Seven persons, including five children, were killed and four injured when a bomb exploded in a house at Tikamgarh, about 350 km north-east of Bhopal.
A 12-year-old boy, who was forced to collect scattered remains of a man run over by a train, has lost his mental balance, police said in Indore on Saturday.
Leader of Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly Ajay Singh said that Congress is not projecting any one as a Chief Ministerial candidate for the 2013 Assembly elections in the state.
Almost a month after CBI took over investigations into the murder Madhya Pradesh RTI activist Shehla Masood, her killing is still shrouded in mystery as the probe agency continues to look for answers, remaining tight-lipped about the progress in the case.
The family of Umeshkant Pandey is yet to come to terms with the terrible loss. The family survived on R2,500 he sent every month from his salary of Rs. 6,500.

Janata Party president Subramanian Swamy has said that it would not be possible to stop terrorism till P Chidambaram is home minister.
Two persons were killed and four others went missing when a jumbo truck loaded with heavy machinery fell into a river on the Sagar-Bhopal road after the bridge collapsed under pressure, police said.
A cartoonist with a local Hindi eveninger was arrested by the Indore police on Tuesday night on charges of fanning communal sentiment after members of the local Muslim community objected to an offensive cartoon of Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi. Punya Priya Mitra writes.
A blind man was beaten to death in Railway Protection Force (RPF) custody and police brutally assaulted a mentally challenged man in public in separate incidents in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Shams Ur Rehman Alavi reports.
Six persons, including three women, were killed and 10 were injured on Friday when the jeep in which they were travelling collided with a truck near Bamitha, about 35 km from in Chattarpur, police said.
Unlike his famous cricket matches he won for India, Nawab Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi's electoral battle in 1991 from his home turf Bhopal proved his lone political test in his life.
The mantle of maintaining huge properties of the erstwhile royal family extending from Bhopal to Saudi Arabia, now falls on Pataudi's daughter Saba Ali Khan, whom he had begun grooming for the task three years ago.
After being allegedly fed up with demands for unnatural sex, a 30-year-old woman killed her husband by hitting his head with a heavy blunt stone at Sarni Nagar, police said today.
Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will embark on "a 1,00,000 km long yatra" on Tuesday from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh`to awaken people about corruption and black money'.

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev will embark on a "1,00,000 km long yatra" today from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh 'to awaken people about corruption and black money'.