When the tiger population is dwindling at an alarming rate and it has become a huge challenge to protect them even in the protected areas, the death of a 3-year-old tigress in the Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday morning raises several questions, the most burning of them is whether or not the tigress was fatally hit by a vehicle carrying tourists.

The Dhar district police has picked up one of the accused and recovered the partially burnt skulls of local Congress leader Kailash Agrawal and his driver from Kadola village in Dhar district. The Congress leader was said to be missing, along with his driver, since Friday.

The four-day special session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly, convened to discuss issues linked with development, ended on Friday with the House unanimously passing a 70-point resolution moved by chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

In a gruesome accident, 28 passengers were killed and four others were critically injured on Friday when the bus in which they were travelling hit a high-tension electricity wire in Mandla district of Madhya Pradesh.

The stalemate over Congress-led Opposition’s boycott of the special session of the Madhya Pradesh Assembly has taken a rather unsavoury turn with Assembly Speaker Ishwardas Rohani telling mediapersons on Thursday that he has received seven privilege notices against Congress MLAs accused of making lose comments at a woman MLA and a few other ruling party legislators on Wednesday.

A man, who introduced himself as a trader from Mandsaur in western Madhya Pradesh, claimed here on Thursday that Rs 3.30 crores seized earlier from the house of the IAS couple, Arvind and Tinu Joshi by the income tax department actually belonged to him.