Madhya Pradesh Government Crisis

Nearly 40 years after the gas leak at Bhopal's Union Carbide factory left over 5,000 people dead and severely affected thousands more, the Madhya Pradesh government is set to begin incinerating 345 metric tonnes of the toxic waste from the ruins

The Madhya Pradesh government has appointed seven senior IAS officers to manage the escalating stray dog menace across the state.

Congress leader Kamal Nath has slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments at the Centre and in Madhya Pradesh over the "power crisis" in the state and accused the party of taking the issue lightly.

In an embarrassment for the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, a power outage affected Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's speech during an event here on Thursday, prompting him to admit that there was "coal crisis" in the state.

With many of Madhya Pradesh's power units not functioning at all and the rest operating at only 30 per cent capacity, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan administration is facing blowback from acute power cuts. The government denies there's a crisis at all.

The Madhya Pradesh government has banned the industrial use of oxygen to meet the medical crisis in the state even as the centre said it will supply 50 tonnes to them every day to meet its daily requirement of 110 tonnes. The oxygen availability will now be 180 tonnes every day after the centre's supply, 70 tonnes in surplus, the state government h...

Government jobs in Madhya Pradesh will be reserved for the people of the state, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said today, announcing a decision that could be controversial at a time thousands across the country are facing a job crisis during the coronavirus pandemic. The law will soon be changed to enforce this, he said.

The current crisis in Rajasthan, just months after similar infighting culminated in the fall of Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh, lays bare the insatiable appetite of the Congress party for self-destruction. At the root of the crisis is not just the inability to give Sachin Pilot his due but also the seeming helplessness or unwillingness of ...

Will the Congress lose another government in Rajasthan just as it did in Madhya Pradesh barely a few months ago? Will Sachin Pilot follow his ex-colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia and join the BJP? Will the Congress High Command behave like a mute spectator and let senior members of the Congress damage the party? Will the Congress do some soul-searchin...

As the Congress government in Rajasthan teeters on the edge three months after the party lost Madhya Pradesh to the BJP, senior party leader Kapil Sibal questioned whether "we will wake up only when the horses have bolted", in a Tweet that may not go down well with the party leadership.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday lashed out at his predecessor Kamal Nath and called him "Sankatnath" while holding the previous Congress government responsible for the coronavirus spread in Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed hope that his government will be able to bring the COVID-19 crisis in Indore city under control by following the ''Bhilwara model'' of infection containment.

The single-member cabinet of Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh was expanded on Tuesday nearly a month after he was sworn in as Chief Minister of the state. Mr Chouhan had taken oath for the top post for the fourth time, bringing the BJP back the power after the Congress government of Kamal Nath fell on losing its majority.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said democracy was blatantly killed in Madhya Pradesh with the fall of the Kamal Nath-led state government there.

Kamal Nath resigned on Friday as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister without facing a test of strength that his Congress government was certain to lose after the exodus of MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia, who crossed over to the BJP last week. "Everyone saw how crores of rupees were spent. How a democratically-elected government was brought down by th...

Nearly 40 years after the gas leak at Bhopal's Union Carbide factory left over 5,000 people dead and severely affected thousands more, the Madhya Pradesh government is set to begin incinerating 345 metric tonnes of the toxic waste from the ruins

The Madhya Pradesh government has appointed seven senior IAS officers to manage the escalating stray dog menace across the state.

Congress leader Kamal Nath has slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments at the Centre and in Madhya Pradesh over the "power crisis" in the state and accused the party of taking the issue lightly.

In an embarrassment for the BJP government in Madhya Pradesh, a power outage affected Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's speech during an event here on Thursday, prompting him to admit that there was "coal crisis" in the state.

With many of Madhya Pradesh's power units not functioning at all and the rest operating at only 30 per cent capacity, the Shivraj Singh Chouhan administration is facing blowback from acute power cuts. The government denies there's a crisis at all.

The Madhya Pradesh government has banned the industrial use of oxygen to meet the medical crisis in the state even as the centre said it will supply 50 tonnes to them every day to meet its daily requirement of 110 tonnes. The oxygen availability will now be 180 tonnes every day after the centre's supply, 70 tonnes in surplus, the state government h...

Government jobs in Madhya Pradesh will be reserved for the people of the state, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said today, announcing a decision that could be controversial at a time thousands across the country are facing a job crisis during the coronavirus pandemic. The law will soon be changed to enforce this, he said.

The current crisis in Rajasthan, just months after similar infighting culminated in the fall of Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh, lays bare the insatiable appetite of the Congress party for self-destruction. At the root of the crisis is not just the inability to give Sachin Pilot his due but also the seeming helplessness or unwillingness of ...

Will the Congress lose another government in Rajasthan just as it did in Madhya Pradesh barely a few months ago? Will Sachin Pilot follow his ex-colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia and join the BJP? Will the Congress High Command behave like a mute spectator and let senior members of the Congress damage the party? Will the Congress do some soul-searchin...

As the Congress government in Rajasthan teeters on the edge three months after the party lost Madhya Pradesh to the BJP, senior party leader Kapil Sibal questioned whether "we will wake up only when the horses have bolted", in a Tweet that may not go down well with the party leadership.

Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Wednesday lashed out at his predecessor Kamal Nath and called him "Sankatnath" while holding the previous Congress government responsible for the coronavirus spread in Madhya Pradesh.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has expressed hope that his government will be able to bring the COVID-19 crisis in Indore city under control by following the ''Bhilwara model'' of infection containment.

The single-member cabinet of Shivraj Singh Chouhan in Madhya Pradesh was expanded on Tuesday nearly a month after he was sworn in as Chief Minister of the state. Mr Chouhan had taken oath for the top post for the fourth time, bringing the BJP back the power after the Congress government of Kamal Nath fell on losing its majority.

Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Friday said democracy was blatantly killed in Madhya Pradesh with the fall of the Kamal Nath-led state government there.

Kamal Nath resigned on Friday as Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister without facing a test of strength that his Congress government was certain to lose after the exodus of MLAs loyal to Jyotiraditya Scindia, who crossed over to the BJP last week. "Everyone saw how crores of rupees were spent. How a democratically-elected government was brought down by th...