New Delhi: The national capital has earned the dubious distinction of having the highest number of crimes reported among mega cities in the country. The highest number of complaints per 100 policemen was reported from Delhi (17.0) followed by Madhya Pradesh (14.7) and Chandigarh (10.1) against the national average of 3.7 during the year 2011.
According to latest statistics released by National Crime Records Bureau for 2012, Delhi accounted for 10.1 per cent crimes reported from 53 mega cities, which has a population of more than ten lakh. The three other metros which follow Delhi are Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata -- accounting 6.4 per cent, 6.2 per cent and 5.4 per cent, respectively. It also noted that the highest rate of violent crimes was reported from Assam (54.2) followed by Manipur (44.6), Kerala (42.7) and Delhi (34.7) as compared to 22.7 at all-India level.
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03:45 AM, Jun 15, 2013
Bhopal: In a shocker from Madhya Pradesh, the state police refused to register a case of attempted murder and sexual assault against assailants after a woman was allegedly beaten up by over a dozen people and her knee caps broken while resisting rape. The 27-year-old, a mother of one, is now lying in an orthopaedic ward in Bhopal. She was sexually assaulted by over a dozen men minutes after she...
08:27 AM, Jun 14, 2013
New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday night met BJP patriarch LK Advani whose resignation from key posts had created a flutter in the party. The Chief Minister, who flew to Delhi late at night, held a brief meeting with the octogenarian leader at his residence in Delhi. Advani had on Monday resigned from three main forums of the BJP-- national executive, parliamentary board and election...
12:08 AM, Jun 12, 2013
Betul: Close to 350 women were allegedly asked to go through virginity and pregnancy tests during a mass marriage programme in Betul. Sources said that the tests were apparently ordered by the government officials. The incident took place at Harad village in Betul, a tribal-dominated district. About 90 women who underwent these tests are tribals. The district administration has ordered a magisterial probe and a report will be submitted within...
08:29 AM, Jun 09, 2013
Betul (MP): As many as 350 women were allegedly put through virginity and pregnancy tests during a mass marriage programme organised by the Madhya Pradesh government at Harad village in the tribal-dominated district. Sources said that the tests were apparently ordered by the government officials. A day after the alleged incident, the district administration on Saturday ordered a magisterial probe into the complaints regarding the tests conducted on the would-be-brides,...
11:36 PM, Jun 08, 2013
Indore: Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti on Wednesday said that party officials in Madhya Pradesh seldom invited her for the important programmes organised by them and claimed that she was clueless as to why that was so. She clarified, however, that she had no differences with MP chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan. "I have been invited by people across the country. But I am surprised on not being invited to...
11:21 PM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: Congress on Tuesday took potshots at the BJP leadership on the controversy after LK Advani's praise for Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, saying it seems that the leaders in the opposition party are forcing Advani to retire from politics. "The way they (BJP leaders) are treating Advani, it seems they are forcing him to take retirement," Congress spokesperson Shakeel Ahmed told reporters. He said BJP is...
12:59 PM, Jun 05, 2013
New Delhi: For effective governance and providing affordable access to communication, the Union Cabinet Tuesday decided to install mobile towers in nine Maoist-hit states, including Chhattisgarh where the rebels killed several Congress leaders May 25. The approval to the project was given by the Union Cabinet in a meeting held here. Mobile towers would be installed at 2,199 locations in nine states - Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Maharashtra, Madhya...
10:21 PM, Jun 04, 2013
Bhopal: A local court on Thursday awarded life imprisonment to five persons including former MLA Ashok Vir Vikram Singh alias Bhaiya Raja for the murder of a 20-year-old fashion designing student in 2009. Besides Bhaiya Raja, others who were sentenced to life imprisonment are - Bhupendra Singh alias Halke, Ramkishan alias Chhotu Lodhi, Pankaj Shukla alias Martand Shukla and Abhimanyu Pathak alias Abbu. The court also imposed a fine of...
12:56 AM, May 31, 2013
New Delhi: Madhya Pradesh government recently started the Astha and Mamta campaign' for free treatment of leprosy, malaria and TB even though the Central government is already running such schemes. But the health care system and infrastructure in Madhya Pradesh is in shambles. Unless infrastructure is improved, big schemes will do little to help the people. In 2012 more than 1,000 people died from TB in the state with 24...
03:04 PM, May 29, 2013
Bhopal: Upset over not clearing the standard 12th CBSE examination, a girl allegedly committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of Madhya Pradesh Mantralaya building in Bhopal, police said. Nikita Swami (17), whose father worked at Mantralaya, had gone there to check result on the internet. Preliminary investigation revealed that she took the extreme step after learning the result, police said. She was taken to government-run JP Hospital but...
04:57 PM, May 27, 2013
The bloodbath in Chhattisgarh took place on Saturday and witnesses say the Naxals first triggered a landmine blast and then opened indiscriminate firing. ...
11:34 PM, May 26, 2013
Bhopal: Following the deadly Naxal attack in neighbouring Chhattisgarh, a high alert has been sounded in Madhya Pradesh in Naxal-affected districts, police sources said on Sunday. Security has been increased since Saturday night in the areas close to Chhattisgarh and other Naxal-affected districts in the state, they said. All range Inspector Generals have been directed to intensify vigil to prevent the ultras from entering the state, the sources added. Heavily-armed...
04:15 PM, May 26, 2013
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh government has hiked by eight per cent the dearness allowance (DA) of employees with effect from January 1, 2013. This was announced by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Saturday while laying the foundation stone for several developmental projects worth Rs 27.66 crore at Budha village in Mandsour district. With the revised allowance, state employees will now be entitled to a total of 80 per cent DA...
02:42 PM, May 26, 2013
Bhopal: With an aim to score a hat-trick in Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections slated later this year, the ruling BJP has reposed faith in senior party leader Anil Madhav Dave, who played a pivotal role in the 2003 elections, party sources said on Friday. Dave is a "key member" of the BJP's poll management committee in Madhya Pradesh, they said. A Rajya Sabha member, Dave along with his team had...
01:08 PM, May 24, 2013
Bhopal: Beating all odds, a visually impaired girl, Shrishti Tiwari, from Damoh town has topped the Madhya Pradesh Higher Secondary examination in Arts stream. The results were declared two days back by the Madhya Pradesh Board of Secondary Education. For Shrishti, a student of JBP Government Higher Secondary School in Damoh, the achievement is special not only academically but also because of the fact that she is visually impaired since...
04:13 PM, May 23, 2013
Jabalpur: A software engineer from Hyderabad, who had come to Jabalpur, to attend a hearing in the family court was allegedly abducted and gangraped, police said on Wednesday. According to the woman's complaint, on Tuesday night when she was coming from Katni accompanied by a friend, who went ahead of her while talking on his mobile, two youths on motorcycle took her to a deserted place and gangraped her until...
11:56 PM, May 22, 2013
New Delhi: Heat wave conditions sweeping large parts of the country worsened, killing three persons in Madhya Pradesh, while Nagpur on Tuesday witnessed its hottest day in six decades at a sizzling 47.8 degrees Celsius. Sriganganagar in Rajasthan, with a blistering 47.5 degrees Celsius, was hottest place in the country after Nagpur, which recorded the highest temperature in 59 years. Delhi also witnessed its hottest day of the season and...
06:30 PM, May 21, 2013
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 PM, May 21, 2013
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 AM, May 21, 2013
