An elderly farming couple, Chenu Ghosh and Panbai, were brutally murdered in Tikamgarh district, Madhya Pradesh. Police suspect a land dispute as the motive behind the killings, and a case has been registered as investigations continue to apprehend the unidentified accused.
A man accused of duping an Indore-based trader of Rs 10 lakh by selling artificial gold was arrested in Jhansi after a police encounter. The accused, Deepchand Kushwaha, was injured during retaliatory firing, and police recovered a portion of the cheated amount.
A 35-year-old labourer was allegedly beaten to death by his brother-in-law and another man after a drunken quarrel over a 'trivial' issue in Delhi's Shahdara area.
Police in Uttar Pradesh have busted an inter-state gang involved in abducting and illegally selling infants, rescuing a nine-month-old child and arresting nine accused.
Three members of a family were killed in Faridabad after being hit by a speeding truck. The victims were walking towards the highway when the incident occurred. Police have registered an FIR and are searching for the truck driver.
Delhi Police arrested 482 alleged gangsters and associates, including nine operatives linked to Pakistan-based gangster Shahzad Bhatti, during a 48-hour pan-Delhi operation.
While two bodies were recovered on Wednesday, the death toll climbed to four on Thursday after the recovery of two more bodies from the Indira Priyadarshini Hydroelectric project site in Kangra district.
The victim's daughter told the family members that her father had strangled her mother and even attempted to depict the incident through a drawing.
Hours after the Congress party released its first list of 144 candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, Vice President of Congress Media Department Ajay Singh Yadav resigned from his post as fewer candidates from backward classes have been fielded by the party.
With all 29 under its belt, the BJP became the first political party to achieve such a feat after 40 years in Madhya Pradesh.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's first list of 24 candidates for Lok Sabha from Madhya Pradesh featured former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, while Bhopal MP Pragya Singh Thakur was replaced by another candidate.
It also includes Maharashtra deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP leader Manoj Tiwari and MP home minister Narottam Mishra.
Noida was conceived in the 1970s and went on to transform the Western UP's landscape for good. Akin to the New Okhla Industrial Development Authority (Noida), the Yogi Adityanath government has instituted the Bundelkhand Industrial Development Authority (BIDA) with its epicentre in Jhansi.
'Whether I turn 75 or 85, I will remain active in politics and contest the next election. I like politics very much'
It dropped sitting MP from Guna, Krishnapal Singh Yadav, to field Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia from the seat.
The BJP's top leadership will drop its MPs found to be facing anti-incumbency, according to its internal surveys -- a pivotal tactic to ensure the party achieves its target of winning 370 seats.
On Monday, former state health minister Rustam Singh quit the Bharatiya Janata Party after being denied a ticket from Morena and joined the Bahujan Samaj Party, which has fielded his son from the seat.
Targeting the Congress, the PM said those who ruled Madhya Pradesh for a long time did nothing else other than corruption and crime.
The Congress will conduct a caste census in Madhya Pradesh after winning the assembly polls and establish a university in the name of Sant Ravidas, said party president Mallikarjun Kharge, accusing the regime at the Centre of wishing to change the Constitution.
There is a rising "trend" to scandalise courts, the Supreme Court said on Friday while issuing contempt notices, including to two advocates, for allegedly attributing motive to a Madhya Pradesh high court judge in a matter related to lease of fishing rights.
Kumar, 65, is a seven-term member of Parliament and won the Lok Sabha polls from Tikamgarh.
Robbed ornaments worth over Rs 50 lakh has also been recovered from the possession of the accused who was arrested from Madhya Pradesh, officials said.
The Congress also accused the Madhya Pradesh government of suppressing the voice of farmers.
A 75-year-old Dalit man who was surviving on begging allegedly committed suicide after not being able to get food in Darguwa village
As pro tem speaker, Kumar will preside over the first sitting of the Lok Sabha and administer the oath to the newly elected MPs.
While Madhya Pradesh sends 29 members to the Lok Sabha, Uttarakhand accounts for 5 seats in the Lower House of Parliament.
On Thursday, Scindia told the guest teachers in the state, stating that he would be their 'shield and sword' if all promises in the party's manifesto were not fulfilled.
A 33-year-old married woman was allegedly kidnapped and raped by a temple priest and his accomplice in a village in Madhya Pradesh and then sold off for Rs 40,000 to three brothers, who also gang raped her, the police said.
The Bhopal seat is currently held by Alok Sanjar of the BJP.
'Scindia did not just come to a new party, it was an ideological shift for him. In the past one and a half years, Scindia never lost communication with RSS leaders in the state. He left no stone unturned to ensure his acceptability in the party'
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, opposing the initiation of the Central government to set up a separate Bundelkhand Development Authority.Earlier, Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi had demanded the creation of such an authority for the development of Bundelkhand, which spreads across parts of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh and is an extremely backward region.
This is the first reshuffle in the Council of Ministers by Prime Minister Modi since he assumed charge for a second term in May 2019.
After beating the victim, the accused warned him not to repeat his action in future.
Some locals spotted the woman's body around 6 am on Wednesday near Malaiya railway crossing. The toddler, aged around two, was seen shaking his mother and trying to wake her up.
When a reporter told him he had made a controversial statement equating the two groups in Tikamgarh on Tuesday, the young member of Parliament said he failed to see any controversy in it. When pointed out that the radical SIMI was a proscribed outfit, which was not the case with the Nagpur-headquartered right-wing group, Gandhi stated that this did not matter much for him
Swaraj had on Wednesday tweeted that she was in AIIMS because of kidney failure.
Expelled Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharti, who made a vengeful effort to defeat the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, herself suffered ignominy losing from her home turf Tikamgarh. Her Bharatiya Janshakti party won just five of the 213 seats it contested. Bharti lost to Congress' Yadvendra Singh by 9,828 votes.
"It (resigning as chief minister) was the biggest mistake of my life. I was influenced by Advaniji and Vajpayeeji... and took the decision to uphold the tricolour," Bharti said at a public meeting Tikamgarh on Thursday.\n\n
There will be total of 51 seats going to polls spread across 7 states in the fifth phase.
