After being bowled out for 148 in their first innings that gave MP a substantial lead, Punjab were 11 without loss at the close of play on the second day. ...
09:18 PM, Dec 16, 2012
Bhopal: Bhopal's Bitiya Club is an initiative that went on to become the inspiration for the Madhya Pradesh government's hugely successful 'Beti Bachaao Aandolan'. The Bitiya Club, a club for couples with only daughters, was created to instill pride in parents and reject the false sense of pity that parents of a girl child had to often go through. Eventually, members of this club became agents of social change working...
09:09 AM, Dec 12, 2012
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09:06 AM, Dec 11, 2012
Seoni: The national flag was found allegedly mounted upside down on the official vehicle of Madhya Pradesh Assembly Deputy Speaker Harvansh Singh when he arrived for a public function in Seoni on Sunday, officials said. Singh had come to take part in the public information campaign of the Centre's Bharat Nirman programme, when his vehicle with red beacon light, was spotted with the national flag that was mounted in a...
10:05 PM, Dec 09, 2012
Jabalpur: A physically-challenged youth was allegedly tied to a car by his friend and dragged nearly one kilometre over some differences with him at Tilwara near here on Saturday, police said. Ajay alias Ajju Thakur (23) suffered serious injuries in the incident as he was tied to a car by his friend Devendra alias Dippu (40) and his two associates and was dragged, police said. According to them, there was...
08:23 PM, Dec 08, 2012
Bhopal: A security guard of a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA on Friday entered the Madhya Pradesh Assembly building carrying a pistol and managed to go past check gates with metal detectors before he was asked to leave the premises. The guard of Pananagar MLA Narendra Tripathi identified as Hanuman Prasad reached well inside the building by crossing check gates including the one where metal detectors were installed. The security personnel...
11:32 AM, Dec 08, 2012
Shahdol: A 22-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a well, along with her two minor daughters, at Kachhar village in the district on Thursday police said. "Mamata Panika leapt to death along with Seema (two-and-a-half years old) and Sandhya (1) into the well early in the morning," trainee Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Pinki Jeevnani told PTI. Prima facie it appears to be a case of domestic dispute,...
03:06 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Indore: Manoj Gurjar, the sole accused in the IPS officer Narendra Kumar Singh murder case, pleaded innocence before a special CBI court on Thursday and claimed that he was framed by the Banmore Police. Accused of mowing down the officer with a tractor-trolley laden with illegally mined stones, Gurjar deposed before judge Anupam Srivastava who asked him 72 questions based on the statements of 19 prosecution witnesses. Registering his statements...
12:46 AM, Dec 07, 2012
Bhopal: In a shocking case of corporal punishment from Betul district in Madhya Pradesh, a class IV student died after he was allegedly beaten up by his teachers. The teachers suspected that the nine-year-old had broken a bucket. The student succumbed to his injuries after he was allegedly tortured by his teachers. The incident took place a fortnight ago. The young student suffered injuries on his back and neck and...
07:27 AM, Dec 05, 2012
Bhopal: Monday marks the 28th anniversary of the Bhopal gas tragedy. For most victims, the scars still remain. But the Swabhiman Kendra is easing their pain by empowering them. Shobha Soni still remembers waiting for her husband on that dark night of December 3, 1984. Her house was just 500 metre from the Union Carbide factory where the horrific gas leak happened. What ensued was a life of struggle with...
08:58 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Katni: Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh on Sunday said the time has come for people of Madhya Pradesh to throw the BJP out of power, since it came to power by making false promises, which are yet to be fulfilled. "The ruling BJP had promised to provide 24 hours power within 100 days of coming to power, but till date not a single district gets round-the-clock power," he said. He...
02:35 AM, Dec 03, 2012
Chhatarpur: Some persons allegedly tried to gouge out eyes of a 16-year-old boy at Barha village in the district after his cousin eloped with a girl. A complaint was lodged by the victim Harcharan against the family members of the girl at Rajnagar Police Station this morning, station in-charge OS Chandel said. According to Harcharan, who is from Gomakhurd village, his cousin allegedly eloped with Kashi Patel's daughter on November...
08:33 PM, Dec 01, 2012
Bhopal: Social activist-turned politician Arvind Kejriwal's newly formed Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is considering to field its candidates in the next year's Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. "The matter to contest the Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections scheduled to be held in November 2013 was discussed at a meeting in New Delhi recently," AAP state committee member Sharad Singh Kumbre said on Wednesday. The AAP has already formed its state committee...
03:27 PM, Nov 28, 2012
In other matches, Hyderabad and Railways notched up three points against Mumbai and Gujarat respectively. ...
05:41 PM, Nov 27, 2012
In other matches, Railways is likely to gain an outright victory against Gujarat, while Hyderabad is set to upstage Mumbai. ...
06:34 PM, Nov 26, 2012
In other matches, Bengal is struggling at 200 for 6 after Shami Ahmed's hat-trick reduced Madhya Pradesh to 342, while Hyderabad vs Mumbai encounter is evenly poised. ...
07:51 PM, Nov 25, 2012
Bhopal: Ahead of the next year's Assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, six political parties led by the Samajwadi Party are in talks to form a Third Front kind of an alternative to the ruling BJP and main Opposition the Congress. A meeting to this effect was held in Bhopal on Friday at the behest of the SP. The CPI(M), CPI, Rashtriya Samanta Dal, Bharatiya Gondwana Party and Janata Dal(S) were...
02:05 PM, Nov 25, 2012
In other matches, Mumbai and Madhya Pradesh piled up healthy totals against Hyderabad and Bengal respectively. ...
07:13 PM, Nov 24, 2012
Bhopal: Hailing execution of Pakistani terrorist Ajmal Kasab, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday demanded that Afzal Guru, who is on death row in the 2001 Parliament attack case, should also be hanged. Chouhan termed the hanging of Kasab as a "justified step" saying the 26/11 attack was an attack on country, in which scores of people and a number of security personnel lost their precious lives....
12:59 AM, Nov 22, 2012
Rajasthan's acting skipper said had they got a specialist spinner, they would have come out with an outright victory against MP. ...
07:16 PM, Nov 20, 2012
