President of Madhya Pradesh unit of Bharatiya Janata Party and Rajya Sabha member Prabhat Jha has written a letter to President Pratibha Patil seeking permission to commit suicide so that the Congress-led UPA government could be forced to bring down prices.

Polling for the Jabera Assembly byelection in Madhya Pradesh was conducted peacefully on Saturday after a volley of charges and counter-charges regarding violation of the model code of conduct were hurled against each other by the two main rivals — the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress — in the final run-up to this election.

Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party president Mayawati announced here on Sunday that her party would not go for any electoral alliance and shall contest on its own strength the next r

Uttar Pradesh chief minister and Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati is scheduled to address a mega convention of party workers from Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan in the state capital on Sunday.

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Wednesday continued his tirade against yoga guru Baba Ramdev and said he has made a mockery of himself by his midnight escape from Delhi’s Ramlila Grounds when the police went to pick him up for defying prohibitory orders.

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh on Thursday questioned the credibility of yoga guru Ramdev and accused the Rahstriya Swayam Sevak Sangh of hatching the conspiracy leading to his “campaign against corruption”.

The general council of Bhopal Municipal Corporation has put the lid, at least for the time being, on the controversial issue of renaming Bhopal as Bhojpal, in honour of the 11th century AD philosopher king of Malwa, by rejecting a resolution in support of this move through a majority decision backed to the hilt by the Congress corporators.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party MLA from Bargi, Pratibha Singh’s son Nitin (31) was shot dead in village Makanpur, falling under Belkheda police station in Jabalpur district, a little after 12.30 am on Tuesday. The police has arrested the main accused Durgesh (20) along with one of his accomplices and seized the weapon of crime.

Discerning citizens and civil society organisations that have remained in the forefront defending the interests of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday reacted sharply to the Supreme Court decision dismissing the CBI’s curative petition against an earlier judgment of the apex court that diluted the charges against the accused in the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster case.

The Madhya Pradesh government’s plan to teach “Gita Sar” (essence of Bhagwad Gita) in government schools has been sharply criticised and dubbed an anti-secular initiative by Harmony Foundation, a local organisation formed by followers of various religious groups.