The practice of treating Dalits as untouchables in the execution of Madhya Pradesh's mid-day meal scheme has been admitted to in a state government report. Sravani Sarkar reports.
BJP vice president Uma Bharti today said she was confident of her party's victory in the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.
District collector Aakash Tripathi on Friday evening issued orders to seal the bank accounts of three chit fund companies functioning in Indore. Punya Priya Mitra reports.
A mob killed a bear after it attacked a man near Gol village, 12 kms from Bhopal during an ongoing rescue operation of the animal on Thursday. HT reports.
A 55-year-old man died of Swine Flu in Indore today raising the death doll due to disease in Indore to 17, since January 2013, health officials said.
Harassed by a moneylender, a farmer committed suicide in Damoh, more than 250km north-east of Bhopal. The victim, Raju Patel (45), took poison substance on Monday. He was admitted to the district hospital in a critical condition where he died yesterday.
Six police personnel, including two police inspectors of the anti-corruption department of Amravati circle were killed when a vehicle in which they were travelling in overturned near Kamargaon, in Washim district in west Vidarbha, some 200 km from Bhopal.
Riding on the wave of concern about the tiger's future, four young professionals kicked off a motorcycle tour of six tiger reserves on Tuesday. Their aim is to spread awareness about the need to save the big cat from extinction and prevent environmental degradation.
Panic gripped the industrial town of Nagda in Ujjain, 120 kms north of Indore, when poisonous gas leaked from a factory in industrial area on Tuesday night.

While the 1090 women's helpline in Bhopal is receiving many complaints related to sexual harassment, for some women it has turned in to a marriage/divorce advisory.
In what can be seen as the first sign of thaw between the warring Congress groups in Madhya Pradesh post Rahul Gandhi visit, former CM and Congress national general secretary Digvijaya Singh made it clear that he was not in race for the state’s chief minister's post. HT reports.
A few months ago, mother of a child studying at Madarsa Rehmat-ul-Quraish came to the teacher with a complaint. She thought that her kid was being taught some kind of magic in school, by way of which the child was able to generate fire in the air.

Vandana Bahadur Maida, the Jhabua woman who figures on the page dedicated to the month of May of the UN women calendar of 2013, is now dreaming big. She wants to contest legislative assembly polls in the next few years. Ritesh Mishra reports.

Dangi, a resident of Badbeli village in Rajgarh district of Madhya Pradesh, is only one among several cases of child marriage. Villagers admit that in the next one month, at least six girls and two boys - six of them between 14 and 16 - would enter married life.
Sravani Sarkar reports.
Three BJP workers sustained injuries, one of them seriously wounded, after two groups of BJP workers clashed when BJP national president Rajnath Singh visited to Khajuraho on Saturday afternoon, HT reports.