Tag: Bhupendra Singh

Model of development in backward MP area

The Khurai area of Madhya Pradesh’s Bundelkhand region is being developed as a model of development to remove the tag of backwardness from the area. Bundelkhand’s residents are known to migrate to other areas in search of livelihood as there are few employment opportunities there. Bundelkhand and Gwalior-Chambal areas face drought regularly. However, the Khurai …

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August 11, 2018

MP home minister Bhupendra Singh blames ‘porn’ for rapes

  Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh wrote a letter to the Centre on Monday demanding a ban on all porn sites claiming that pornography was the “main cause” for rapes. Singh told reporters that pornography was adversely impacting childhood, and rapes and sexual assaults were a result of access to these sites. “A study …

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April 24, 2018

High alert in MP after Sukma Naxal attack

A day after Naxalites killed nine security personnel in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Bhupendra Singh said that naxal activities had increased in the Mandla district of MP too and a high alert had been sounded in all the eight naxal-affected districts of MP adjoining the Chhattisgarh border. Speaking …

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March 14, 2018

Five killed in bus-truck collision in Indore

At least five persons were killed on Friday when a school bus collided with a truck in Indore in Madhya Pradesh, officials said. Those killed include four children besides the bus driver, Deputy Inspector General of Police Hari Narayan Chari Mishra said. The school bus belonged to the Delhi Public School here. The injured children have been …

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January 5, 2018