RAIPUR: A 35-year-old woman and her seven-year-old daughter were found hanging from a tree behind a govt school in in Kunni village in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district, where her husband worked as a teacher.The couple was going through divorce proceedings. Police suspect Meena Gupta hanged her daughter Astha and then died by suicide, but they aren’t…
RAIPUR: “Repeated threats of suicide constitute cruelty,” Chhattisgarh high court has said, while granting divorce to a husband and dismissing the wife’s plea for restitution of conjugal rights.“When such statements (suicide threats) are frequently made, no spouse can live peacefully. In this case, the husband has provided substantial evidence that the wife repeatedly threatened to…
RAIPUR: The Raipur court sentenced a man to death for the brutal murder of a four-year-old boy, Harsh Chetan, in a case described as “rarest of the rare.” The perpetrator, Panchram Gendre, committed the crime to take revenge on the child’s mother after she rejected his advances. This verdict marks the first death penalty pronounced…
RAIPUR: In the dense jungles of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district, a fierce gunfight broke out on Friday morning between the CRPF, the District Reserve Guards (DRG) and Maoist insurgents. What followed was a significant win for the security forces, marking the elimination of 10 Maoists, including three women cadres, and the disruption of a dangerous rebel…
Screen grab from video of Yash Rathi’s standup comedy, where professors covered their ears with hands to avoid embarrassment. RAIPUR: A standup comedy organised at the Indian Institute of Technology – Bhilai in Chhattisgarh turned embarrassing for the organisers as the comedian uttered slangs and expletives in Hindi leaving the students, staff members and visitors…
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….
RAIPUR: The suspected poisoning of a tiger in Guru Ghasidas National Park in Chhattisgarh on Friday – the second tiger death here in two years — has rung the alarm bells at a time when there is controversy over the delay in designating the park as a tiger reserve.The demise is also mired in conflicting…
. 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…
Women marched from Lendra to Jagdalpur for 25km to meet collector RAIPUR: Some 25 women from a panchayat in Bastar – mostly ‘bahus’ who have married into the villages – walked over 25km to the Jagdalpur district headquarters on Wednesday to demand toilets, saying they are embarrassed to have to go out to relieve themselves.The…
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…
