NEW DELHI: Chilkapalli village in Bijapur, a former Naxal-prone area, has received electricity for the first time since India’s independence under Chhattisgarh CM Vishnu Deo Sai’s ‘Niyad Nellanar’ scheme. The village, located about 50 km from the Bijapur district headquarters, is the sixth village in Bijapur to be electrified under the ‘Niyad Nellanar’ Yojana, a…
RAIPUR: Jai Ram alias Chalpathy, a Maoist commander, who was a carrying an Rs 1 crore bounty on his head, was among the 14 ultras killed in a fierce exchange of fire in Gariaband district in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday.SP Nikhil Rakhecha confirmed to TOI that 14 Maoists were killed in the encounter, led by Chhattisgarh’s…
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: Chhattisgarh deputy chief minister Vijay Sharma on Saturday said the govt has set up an 11-member SIT to investigate the murder of well-known Bastar journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, whose body was found in the septic tank of a road contractor in Bijapur on Friday.Sharma, who is also the home minister, called a press conference on…
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….
