Another state Chhattisgarh has taken steps towards liquor prohibition too and as part of that, liquor sale will not be permitted in villages with population up to 3,000, said chief minister Raman Singh on Tuesday. Significantly, the sale of liquor has already been prohibited in villages having up to 2,000 population.[Read More…]
Assets worth Rs 36 crore of suspended Chhattisgarh IAS official BL Agrawal was attached by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday. Agrawal was earlier detained by the CBI. “ED has attached assets worth Rs 36.09 crore under PMLA (Prevention of Money Laundering Act),” an official from the agency said as[Read More…]
In a horrific incident, a CRPF jawan was killed by naxals at a local village fair in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Tuesday. The 42-year-old assistant constable Phagu Ram Mandavi was axed to death with deadly weapons by rebels at Bodli village ‘mela’ (fair) under Bangpal police station limits. As[Read More…]
A resident of Jashpur district, with the help of other women, mortgaged her jewelry to make bricks to construct more than 100 toilets in her village. Kajal Roy a sana village ward Panch said it was not an easy decision to make as she had to go through a lot[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Monday granted bail to Chhattisgarh journalist Santosh Yadav, who was arrested in September 2015 on charges including rioting and conspiracy. He was arrested under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act for “associating with a terrorist organisation” and “supporting and aiding terrorist groups”. Chattisgarh Police had accused Yadav of[Read More…]
A woman suspected to be a Naxal was killed in a gunfight between group of Naxals and security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Sunday, police said. The firing took place this morning in Kavargatta forests under Pamed police station limits of the district. This firing was a part of[Read More…]
Bastar IG SRP Kalluri is being attached with the Police Headquarters (PHQ) without any charge with immediate effect, ANI reported Tuesday. On Monday, Kalluri had returned to Bastar and placed a call to DGP A N Upadhyaya, asking for a fresh posting. Kalluri, accused of mistreating researchers, activists and journalists, had been asked[Read More…]
On Monday, about 30 men broke into the home of activist and researcher Bela Bhatia in Bastar. The men ask her to leave the region within 24 hours and threatened to burn down the house she rents. They also allegedly forced Bhatia and her landlady to sign an undertaking that[Read More…]
Tribal activist Bela Bhatia was allegedly threatened by goons at her residence in Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh, on Monday. The goons have allegedly asked her to leave Jagdalpur within 24 hours. According to local media, around 20 to 30 goons, who came in an SUV and several bikes, told Bhatia that her[Read More…]
Delhi University professor Nandini Sundar on Tuesday rubbished the allegation of Chhattisgarh Police linking her to the murder of a tribal villager in Maoist-hit Bastar. She said that it was a clear case of being framed and that some people in Bastar were forced to name her and others in[Read More…]
Delhi University (DU) professor Nandini Sundar and Jawaharlal Nehru University’s (JNU) Archana Prasad are among the 10 people accused in a police complaint for the murder of a villager in Chhattisgarh. “An FIR was lodged against DU Professor Nandini Sundar, Archana Prasad (JNU Professor), Vineet Tiwari (of Delhi’s Joshi Adhikar[Read More…]
A journalist based in the Maoist heartland of Dantewada goes missing and no one bats an eye. Prabhat Singh who was arrested this March for spreading obscenity through his “whatsapp” message is missing for the past three days. Having blown the lid from many government atrocities in Dantewada he was[Read More…]
The Supreme Court on Thursday quashed Vedanta Ltd’s plea seeking export of iron ore in Karnataka. Ruling that “there is no need to allow the export of iron ore for now,” the apex court heard the plea filed by the Karnataka Iron and Steel Manufacturers’ Association. The plea sought court’s intervention[Read More…]
Bringing the practice of ‘gurukul’ era, where students lived with family of the teacher and performed their ‘seva’ and ‘gurudakshina’ by doing household chores, this teacher from Chhattisgarh has travelled back in time to revive the dying practice. If you don’t believe us, you can check this video where a[Read More…]
The Chhattisgarh government on Wednesday inaugurated an in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) centre for boosting milk production in the state. Launching the centre, chief minister Raman Singh said that government will spread the use of this technology across the state so that the entire state can benefit from this scheme. The newly launched JK[Read More…]
Former Chhattisgarh chief minister and Congress leader Ajit Jogi on Tuesday announced his new party ‘Chhattisgarh Janata Congress (Jogi)’. He said each word in the party’s name has its own significance that represents 2.5 crore people. While making the declaration, Jogi slammed the BJP government for “lacking in vision” to[Read More…]
