Chhattisgarh legislator caught with cartridges in Bhopal

September 27th, 2009 BHOPAL - Four suspected Maoists who had allegedly crossed into Madhya Pradesh from Chhattisgarh have been detained in Shahdol district, police said Sunday. The four - Ramnath, Lalsai, Roopsai and Sunao, all of them Gond tribals aged 25-30 - had sneaked in from Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh, a police official said.

September 23rd, 2009 AGRA - Over 200 live cartridges were recovered near the Agra Fort here in Uttar Pradesh, police said Wednesday. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was conducting repair works at the site where the cartridges were found.

September 22nd, 2009 AGRA - Over 200 live cartridges were recovered from near the Agra Fort in this city of the Taj in Uttar Pradesh, police said Wednesday. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) was conducting repair works at the site where the cartridges were found.

September 20th, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has written to his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Mayawati for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the death of a state official in Agra, official sources said Sunday. The body of Bhopal Development Authority chief executive officer M.G.

September 11th, 2009 AGRA - The body of the chief of Bhopal Development Authority M.G. Rusia was found by villagers on the railway tracks near Agra.

August 19th, 2009 BHOPAL - A tunnel was discovered in the Pari Bazar area of Bhopal on Wednesday. According to sources the tunnel dates back to the Mughal era.

August 19th, 2009 RAIPUR - Chhattisgarh Congress maintained silence Wednesday after a party legislator from Ambikapur seat, T.S. Singhdeo, was held at the Bhopal airport after security personnel found him carrying 10 live cartridges.

July 25th, 2009 RANCHI - Former human resources minister of Jharkhand and independent legislator Bandu Tirkey has been booked under the Arms Act after officials found an unlicensed revolver and 13 live cartridges at his house here, police said Saturday. Officials of the vigilance department had raided the houses of former chief minister and Lok Sabha MP Madhu Koda and three ex-ministers, including Tirkey, in connection with a graft case.

July 21st, 2009 RAIPUR - The Chhattisgarh police have recovered over 24,000 live cartridges and 151 illegal arms in the past seven months, the state assembly was informed Tuesday. In reply to a question, state Home Minister Nankiram Kanwar told the assembly that police recovered 24,700 live cartridges, seized 151 arms besides 47 grenades and 49 bombs in 131 different cases in the state between December 2008 and June 28 this year.

June 19th, 2009 BHOPAL - Gyaneshwar Patil, an Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer in this Madhya Pradesh capital, was Friday suspended and an inquiry was ordered against him after he was caught sexually assaulting his male secretary. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan told reporters that the officer was suspended and an inquiry was ordered to look into the matter.

April 20th, 2009 BHOPAL - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Monday said that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would cross the magic figure of 272 in the general elections. "Not only would the NDA get a majority on its own, the BJP would also emerge as the single largest party," Swaraj said at a press conference here.

April 13th, 2009 BHOPAL - A Congress legislator was shot dead by unidentified assailants when he was returning from an election meeting in Madhya Pradesh Monday evening, police said. Makhan Singh Jatav was shot at from a point blank range by four unidentified people near Chharetav village of Bhind district, in Madhya Pradesh's Chambal region, around 550 km from here.

April 13th, 2009 BHOPAL - A Congress party legislator was shot at by unidentified assailants in Bhind district of Madhya Pradesh Monday evening, police said. Makhan Singh Jatav is a legislator from Gohad assembly constituency in the state.

January 28th, 2009 BHOPAL - The Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP), launched in 1991 to revive the Gond identity as a unified voice, has split again - for the fourth time in two years, with former legislator Manmohan Shah Batti announcing a new political outfit, Gondwana Party of India (GPI). Having announced the launch of the new outfit on Republic Day at Chhindwara, Batti, however, refused to divulge the reasons behind taking such a step.

January 21st, 2009 BHOPAL - Both Bhopal and Indore can now dream of having Metro Rail services, if one were to go by Madhya Pradesh Urban Development Minister Babulal Gaur. 'A survey for the Metro Rail project in Bhopal and Indore would be started in a month's time by Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC)', Gaur told reporters here Thursday.