Khatipura: Madhya Pradesh's unemployed tribals have been demanding land from the government for basic sustenance. CNN-IBN travelled to the Khatipura village for a ground report. Mansoor Ali, a Bheel tribal, lives in a hut on the outskirts of Khatipura, a village under the Budhni assembly segment which is represented by Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan. For over three decades, Mansoor Ali along with 80 other families survived on...
09:47 AM, Oct 18, 2012
Shahdol (MP): A class X student of a government school here was injured when he was allegedly beaten up by his teacher for not taking private tuition from him, police said on Monday. Noushad, the student of Government Excellence School here, sustained injuries on his ears when his mathematics teacher RP Sharma allegedly thrashed him on Saturday at the tuition, they said. The boy's father Abdul Ahad said in his...
10:35 PM, Oct 15, 2012
Bhopal: A 35-year-old woman committed suicide after she was allegedly gangraped in the neighbouring Raisen district, police said on Wednesday. The woman was picked up by four persons near Bhopal in a jeep on Tuesday who later allegedly raped her in Badi forest area and then dumped her on the road, police said. The victim, who was feeling dejected, somehow reached her village and later set herself on fire. She...
04:32 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Bhopal: A major fire broke out at the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited's (BHEL) plant in Bhopal on Wednesday morning, a company official said. The fire started from BHEL's transformer block number three around 10 AM, spokesperson of the company said. No casualties or injuries were reported in the incident so far, he said. Fire tenders from the Bhopal Municipal Corporation, city airport and BHEL's own fire station were pressed into...
02:47 PM, Oct 10, 2012
Agra: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan met thousands of landless tribals, who are marching from Gwalior to Delhi under the banner of Ekta Parishad, in Agra on Wednesday. The tribals numbering over 50,000 have been marching for land and shelter rights. Organisers and Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh have reportedly reached an agreement which Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has to now endorse. After days of parleys, Ekta Parishad,...
11:55 AM, Oct 10, 2012
Bhopal: The victims of the Bhopal gas tragedy and their families are back on a protest. They claim that the Bhopal Memorial Hospital, specially set up for the victims, is on the verge of closure. The hospital built to take care of the victims of the 1984 gas tragedy is itself in the need of rescue. In 2010, following a CNN-IBN report, which showed administrative apathy, the union government took...
09:52 AM, Oct 10, 2012
New Delhi: Crime against children rose by an alarming 24 per cent last year in the country, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list and Delhi coming in third place. "It is alarming that, in 2011, the crimes against children reported a 24 per cent increase from the previous year with a total of 33,098 cases," the report 'Children in India 2012-A Statistical Appraisal', conducted by the Central Statistical Organisation, said....
05:24 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Congress MPs in Ratlam in Madhya Pradesh were caught on camera scolding the district's collector in public. Three Congress MPs Prem Chand Guddu, Meenakshi Natarajan and Kantilal Bhuria, who is the state Congress chief, shouted at Collector Rajiv Dube, not giving him a chance to explain. Dube had allegedly flouted protocol at a meeting called to review the progress of centrally-funded development programmes. ...
09:18 AM, Oct 09, 2012
Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Monday said his party BJP is opposed to FDI in retail but not in other sectors. He also asserted that his Government will not allow foreign players to enter retail trade in the BJP-ruled state. "BJP is against FDI in retail but not in other sectors," Chouhan told reporters after arriving here from an eight-day tour of the US. The Chief...
11:05 PM, Oct 08, 2012
Indore: One more person died of swine flu, taking the death toll due to the virus to seven in Indore division of the state since May this year, a district health official said on Monday. A 28-year-old man from Jalapura village near here was admitted to a private hospital on September 25. He tested positive for the H1N1 virus on October 4 at the ICMR laboratory, the official said. As...
03:47 PM, Oct 08, 2012
New Delhi: In the traditional working of a political world, power flows outwards from the centre, but it appears to be quite the opposite in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) with the script for change in the next general elections being written by influential regional satraps. It's not just Gujarat's Chief Minister Narendra Modi. Madhya Pradesh's Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Chhattisgarh's Raman Singh have also emerged as mass leaders capable...
10:25 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Bhopal: A 14-year-old girl was allegedly gangraped by seven men on October 1 in Madhya Pradesh. The accused had allegedly made an MMS of the incident and circulated it as well. The incident took place in Bhander in Datia district. The victim's family finally filed a case on Sunday. A case has been registered under Section 376. No arrest has been made in the case yet. More details of the...
09:00 AM, Oct 08, 2012
Khargone: A 33-year-old woman labourer allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well with her three minor children in Rahimpura locality, police said. According to one of the woman's relatives, her husband and his family members used to beat her regularly. Police suspect that might have driver her to take the step. The deceased has been identified as Tarabai, City Kotwali police station in-charge Chatrpal Singh Parihar said. She had...
11:13 PM, Oct 07, 2012
Bhopal: Congress workers in Madhya Pradesh were lathicharged on Thursday as they tried to march to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence protesting against coal block allocation. Other than their batons, the police used a water cannon to disperse the crowd as well. The protestors were holding a public rally. However, when they tried to march to the Chief Minister's residence, the police denied them permission and stooped...
03:53 PM, Oct 04, 2012
The victim was allegedly raped and killed on September 28 and later her body was dumped near the Budhni Ghat. ...
07:53 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Bhopal: Tension gripped the Mansarovar Complex area in Bhopal on Monday after people set afire shops and damaged vehicles over the alleged rape and killing of a minor girl, a senior police official said. The victim was allegedly raped and killed by some persons on September 28 and later her body was dumped near the Budhni Ghat which was recovered by police on Sunday. On Monday, when people of the...
06:30 PM, Oct 01, 2012
Indore: A five-year-old adopted girl was beaten to death after being sexually assaulted allegedly by her foster parents in Indore, police said on Friday. The foster parents have been arrested from their residence in Rajiv Awas Vihar following postmortem report which confirmed the couple's alleged involvement in the girl's death, superintendent of police OP Tripathi told PTI. "There are indications of sexual assault and the girl being beaten to death,"...
03:15 PM, Sep 28, 2012
Bhopal: A class 9 student was allegedly thrashed by his class 11 seniors at the Sanskar Valley school in Bhopal. The boy has been admitted to a local hospital with a fractured nose and head injury. The school has so far not taken any action against the seniors. The police say they have registered a case against the three accused but are yet to question them. "I was beaten and...
12:04 PM, Sep 28, 2012
New Delhi: MDMK chief Vaiko and 700 of his party supporters were arrested in Chhindwara near Sanchi on Friday as they tried to enter the city to hold their protest against visiting Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is scheduled to inaugurate a Buddhist University there. Vaiko had planned a black flag protest against Rajapaksa in Sanchi. However, the Madhya Pradesh police stopped them from entering the city on Thursday...
12:20 PM, Sep 21, 2012
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Friday reached Sanchi where he will inaugurate a Buddhist University. ...
11:33 AM, Sep 21, 2012
