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Two wanted in Joshi murder case absconding

Investigations by the Madhya Pradesh police, prior to filing of chargesheet into RSS pracharark Sunil Joshi’s murder case, have reached a roadblock as two of those wanted in this case are absconding and the police is clueless about their whereabouts.

Digvijay demands MP ministers’ asset probe

Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh here on Thursday said that the Madhya Pradesh government is deep in corruption and demanded a probe into the assets of all state ministers between 2003 and 2010. Mr Singh also took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari saying he has called him a “chillar neta”. He said this is all Mr Gadkari could call him after he has been the chief minister of Madhya Pradesh for 10 years and a state minister for five years.

Suicides rise among MP farmers

The farmers in Madhya Pradesh are feeling devastated and over a half-a-dozen of them have even committed suicide in a short span of time in different parts of the state.
In the last one month, farmers have committed suicide in villages across Bhopal, Sehore, Chhindwara, Damoh, and Sagar districts. The farmers’ plight had surfaced in a

Rethink on move to populate Panna reserve

At present there is a rethinking in the wildlife wing of the state forest department on whether or not to go ahead with the National Tiger Conservation Authority approved plan to relocate two female t

2 Kashmiri militants held in Bhopal

Two Kashmiri militants, wanted in cases registered in Bandipora in Jammu and Kashmir, have been arrested by the Bhopal police.

Diggy wants privilege move on Gadkari

AICC general secretary and former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh Digvijay Singh has demanded privilege motion against Bharatiya Janata Party president Nitin Gadkari on his reported statement that the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has limited powers in comparison to the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC).

Farmers lay siege to Chouhan residence

The state capital was under virtual siege on Monday as the farmers agitating under the banner of Bharatiya Kisan Sangh (BKS), affiliated with Rashtriya Swayam Sevak Sangh, converged here from all parts of the state to go on a sit-in agitation to press their demand for immediate resolution of their burning problems.

Officials put off plan to relocate tigers to Panna

The last moment decision by a team of forest officials and veterinary experts on Sunday to temporarily abandon the operation to relocate two tigers from Kanha Tiger Reserve to Panna Tiger Reserve puts

Bhopal survivors rally for justice 26 years on

The survivors exposed to the poisonous gas leak from the Union Carbide pesticide plant here in 1984 observed the 26th anniversary of the gas disaster by joining a protest march and burning effigies of

Lawyers oppose evening courts

There is stiff resistance from the lawyers’ side to the new initiative of starting evening courts in the district and civil courts in Madhya Pradesh to tackle the problem of high pendency of cases.

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