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As of September 11, Madhya Pradesh has received 26 per cent more rainfall than normal and flood-like conditions have formed in most parts of the state. On Sunday, rains in Bhopal almost broke the 13-year-old record of most rains recorded in a city. (Photo: Representational | Pixabay)

Frogs divorced after 2 months to stop rains in Madhya Pradesh

Back on July 19, in the drought stricken Bhopal, the frogs were wedded in a belief that it would please the lord Indra and bring rains.

12 Sep 2019 8:29 PM

The sports minister was able to manage the traffic and gradually the vehicles moved. (Photo: Screengrab)

Watch: Madhya Pradesh minister, caught in traffic jam, helps clear it

Patwari was accompanied by a few others, who helped to clear the traffic at the intersection point where the traffic light was not working.

11 Sep 2019 9:32 AM

Amid infighting in the Madhya Pradesh Congress and jostling for the state unit chief's post, senior leader Jyotiraditya Scindia is scheduled to meet party president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday in New Delhi. (Photo: File)

Jyotiraditya Scindia to meet Sonia today amid turbulence over Cong chief in MP

The panel, headed by senior leader and former Union minister A K Antony, is likely to submit his report to Gandhi by next week.

10 Sep 2019 8:26 AM

Pankaj Chaturvedi said he will lodge an FIR with the cyber cell of Madhya Pradesh police to expose, what he said, was a fraud by the BJP to show its inflated number of members across the country. (Photo: Facebook)

Cong leader gets congratulatory message for ‘becoming BJP member’, threatens to lodge FIR

‘Congratulations on joining the BJP family. Your membership number is 4000676454,’ the message read.

09 Sep 2019 3:31 PM

In June, in this very district, a young girl and boy from different tribes were tied through separate wooden poles and flogged by the girl's family and villagers for falling in love. (Photo: NDTV | video screengrab)

19-year-old girl thrashed, paraded by family, relatives in Madhya Pradesh for eloping

A video of the incident has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp on Wednesday showing male members of the woman’s family punishing her.

04 Sep 2019 11:24 AM

He also tweeted that Madhya Pradesh Police arrested functionaries of Bajrang Dal and BJP's IT cell for "spying" for Pakistan in return for money. (Photo: ANI | screengrab)

Watch: ‘BJP, Bajrang Dal taking money from Pak's ISI,’ claims Digvijaya Singh

Senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan said Cong has lost his credibility, intentionally resorts to making controversial statements.

01 Sep 2019 4:16 PM

The four accused persons have been identified as Sunil Singh, Shubham Tiwari, Balram Singh Patel, Bhagvendra Singh Patel. The name of the fifth member is yet to be ascertained. (Photo: ANI)

MP: ATS busts terror funding gang in Satna

13 Pakistani phone numbers have recovered from the accused. They were allegedly in contact with Pakistan through these numbers.

22 Aug 2019 1:36 PM

Searches are being conducted in Jhabua, Alirajpur, Dhar and Barwani districts which border Gujarat and Ratlam, Mandsaur, Neemuch and Agar-Malwa districts located on the border with Rajasthan. (Photo: Representational)

High alert in MP over possible movement of Afghani terrorists

A sketch of one of the suspected terrorists have also been circulated in all police stations, outposts and check-points.

20 Aug 2019 3:47 PM

Chouhan also appealed to Madhya Pradesh government to provide life-time pension to those who had lost their eyesight after a cataract operation in a private Indore hospital recently. (Photo: ANI)

Jungle Raj in Madhya Pradesh under Kamal Nath rule: Shivraj Singh Chouhan

‘We had worked so hard to make Madhya Pradesh an island of peace’, Chouhan said.

18 Aug 2019 8:27 PM

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday said his government will bring a law to reserve 70 per cent jobs in industrial units for people from the state. (Photo: File)

Madhya Pradesh govt to enact law to reserve 70 pc jobs for locals: Kamal Nath

Addressing a gathering at Independence Day function, he stressed on the need to generate employment for the youth by attracting investments.

15 Aug 2019 12:15 PM

The Madhya Pradesh police on Sunday registered a case against six of its police personnel in connection with the custodial death of a man in Bel Garha district of Gwalior. (Representational Image)

Madhya Pradesh Police file case against 6 officers after man dies in custody

The complainant alleged that his brother was beaten up after he refused to give the money.

12 Aug 2019 11:23 AM

Meanwhile, normal life has been affected in Barwani as the relentless rain has battered the district, submerging the Rajghat Bridge. (Photo: ANI)

MP: People celebrates as Tapti river overflows in Betul

Last night witnessed heavy rainfall which did bring problems to other areas but a sigh of relief for the people in this region.

08 Aug 2019 2:13 PM

This is perhaps the very first complaint lodged in Madhya Pradesh, under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights of Marriage) Act, 2019, after the Parliament passed a bill for the Act this week outlawing the practice and criminalizing the offence. (PTI | Representational Image)

Woman in Madhya Pradesh files complaint against husband, claims he gave triple talaq

Asma alleged that her husband beat her up on several occasions and demanded dowry from her parents.

03 Aug 2019 2:55 PM

A peon posted at a government school in Katni was suspended on Friday after a video of him mercilessly thrashing students inside the classroom in presence of a teacher went viral over social media. (Photo: ANI)

Peon suspended for thrashing, dragging students by hair in MP

In the video, the peon can be seen sitting on a bench and students on the floors in fear.

03 Aug 2019 10:30 AM

There were abundant quantities of urea, chemicals, glucose, shampoo, refined oil and hydrogen peroxide on the plant premises, but what was missing was real milk, he added. (Representational Image)

MP brothers became crorepatis by selling synthetic milk made of detergent, shampoo

Two brothers from a village in Madhya Pradesh, who used to supply milk on a motorcycle to nearby diary, turned crorepatis in seven years.

30 Jul 2019 3:45 PM

EOW on Friday arrested two persons who had worked as personal staff of Narottam Mishra in connection with e-tendering scam case. (Photo: ANI)

BJP leader denies involvement in e-tendering scam

The statement from Mishra came just days after two of his former personal secretaries were arrested by state's EOW on corruption charges.

28 Jul 2019 5:12 PM

Singh, the Lok Sabha MP from Jabalpur, rushed here from Delhi on Wednesday after the BJP's central leadership took a dim view of two party MLAs - Narayan Tripathi and Sharad Kol - voting in favour of the bill moved by the Congress in the state Assembly. (Photo: File)

BJP 'united', everything under control: MP party chief after 2 MLAs back Cong govt

He held talks separately with Bhargava and Chouhan 'to know what went wrong and why the two MLAs voted for Cong-backed bill', source said.

25 Jul 2019 2:35 PM

Nath shot back, pointing that this was probably because the party’s top two bosses were 'wiser' than he was. (Photo: File)

‘Ghar wapsi’: 2 BJP MLAs extend support to Kamal Nath govt bill in Assembly

Narayan Triparhi, one of the two MLAs said, 'This is my ghar wapsi (homecoming).'

25 Jul 2019 8:47 AM

Reservation for SCs in Madhya Pradesh is 16 per cent and for STs stands at 20 per cent. (Photo: PTI)

Madhya Pradesh: Assembly passes bill giving OBCs 27 per cent quota

Leader of Opposition Gopal Bhargava demanded that creamy layer be introduced within the OBC quota.

23 Jul 2019 9:20 PM

When the victim, Kiran Kol, refused to give up her land, they started to plough the field forcefully. (Photo: ANI | Representative)

Madhya Pradesh: Tribal woman crushed to death after she refused to give up land

According to Pradeep Shende, Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP), 3 accused, identified as reached the woman's house with a tractor.

21 Jul 2019 8:06 PM

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