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In austerity season, Chhattisgarh CM, babus fly to SAfrica with kin

Thursday 5 November '09

Chhattisgarh CM Raman Singh and his top babus last week concluded a weeklong 'working trip' to South Africa and Mauritius, in the company of their families.
Explain your ‘lightning’ conclusion, IITs told

Monday 2 November '09

Indian Institutes of Technology (IIT) Delhi and Roorkee have been drawn into a controversy over its civil engineering experts allegedly...
BALCO: 2 Chinese engineers named

Thursday 29 October '09

More than a month after 41 people were killed in a power plant chimney collapse in Korba, two Chinese engineers have been named as accused....
After tackling dacoits and Jaish, Vijay Raman comes to Naxal country

Thursday 29 October '09

Bespectacled and balding, the Centre’s pointsman for anti-Naxalite operations has the facade of a genial grandfather.....
Raman mulls law to help Naxal victims’ kin

Tuesday 27 October '09

The Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh is considering a unique legislation to give a legal backing to the state’s efforts to take care of and honour the families of all martyrs....
Maoists kill four CISF men near Dantewada mines

Monday 26 October '09

Four personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) were killed and two others injured in a landmine blast triggered...
Tribal body, CPI to hold ‘hearing’ on steel plant

Wednesday 21 October '09

Dissatisfied with government’s efforts, tribals are planning to hold a ‘people’s public hearing’ at the proposed site for Tata...
Troubled times for Chhattisgarh’s babudom

Monday 19 October '09

A spate of recent incidents of ‘honest’ bureaucrats being shunted out at the behest of pressure groups is becoming an embarrassment...
Police notice to journalists for talking to Maoists

Wednesday 7 October '09

With state and Central forces ready to launch a major offensive against Naxalites, the Chhattisgarh Police have served notices on a couple of print...
Korba rescue crawls, survivor hopes fade

Friday 25 September '09

Rescue workers waited with masks, stretchers and sheets for bodies as heavy earth moving equipment tried to clear debris of a giant chimney....
Wheat import mixed blessing, hunt on for ‘invasive’ weeds

Friday 25 September '09

Agricultural scientists from ten states have embarked on a hunt to trace and isolate five harmful “invasive weeds” which made their...
Maoist diktat to buses, taxis: Don’t take security personnel

Tuesday 8 September '09

A new diktat of the Maoists to bus and taxi operators, ordering them not to carry any security personnel or face consequences, has put the police in a tight spot.
Writing on wall: C’garh bid to spot ‘real poor’

Monday 31 August '09

To deter ineligible people from grabbing the benefits of the state government’s subsidised rice scheme, Chhattisgarh has come up with a novel idea....
Contractors behind sex video, says engr

Saturday 29 August '09

The Chhattisgarh chief engineer, who was accused by a regional channel of making a sex video with his wife....
Channel broadcasts video of engineer with wife

Thursday 27 August '09

The Raipur police have registered cases of criminal conspiracy, extortion and circulation of obscene material against a local private TV station...
Government wants Right to Food Act

Tuesday 18 August '09

Chhattisgarh is considering enactment of legislation on Right to Food to bring all food related schemes, including the public distribution system (PDS), under its purview....
Saving the day

Saturday 15 August '09

Showing exemplary courage on extremely hostile terrain in the “liberated zone” of Maoists, Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Deputy Commandant Diwakar Tiwari...
Duty takes toll

Saturday 15 August '09

Belonging to one of the aboriginal tribal communities—for whose cause the Maoists claim to be fighting—Inspector Vinod Kumar Dhurv...
‘Alimony’ sought in same sex ‘marriage’

Thursday 13 August '09

At a time when debate is raging over gay marriages, the police in Chhattisgarh are perplexed over an apparent lesbian love triangle....
3-yr medical graduates to fill rural posts

Tuesday 11 August '09

Faced with the problem of doctors unwilling to take up postings in rural areas, the Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh....
‘Multi-pronged strategy needed to tackle Naxalism’

Monday 27 July '09

Differing with Union Home Minister P Chidambaram’s line on fighting Maoists, former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi on Sunday said he felt that just military...
Chhattisgarh cops question relief disparity for Naxal victims

Monday 20 July '09

Clinging to technicalities, the Chhattisgarh government is refusing extraordinary pension to families of a section of security personnel who had laid down their lives fighting Maoist rebels.
No toilets at camps, cops are easy target in Naxal hotbed

Wednesday 15 July '09

The lack of something as basic as toilets at many police base camps located in Naxalite-affected areas in Chhattisgarh...
Slain SP had survived two Naxal attacks, won 2 gallantry awards

Tuesday 14 July '09

Facing Naxal attacks was not new to Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Choubey. A few years ago...
New Chhattisgarh RTI rules draw flak

Monday 13 July '09

The Chhattisgarh government’s move to frame Right to Information (RTI) Rules 2009, imposing a word limit and fixing the number of subjects to be asked in a single application, has drawn severe criticism.
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