Madhya Pradesh, India News

A woman was allegedly burnt alive by a priest after she resisted his advances in a village in Madhya Pradesh's Damoh district.

Bhopal, July 9 : Guffaws echoed in the Madhya Pradesh Assembly today when Speaker Ishwardas Rohani smilingly told Opposition members -- who had praised him for his farsightedness -- that they sometimes gave compliments while at other times raised 'murdabad' slogans.

Designers of the 17th century Taj Mahal in India, the finest piece of Mughal architecture, employed the same unit of measurement used by the Harappan civilization of 2000 BC, according to a new study reported in the latest issue of Current Science.

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday made it clear that unaided private medical/dental colleges could not admit students in excess of 50 per cent of the seats through the common entrance test conducted by them and thus take away the seats meant for admissions through the CET held by the State.

Bhopal The All-India Muslim Personal Law Board on Wednesday termed the Delhi High Court's verdict decriminalising homosexual acts among consenting adults as "illegal, irreligious and unnatural" for society.

NEW DELHI: Subedar S P Singh, who died on June 29 due to brain stroke, donated his organs to six people giving them a "second lease of life". 49-year-old Singh, was posted at the Army Medical Corps in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh, and doctors at the Army Hospital Research and Referral here said he died of subarachnoid hemorrhage .

The government on Tuesday admitted that there was 'rampant' killing of tigers in the country and said the big cats have became locally extinct in Sariska and Panna Reserves mainly due to poaching.

Bhopal, July 6: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan termed the Union Budget 2009-10 presented today as anti-farmer and disappointing from people's point of view.

New Delhi, July 6 : India's health budget has gone up by nearly Rupees 4,000 crore to Rupees 21,113.33 crore with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee Monday giving special emphasis to the rural healthcare.

At least 10 people were killed when blasts rocked two factories manufacturing explosives for coal mining in India's central state of Madhya Pradesh, news reports said Monday.

Bhopal: Lok Sabha's Deputy Speaker Karia Munda on Sunday asked the newly elected MLAs to effectively use new tools of technology for seeking information and effective communication.

The Madhya Pradesh Congress Sunday said it will take on the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party on the issues of missing tigers in Panna National Park, the murder of a legislator and the power and water shortages during the assembly session that begins Monday.

Bhopal : With its tiger population dwindling sharply over the last two years, a worried Madhya Pradesh government will deploy a Special Tiger Protection Force in its three tiger reserves of Kanha, Bandhavgarh and Pench to arrest the big cat's worrying decline.

New Delhi : Bank Unions have deferred their nation-wide strike called to protest the proposed merger of State Bank of Indore with State Bank of India following the advice of the Deputy Chief Labour Commissioner that both the management and unions should discuss and sort issues out.

A villager wanting to test his wife's fidelity decided to do a medieval test by dipping her hands in a pot of boiling oil.

Bhopal, June 29 : Newly appointed Madhya Pradesh Lokayukta Justice Prakash Navlekar, who assumed office here Monday stressed upon the key role that the common man can play in curbing corruption.

BHOPAL: An accused in the bomb blasts at Ahmedabad and other cities of the country was arrested by Madhya Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad here, sources said on Thursday.

July 1, 2009 Visionmp.com news service An undisclosed income amounting to Rs 235 crore has been detected by the Income Tax Department in the state for the financial year 2008-09. Raids were conducted and 104 surveys carried out during the financial year 2008-09, said the Director-General for Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, Brajesh Gupta in Indore.

July 1, 2009 Visionmp.com news service Filing a petition in Jabalpur High Court, former Madhya Pradesh minister Choudhary Chandrabhan Singh has challenged election of Union Minister for Surface Transport Kamal Nath from Chhindwara, alleging that he suppressed actual expenditures incurred on helicopter rides during campaign.

"Legalisation of homosexuality is an attack on Indian religious and moral values," over a dozen prominent Muslim religious leaders said in a statement.