The Congress on Wednesday expelled former Madhya Pradesh MLA Laxman Singh, who is brother of ex-chief minister Digvijaya Singh, from the primary membership of the party for six years for 'anti-party activities'.
'In the Congress, only those people who suck up to the leadership have value. I am not one of them.'
Police said the postmortem report of the class two student revealed that he was strangled.
Congress General Secretary Digvijay Singh's younger brother Laxman, who is the party nominee from Vidisha constituency in Madhya Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, said he was hopeful of a victory against Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart Sushma Swaraj.
The police are yet to submit a chargesheet against stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui in a 2021 case for allegedly making objectionable remarks about Hindu deities during a show in Indore as the investigation is still underway, an official said on Tuesday.
Mishra lost from Datia seat by a margin of 7,742 votes to Congress candidate Rajendra Bharti.
With this, the ruling BJP has so far declared candidates for 136 seats. Earlier, the BJP had announced 79 candidates, including two lists of 39 each, and another list of one nominee.
Last month, Laxman Singh Markam, deputy secretary at the CM secretariat, had lodged a complaint accusing Rai and state Congress chief spokesperson K K Mishra of trying to drag his name in the controversy surrounding the alleged leak of a question paper of MP Teachers' Eligibility Test (TET)-2022 held on March 25.
Internet services have been suspended for 24 hours in three blocks of Rajasthan's Jhalawar district following arson and incidents of loot which took place hours after a scuffle between youths from two different communities, the police said.
A video of Panchayat Minister Mahendra Singh Sisodia making the remarks at a public meeting in Ruthiyai town here on Wednesday has gone viral on social media.
In its first list for the upcoming assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, the ruling BJP has focused on seats it lost in 2018 and some of them even in 2013, and has reposed faith in 14 candidates, including three former ministers, who lost last time.
The debate, which saw several heated exchanges, will continue on Thursday.
Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav is among six personalities chosen for this year's Padma Vibhushan.
Home minister and state government spokesman Narottam Mishra claimed the screenshot of the TET paper which has gone viral was forged and called it a conspiracy to malign the image of a senior bureaucrat, who is an aide of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.
A quintessential military commander, Gen Bipin Rawat possessed an uncanny understanding of geopolitical upheavals, calibrated a tri-services military doctrine to make India face myriad security challenges, and is largely credited with bringing down militancy in the Northeast and Jammu and Kashmir.
The Madhya Pradesh Assembly on Monday passed a bill that penalises religious conversion through marriage or any other fraudulent means and provides for a prison sentence of up to 10 years.
Laxman Singh, former Bharatiya Janata Party Member of Parliament and brother of Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, was expelled from the primary membership of the party on Thursday, days after he publicly criticised its president Nitin Gadkari.
The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Friday a plea filed by comedian Munawar Faruqui, who is accused of hurting religious sentiments by allegedly passing objectionably remarks about Hindu deities during a show, challenging the Madhya Pradesh high court order denying him bail.
Another Kambala racer has created a record in the 100 metres during the traditional buffalo race in Karnataka, covering the distance in 9.51 seconds, and improving on the timing of Srinivas Gowda, who stirred up a social media frenzy with his recent running exploits. Nishant Shetty from Bajagoli Jogibettu is the new jockey who broke 28-year-old Gowda's record at the Venoor Kambala on Sunday, organisers said.
'At their behest, the party is being guided now here, now there. Ethics and principles have been given a \n\ncomplete go-by,' says Laxman Singh, the Congress MP who joined the BJP.
Recalling the 1962 War, Napalchayal said when Chinese troops reached near the Darma, Vyas and Johar valleys in the district, villagers helped the Army carry ammunition and food to border posts on sheep and mules.
Faruqui and four others were arrested on January 1 following a complaint by a Bharatiya Janata Party MLA's son that alleged objectionable remarks about Hindu deities and Union Home Minister Amit Shah were passed by him during a comedy show at a cafe in Indore on New Year's day. One more person was arrested subsequently.
Laxman Singh, younger brother of Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh, officially returned to the Congress fold at party headquarters in New Delhi.
Activists of India Against Corruption and a journalist were allegedly manhandled in Farukkhabad by some persons on Thursday when they were conducting a survey regarding allegations of financial irregularities in a trust run by Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid.
India's crucial monsoon will be normal this year but with less heavier rains as the weather office on Friday marginally downgraded its earlier forecast.
The Madhya Pradesh high court on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui and another accused, Nalin Yadav, in a case of allegedly making indecent remarks against Hindu deities.
Sushma Swaraj has nothing to say about NaMo. Neither has Shivraj Chouhan.
An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale hit the Andaman Sea on Thursday but the Met department ruled out tsunami.
The trough over the Bay of Bengal, which has caused the torrential downpour in the state, will weaken in next 48 hours.
June 1 is the official onset date of monsoon in India when it hits Kerala.
The arrested accused, Ramvir, was found lying on the road near a police station on Tuesday.
The weather office forecasts monsoon rains to be above average this year after the droughts ravaged crops and worsened rural distress
The accident happened when a passenger train and a goods train collided.
The World Meteorological Organisation/Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Panel on Tropical Cyclones, at its twenty-seventh session held in 2000 in Muscat, Oman, agreed to assign names to the tropical cyclones in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea.
Opposition MPs have been boycotting the defence minister citing his role in the Tehelka expose.
With temperatures remaining above normal since November, this winter could well be the warmest ever recorded not only in North India, but across the country.
Millions of farmers plant rice, cane, corn, cotton and soybean crops in the rainy months of June and July. Harvesting starts from October
Major Khushboo Kanwar, the daughter of a Rajasthani bus conductor, made history on Rajpath on Republic Day.
In the national capital, the maximum temperature was recorded at the season's highest at 44 degree Celsius.
A heartwarming tale of how they used their time to beautify the schools where they are quarantined.
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