Raipur : Ajit Jogi, the first chief minister of Chhattisgarh, breathed his last on Friday. The announcement of his demise was made by his son Amit Jogi who took to Twitter at 3:35 pm and in a post said, “Not only me but Chhattisgarh has lost his father. His funeral will take place tomorrow in […]

Raipur: Two Naxals, including a woman, were today gunned down in an encounter with security forces in a dense forest of Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said. The encounter took place at around 7:30 am in Muduvandi-Kawadgaon forest axis when a joint team of security forces was out on an anti-Maoist operation, Deputy Inspector General of […]

Bangalore: The Chhattisgarh government is likely to haggle with the Karnataka government over the price of rice it will supply to the State under the Anna Bhagya scheme (rice at Re one per kg for BPL families). If so, the State government will have another headache barely two weeks after the rice millers’ strike. The […]

Raipur : In an audacious daylight operation, Maoist rebels today abducted Collector of Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district Alex Pal Menon from the middle of a meeting with villagers after killing his two security officers.  Menon (32), an IAS officer of 2006 batch, was kidnapped from Majhipara village in Keralapal area of the Naxal-infested district this afternoon, […]

Raipur: Six policemen were killed and five injured Friday when armed Maoists attacked a 16-member contingent in a forested village of Chhattisgarh’s violence-hit Bastar region, a police officer said. ‘The armed rebels attacked our jawans who are drawn from the District Force (DF) in a planned manner,’ Additional Director General of Police Ramniwas, who heads […]