Bhopal: The Congress has announced its candidates for nine of the 29 Lok Sabha seats in Madhya Pradesh, fielding former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal. The announcement was made on Saturday night. Former Minister and Lok Sabha member Kantilal Bhuria was given the ticket to contest on Ratlam (reserved) seat. Meenakshi Natrajan will contest […]
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Digvijaya Singh is Congress LS candidate from Bhopal
Bhopal: Ending speculation, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Saturday announced that former Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the Bhopal constituency on the Congress ticket. “The central election campaign committee of the party has decided that Digvijaya Singh will contest from Bhopal. He was given the option […]
Minor raped, murdered by kin, 4 arrested
Bhopal: A 12-year old girl was raped and beheaded by three of her brothers and her uncle in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh, the police said on Wednesday. Her uncle, aunt, and two of her brothers were arrested by the police on Monday, while one brother is still on the run. “The incident came to […]
BJP takes on Digvijaya Singh for seeking proof of IAF strike
Bhopal | Senior Congress leader Divijaya Singh’s demand to release evidences of IAF air strike drew a sharp criticism from the opposition parties in Madhya Pradesh, especially from the Bharatiya Janata Party, here on Sunday. The former MP Chief Minister on Saturday had demanded that India release the evidences of air strike in Pakistan as […]
Bodies of kidnapped twin brothers recovered from UP, 6 held
Bhopal | The Madhya Pradesh Police on Sunday recovered the bodies of minor twins — Priyansh and Shreyansh, both six-year old — from the Yamuna river in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh, who were kidnapped for ransom on February 12, an official said. The police also arrested six persons in this connection. The deceased brothers, […]
Cop carries hurt youth 1.5 km on shoulders to a hospital
Bhopal : A policeman in Madhya Pradesh on Saturday carried an injured youth on his shoulders for around 1.5 km to admit him to a medical facility. The youth, Ajit, had fallen down from a passenger train in Hoshangabad district. Police in Bhopal was intimated about the incident and policeman Poonam Billaure along with driver […]
MP Police raises Rs 7.5 cr for Pulwama martyrs’ kin
Bhopal | The Madhya Pradesh Police has raised a fund of Rs 7.5 crore to provide financial aid to the families of martyrs killed in a suicide attack in Pulwama of Jammu and Kashmir last week. Director General of Police V.K. Singh handed over the cheque to Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday, said an official […]
3 politico-wives from MP set for electoral debut
Bhopal : Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Digvijaya Singh and Jyotiraditya Scindia, three prominent leaders from Madhya Pradesh, may field their spouses in the upcoming general elections. The speculation is that Chouhan, who recently lost his chief ministership to Kamal Nath, may field his wife Sadhna Singh from the Vidisha Lok Sabha constituency after Sushma Swaraj, the […]
Man falling on MP Minister’s feet, video goes viral
Bhopal | A video went viral in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday in which a man purportedly fell on Co-operative Minister Govind Singh’s feet. But Singh allegedly ignored him and walked away. According to sources, Singh was in Bhopal on Thursday and a number of people met him during the day. Many people submitted their petitions […]
Don’t play cricket with nation’s future: Shivraj tells Rahul
Bhopal : Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Chouhan on Monday took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi for his “back foot-front foot” comment at a Patna rally, and said that the nation was not a cricket field and the Congress President should not play with its future. Chouhan’s jibe at Gandhi came a day after […]