Madhya Pradesh’s tainted former finance minister Raghavji was arrested Tuesday afternoon from a relative’s flat, where he was hiding after the police filed an FIR against him Sunday on sodomy charges.

Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party president Narendra Singh Tomar on Sunday passed a one-line order expelling from the party tainted party leader Raghavji, who had to quit as state finance minister

The former chairman of the state Forest Development Corporation, Mr Shivshanker Pateria, has come out in the open and declared that he was the mastermind behind the controversial CD that eventually put Madhya Pradesh finance minister Raghavji in the spot and led to his ouster from the state Cabinet. After this revelation, the BJP has suspended Mr Pateria from the party for six years.

Madhya Pradesh’s BJP government, which is preparing for the state Assembly elections later this year, was jolted by the swift turn of events on Friday which culminated with the resignation of state fi

A burning question doing the rounds in administrative circles here these days is whether or not a state minister holding the biodiversity portfolio has the authority to instruct the state biodiversity

Senior BJP leader L.K. Advani on Saturday showed Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi his place by raising Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s stature and comparing him with former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee.

The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) on Saturday announced that thousands of oustees of the Omkareshwar, Indira Sagar, Maheshwar, Man and Upper Beda dams, who are facing repression, indifference and largescale violation of their fundamental and constitutional rights, will observe a five-day “Narmada Jiwan Adhikar Satyagrah” (five-day fast) in the state capital from June 10 to 14.

The National Biodiversity Authority has come under attack for its failure to take a stand and determine the exact percentage of equitable benefit sharing with regard to coal producers and other compan

The Madhya Pradesh government and more particularly its higher bureaucracy is finding itself in an embarrassing situation as the wife of state cadre IAS officer E.

Two persons died while two dozen others were injured, 9 of them critically, when the roof of the womens’s ward on the first floor in the rear wing of Kasturba Hospital in the BHEL township in the state capital collapsed on Friday evening.