Madhya Pradesh, India News

"So many disparate elements, both natural and man-made, converge in the Himalayas," said William Lau, a climatologist from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

A little-known Naxal outfit has sent a threatening letter to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and his wife Sadhna, police sources said today.

A policeman was shot dead by three assailants in Madhya Pradesh's Barwani district on Saturday.

India Gazette Saturday 12th December, 2009 An Indo-Tibetan Border Police trooper shot dead a colleague after a heated argument in Bhilai town of Chhattisgarh, police said Saturday.

Bhopal, Dec 9 : Seven forest officials have been suspended for negligence after it was found that a private telecom company had undertaken illegal digging and cable laying work in Ratapani and Singhori wildlife sanctuaries in Madhya Pradesh, officials said Wednesday.

The administration in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior-Chambal region has decided to cancel the gun licences of those who have large amounts of power dues outstanding, an official said Friday.

'Gorkhaland is a 102-year-old demand' Saurashtra, Coorg, Vidarbha, Mithilanchal...the list is long Gorkhaland supporters called for a bandh in Darjeeling for their own state, while Rashtriya Lok Dal leader Ajit Singh threatened to resume the agitation for a separate Harit Pradesh, as the planned statehood for Telangana sparked fresh demands to ...

Bhopal, Dec 9 A Maoist organisation, in a letter to Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, threatened to kill him and his wife if services of teachers in 'panchayats' are not merged with the education department.

On the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal gas leak, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised early clean-up of the Union Carbide site and help for the population.

Bhopal, Dec 8 : Expressing concern over the highest risk of death during infancy in Madhya Pradesh, United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund Programme Manager, Madhya Pradesh Office, Manish Mathur said the state government has potential and also political will to cope with the situation but it needed a roadmap to achieve the goal.

Bhopal: Malnutrition has reached epidemic proportions in most parts of Madhya Pradesh.

Hazra Bi wishes she could forget. But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen.

Bhopal, Dec 5 : Madhya Pradesh Public Relations Minister Laxmikant Sharma today raised the issue of Liberhan Commission's recommendation regarding licensing of journalists and sought clarification from the Centre in this regard at the 27th conference of Information Ministers of States in New Delhi today.

A report issued in connection with the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India, chemical disaster says the area's drinking water remains toxic.

New Delhi, Dec 4: Union Minister of State for Environment and Forest Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that four girl students would be part of the Indian delegation at the United Nations meet on Climate Change at Copenhagen.

This Nov. 9, 2009 photograph shows soldiers being trained at the Counter Terrorism and Jungle Warfare school in Kanker, India.

Uzbekistan News.Net Friday 4th December, 2009 Karachi, Dec.4 : Pakistan has withdrawn from hosting the Asian Under-21 Snooker and Billiards Championship citing security reasons.

Bhopal, Dec 1 : Surface water in colonies outside the Union Carbide India Ltd's now-closed local plant-the site of the world's worst industrial disaster in 1984 - has a pesticide concentration 561 times higher than the acceptable Indian standard.

Sivatherium, a giraffe-like creature with two pairs of horns and extinct for 8,000 years, once roamed central and western India.

Today is Thursday, Dec. 3, the 337th day of 2009. There are 28 days left in the year.