By-elections in five assembly seats announced
New Delhi/UNI: The Election Commission on Saturday announced that by-elections in five Assembly and one Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha, Rajasthan, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on Dec 5.
Nurse gangraped by 4, including minor, at Chhattisgarh health centre
Bhopal: A nurse was allegedly tied up, gagged and gangraped by four people, including a minor, at a health cenre in Chhipchhipi village of Mahendragarh district in Chhattisgarh, media reports said citing police.
Chhattisgarh: Bijapur: Violent Upsurge
On May 4, 2022, the dead body of one person was recovered from the Modakpal Police Station limits in Bijapur District. In the evening of May 3, Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres abducted two persons – Satyam Pulse and Bhima – from Guddipal village under the Usoor Block (administrative division) and later, after holding a 'Jan Adalat' (People's/Kangaroo Court organized by the Maoists), stabbed Satyam Pulse to death. Bhima, however, was released.
Chhattisgarh: Two pilots die in helicopter crash at Raipur airport
Raipur/IBNS: Two pilots were killed after a helicopter crashed at an airport in Chhattisgarh's Raipur on Thursday evening.
Chhattisgarh: Bastar Division: Declining Ferocity
On May 4, 2022, a District Reserve Guards (DRG) head constable identified as Salik Ram Markam (37) was killed during an encounter with Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres in Tulargufa Forest area in Mungeri region under Chhotedonger Police Station limits in Narayanpur District.
7 Naxals surrender in Chhattisgarh
Sukma (Chhattisgarh)/UNI: In another instance of success of the state government's rehabilitation policy and the police's 'Poona Nakorram' campaign, seven Maoists have capitulated within this restive district of Left-wing extremism-affected Bastar division, police said on Saturday.
Byelection results: TMC leads in Bengal, RJD in Bihar, Congress in Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh
New Delhi/IBNS: Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC), Lalu Prasad Yadav's Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) and the Congress are leading in various seats, which went to byelections in the country recently.
Maoists attack CRPF camp in Chhattisgarh
Jagdalpur/Chhattisgarh/UNI: Three personnel sustained injuries in heavy firing on Monday during a Maoist assault on a CRPF camp recently set up at Elmagunda adjoining Chintagufa Police Station limits in Sukma – an extremely restive district within Left-wing extremism-affected Bastar division in Chhattisgarh.
Hindu leader Kalicharan, who abused Gandhi, held; arrest sparks MP-Chhattisgarh row
Khajuraho/Raipur/UNI/IBNS: Hindu leader Kalicharan Maharaj was arrested before dawn on Thursday in Khajuraho, triggering a war of words between Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, whose police swooped on the man who had abused Mahatma Gandhi.
Naxals carry out explosion in Chhattisgarh, injures two
Narayanpur, Chhattisgarh/UNI: Two employees of a Bhilai Steel Plant contractor were injured by a Naxal improvised explosive device detonation on Tuesday in Khodgaon mine area 16 km from here, police said.
Six naxals killed in Chhattisgarh-Telangana border
Raipur/IBNS: Six naxals have been killed in a police encounter which took place at a forest in the border of Chhattisgarh and Telangana, media reports said.
Fresh setback for BJP as Congress wins big in Chhattisgarh urban body polls
Raipur/IBNS: After West Bengal and Rajasthan, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has received a fresh jolt in 15 urban body polls in Chhattisgarh.
Chhattisgarh: 3 Naxals killed in encounter
Jagdalpur, Chhattisgarh/UNI: Three hardcore Maoists were killed in an encounter on the Telangana-Chhattisgarh border on Monday.
Chhattisgarh: Blast injures 4 CRPF personnel
Raipur/UNI: Four Central Reserve Police Force personnel were injured – one of them severely – in an explosion caused when a box containing an igniter set and cartridges was dropped while being loaded onto Coach Number 9 of a CRPF special train on Saturday at the railway station here, police said.
Chhattisgarh: Narayanpur: Unbridled Distress
On October 8, 2021, an Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) trooper was injured after Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) cadres fired at him in Kohkameta village in Narayanpur District. Sundarraj Pattilingam, Inspector General of Police (IGP), Bastar Range, disclosed that the incident took place at around 3 pm [IST] when the trooper belonging to ITBP's 53rd battalion was on duty at the mobile check post in front his unit's camp in Kohkameta village.