Madhya Pradesh
(2001 est. pop. 60.4 million). Madhya Pradesh is a central Indian state (named from a Hindi translation of the old British unit called Central Provinces). It is entirely landlocked, bei...
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New Delhi (dpa) - The heatwave gripping north and central India
has claimed 74 more lives, raising the death toll due to oppressive
heat conditions this summer to 148, offic...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Heavy monsoon rains pounded new areas in India,
inundating vast swathes of land, as health and relief teams
intensified efforts to provide food and prevent...
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New Delhi (dpa) - India's tiger population is being fast depleted
in several reserves in northern and central India, according to
initial findings of a national tiger census...
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Forest guards recovered the carcasses of two rare Asiatic lions and a cub believed to have been killed by poachers on the outskirts of their only natural habitat in western India, a wildlife offici...
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An Indian company plans to burn toxic waste from the city of Bhopal, the site of the world's worst industrial disaster, despite environmentalists' objections.Bharuch Environ Infrastructure Ltd. sai...
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh made a bid Saturday to
resolve caste conflict in Rajasthan State that has left more than 20
people dead so far.
Singh met with the top leaders of the B...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Police in India's central state of Madhya
Pradesh have found 390 pieces of bones and skeletal remains of babies
from a hospital compound, officials and med...
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New Delhi (dpa) - At least 27 people were killed as a heat wave
intensified across northern and central India causing day-time
temperatures in several cities to cross the 45...
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New Delhi (dpa) - Seventeen endangered Asiatic lions have died in
a sanctuary in India's western Gujarat state since January and the
rest are to be relocated, India's Parlia...
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