Articles by Punya Priya Mitra
Outrage as BJP’s Pragya calls Mahatma killer Godse a patriot
BJP’s Bhopal candidate Pragya Thakur landed herself in a controversy once again by referring to Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse as a deshbhakt (patriot), provoking outrage from opposition parties.

Updated on May 16, 2019 11:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
After backlash on ‘Godse a patriot’ remark, Pragya Thakur apologises to BJP
Pragya Thakur, who provoked national outrage by calling Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin Nathuram Godse a patriot, has apologised for her comments.

Updated on May 13, 2020 08:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Farm crisis a key issue in Madhya Pradesh’s Khandwa
This Lok Sabha seat that goes to polls on May 19 is seen as a communally sensitive spot in Madhya Pradesh.

Updated on May 14, 2019 08:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Khandwa | Punya Priya Mitra
Modi attacks Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka calls PM anti-tribal
At Ratlam, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra exhorted the largely tribal audience to vote carefully and bring a party to power that gives them strength and attacked the BJP for “snatching tribal rights”.

Updated on May 13, 2019 11:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Ratlam (Madhya Pradesh) | Punya Priya Mitra
4-year-old tribal girl raped, murdered in MP’s Indore; 1 arrested: Cops
Police have zeroed in on one suspect, Nandu(30), who threw girl into a well after raping her in fear that the minor might recognise him later.

Updated on May 08, 2019 10:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Lok Sabha elections 2019: CM’s, ex-CM’s sons to try their luck on 6 seats in MP
More than 10 million voters will decide the fate of 108 candidates in the parliamentary constituencies of Sidhi, Shahdol, Mandla, Jabalpur, Balaghat and Chhindwara.

Updated on Apr 28, 2019 10:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
BJP leader’s campaign condition for Pragya Thakur seat is an apology
Pragya Thakur had created a political furore with her remarks on Karkare, who died fighting terrorists during the attacks on Mumbai in 2008, saying that she had cursed him just a month before his death.

Updated on Apr 26, 2019 04:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Hemant Karkare’s junior files papers to take on Pragya from Bhopal
Pragya Thakur, the BJP candidate from Bhopal, received a EC notice for her remarks. The Indian Police Service Association wrote a tweet that condemned her statement on the Ashoka Chakra gallantry award winner.

Published on Apr 25, 2019 11:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Congress rejigs LS formula, doesn’t field MLAs in MP
The reason appears to be the slim lead that the Congress has in the Assembly, as it fears that giving up MLAs to contest the Lok Sabha elections might cost it the state government, say political observers.

Published on Apr 24, 2019 11:24 PM IST
Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
After I-T raids, Madhya Pradesh steps up heat on previous BJP govt
On Thursday, the EOW arrested three suspects in connection with alleged irregularities in e-tendering to the tune of of ₹3,000 crore.

Published on Apr 13, 2019 08:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Punya Priya Mitra
Three arrested in Madhya Pradesh’s ₹3,000 crore e-tendering scam
EOW superintendent of police (Bhopal), Arun Mishra, said police have arrested the firm’s directors Vinay Choudhary and Varun Chaturvedi, and its marketing head Sunil Golwalkar.

Published on Apr 12, 2019 09:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
MP govt books ‘unnamed politicians’ in Rs 3,000 crore e-tendering scam
The Economic Offences Wing lodged an FIR against “unnamed politicians and bureaucrats”, employees of five government departments and owners of eight companies for their involvement in an alleged Rs 3000 cr e-tendering scam.

Updated on Apr 10, 2019 09:45 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Kamal Nath, son file nomination, have assets over Rs 780 crore
Kamal Nath and Nakul Nath had earlier gone to the Shikarpur temple to offer prayers and then took out a rally that reached the collectorate to file their nominations.

Updated on Apr 10, 2019 01:00 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Year after village is cleared of people, a tigress moves in with her cubs
Senior state forest officials, including principal chief conservator of forests U Prakasham and Ujjain chief conservator of forests Ajay Yadav, have confirmed the development, a first in the sanctuary.

Updated on Apr 04, 2019 11:58 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Ending liquor smuggling to Gujarat biggest challenge for poll officials
Officials say holding elections in Balaghat and Mandla, the two Naxal affected districts in the state, is also a challenge further compounded by communication dark spots in these districts.

Updated on Apr 02, 2019 10:20 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal |
Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
Lok Sabha elections 2019: Kamal Nath’s son Nakul Nath likely to take over dad’s mantle
The Congress leaders said that Nakul Nath has been assisting his father during the elections. However, his political ambition came into focus when he was seated right behind his father Kamal Nath when the latter took over as the Madhya Pradesh Congress chief in May last year.

Updated on Mar 15, 2019 09:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Six-year-old kidnapped, killed in Madhya Pradesh
A missing six-year-old boy, whose parents received a ransom call seeking ₹2 lakh for their son’s safe return, was found dead on Wednesday near a village drain in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district, police said, adding that two people including the boy’s uncle have been arrested.

Published on Mar 14, 2019 05:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Satna | Punya Priya Mitra
Madhya Pradesh governor passes ordinance to hike OBC quota
Madhya Pradesh governor Anandiben Patel has signed on ordinance to increase the quota for other backward classes (OBCs) in government jobs and university admission from 14% to 27%.

Updated on Mar 10, 2019 07:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Salman Khan to promote tourism, heritage in MP
Film star Salman Khan has promised that he will help Madhya Pradesh in the field of tourism and heritage, announced chief minister Kamal Nath on Thursday.

Published on Mar 07, 2019 10:16 PM IST
Panna: A success story of tiger relocation that started a decade ago
Panna National Park was the second tiger reserve in India after Sariska to loose all its native tigers. Though tigers were repopulated in Sarsika before Panna, the latter has three times the number of the tigers in the former.

Published on Mar 03, 2019 11:42 AM IST
Hindustan times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Tigers kill their own in Kanha, Sariska reserves, experts say it’s ‘rare’
On Thursday, forest officials confirmed that a male tiger in Kanha national park killed two sub-adults and a tigress in the past month and had also eaten some parts of their bodies.

Updated on Mar 01, 2019 06:38 AM IST
Hindustan Times |
Punya Priya Mitra and Devendra Bhardwaj
MPSBB notice to 500 companies under bio-diversity act
Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board (MPSBB) appears to have got its act together and has given notices to over 500 manufacturing companies who are using forest based bio-resources of the state.

Updated on Aug 19, 2019 01:38 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Top cop keeps father’s body for a month, says being treated by ayurvedic doc
Madhya Pradesh Police said that they were not sure how to respond to the situation as there was no complaint.

Updated on Feb 14, 2019 07:22 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal |
Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
Two booked under National Security Act for ‘illegal transportation of cattle’ in Madhya Pradesh
The development came two days after NSA was invoked against three people, including two brothers in Khandwa district — 271km south of Bhopal, accused of cow slaughter.

Updated on Feb 08, 2019 09:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Agarmalwa/Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) |
Pramod Carpenter and Punya Priya Mitra
‘Ram Bhakt’ Rahul Gandhi to address farmers’ rally in Bhopal today
Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who will kick off his party’s campaign for the Lok Sabha election in Madhya Pradesh with a farmers’ rally in Bhopal on Friday, is being shown as a Ram Bhakt, who will build the Ram temple in Ayodhya, and the future prime minister in posters put up to welcome him.

Updated on Feb 08, 2019 08:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Doctor has affair with driver’s wife, hacks him, dissolves pieces in acid
The accused Dr Sunil Mantri (58), who lives in Anand Nagar, an upscale locality in Hoshangabad, has confessed to killing his servant, Birendra alias Biru Pachauri (30), police said.

Updated on Feb 05, 2019 09:42 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Rishi Kumar Shukla’s journey from MP top cop to CBI chief
A 1983-batch IPS officer from the Madhya Pradesh cadre, Shukla was on leave for six weeks from October 15 -- Assembly elections were held in the state at that time -- because of a bypass surgery. He resumed charge as DGP on December 4 under the new Congress government headed by Kamal Nath.

Updated on Feb 03, 2019 08:49 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal |
Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
MP forest dept take drone route to take on mining mafia, encroachers
In a first, the Madhya Pradesh forest department will deploy drones to take on the mining mafia, illegal loggers and encroachers of forest land

Published on Jan 29, 2019 07:37 PM IST
Bhopal, Hindustan Times | Punya Priya Mitra
RSS worker who faked his own death is now a murder suspect, say cops
A desire to claim ₹20 lakh life insurance that RSS activist Himmat Patidar had taken out in his own name in December 2017 appears to be main motive behind the murder, police said.

Updated on Jan 28, 2019 07:59 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Two-year-old falls into 70-foot-deep borewell in MP, rescued
A two-year-old boy who fell into a 70-foot-deep borewell in Kerhar village of Madhya Pradesh’s Singrauli district has been rescued, district collector Anurag Chaudhary said on Sunday.

Published on Jan 27, 2019 02:04 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra