A security personnel of elite Cobra battalion was killed and three others were seriously injured in an encounter with Maoists at Gangalur in Bijapur district about 350 km south of Raipur late on Friday night. Ejaz Kaiser reports.
Maoists killed four jawans of the Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) and injured another in two separate attacks in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division on Sunday.
Two police personnel were killed in a Naxal attack in Maoist-hit Kanker district of Chhattisgarh today.
At least nine Maoists were killed in a 'fierce' encounter with the security forces in a remote forested terrain near Pamed in Bijapur district, south Chhattisgarh during the wee hours of Tuesday, the police claimed. Ejaz Kaiser reports.
Five Naxals, accused of murders andattack on police party, have been arrested during an operation by police and BSF jawans in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district.
The BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh was the 'safest place for women' in the country, leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, said today.
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Saturday presented ‘Aam Aadmi’ budget of Rs. 44,169 crore for the fiscal year 2013-14 in an election year with budget deficit at Rs. 1678 crore, Ejaz Kaiser reports.
The principal of a missionary school was arrested on Wednesday for trying to rape four minor students in Chhattisgarh's Sarguja district.
A 15-year-old tribal girl, student of a residential (ashram) school in Chhattisgarh's Jashpur district, was allegedly raped by the husband of her school superintendent, police said.
A 17-year-old girl student of a government school was allegedly raped by a peon at her home in Kondagaon district of Chhattisgarh, police said on Sunday.
Two policemen injured in naxal attack at Temelwada area of Sukma district were air-lifted to Raipur for treatment on Saturday, Director General of Police Ramniwas said.
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) member Kumar Vishwas on Sunday claimed that the anti-corruption movement led by Anna Hazare before Team Anna was disbanded had been "political" in nature given the reforms it wanted to bring forth.
As Chhattisgarh builds itself a swanky new capital from scratch- Naya Raipur, residents take in the changes and evaluate the new opportunities in their hi-tech green capital city; Ejaz Kaiser writes.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) on Saturday rejected a call by smaller parties to form a third front in Chhattisgarh.
The Centre, accused of being “more worried about commercial activity than saving the tigers’’, is likely to get a predictable answer, blaming the Naxals for the threat to reserves.
Ejaz Kaiser and
Anbwesh Roy Choudhary report.