Khandwa: It has been 15 days since the villagers of Khandwa in Madhya Pradesh began their protest standing in neck-deep water against raising the height of the Omkareshwar Dam that threatens to submerge and wash away their homes. The protests are being led by the activists of the Narmada Bachao Andolan, who will be meeting several ministers on Saturday. It has been over a year since the Supreme Court asked...
10:22 AM, Sep 08, 2012
Khandwa: Power minister Veerappa Moily on Friday met NHPC officials to discuss the Omkareshwar project in Khandwa. CNN-IBN had highlighted the protests by locals against the 520 MW plant which is a joint venture between NHPC and the Madhya Pradesh government. The villagers are against raising the height of the Omkareshwar Dam as heavy rainfall has brought life to a standstill in the region. The Narmada river on which the...
05:17 PM, Sep 07, 2012
Bhopal: Heavy rainfall has been reported across Madhya Pradesh over the last 24 hours. The Bhopal-Indore-Khandwa state highway is closed. The Narmada River is flowing above the danger level in Omkareshwar and Khandwa. The government has opened all the gates of the Omkareshwar dam to maintain steady water levels. This comes as setback to 30 villages in Khandwa district that are already submerged. 51 villagers have been sitting in neck...
10:10 AM, Sep 06, 2012
Khandwa: Villagers in Madhya Pradesh have been protesting in neck-deep water for almost two weeks now. Almost 130 of them are demanding compensation and land for their land that has gotten submerged after the height of two dams was raised. It's the ultimate act of protest, seen during anti-dam protests on the Narmada river in the past, and this time it's on near the Indira Sagar and Omkareshwar Dam in...
09:47 AM, Sep 06, 2012
The villagers, displaced due to two hydel projects, demand that the government gives them alternate land and more compensation. ...
09:13 PM, Sep 05, 2012
Khandwa: Over 130 villagers in Madhya Pradesh have been protesting in neck-deep water for the past one week to seek compensation from the government. The protest is the first of a kind in Gopalgaon in the Khandwa district. The villagers are demanding compensation for their land which was submerged after the Omkareshwar Dam height was raised. The Supreme Court has said they should be compensated adequately and rehabilitated as well....
09:22 AM, Sep 05, 2012
Betul: An activist of Congress' student wing, who was allegedly set on fire by Bajrang Dal workers in Shahpur teshil last week, succumbed to his injuries at Padhar Hospital in Betul. According to the police, the victim, an NSUI worker identified as Rahul Joshi, died late on Monday night. Police said that the victim had a fight with saffron workers over submitting a memorandum to an official on the issue...
10:15 PM, Sep 04, 2012
Bhopal: Witnesses in the Shehla Masood murder case are expected to depose in an Indore court on Monday. Non-bailable warrants were issued against the RTI activist's father and a relative of hers after they failed to appear at the last hearing in the case. Shehla was killed in Bhopal in 2011. ...
09:45 AM, Sep 03, 2012
Khandwa: An unusual form of protest has been taking place in Madhya Pradesh as 34 residents from the village of Gogalgaon in the Khandwa district have been standing submerged in waist-deep water for the past four days. The villagers are demanding compensation for their land, which was submerged after the height of the Omkareshwar Dam was raised. "We are sitting here with a resolve, we will stay here until we...
10:24 AM, Aug 30, 2012
Bhopal: A sessions court on Tuesday upheld a 2010 verdict of a trial court in the 1984 Bhopal Gas tragedy case while dismissing the CBI's petition seeking re-trial and enhancement of sentence awarded to former Union Carbide officials. The revision petition seeking enhancement of sentence under the new section of 304-II of IPC, which provided for a maximum sentence of 10 years' imprisonment, was rejected by the district and sessions...
01:45 AM, Aug 29, 2012
Indore: A youth was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly sexually abusing a minor girl in Indore, police said. One Chaman (21) forcibly took the eight-year-old girl, a rag picker, to a secluded place and sexually abused her last week in Bhanwarkua area of the city, police said. The girl's parents filed an FIR in the incident on Monday, following which police nabbed the accused. The girl was sent for a...
05:40 PM, Aug 28, 2012
Bhopal: Anti-corruption activist Arvind Kejriwal will be in Bhopal on Tuesday to stage a sit-in protest outside Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's residence. A few India Against Corruption (IAC) members were lathicharged outside the CM's residence on Sunday when they protested there. The protest was a part of the rally called in by Kejriwal to protest against the government over coalgate. ...
11:35 AM, Aug 28, 2012
Jyotiraditya Scindia polled 150 against his rival Kailash Vijaywargia who secured 73 votes. ...
09:21 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Alleging that there is no "Opposition" left in the country, activist Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he will sit on a dharna outside the residence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal to protest the police action against his supporters there. He alleged people were "beaten up very badly" in Bhopal while protesting against corruption by Chouhan. "Is there any difference between UPA in Centre...
08:02 AM, Aug 27, 2012
New Delhi: Alleging that there is no "Opposition" left in the country, activist Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said he will sit on a dharna outside the residence of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Bhopal to protest the police action against his supporters there. He alleged people were "beaten up very badly" in Bhopal while protesting against corruption by Chouhan. "Is there any difference between UPA in Centre...
11:33 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: Even as India Against Corruption members, led by Arvind Kejriwal, marched towards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence in the national capital on Sunday, their colleagues in different states led rallies towards the residences of their respective Chief Ministers. In Bhopal, the police lathicharged protesters who were largely non-violent. In Chhattisgarh, protesters gathered outside Chief Minister Raman Singh's residence in Raipur. In Odisha, demonstrators gathered outside Chief Minister Naveen...
02:20 PM, Aug 26, 2012
New Delhi: The number of new annual HIV infections has declined by around 56 per cent during the last decade in the country, the Lok Sabha was informed Friday. Minister of State for Health S Gandhiselvan said that based on HIV estimations 2010, it is estimated that India had approximately 1.2 lakh new infections in 2009, as against 2.7 lakh in 2000. "Similar reduction in HIV incidence has been noted...
03:24 PM, Aug 24, 2012
Indore: Three days after a young man bled to death inside a police station, his family and the police are caught in a blame game. The incident occurred after Ravi Dangi was stabbed for taking on the molesters and the police allegedly took about 40 minutes to complete the paper work before taking him to a doctor. If the Indore Police are to be believed, Ravi Dangi after being stabbed...
08:30 AM, Aug 24, 2012
The MP Human Rights Commission has served a notice to the police for allegedly ignoring the victim who bled to death. ...
11:25 PM, Aug 23, 2012
Indore: Sources say that two more of the accused in the Indore molestation-stabbing case have been arrested. The total number of arrests in the case is now four. A man bled to his death at a police station in Indore on Wednesday after authorities failed to administer immediate medical aid to him. Ravi, along with his friend, had taken on a bunch of men who tried to molest his sister....
03:04 PM, Aug 23, 2012
