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Same battles, different turfs

Friday 27 March '09

While the bipolar nature of politics in Chhattisgarh remains unchanged, delimitation has thrown up some fresh challenges for leaders...
Rice succour? Time for donkeys to labour

Friday 6 March '09

Suspicion abounds the Chief Minister’s populist scheme of providing rice at Rs 3 per kg to more than half of the state’s population...
Chhattisgarh DG’s book shakes bureaucracy

Thursday 5 March '09

A satire on his own fraternity and its intricacies and manipulations by a senior serving bureaucrat in Chhattisgarh..
Chhattisgarh officer's book shakes, stirs bureaucracy

Monday 2 March '09

A satire on his own fraternity and its intricacies and manipulations by a senior serving bureaucrat has become the subject of heated discussion.
BJP declares populist budget for C’garh

Tuesday 10 February '09

Making provisions to implement its populist schemes, the BJP Government in Chhattisgarh on Monday presented its budget for fiscal 2008-09....
Salwa Judum disappearing from Chhattisgarh Govt’s glossary

Monday 9 February '09

The famous tribal Gondi dialect words “Salwa Judum” that has become synonymous with the controversial anti-Naxalite movement...
Vajpayee's niece eyes Bilaspur ticket

Monday 2 February '09

Former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece and BJP national VP Karuna Shukla is facing tough time in getting re-nomination to contest upcoming LS elections.
C’garh HC seeks autopsy of 8 killed in encounter

Friday 30 January '09

The Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday directed the authorities to conduct postmortem of eight tribals who were killed in an encounter...
19 deaths in encounter: HC notice to Raman Govt

Friday 23 January '09

The Chhattisgarh High Court on Thursday issued notices to the state Government, senior police officers and a group of special police officers...
A new chapter in Chhattisgarh: textbooks hailing Salwa Judum

Tuesday 20 January '09

The controversial Salwa Judum movement has now been incorporated in the Chhattisgarh school curriculum with a chapter on “Necessity of social security from problem of Naxalism”....
‘People don’t understand Salwa Judum... is it wrong to fight Naxal terror?’

Saturday 17 January '09

As one of the poorest and most Naxalite-infested states in the country, Chhattisgarh will continue to present a tough challenge to...
Chhattisgarh chalks out measures to fight terror

Tuesday 6 January '09

Initiating a series of steps to strengthen internal security in the wake of Naxalite problem and growing terror menace...
Wary Salwa Judum waits for poll fallout

Thursday 18 December '08

Even as the BJP claimed that its government’s staunch support to the anti-Naxalite movement contributed towards...
1 per cent separates ‘gentleman’ from ‘officer’

Tuesday 9 December '08

Defying anti-incumbency, the ruling BJP got an absolute majority on Monday, winning 50 constituencies in the 90-member Assembly in Chhattisgarh.
72 pc turnout in second phase

Friday 21 November '08

Heavy turnout of voters in the Assembly polls has confused the political parties about the possible outcome of the contest to the 90-member Assembly, which concluded on Thursday.
The politics of elsewhere

Thursday 20 November '08

The tribal constituency of Pathalgaon forms part of “Naglok”, where scores of people die of snake bite every monsoon.
Caste is not the issue

Wednesday 19 November '08

The Congress’s known reluctance to project anyone as its chief ministerial candidate in the Assembly polls is a blessing in disguise for at least one candidate...
By the VIP, for the VIP?

Tuesday 18 November '08

Ajit Jogi and Renu Jogi fight to get re-elected from adjoining constituencies. Common to both constituencies: Poverty, lack of industry and irrigation.
Safe for democracy?

Friday 14 November '08

A massive security umbrella has been thrown all over the 39 constituencies going to polls in the first phase of elections today...
Keeping an eye on CPI

Thursday 13 November '08

The Communist Party of India (CPI) foresees a post-poll scenario...
The Raman Effect

Thursday 13 November '08

Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh appears well poised in this constituency where he is pitted against sitting Congress legislator...
An issue called Salwa Judum

Wednesday 12 November '08

The leader of opposition in the Chhattisgarh assembly, Mahendra Karma - more famous in these parts as the frontline leader of the anti-Naxalite Salwa Judum movement...
How many corners in Chhattisgarh?

Tuesday 11 November '08

As Chhattisgarh heads to polls in two phases next week to elect its 90 member Assembly, the contest appears evenly poised between the BJP and the Congress.
Will scrap Public Security Act, Salwa Judum: Ajit Jogi

Sunday 9 November '08

Senior Congress leader and former CM Ajit Jogi said that his party, if voted to power the Assembly polls, would repeal the controversial Chhattisgarh Public Security Act-2005 and bring out a white paper on the contentious anti-Naxalite Salwa Judum movement in Bastar.
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