NEW DELHI: At least 12 Naxals were killed in an ongoing encounter operation at the south Bastar area in Chhattisgarh on Thursday.Earlier in the day, two jawans were injured in the IED blast in the state’s Bijapur district.Chhattisgarh deputy CM Vijay Sharma said that Naxals have planted Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) everywhere and termed the…
NEW DELHI: Two labourers were injured and several others were feared trapped after a chimney collapsed at a steel plant in Chhattisgarh. The incident took place during afternoon hours at the plant situated in Saragaon area, confirmed Mungeli Superintendent of Police Bhojram Patel.“Labourers are feared trapped at an iron-making factory in Sargaon, Mungeli after the…
BIJAPUR: At least eight security personnel and one vehicle driver were killed in a major IED blast triggered by Maoists on a police vehicle in Bijapur district of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh on Monday.The incident took place at Kutru region, located about 80 kms from district headquarters around 2.30pm in Kutru-Bedre route. According to reliable…
RAIPUR: Less than a week after warning BJP workers to quit party or die, Maoists killed a BJP worker, Kudiam Mado, in Bijapur on Wednesday, accusing him of working as a police informer. Last Wednesday, Maoists kidnapped and killed two local BJP workers, who were former sarpanchs. Thirteen BJP men and three from Congress have…
RAIPUR: Five Maoists were shot dead in an encounter with security forces in the Abujhmarh forests of Chhattisgarh on Saturday morning. This area borders the Kanker-Narayanpur districts of the Bastar division in Chhattisgarh.Five automatic weapons and explosives were seized from the encounter site.Two DRG jawans were also injured in Maoist attack, authorities reported on Saturday….
. This attack comes after recent violence in the state, including the killing of a man in Bijapur and the reported death of 38 Naxal cadres in Dantewada. NEW DELHI: Two policemen from Jagargunda police station were injured in a Maoist attack during a weekly market in Sukma, authorities reported on Sunday. The injured personnel…
At least 13 villagers in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada have suffered severe eye infections, with many at risk of being blinded, after botched cataract surgeries at a govt hospital on October 18 and October 22. Preliminary probe indicates the surgeries were carried out in unhygienic conditions, the operation theatre was not sanitised, and there was fungus on…
NEW DELHI: “They (ED officers) should remember that there is something called Article 21 in the country (which guarantees right to life and liberty),” Supreme Court on Monday told the agency while expressing concern over the way in which PMLA was being implemented and made it clear that any high-handedness against any accused in violation…
RAIPUR: In a bizarre incident and suspected to be murder, two brothers were found dead and four of the same tribal family were hospitalized in unconscious state, apparently due to prolonged fasting and continuous chants as part of some ‘tantric’ rituals they were performing, in Sakti district of Chhattisgarh.Neighbours had not seen any of the…
RAIPUR: A day after Chhattisgarh police arrested Kuldeep Sahu for the murder of the wife and daughter of a head constable, four more suspects – including NSUI district president Chandrakant Chaudhary – were arrested Wednesday. Though the bodies had been found nude, the medical investigation didn’t indicate any ‘initial signs of rape or sexual assault’,…
