Congressmen all over Madhya Pradesh staged demonstrations at various district headquarters in the state on Monday protesting against the gangrape of a Swiss national in Datia district on March 15. The two-hour demonstrations were peaceful and marked by presentation of memorandum demanding the resignation of Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta for his failure to prevent the incident. ...
05:15 PM, Mar 18, 2013
In Madhya Pradesh, the blamegame continues over the gangrape of a Swiss tourist in Datia on the outskirts of Gwalior. The survivor was camping with her husband while on a cycling trip. ...
05:09 PM, Mar 18, 2013
A US woman tourist was arrested for allegedly trespassing in the prohibited area of the Kanha Tiger Reserve, official sources said on Monday. ...
03:04 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Madhya Pradesh Assembly was on Monday adjourned for the day following uproar by Opposition Congress demanding Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta's resignation on the issue of gangrape of a Swiss woman in Datia district on March 15. ...
03:03 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Swiss national, who was gangraped in Madhya Pradesh on March 15 has said she and her husband will continue to stay in the country for the moment while expressing readiness to fully cooperate in the ongoing investigation and identification process. ...
02:57 PM, Mar 18, 2013
The Opposition Congress will stage statewide protests on Monday over the gangrape of a Swiss woman in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh. ...
11:59 AM, Mar 18, 2013
The Datia Police have arrested six people in connection with the alleged gangrape of a Swiss national even as the Madhya Pradesh Home Minister said the couple should have informed the police about their travel plans for additional security. The suspects - six members of a nomadic tribe in the area - have been arrested and a stolen laptop and a mobile phone have been seized from them. ...
09:18 PM, Mar 17, 2013
The Opposition Congress will stage statewide protests on Monday over the gangrape of a Swiss woman in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh. While the state Congress president Kantilal Bhuria will stage a protest in Bhopal, the Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Ajay Singh will stage a sit-in at Datia to highlight the rising crime against women in the state, the party sources said. ...
07:40 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Two days after a group of men allegedly gangraped a tourist from Switzerland and assaulted her husband in Madhya Pradesh, the state's Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta, while calling the incident "unfortunate", said more often than not, "foreign nations fail to follow rules of the state". He added that if the foreigners inform the Assistant Superintendent of Police after entering the state, additional security arrangements could be made for them....
06:06 PM, Mar 17, 2013
In a major breakthrough in the Swiss national gangrape case, the Madhya Pradesh Police has arrested three people on Sunday. Police arrested Vishnu Kanjar, Ram Kanjar, Gaza Kanjar from Datia district. ...
11:05 AM, Mar 17, 2013
The Madhya Pradesh Police has failed to arrest anyone so far in the Swiss national gangrape case. More than 36 hours have passed since the incident, and the police has only managed to detain 13 men. They are currently being questioned. ...
09:24 AM, Mar 17, 2013
A Swiss woman was allegedly gangraped near a popular tourist destination in Madhya Pradesh, while another woman was gangraped by three men in a bus in Indore. Thirteen suspects have been detained in Datia in the Swiss woman's gangrape while three have been arrested in Indore. ...
11:24 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Distressed over gangrape of its national in Madhya Pradesh, Switzerland on Saturday sought a "swift" investigation into the incident so that the victim gets justice. Strongly reacting to the incident in which the Swiss citizen was gangraped by seven to eight persons on Friday night, the embassy here said the health and treatment of the victim was the priority for them at the moment. ...
07:40 PM, Mar 16, 2013
Thirteen people have been detained for questioning in connection with the gangrape of a Swiss woman in the Datia district in Madhya Pradesh. A Swiss woman was allegedly gangraped by seven men in the Datia district in Madhya Pradesh. The woman was cycling along with her husband from Orchha in MP to Agra in Uttar Pradesh. ...
01:19 PM, Mar 16, 2013
A Swiss woman was allegedly gangraped by seven men in the Datia district in Madhya Pradesh. The woman was cycling along with her husband from Orchha in MP to Agra in Uttar Pradesh. ...
09:08 AM, Mar 16, 2013
In a fast-track trial, a person was on Thursday sentenced to death by a local court for raping and killing an eight-year-old girl in February near state's Home Minister Uma Shankar Gupta's residence in Bhopal. The sentence was awarded by District and Session Judge Sushma Khosla in just nine working days to Nandkumar Tamoli for raping and killing the minor girl on February 2. ...
09:47 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Congressmen in Madhya Pradesh will sink all their differences before upcoming Assembly polls in the state to prevent the BJP from coming to power again, Union Minister of State Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Sunday. ...
12:52 AM, Mar 11, 2013
The age old 'guru-shishya' tradition is still going strong at the Dhrupad Sansthan in Bhopal. Students come in from around the world, looking to learn classical music and they are handpicked by the Ustads. ...
09:01 AM, Mar 06, 2013
Tension gripped Shivpuri town on Monday as police fired in air to disperse a mob that went berserk after word spread about the body of an abducted boy lying in nearby Amola forest, police said. Utsav Goyal, a class VI student of a local school, was allegedly kidnapped by unidentified persons on March 2 from Vivekanad Colony when he was on his way for a tuition class, official sources said....
08:27 AM, Mar 05, 2013
Atrocities on SCs and STs have increased whenever the Congress got weakened in Madhya Pradesh, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said in Mandsaur on Monday. "Whenever the Congress got weakened in the state, atrocities on SCs/STs, backward castes and poor people increased," the Union minister of State for Energy (Independent Charge) said while addressing a public meeting after launching the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme. ...
10:05 PM, Feb 25, 2013
