Madhya Pradesh

At least 7 tribal girls have been raped between January and May this year by a person who used to call them posing as a female teacher using a ‘voice changing’ app in Madhya Pradesh's Sidhi district.

Anish Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta, both 24-year-old IT professionals hailing from Madhya Pradesh, died on May 19 after a speeding Porsche, allegedly driven by a 17-year-old boy, hit their motorcycle in Pune city.

Large parts of North India are reeling under extreme heatwave conditions with temperatures rising above 45 degrees in many places. Haryana’s Sirsa observed the hottest day with 47.8 degrees on May 21 followed by Rajasthan’s Pilani (47.2) and Punjab’s Bhatinda (46.6).

The India Meteorological Department (IMD) issued a warning for heatwave to severe heatwave conditions expected to prevail in many parts of the country today (May 18). The Met Department further said that a wet spell with isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall is very likely to continue over south Peninsular India till May 23.

25 seats in Andhra Pradesh, 17 in Telangana, 13 in Uttar Pradesh, 11 in Maharashtra, 8 in Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal, 5 in Bihar, 4 in Jharkhand and Odisha, and 1 in Jammu and Kashmir were among the 96 Lok Sabha seats.

“If Congress comes to power, as our manifesto states, every woman will get Rs 1 lakh in bank account. (For) The person who has two wives will get Rs 2 lakh…,” the Congress leader Kantilal Bhuria said.

The India Meteorological Department has predicted possible heatwave spell over some parts of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh till May 10. Besides this, hot and humid weather conditions are likely in Gujarat until May 13, and over Kerala until May 10.

Multiple regions in India are currently experiencing severe weather conditions, including heat waves and rain alerts. The Meteorological Department has issued warnings for heat waves in Rajasthan, Western Madhya Pradesh, Saurashtra, Kutch, as well as scorching temperatures in Jharkhand, Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, and Odisha.

A policeman was run over by a tractor which was being used for illegal sand mining in Madhya Pradesh, the police said. Mahendra Bagri, Assistant Sub Inspector, Shehdol, was crushed to death when he tried to stop the tractor carrying sand.

Upon arrival, they found the lifeless body of the woman, identified as a Hindu hailing from Mahugaon zilla of Indore, hanging from the fan using a dupatta. She was accompanied by a man named Junaid, with whom she had been staying at the hotel.