MP finance minister quits after sodomy charges
Madhya Pradesh finance minister Raghavji today resigned from his post after an obscene CD purportedly featuring him surfaced and a police complaint by his servant alleging that he was being sexually exploited by the minister.
Minister in tussle with biodiversity board
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
Biodiversity body under attack
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
IAS officer’s wife accuses him of graft
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.
Modi not an issue for Congress, says Digvijay
Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh today said Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was not an issue for his party, which believes in fighting ideological battles in which personalities do not matter much.
Women invite harassment: MP Congress leader
A Congress leader in Madhya Pradesh has landed himself in a controversy by making sexist remarks that women invite trouble by looking at men in a suggestive manner, drawing flak from the BJP.
Minister quits over indecent remarks
Madhya Pradesh governor Ram Naresh Yadav on Wednesday accepted the resignation of tribal welfare minister Vijay Shah from the state Cabinet.
Eye on polls, CM plays down Modi debate
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
‘Bhopal victims prone to high blood pressure’
“Survivors of the December 1984 Union Carbide disaster in Bhopal are more prone to developing high blood pressure than unexposed people of the same socio-economic background.”
Coal firm, MP board fight over biological resources
A big debate has started over the definition of “biological resources” as Northern Coalfields Limited (NCL) has responded to the notice by Madhya Pradesh State Biodiversity Board that they were extrac