. 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’,…
RAIPUR: A class 12 student was allegedly drugged, thrashed and gangraped by five youths and left for dead in Surajpur district on Dussehra night, and is now in a critical condition in hospital.The main accused, supposed to be her boyfriend, was found hanging at the crime scene on Tuesday. The survivor has alleged that he…
RAIPUR: A three-year-old leopard, caught in a wire trap, gasped to an agonising death on Thursday as foresters stood watching for 12 hours, waiting for tranquiliser darts to be transported to the site in Chhattisgarh‘s Mohla Manpur, reports Partha Behera.By the time it was rescued and taken to Nandanvan Jungle Safari in Nava Raipur, 160km…
Saurabh Chandrakar, the promoter of the Mahadev Online Book gaming-betting app, was arrested in Dubai. NEW DELHI: Sourabh Chandrakar, one of the main promoters of the Mahadev betting app, is expected to be brought to India soon following his recent formal arrest in Dubai on the basis of an Interpol issued arrest warrant in a…
RAIPUR: At least 14 suspected Maoists were killed in a fierce encounter going on between security forces and Naxalites in forests of Narayanpur district of Bastar division on Friday.Preliminary information from police said that the encounter broke out in Abujhmarh forests alongside borders of Naryanpur and Dantewada districts around 1 pm. A joint team of…
On Sept 18, a small village in Chhattisgarh‘s Sakti woke up to find that a ‘SBI’ branch had sprung up overnight. It sported the logo, and cashiers and a manager who looked busy and business-like. Chhapora village felt like it had arrived.The trusting villagers had no way of knowing it was an elaborate fraud. Even…
