Madhya Pradesh, India News

India Gazette Monday 30th November, 2009 A 12-year-old Dalit boy was set on fire by four people in Madhya Pradesh's Vidisha district over reported family rivalry, police said Monday.

But her damaged family is a living reminder of that December night 25 years ago when lethal gas leaked from a pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, in the worst industrial disaster the world has ever seen.

New Delhi, Nov 28 Notwithstanding the hiccups faced by thousands of students on day one of the Common Admission Test , an Indian Institute of Management director said the online examination is a "democratising process" and "all the problems will be sorted out quickly". "CAT on computer is a democratising process and aims at benefiting students in a ...

Bhopal, Nov 29 : An Anti-Terrorist Squad constable, involved in tracking members of the banned Students Islamic Movement of India , was killed along with two others by a motorcycle-borne youth Saturday night.

Islamabad, Nov 28 : Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's public relations officer Saturday confirmed that terror suspect David Coleman Headley was his half- brother but said there had been "very little contact" with him for the past seven years.

Cromoz Inc., located in Research Triangle Park, will initiate water-soluble carbon nanotube-based cancer drug delivery system in Hyderabad, India.

A computer crash in an unspecified number of centres in six cities marred the start of the Common Admission Test that determines admission to over 100 business and management schools, a leading coaching centre said.

By Dipankar De Sarkar and Vishal Gulati, London/Shimla, Nov 27: An upscale London auction house and the impoverished widow of an Indian pre-Independence soldier were Friday locked in a dispute over the ownership of a prized gallantry medal that he won and is due to be auctioned off next week.

Indian authorities in Bhopal, site of the world's worst industrial accident, have decided against opening the factory at the centre of the tragedy.

A George Cross bravery medal, reported stolen from the Himachal Pradesh home of the recipient's wife seven years ago, has landed in London auction house Dix Noonan Webb , where it is to go under the hammer on December 2. The medal was awarded posthumously to Naik Kirpa Ram of the 8th Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, in 1946 'for ...

By Sanjay Sharma, Bhopal, Nov 25 : Deepak is losing his eyesight due to malnourishment.

For the first time in Madhya Pradesh, a clutch of children released the Unicef State of the World Children Report 2009 here Friday, praising the efforts of the government for their survival, care and protection but also calling for more focus.

By Anand Philar, Hyderabad, Nov 21 : Over the next few days, the chaff will be separated from the grain and the men from the boys as the ONGC-IBSF World snooker championship flows into the "business end" Sunday.

Over 2,000 Samajwadi Party activists Monday courted arrest in several parts of Uttar Pradesh and clashed with the police while protesting against the sugarcane purchase policy of the central and state governments.

Bhopal: In order to check the spread of dengue fever in Madhya Pradesh, the government on Friday announced in the Assembly to install single donor platelets Apheresis Machine for providing platelets to the needy patients free of cost.

One of four children in a family that earns a pittance rolling bidis, or cheap handrolled Indian cigarettes, her elder sister was married off young and forced to bear children before she turned 18, the legal Indian marrying age.

NEW DELHI: With pollution levels rising across the country, India Wednesday revised the national ambient air quality standards after 15 years, bringing about uniform standards for residential and industrial areas.

Rahul Gandhi had met PM in July to press for the implementation of a report that recommended an economic package for Bundelkhand.

New Delhi, Nov 18 : On Dec 3 it will be 25 years since the Bhopal gas disaster took place, killing 3,500 people instantly.

Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company for jointly setting up a thermal power project in the state.