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‘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.
How Chhattisgarh fudged records for multi-crore paddy scam

Monday 13 July '09

Chhattisgarh is witnessing an alleged multi-crore scam with thousands of tonnes of paddy procured only on paper. Glaring irregularities have surfaced in the scheme for procurement...
Paddy scam: Chhattisgarh turns down demand for CBI probe

Friday 10 July '09

The Chhattisgarh government has turned down the Congress demand for a CBI probe into the alleged paddy procurement scam...
Minister in trouble after dept staff commits suicide

Wednesday 8 July '09

Chhattisgarh Agriculture Minister Chandrashekhar Sahu found himself in trouble after a class III employee of his department committed suicide on July 2...
Chhattisgarh red-faced over MLA’s green drive

Friday 3 July '09

A ruling BJP legislator’s agitation against industrial pollution in the state capital and its peripheral villages is becoming...
Chhattisgarh govt plans ‘rice festival’ to reach out to the poor

Wednesday 1 July '09

Ahead of the local body elections, the Raman Singh Government in Chhattisgarh is gearing up for a propaganda blitz...
New Salwa Judum strategy is non-cooperation

Thursday 25 June '09

Now into its fifth year, controversial anti-Naxalite campaign Salwa Judum is transforming into a “non-cooperation movement”....
‘Humid conditions sapping, it gets tiring to trek’

Tuesday 23 June '09

Despite clear guidelines on how to go about an operation or even routine patrolling in the hilly and forested....
After the finish, the fight in Congress picks up

Monday 22 June '09

Infighting has intensified in the Congress after its lone MP in the state, Dr Charandas Mahant, failed to make...
30 years on, curbs on entry to tribal heartland lifted

Wednesday 10 June '09

Lifting a nearly 30-year-old entry restriction, the Chhattisgarh Government has decided to allow free access to common people to the virgin tribal heartland of Abujmarh...
Phone tapping or publicity stunt for polls?

Wednesday 3 June '09

Chhattisgarh’s Agriculture Minister Chandra Shekhar Sahu’s allegation that his telephones were tapped during last month’s Lok Sabha...
BJP scores 10 out of 11

Sunday 17 May '09

The BJP won 10 out of 11 Lok Sabha seats with impressive margins, leaving just one seat for the Congress....
Dantewada jailbreak: court discharges prime accused

Saturday 2 May '09

In a major setback to the investigation into the Dantewada jailbreak case — in which 299 inmates including 110 Naxals escaped from the prison....
With no escort, poll officials were sitting ducks for Naxals

Sunday 19 April '09

The polling officials, who were killed in a landmine blast triggered by Naxalites in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh two days ago....
Chhattisgarh polls over, but govt work stuck in code

Saturday 18 April '09

While polling has been completed in all the constituencies of Chhattisgarh, Kerala and northeastern states...
Raman effect on, BJP hopes to make clean sweep

Thursday 16 April '09

About 15.5 million voters will elect their representatives from the 11 Lok Sabha seats in the BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh...
Fear casts shadow over Bastar polls

Wednesday 15 April '09

In BJP-ruled Chhattisgarh’s tribal Bastar division — comprising two Lok Sabha constituencies of Bastar-ST and Kanker-ST — “Bhay...
Naxalism out, development card in

Tuesday 14 April '09

Even without Salwa Judum, Maoist activities have remarkably declined during the past couple of years in tribal Sarguja region where both rebel outfits...
Denied ticket, rebel MP queers the pitch for BJP

Tuesday 14 April '09

Is caste politics breathing its last in the Durg Lok Sabha constituency which has been represented only by leaders belonging to the Other Backward Classes...
Personal is political in Bilaspur’s Judeo versus Renu Jogi fight

Thursday 9 April '09

When it was decided that Renu Jogi, wife of Ajit Jogi, and the BJP’s bewhiskered royal Dilip Singh Judeo would be coming face to face in Chhattisgarh’s Bilaspur constituency...
Kanshi Ram’s first poll turf is BSP’s prime agenda

Tuesday 7 April '09

When BSP founder Kanshi Ram contested his maiden Lok Sabha polls from the rural constituency of Janjgir in 1984 in undivided Madhya Pradesh.....
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