After overcoming some last moment technical snags, the state public health engineering authorities on Thursday afternoon gave the assurance that the long awaited Narmada river water should reach Ahamadpur near the state capital later in the night.

The general council of Bhopal Municipal Corporation has put the lid, at least for the time being, on the controversial issue of renaming Bhopal as Bhojpal, in honour of the 11th century AD philosopher king of Malwa, by rejecting a resolution in support of this move through a majority decision backed to the hilt by the Congress corporators.

Madhya Pradesh Congress president and Union minister for tribal affairs Kantilal Bhuria on Monday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of adopting double standards on the issue of corruption.

The Prime Minister should be excluded from the purview of the proposed Lokpal, yoga guru Baba Ramdev said on Tuesday. "It is a very complicated question whether the Prime Minister and the Chief Justice of India should be brought under Lokpal bill or not.

Several NGOs working for the cause of the Bhopal gas victims on Wednesday called for immediate scrapping of the recommendations of the Peer Review Committee set up for remediation of toxic contamination in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory in the state capital and demanded reconstitution of this committee to ensure that there were no members in this panel with conflict of interests.

Union minister for environment and forests, Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday said here that Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) was interested in taking up the task of clearing of the 350 tonnes of toxic waste from the Union carbide factory premises here.

The BJP-led Madhya Pradesh government continues to stick to a 1997 order which discriminates between the general category government officers and staff on the one side and those belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and other backward communities on the other when it comes to holding an officer accountable after departmental inquiry.

At least 15 municipal officials were injured after they were attacked by residents of a building during an anti-encroachment drive in the Madhya Pradesh capital on Saturday, the police said.

The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh has requested Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to fulfil the "long pending demands of the people of the state".

The wildlife park managers in Madhya Pradesh are facing anger and stiff resistance from the villagers residing in the buffer areas in close proximity of national parks and sanctuaries because of the delay which is inbuilt in the system when it comes to disbursement of compensation for crop damage caused by wild animals. This issue