K.S. Shaini

Exit polls suggest there will be a tight race between the BJP and Congress in Madhya Pradesh where Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is in power for three consecutive terms.

Whether it is the ruling BJP or the main opposition Congress or the smaller players like the SP, BSP and JAYS, all behaved in exactly the same manner

The police found two skeletons in the garden of Uday Das’s Raipur house; cops suspect he could have targeted more women

Within six months, the relationship between the two soared to such an extend that the man murdered the girl and put the body in a iron box and buried her into a grisly marble tomb inside the house in Bhopal.

Migration is on the rise in Madhya Pradesh as farmers grapple with rising debts amid ruined or damaged crop

Madhya Pradesh has been witnessing a soap opera involving two senior IAS officers now dismissed form service.

The toxic contamination of underground water and soil in and around the abandoned Union Carbide factory continues to kill and maim

Guna is being represented by the Scindias since the first General Election in 1957. Of the 15 elections (including two by-polls) in the constituency since then, in only three was a non-Scindia elected. And on all the three occasions, not only no Scin

Poor show in the Lok Sabha elections has put Kamal Nath's Congress government in Madhya Pradesh under the pump. If the Lok Sabha election results are any yardstick, BJP are on a very good wicket

Misuse of central agencies? Barbs fly as taxmen raid Kamal Nath’s associates.

Cow smuggling, dancing to a DJ’s song, criticising the government...Do they constitute sedition? Do these acts threaten national security?

Congress has 114 MLAs in the 230-­member assembly, and has the support of four Independents, an MLA from the Samajwadi Party and two from the BSP.

The Congress veteran appears to be in a tearing hurry to wipe off anything remotely resembling saffron

In the poll-bound states of Raj­asthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, there is no talk of a Muslim card or the usual “appeasement” rhetoric.

Small and regional political outfits may muddy the waters for the BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh.

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Despite Chouhan’s efforts, no crowds at the Simhastha Kumbh