Madhya Pradesh News

PTI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma A 25-year-old woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping into a water tank along with her two-year-old daughter in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, a police official said on Monday. Also Read| Bhopal man abducted by maternal uncle for ₹1 crore The bodies of Rani Rajput (25) and daughter Riya … Read more

A relationship manager of a private bank was abducted, thrashed and abandoned in a forest by his maternal uncle and two others for a ransom of ₹1 crore in Bhopal, said police. The bank employee, Rahul Roy was admitted in a private hospital in a serious condition in Bhopal. Police arrested three accused including Roy’s … Read more

Union minister Nitin Gadkari made the headlines Wednesday after a video of him apologising to the public over the condition of roads in Madhya Pradeh’s Mandla was shared online. Gadkari is the minister for road transport and highways in prime minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet. The 65-year-old BJP leader’s apology was followed by applause from the … Read more

Elton and Freddie, the two cheetahs who spent 50 days in quarantine after being translocated from Namibia, were released in a six km sq-enclosure at the Kuno National Park in Madhya Pradesh’s Sheopur on Saturday, a forest department official said. The two cheetahs were released in the enclosure as they adapted to the habitat very … Read more

Two forest guards thrashed and shot a range officer after one of them was suspended allegedly for illegal felling of trees in Madhya Pradresh’s Sheopur district, the police said. Shyampur range officer Raju Gond was rushed to Gwalior in a serious condition. The accused forest guards Jai Narayan Jatav and Lakhan Adivasi are absconding after … Read more

PTI | | Posted by Yagya Sharma A 45-year-old farmer drowned after falling off a temporary rope bridge into a nullah at a village in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, an official said on Tuesday. Read more| Indore: Two teenagers beaten up, dragged behind van for ‘theft’, cops step in The incident took place in Silotia … Read more

PTI | | Posted by Lingamgunta Nirmitha Rao A thief returned silver and brass items stolen from a temple in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district along with an apology letter saying his act caused him sufferings, police said on Sunday. The unidentified thief had stolen 10 decorative pieces of silver, including ‘chhatras’ (an umbrella shaped decoration … Read more

ANI | | Posted by Nisha Anand Seven people were wounded and 23 others received minor injuries while celebrating the traditional Hingot war, a kind of fireball, fest in Gautampura village, Depalpur, Indore on Wednesday, an official said. It is a centuries-old tradition, which is celebrated every year on the second day of Diwali, but … Read more

A 32-year-old Dalit man and his parents were shot dead in Madhya Pradesh’s Damoh district on Tuesday after he had been accused of staring at the wife of one of the assailants, police said. The 32-year-old victim’s two younger brothers were injured in the attack while the main accused has been arrested, officials said. The … Read more

The Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh high court has reduced the life sentence of a rape convict to 20 years’ rigorous imprisonment, saying that he was “kind enough to leave the girl alive”. The convict, Ram Singh (40), was arrested on charges of raping a four-year-old girl in Indore in 2007, and was sentenced … Read more