Indore soon, it is now looking at the possibility of working out a hybrid model with Indian Institute of Technology Indore under which its employees can pursue master's and doctrate level degrees at the institute.
In the first four months of 2013, 27 cases of sexual assault and molestation - half of which involved minors - were registered by the police in the tribal-dominated Alirajpur district. But none of the accused was convicted by the court. Reason: In all the cases, either the witness and/or the victim turned hostile.
Protesting the proposed move of NTCA to shift few tigers from Madhya Pradesh to Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan to arrest their dwindling population, an NGO working for the conservation of big cats, has requested the Centre to intervene in the matter.

King Vikramaditya, or Vikram of the ‘Vikram and Baital’ fables, is a historical figure, after all. And behind this giant leap from fable to history is a little gold coin.
Sravani Sarkar reports.
Congress General Secretary, Digvijay Singh today made light of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's hat-trick in the assembly polls, saying that leaders like Sheila Dikshit and Tarun Gogoi from his party too have won elections three times in a row.
The special CBI court on Wednesday reserved its order on the bail applications of two of the accused in the Shehla Masood murder case -- alleged shooters Saquib Ali `Danger' and Tabish Khan -- till April 12.

More students from India and Brazil are applying to study in the United States while the number of applications from China has dipped, according to a report released on Monday.