The Maoist contingent surrounded by security forces from all sides at Latehar’s Ambatikar forests and trapped in the wee hours of Monday outwitted the securitymen by immediately putting on army fatigues which look similar to CRPF uniforms in the dark,
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Chhattisgarh home minister Nanki Ram Kanwar on Monday has blamed the inauspicious stars for the higher incidents of rape being reported from across the nation, reports Ejaz Kaiser.
At least 11 minor tribal girls in a Chhattisgarh government ashram (residential school) were allegedly raped by a teacher and a watchman for months last year, but an official cover-up masked their crimes till a chance detection, reports Ejaz Kaiser.
Students in south Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district have taken out three protest rallies in the last four days against Maoists for using school uniforms as disguise while committing crimes, Ejaz Kaiser reports.
Five men have been arrested for allegedly raping a tribal woman in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district, police said on Sunday.
Last June, Banwari Lal Patel’s 16-year-old daughter had to leave Bhilai’s Yugchetna Public School after she became a victim of ragging. At the school hostel, seniors had poured tomato ketchup in her ear, reports Ejaz Kaiser.
Four CRPF men were killed and one severely injured in their sleep when a jawan opened fire around 12.15am on Tuesday at a camp in Dantewada district of Chhattisgarh. Ejaz Kaiser reports.
A police officer posted in one of Chhattisgarh's worst insurgency-hit districts - Narayanpur in Bastar region, shot himself today evening and was in a critical condition, police said.
A state-appointed judicial commission, constituted to probe into the collapse of under-construction chimney of 1200 MW plant, held accountable the Vendanta-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (Balco), Chinese group Shandong Electric Power Construction Corporation (Sepco) and its subsidiary Gannon Dunkerley & Company Limited (GDCL), for their failures to abide by the rules on safety and quality.
Chhattisgarh has taken a lead in the country to enact its own Food Security Bill 2012 on Friday on the last day of winter session of the Assembly. Ejaz Kaiser reports.
A 12-year-old Chhattisgarh girl's suicide, after pinning the blame on her allegedly cruel schoolteacher, has triggered raging protests in the state over perceived police inaction.
A former Salwa Judum leader and a police jawan were killed in a Maoist attack in Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh today evening, police said.
A group of Naxalites ambushed a police party in Chhattisgarh's Gariyabandh district today morning but failed to inflict any casualty, police said.
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Saturday kicked up a controversy when he blamed "girlfriends, bikes and mobile phones" for the rising cases of road accidents in the state.
Chhattisgarh Congress leader Mahendra Karma, who is credited with founding the anti-Maoist movement Salwa Judum, escaped a landmine blast on Thursday while his motorcade was passing through a forest in Dantewada district.