CRPF personnel. File | Photo Credit: PTI Twelve maoists were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Sunday (February 9, 2025), police said. Also Read | In 2024, Maoists suffer severe setbacks in Chhattisgarh The gunfight broke out at a forest in the Indravati National Park area in the morning…
Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah attends First Samadhi Smriti Mahotsav of Acharya Shri Vidyasagar Ji Maharaj and Shri 1008 Siddhachakra Vidhan Vishva Shanti Mahayagya in Rajnandgaon, Chhattisgarh Acharya Shri Vidyasagar Ji Maharaj was a visionary who ushered in a new era with his thoughts and teachings Acharya Vidyasagar Ji’s life was…
Image used for representative purpose only | Photo Credit: PTI The opposition Congress on Monday (January 27, 2025) announced its candidates for all the 10 mayoral posts in Chhattisgarh, the elections for which will be held along with the other urban bodies in the state next month. Incumbent mayors Dr Ajay Tirkey and Janki Katju…
Two Chhattisgarh Public Works Department (PWD) officials have been suspended for alleged irregularities and corruption in a road construction work in Bijapur district. The probe into these alleged irregularities and corruption started after journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, who was murdered earlier this month, highlighted them in his news report. The contractor of this project, Suresh Chandrakar,…
Mukesh Chandrakar worked as a freelance journalist. File. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai on Tuesday (January 14, 2025) announced an aid of ₹10 lakh to the kin of journalist Mukesh Chandrakar, who was murdered in Bijapur district earlier this month. Talking to reporters at the helipad in Police Lines, Sai said a building will…
Ten workers were injured when a centring frame collapsed during the laying of a slab at an under-construction building in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur on Saturday (January 11, 2025), police said. The incident occurred in Vishal Nagar area on VIP Road where a multi-storey building is being constructed, Raipur Additional Superintendent of Police Lakhan Patle told…
A 10-year-old boy was killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast planted by Naxalites in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur on Saturday afternoon. The victim, Hidma Kawasi, had gone to graze cattle with his mother in a forested area when the IED went off. With no health centre nearby, or any vehicle to rush him to a…
The locomotive hit a huge banyan tree that had fallen on the track due to incessant rainfall in Chhattisgarh, causing the derailment of its two front wheels. “The engine of an empty passenger train derailed after hitting a giant tree that had fallen on the track in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district on July 25, causing minor…
