NewsBits.in: News website from Central India-Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh
Free, Fair and Fearless
Quick Bits

Activist Medha Patkar and her associates who are sitting on fast, demanding rehabilitation of the Sardar Sarovar Project oustees, was taken into custo...
07 August, 2017

A man was shot dead inside the court premises in Madhya Pradesh. Three bullets were fired inside the Chhindwara district court. The victim, Akhlaq, di...
04 August, 2017

A truck ran over a religious procession in Madhya Pradesh, killing three devotees and injuring nearly a dozen others. The incident occurred in Barwani...
02 August, 2017

Heavy rain affected normal life in Raisen, Vidisha and towns adjoining Bhopal. The towns were cut off from the State capital. As water levels rose, pe...
29 July, 2017

Four were killed and at least three more were seriously injured when a tractor trolley carrying farm labourers fell into a ditch at Tamot-Itlawada val...
21 July, 2017

Eight persons including two children were killed when a truck collided head on with a tractor trolley carrying a marriage party in Nirawali of Gwalior...
02 July, 2017

A search party of special task force (STF) of Chhattisgarh was ambushed by Maoists in south Sukma of Chhattisgarh on Saturday, leaving five jawans ser...
24 June, 2017

Southwest monsoon of 2017 made an entry into Madhya Pradesh, covering just a small southwestern part of the state. Among the districts that were partl...
22 June, 2017

The MP government on Wednesday suspended the officers who were in charge in Mandsaur district when police firing killed six farmers. Swatantra Kumar S...
21 June, 2017

Three more farmers ended their lives in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. Narmada Yadav ended life in Hoshangabad while another farmer Kaju Khan committed s...
15 June, 2017

Things went out of control on Bhopal-Indore highway yet again on Friday morning as hundreds of farmers came out on the busy road, indulging in stone p...
09 June, 2017

In an expected move, the state government on Thursday shunted Mandsaur collector Swatantra Kumar Singh and superintendent of police OP Tripathi in wak...
08 June, 2017

As many as 25 persons were feared dead in a blast in a crackers' factory godown in Balaghat. The incident occurred on Wednesday afternoon. Senior offi...
07 June, 2017

Farmers' protests turned even more violent on Wednesday. Four chartered buses between Indore and Bhopal have been set afire, passengers allowed to lea...
07 June, 2017

It was a narrow escape for CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Lok Sabha speaker Sumitra Mahajan and Union minister Venkaiah Naidu when the temporary dome struc...
05 June, 2017

Indra Vishnoi, one of prime accused in the sensational Bhanwari Devi murder case of Rajasthan was arrested in Dewas of Madhya Pradesh on Saturday, six...
03 June, 2017

A lady Ph D scholar from Bhopal, who was pursuing her doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi was found dead in her apartment on th...
31 May, 2017

Congress legislator Prem Singh passed away in Satna on Monday. Singh, a Congress MLA, represented Chitrakut constituency in the State Assembly. He had...
29 May, 2017

In a somersault, the MP government on Saturday cancelled the transfer of Harda collector Srikanth Banoth. Tarun Rathi who was posted as collector has ...
27 May, 2017

The state president of BJP, Nandkumar Singh Chauhan on Friday served notice upon senior party leader and ex-minister Kamal Patel. He has been charged ...
26 May, 2017