Dantewada MLA escapes Naxal attack
A ruling BJP MLA of Bastar region Bhima Ram Mandavi had a miraculous escape when his security guards managed to escort him to safety after Naxals attacked his convoy at Gamabada, a plain area, under Bacheli police station in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Dantewada district on Wednesday, police said.
In big reshuffle, Raman transfers 27 IPS officers
Seen as a pre-Assembly poll exercise, Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh late on Thursday night effected a massive reshuffle at the top-level police administration in the state, transferring as m
Ajit Jogi, 12 others get court notices
The Chhattisgarh HC has issued notices to former cm Ajit Jogi and 12 others, including two sitting and 10 former MLAs, in connection with alleged defections of a dozen former BJP legislators to the Co
CM Raman Singh’s debut movie out today
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh’s debut movie Ajab Jingi, Gazab Jingi (Strange Life, Great Life), a Chhattisgarhi film, is set to be released across the state on Friday.
The chief minister in his new role as an actor seems to have generated much interest among the movie buffs in Chhattisgarh, as all the five theatres including the one in Raipur, where the film is slated to be released, have closed their advance booking for first day’s shows.
C’garh mulls ops to seize Naxal gun units
Chhattisgarh police is planning to launch a major operation shortly to seize gun factories run by Naxals in the state, police sources said on Sunday.
Chhattisgarh’s tribal farmer carves niche in art world
The famed Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, has rich collections of paintings — one of them is the work of Pesaduram — an illiterate tribal tiller of remote Gadabangar village in Narayanpur d
Cong no-trust against Raman
The Opposition Congress here on Wednesday decided to move no-trust motion against the Raman Singh government, which enjoys a wafer thin majority in the Chhattisgarh Assembly, during the Winter Session of the House beginning on Thursday.
Raman: Will sue ‘conspirators’
Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Wednesday took strong exception to the alleged attempt by some Congress leaders to “tarnish” his image by “mischievously” linking him to allotment of mining leases in Madhya Pradesh to a private entrepreneur and threatened to sue them.
C’garh leader to replace Kishenji?
One of the names making round in the Naxal circle in Chhattisgarh to replace Kishenji, the chief military strategist of the CPI (Maoist) gunned down in an encounter in West Bengal, is Gudsa Usendi, al
Woman of endangered C’garh tribe sterilised
In a shocking incident, doctors in a Chhattisgarh district performed sterilisation surgery on a woman belonging to the endangered Pahadi Korba tribe, ignoring the restrictions imposed by the governmen