By downplaying Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi’s leadership when many in BJP have joined the chorus to project him as the obvious prime ministerial candidate for the next Lok Sabha election, Madh

Madhya Pradesh has taken a lead over all major states in terms of growth rate and has registered double-digit growth for second consecutive year, both in terms of agricultural growth and gross state domestic product during 2012-13.

The gangrape of a Swiss woman, 40, in front of her husband while the couple was camping in a forested area barely a few kilometres from Datia district headquarters on Friday evening has put the Madhya Pradesh government in a tight spot and the police is on the hunt for the rapists, supposed to be seven in number.

Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stating that the practice of adding marks obtained in English to the grand total for declaring

Madhya Pradesh forest minister Sartaj Singh’s written reply in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly that the other day that about 51 chitals (spotted deer) had died within a short period after consuming lantana leaves in Kanha Tiger Reserve has thrown up several questions that deserve a valid response from the state government, especially with regard to the strategy followed by the park management in tiger reserves to restore and maintain the grasslands, so crucial for the survival of herbivores.

The ruling BJP unit in Madhya Pradesh ended its two-day marathon executive committee session on Sunday, with state party president Narendra Singh Tomar’s announcement that the party organisation would be getting into the election mode (for the state Assembly elections to be held later this year) through a Maha Jansampark Abhiyan beginning on February 25, which happens to be the birth anniversary of Sant Ravidas.

Five non-government organisations working among the survivors of the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster on Thursday stated that high levels of Dioxins and Furans were released from the Ramky waste incinerator at Pithampur near Indore during four trial runs between July 2010 and June 2012 and charged the Madhya Pradesh government of being silent spectator to the deliberate and repeated “poisoning of people”.

Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta sleuths on Wednesday raided the official residence and other premises of chief conservator of forest B.K. Singh at Ujjain and seized huge amount of cash, gold, silver and documents showing assets worth over `60 crore.

Protesters turned out in large numbers and the police had to use force to control the mob that converged at Madhya Pradesh home minister Uma Shankar Gupta’s residence on Tuesday to register their anger against the brutal killing of an 8-year-old girl, whose mutilated body was found near the minister’s residence by a passerby on Monday.

Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh said here on Sunday that the prices are going up, current account and fiscal deficit is rising and the country’s economy has completely derailed under the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre.