Category: Madhya Pradesh
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Visit families affected by Ken-Betwa project, hear their grievances: M.P. CM tells officials
Chief Minister Yadav directed the Panna and Chhatarpur district administrations to ensure that officials visit every household in the affected villages to understand the actual situation and problems of the families
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Celebrated at birth, pushed into sex work
Unlike most communities in India, the Banchhadas in M.P. invest more in their daughters’ upbringing than in their sons’, by giving them better nutrition and clothes, only so that they can force them into sex work and live off their earnings. Branded a ‘criminal tribe’ by the British and now classified as a Scheduled Caste,…
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Madhya Pradesh hikes moong procurement cap to 60% as farmers protest
The decision comes as nearly 2,000 farmers, who breached police barricades to reach the State capital, set up camp near Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s residence
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M.P. Police seize cash over ₹36 lakh in Datia ahead of bypoll
The money was seized from two cars at different locations
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Protests over Ken-Betwa river link project resume in Madhya Pradesh
Several protestors, most of them women, have launched a symbolic protest by placing hanging noose around their necks which has now reached its fifth day on the banks of the Barana River near Kupi village.
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‘Letter’ fuels power tussle rumours in M.P.
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Rajya Sabha polls: M.P. Congress mulls moving MLAs away as BJP fields candidate on third seat
The BJP’s move pushed the Congress into alert mode with Leader of Opposition in the Assembly Umang Singhar hosting party MLAs and senior leaders over dinner at his residence and to discuss the election strategy.
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Two cheetahs released into wild in Kuno; CM Yadav says M.P. now recognised as ‘Cheetah State’
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Congress blocks Agra-Mumbai highway in Indore over farmers’ issues
The demonstration, held in the Pigdambar area as part of the Congress’s State-wide ‘chakka jam andolan’, led to long queues of vehicles on both sides of the highway
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Madhya Pradesh court orders registration of FIR in Jabalpur boat tragedy that killed 13 people
Judicial Magistrate First Class D.P. Sutrakar said the “failure” of the cruise boat driver and other crew members to make any effort to rescue the drowning passengers constitutes an attempt to commit culpable homicide