Madhya Pradesh

MP: 10th and 12th Board results declared

MP: 10th and 12th Board results declared Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Board Class 10 and 12 Results 2013 have been declared by the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education (MPBSE) on Tuesday. Candidates can log on to the website - http://mpresults.nic.in - to access their results. Out of all the results declared so far, following are the students who have topped in their respective streams: Bhopal boy Lekhanshu Bavne tops Commerce stream Ruchi Sharma from Sidhi tops Science...
05:32:04 PM May 21, 2013

Bhopal gas tragedy: Plea on convicts' sentence declined

Bhopal gas tragedy: Plea on convicts' sentence declined Bhopal: A local court here on Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others. Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist...
10:30:44 AM May 21, 2013

Chargesheet filed in land scam case involving BJP MLA

Chargesheet filed in land scam case involving BJP MLA Indore: Lokayukta Police on Monday submitted a charge sheet against BJP MLA Ramesh Mendola and 16 others in a 2004 land scam case. The charge sheet was submitted in the court of special judge DN Mishra under Sec 120 B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC and sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The court, meanwhile, granted bail to Mendola and 14 others on a bond of Rs 1 lakh...
12:45:36 AM May 21, 2013

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Plea to raise sentence declined

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: Plea to raise sentence declined Bhopal: A local court in Bhopal Monday rejected an NGO's plea to raise the quantum of punishment given to the convicts in the Bhopal gas tragedy case. The petition to raise the quantum of punishment in the case was filed by the Bhopal Gas Peedit Mahila Udyog Sanghthan convenor Abdul Jabbar and others. Rejecting the plea, District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla said that the NGO could at best assist...
12:29:35 AM May 21, 2013

Indore: Man held for uploading obscene video of girl

Indore: Man held for uploading obscene video of girl Indore: A software engineer here was arrested on Sunday for allegedly uploading an obscene video of a nursing student on the Internet. Kapil Gadhwal (24), a resident of Mandsaur, is employed at a call centre in the city, police said. Gadhwal befriended the 21-year-old nursing student who studied at a private college, and about ten days ago he allegedly shot an obscene video of her which he uploaded on the...
08:05:29 PM May 19, 2013

Serious flaw in MGNREGA implementation in MP: Audit report

Serious flaw in MGNREGA implementation in MP: Audit report Bhopal: Serious irregularities like non-submission of utilisation certificates and delay in payment of wages to beneficiaries among others have come to notice in an official report on the implementation of MGNREGA scheme in Madhya Pradesh. It was also found that the state government was not following necessary budgetary procedures while seeking grant from the Centre under the flagship programme. It was noticed during the inspection in eight districts that the...
03:15:23 PM May 19, 2013

Indore: Man jailed for putting 'chastity lock' on wife

Indore: Man jailed for putting 'chastity lock' on wife Indore: A man, who put a 'chastity lock' on his wife in a cruel, self-devised way, was awarded 10 years' rigorous sentence by the court in Indore on Friday even though the survivor had retracted her statement during the trial. Additional Sessions Judge Avnindra Kumar Singh also imposed a fine of Rs 1,000 on the accused Sohanlal (38), a mechanic by profession, under sections 326 (causing grievous hurt) and section...
07:57:17 PM May 17, 2013

Land row: Congress targets MP CM over 'rampant corruption'

Land row: Congress targets MP CM over 'rampant corruption' New Delhi: The Congress has targetted Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan after CNN-IBN exposed how prime land in Bhopal was given to his relatives and party members. Digvijaya Singh claimed this is one of the many corruption charges against the Madhya Pradesh CM. "About 10 people in Chouhan's family were given membership and land. There is a provision that two members of a family cannot be given a...
09:40:42 AM May 15, 2013

MP: Health Ministry cracks down on private college defying MCI norms

MP: Health Ministry cracks down on private college defying MCI norms Bhopal: A private medical college is under scrutiny for selling seats. The Health Ministry and Medical Council of India have cracked down on the People's Medical College in Madhya Pradesh. The college had illegally admitted over 240 students between 2009 and 2012, openly flouting MCI norms. What's more is that in 2012, it had refused to admit students under merit quota, after which the state government had moved court. The...
01:18:22 PM May 14, 2013

MP: 14-year-old attempts suicide after rape bid

MP: 14-year-old attempts suicide after rape bid Bhopal: A 14-year-old girl is battling for her life after she attempted suicide. The teenager set herself ablaze following an alleged rape bid by a youth two days back. She is in a hospital in Udaipur, Rajasthan now and her condition is said to be critical. The girl said in her statement that she felt 'humiliated' after a youth attempted to rape her. The accused, Pratap Singh, reportedly tried to...
10:45:42 AM May 14, 2013

Rape victim to identify accused through video conference

Rape victim to identify accused through video conference Datia: A special court conducting trial in the Swiss woman gangrape case has directed the authorities concerned to facilitate identification of the accused through video conference, as the victim was unable to attend the court proceedings in Datia. The victim who had already left the country after the incident, is likely to visit India soon. Special judge Jitendra Sharma on Thursday directed the prosecution to make necessary arrangements so that...
02:27:08 AM May 11, 2013

MP: Two men rape 9-year-old; survivor shifted to Nagpur

MP: Two men rape 9-year-old; survivor shifted to Nagpur Nagpur/Shahdol: A nine-year-old girl from Shahdol district of Madhya Pradesh, who was allegedly gangraped by two persons last week, has been brought to Nagpur and admitted to a private hospital here after her condition deteriorated. The victim is being attended to by a team of doctors, after she was shifted to Nagpur on Thursday from Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose Government Medical College in Jabalpur (MP), hospital sources said on Friday....
06:01:52 PM May 03, 2013

Shame continues: Ghansore minor rape victim dies in Nagpur hospital

Shame continues: Ghansore minor rape victim dies in Nagpur hospital Nagpur: A five-year-old girl, who was raped by a 35-year-old man in Ghansore town of Seoni, died in hospital in Nagpur on Monday evening. She had been admitted in Nagpur hospital for a week. The hospital said the minor died at 7.45 pm after suffering a cardiac arrest. Her body has now been sent to the Nagpur government hospital for post-mortem. The hospital has also informed the Madhya Pradesh government....
10:47:50 PM Apr 29, 2013

IIM-Indore sacks professor over false harassment complaint

IIM-Indore sacks professor over false harassment complaint Indore: A woman professor of IIM-Indore, who accused a senior colleague of sexual harassment, has been sacked after an inquiry panel found her charge to be false and baseless. The lady professor, who is on a two-year contract and living in the official campus, has been told about the termination of her contract, a senior official said. However, IIM's Public Relation Officer Akhta Pervez chose not to mention about the...
06:35:51 PM Apr 29, 2013

Bhopal hospital mishap: Two dead, 15 injured

Bhopal hospital mishap: Two dead, 15 injured Bhopal: Rescue and search operations have been completed at the BHEL-run Kasturba Hospital in Bhopal, where the ceiling of the women's ward collapsed on Friday evening. Fifteen people have been rescued with minor injuries and two people have died in the mishap. "The bodies of two persons identified as Jameel and Arun were found when the rescue team started removing debris of the collapsed structure," Collector Nikunj Shrivastava said on...
09:19:52 AM Apr 27, 2013