Congress General Secretary, Digvijaya Singh, said today that he never had the intention of courting the controversies that he has found himself in so far.
Operation Vijay — the crackdown on the Indian Mujahideen (IM) and the outlawed Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) — has had an unexpected fallout. P Naveen reports.
From calling Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan a ‘bachcha chor’, for wresting the government she made with her efforts, to threatening to “(up)root this gang out of Indian politics”, former CM Uma Bharti has come a long way in six years.
Arrested SIMI and Indian Mujahideen (IM) operatives have told the MP police they had on their hit list a category of people, including some Allahabad high court judges, who gave the verdict in the Babri Masjid case on September 30 last year.
A different kind of Mahakumbh began in Mandla in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Unlike the rituals of bathing, devotional singing, and mass feeding of holy men and the poor held on the banks of the river at Mahakumbhs, this kumbh, initiated by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, is focussing on conversion.
Several long distance trains arriving here from North continued to run inordinately late due to intense cold conditions and foggy weather along the rail route.
Senior Congress leader Aslam Sher Khan on Friday expressed concern over the delay in naming a successor to State Congress President, Suresh Pachouri and said that its time that a decision be taken on the issue to arrest the party's down slide in Madhya Pradesh.
The income tax department has detected wealth valued at a whopping Rs. 360 crore from suspended Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer-couple - Arvind Joshi and Tinoo Joshi - whose house and other properties were raided by department sleuths last February.
Senior Congress MLA, Ajay Singh on Sunday accused Madhya Pradesh BJP President Prabhat Jha of "double standard", after newspaper pictures showed Jha touching the feet of the leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj.
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh on Sunday said "a feeling" was developing among Muslims that justice was not being done to them, due to several reasons.
Saffron organisations have browbeaten the MP government into reviewing its powers to cut short the jail sentence of alleged terrorists convicted under the Unlawful Activities Act. P Naveen and Sandeep Vatsa reports.
At least 100 nurses were arrested here and 10 suspended on Thursday after they refused to call off their strike despite the Madhya Pradesh government invoking the Essential Services Maintenance Act (ESMA) to prevent any disruption of health services in the state.
After uncovering wealth valued at a whopping Rs. 360 crore from suspended Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer-couple Arvind Joshi and Tinoo Joshi last month, the income tax (IT) department on Thursday froze 77 of their bank accounts and attached their properties.
With one more witness in a murder case related to the probe into terror’s saffron links disappearing, the investigators’ job has become even harder. P Naveen reports.
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