Madhya Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh was central to Swaraj’s political journey

7:24 pm August 7, 2019

Bhopal: BJP stalwart and former Union minister Sushma Swaraj, who died on Tuesday night, had a special connection with Madhya Pradesh, which she represented in Parliament multiple times. Though she started her electoral career in Haryana and also served as the chief minister of Delhi, Madhya Pradesh was an important destination in her decades-long and […]

Tiger found dead in Dudhwa Tiger Reserve

Man killed in wild animal attack in Pench buffer zone

7:11 pm August 7, 2019

Seoni: A 28-year-man from Seoni in Madhya Pradesh has been killed in an attack by a wild animal, suspected to be a tiger, in the Khawasa buffer zone of the Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), an official said on Wednesday. The incident occurred on Tuesday when the victim, Manoj Dhurve, had gone to his farmland, which […]

Wall collapse in MP school injures three students

9:40 pm August 6, 2019

Shivpuri (MP): Three students were injured, one of them seriously, on Tuesday in a wall collapse in Bairad in Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri district, police said. At around 1:30pm, a classroom wall of Government Vijayanand Higher Secondary School caved in, injuring three Class IX students, an official said. “Sandeep Yadav (17) was grievously injured and has […]

`Diamond district’ of Panna in MP shines in tiger count

2:12 pm August 2, 2019

Bhopal: Panna, a Madhya Pradesh district world famous for its diamond mines, has scripted a remarkable turnaround in tiger population, taking the number of big cats in its reserve to over 50 from zero a decade ago. Once completely devoid of big cats, the Panna Tiger Reserve (PTR), around 330km from here, started the Tiger […]

MP to reopen national parks, tiger reserves from June 1

Madhya Pradesh loses three tigers within a week

8:34 pm July 31, 2019

Umaria (MP): Madhya Pradesh has lost three tigers to territorial fights within a week, forest department officials said on Wednesday. The deaths have been reported at a time when Madhya Pradesh has regained the status of the country’s “tiger state” after a gap of nine years. In the latest case, the carcass of a two-year-old […]