Siddarth Ranjan Das

At the Bhopal Central Jail, where eight members of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI managed a daring prison break last week before being gunned down hours later, around 80 guards are "missing".

A girl in Madhya Pradesh allegedly set herself on fire on Wednesday after learning that one of the two men accused of kidnapping, raping and trying to kill her has been released on bail.

Sudesh Tekam, a 49-year old farmer is on a fast-unto-death in his hospital bed in Chhattisgarh's Rahmjnandga. He was forcefully admitted here by the district administration on Friday, four days after he began his fast.

There was band, bajaa and baarat. The wedding tent was agog with activities. The drummers played to the traditional beat. All this may sound like just any other Indian wedding except this one was not.

Ms Singh, 30, a transgender, runs an NGO for her community. When the Madhya Pradesh government requested the NGO, Mitra Shringaar Samiti, last year to be a part of the Swacch Bharat Mission, she happily agreed. It is now the team's mission to campaign from door to door for better sanitation in the villages.

Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister Kusum Mahdele who was caught on camera kicking a 14-year-old boy yesterday, sparking a huge outcry, has denied the act, saying she "felt someone fall at my feet, but I ignored him and entered my car".

For half his life, 14-year-old Nagesh Kumar Chapa has been studying at a residential school in Bijpur district's Dugaiguda village of Chhattisgarh, away from his home, parents and losing connect with his tribal roots with each passing day.

When his car was stopped and he was asked to pay toll, an enraged BJP lawmaker and his supporters attacked the workers manning the toll plaza.

In the multi-crore Vyapam scam, 35 people have died since 2010, the police has said in court, and the causes range from road accidents, suicides and alcohol-related illnesses to suspected heart attacks. Calls for an investigation have intensified after two persons died over the weekend.

For weeks, Madhya Pradesh journalist Sandeep Kothari had been hounded by three men who demanded that he withdraw the defamation notice he had sent to two of them. His burnt body was found on Saturday.

Scorching summer has made water into a precious commodity, as most borewells have dried up in the Vidisha Assembly constituency of Madhya Pradesh. As a tanker brings 1000 litres of water into the town, residents waiting for hours, rush to fill their buckets and containers.

15-year-old Kamlesh and her grandmother, both victims of Sunday's stampede at the Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh, had been lying on the floor of the Datia district hospital, due to the lack of beds. They finally got a bed this morning, thanks to a VIP visitor, Rahul Gandhi.

At a town in Madhya Pradesh, 90 children in uniform go every day to a women's toilet complex that they call school.

While the family of the Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon celebrate his release, people seem to have forgotten two of his bodyguards who were killed by the Maoists while he was taken hostage on April 21. Amjad Khan and Kishan Kujur were shot dead while trying to stop the Maoists from kidnapping the 32-year-old IAS officer from a public meeti...

At the Bhopal Central Jail, where eight members of the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India or SIMI managed a daring prison break last week before being gunned down hours later, around 80 guards are "missing".

A girl in Madhya Pradesh allegedly set herself on fire on Wednesday after learning that one of the two men accused of kidnapping, raping and trying to kill her has been released on bail.

Sudesh Tekam, a 49-year old farmer is on a fast-unto-death in his hospital bed in Chhattisgarh's Rahmjnandga. He was forcefully admitted here by the district administration on Friday, four days after he began his fast.

There was band, bajaa and baarat. The wedding tent was agog with activities. The drummers played to the traditional beat. All this may sound like just any other Indian wedding except this one was not.

Ms Singh, 30, a transgender, runs an NGO for her community. When the Madhya Pradesh government requested the NGO, Mitra Shringaar Samiti, last year to be a part of the Swacch Bharat Mission, she happily agreed. It is now the team's mission to campaign from door to door for better sanitation in the villages.

Madhya Pradesh cabinet minister Kusum Mahdele who was caught on camera kicking a 14-year-old boy yesterday, sparking a huge outcry, has denied the act, saying she "felt someone fall at my feet, but I ignored him and entered my car".

For half his life, 14-year-old Nagesh Kumar Chapa has been studying at a residential school in Bijpur district's Dugaiguda village of Chhattisgarh, away from his home, parents and losing connect with his tribal roots with each passing day.

When his car was stopped and he was asked to pay toll, an enraged BJP lawmaker and his supporters attacked the workers manning the toll plaza.

In the multi-crore Vyapam scam, 35 people have died since 2010, the police has said in court, and the causes range from road accidents, suicides and alcohol-related illnesses to suspected heart attacks. Calls for an investigation have intensified after two persons died over the weekend.

For weeks, Madhya Pradesh journalist Sandeep Kothari had been hounded by three men who demanded that he withdraw the defamation notice he had sent to two of them. His burnt body was found on Saturday.

Scorching summer has made water into a precious commodity, as most borewells have dried up in the Vidisha Assembly constituency of Madhya Pradesh. As a tanker brings 1000 litres of water into the town, residents waiting for hours, rush to fill their buckets and containers.

15-year-old Kamlesh and her grandmother, both victims of Sunday's stampede at the Ratangarh temple in Madhya Pradesh, had been lying on the floor of the Datia district hospital, due to the lack of beds. They finally got a bed this morning, thanks to a VIP visitor, Rahul Gandhi.

At a town in Madhya Pradesh, 90 children in uniform go every day to a women's toilet complex that they call school.

While the family of the Sukma District Collector Alex Paul Menon celebrate his release, people seem to have forgotten two of his bodyguards who were killed by the Maoists while he was taken hostage on April 21. Amjad Khan and Kishan Kujur were shot dead while trying to stop the Maoists from kidnapping the 32-year-old IAS officer from a public meeti...