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Articles by Punya Priya Mitra
Madhya Pradesh election 2018: Rahul Gandhi defending Congress leaders dragging in my parents’ names, says PM Modi
Defending his attack on Rahul Gandhi’s family, Modi said that he was targeting them only because they were in public life and held the highest positions in the country and are accountable to the public.
Updated on Nov 25, 2018 08:33 PM IST
Hindusta Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Madhya Pradesh assembly election 2018: PM Narendra Modi, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi lock horns
Prime Minister Narendra Modi blamed the Congress for an ongoing agricultural crisis and said if Vallabhbhai Patel, who was India’s first home minister, had become the nation’s first prime minister, farmers would have been prosperous.
Published on Nov 24, 2018 11:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra and Agencies
BJP complains to EC over Kamal Nath video, alleges ‘communal politics’
The party also accused him of hatching a “criminal conspiracy against free and fair polls” in the state, as it in its complaint to the EC referred to a purported video in which Kamal Nath is allegedly asking a group of Muslims to ensure that the Congress gets 90 per cent of votes in their booths.
Updated on Nov 21, 2018 11:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
In Madhya Pradesh’s opium hub, farm distress trumps all
A farmer, Lokesh Carpenter (48) of Barkhedapanth in Mandsaur says the price farmers used to get earlier was much higher.
Updated on Nov 23, 2018 12:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: Migration in tribal belt upsets poll calculation
Hundreds of poor tribals are migrating to Gujarat every day from Madhya Pradesh’s Jhabua and neighbouring Alirajpur districts, casting a shadow on the Assembly elections scheduled on November 28.
Updated on Nov 19, 2018 06:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jhabua (Madhya Pradesh) | Punya Priya Mitra
Madhya Pradesh assembly polls 2018: Dacoits absent from poll scene in their bastions
Madhya Pradesh assembly polls 2018: The last former dacoit to win an election was Prem Singh, for the Congress party, in 2013, from the Chitrakoot constituency.
Updated on Nov 15, 2018 02:52 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Gwalior/Satna | Shruti Tomar, Punya Priya Mitra
Congress poll promise to check RSS shakhas running in Madhya Pradesh draws BJP ire
BJP spokesperson Rajneesh Agrawal said RSS is a disciplined social and cultural organisation and Congress is trying to project it as anti-minority.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 05:10 PM IST
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections 2018: Farm push, end to Vyapam body in Congress manifesto
The Congress unveiled a please-all manifesto on Saturday, promising to waive loans of up to ₹2 lakh owed by farmers, end corruption, build cow shelters and push ‘made in Madhya Pradesh’ goods as it seeks to end the 15-year Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rule here in the upcoming assembly elections.
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 07:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Gaushalas, push for ‘Made in Madhya Pradesh’ goods on Congress poll manifesto
Cow shelters and push for ‘Made in Madhya Pradesh’ goods are among the promises made in the Congress manifesto released on Saturday in Bhopal for the upcoming assembly polls in the state.
Updated on Nov 10, 2018 01:37 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Punya Priya Mitra
Muslims find little space in BJP, Congress candidate lists for Madhya Pradesh assembly elections
While BJP has fielded only one Muslim candidate, Congress has given tickets to three for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections on November 28.
Updated on Nov 10, 2018 07:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Balancing act by Congress in first list of 155 names for Madhya Pradesh elections
Congress has fielded former chief minister Digvijay Singh’s son Jaivardhan Singh and brother Lashman Singh from Raghogarh and Chachoura seats for the Madhya Pradesh polls to be held on November 28.
Updated on Nov 04, 2018 09:16 AM IST
New Delhi | Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
Sanjay Singh, brother-in-law of MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, joins Congress
Sanjay Singh is the brother of Shivraj Chouhan’s wife Sadhna Singh.
Updated on Nov 03, 2018 04:17 PM IST
Hindustan Times, New Delhi | Punya Priya Mitra
5 years on, Vyapam scam returns to haunt Madhya Pradesh
Investigations into India’s biggest examination bungling is back on centre stage as the state prepares for polls
Updated on Nov 01, 2018 08:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra and Shruti Tomar
Bodies of five brothers, aged 1-5 years, found floating in well in MP village: Police
The incident came to light in the morning when some residents of Chikli village in Barwani district, some 350 km southwest of Bhopal, spotted the bodies in the well and informed the police.
Updated on Oct 10, 2018 08:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Two Vyapam scam whistle blowers to contest Madhya Pradesh polls
The Vyapam scam refers to irregularities in exams held by the Madhya Pradesh Professional Examination Board, also called Vyavasayik Pareeksha Mandal or Vyapam, for admission in professional courses and state services.
Updated on Oct 23, 2018 02:24 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Shruti Tomar and Punya Priya Mitra
Rahul Gandhi woos farmers, youth in Madhya Pradesh
Rahul Gandhi said the first priority of a Congress government, if and when it came to power at the Centre and in Madhya Pradesh, would be to offer jobs to the youth and waive farmers’ loans.
Updated on Oct 23, 2018 02:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Jabalpur\Bhopal | Ranjan and Punya Priya Mitra
Aggressive Congress looks to breach Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s citadel in Madhya Pradesh
BJP has been in power in the state since 2003.
Updated on Oct 23, 2018 02:32 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan orders probe into MP farmer’s ‘suicide’ over unpaid dues
Madhya Pradesh has the third highest farmers’ suicide rate in the country. According to a reply in the Lok Sabha, the number of suicides in MP increased by 21 percent between 2013 and 2016 and stood at 1,321.
Updated on Oct 06, 2018 12:04 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
BSP demand ‘unrealistic’, not tying up won’t hurt Congress prospects: Kamal Nath
Congress leader Kamal Nath said BSP is demanding seating which they had never won and had vote share of 1,000 to 4,000 votes in the last assembly elections.
Updated on Oct 05, 2018 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopla/New Delhi | Punya Priya Mitra and Saubhadra Chatterji
Drugs smuggled out of country via postal route, say DRI officials
Seizure of the chemical has sent alarm bells ringing in the security agencies as it is ten times as potent as heroin and is used as a party drug in a number of countries as per a DRI official.
Published on Oct 02, 2018 09:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal/Indore | Punya Priya Mitra
Rahul Gandhi attacks PM Modi on multiple fronts in Madhya Pradesh
At a public meeting, Rahul Gandhi also criticised Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and claimed he had made 21,000 promises without fulfilling any.
Updated on Sep 28, 2018 11:11 PM IST
Those responsible for Rafale will be put behind bars: Rahul Gandhi
Rahul Gandhi also promised that those behind the Vyapam and e-tendering scams in Madhya Pradesh would be caught by the next Congress government and put behind bars.
Published on Sep 28, 2018 01:01 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Satna | Punya Priya Mitra
Is Congress, BSP tie-up still possible in Madhya Pradesh?
Congress media cell in-charge for Madhya Pradesh, Shobha Oza, said, “Even though the Bahujan Samaj Party has declared its first list, talks are still on between Mayawatiji and our top leaders including (state Congress chief) Kamal Nath ji.”
Updated on Sep 22, 2018 12:09 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
3-year-old girl molested in school bus by conductor on way back home: Cops
A police official said the minor told her parents about the incident which happened in Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal and the accused, the school bus conductor, was arrested.
Updated on Sep 21, 2018 04:40 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
5 arrested for human trafficking in MP
The five arrested were selling children from Bihar under the garb of adoption.
Published on Sep 20, 2018 10:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Stalker stabs woman more than 38 times, kills her in Indore
Kamlesh Sahu allegedly killed his former schoolmate because she refused to marry him.
Updated on Sep 14, 2018 11:14 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Indore | Punya Priya Mitra
Dawoodi Bohras’ honesty in business an example to others, says PM Modi in Indore
The prime minister was speaking at a function organised by the community at the Saifee Mosque where its religious head, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, was present.
Updated on Sep 14, 2018 08:57 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Indore | Punya Priya Mitra
Slippers, stones and black flags replace words in Madhya Pradesh poll season
The campaigning in Madhya Pradesh for the state assembly elections has reached a new low with dissent being expressed through black flags, stones and slippers.
Updated on Sep 09, 2018 11:17 AM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra
Police unearth gun-smuggling racket in three states; 4 held
The scrap or semi-assembled weapons that should have been smelted used to be smuggled out from the factories and refurbished to make guns, officials said.
Published on Sep 07, 2018 11:41 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Punya Priya Mitra and Tanmay Chatterjee
Shoes given to Madhya Pradesh tribals cancerous: Report
The Madhya Pradesh Congress on Saturday accused the state BJP government of distributing footwear laced with carcinogenic material to tribals
Updated on Aug 21, 2019 02:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times, Bhopal | Shruti Tomar and Punya Priya Mitra