Model Poonam Pandey, who has vowed to strip naked if India wins the World Cup cricket title, has been dragged to court here, with a lawyer accusing her of depicting Brahmins in poor light.

R.K. Pande

The Madhya Pradesh government has issued orders for monthly pension of Rs.1,000 for the next five years to the widows of victims of the Union carbide gas tragedy, a release said here on Thursday.

Janata Dal-United (JD-U) president Sharad Yadav on Monday said that the image of UPA-2 (the Congress-led UPA government at the Centre) is now at rock bottom with one scam tumbling after another.

In order to mitigate the problem of crop damage due to the over abundant population of Nilgai antelopes (blue bulls) and wild boars, the Madhya Pradesh government has decided to allow the farmers to shoot down these animals.

A multi-crore scam linked with the Intensive Dairy Development Programme surfaced through a starred question in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Tuesday and the main Opposition Congress MLAs staged a walk out on this issue after the government’s reply that 2006 onwards, 1007 milch animals provided under this programme to the beneficiaries from the BPL category had perished in the tribal dominated Jhabua district.

The mortal remains of veteran Congress leader Arjun Singh were consigned to flames with full state honours on Sunday afternoon at Churhat in Sidhi district of Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh governor Rameshwar Thakur, CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan and many prominent national leaders would attend senior Congress leader Arjun Singh’s cremation at Churhat, his native village in Sid

Congress general secretary and former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Digvijay Singh on Wednesday went on the offensive against state chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, accusing him of misleading the people through his “unsubstantiated” reply to the Opposition’s adjournment motion on the hail-affected farmers in the state Assembly on February 23.

Former Madhya Pradesh chief minister Uma Bharti on Saturday gave unequivocal support to yoga guru Baba Ramdev on his latest campaign against black money and appealed to the Congress and Bharatiya Jana

The main Opposition Congress will go all out to hold the Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party government accountable during the Budget Session of Madhya Pradesh Assembly beginning here from Monday on