The five young police officers -- Avinash Mohanty of Bijapur, Amresh Kumar Mishra of Dantewada, Rahul Bhagat of Narayanpur, Ajay Yadav of Kanker and Sundarraj P of Bastar -- have engaged more local people into the operations and are reaping rich dividends in steeming the naxal tide.
'I don't think any other human rights person had so much of people's support,' says Mrs Ilina Sen.
President Prathibha Patil will inaugurate a two-day conference of Governors on September 16. The main issues that will be discussed are internal security and terrorism.
'I think the people who are living under those circumstances are showing a higher degree of courage. The wish of the people who want to be associated with the resistance that the poor there are showing in living their ordinary existence is what inspires a lot of people to speak out for them,' says Dr Binayak Sen
The party also promised to would provide salt at 25 paise per kg to BPL families, state unit president Raghuvar Das said while releasing the manifesto in the presence of Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh. Construction of three lakh houses to be allotted to those not having accommodation and ration cards to every family within three months was also among the promises held out.
The feasibility study, to be taken up by a private firm, will be funded by the US Trade and Development Agency aimed at setting up facilities for capturing CBM, commonly known as natural gas. The grants of $524,819 is meant to tap the opportunities in using technologies for capturing natural gas from the coal blocks.
A month after Bangalore-based software engineer Meghna Subedar's body was found floating at Goa's Candolim beach, an anonymous letter to the state police has claimed that it was a murder and handiwork of a Raipur-based boy.
The e-auction is seeing aggressive bidding.
The copter, while negotiating bad weather, lost control and hit a 50-feet high hill and caught fire.
The trial has to end before May, the Supreme Court said.
Maoists have called the blockade to protest alleged police atrocities.
A designated special court in Patna on Thursday granted bail to a Patna bomb blast accused Tabish Nyaz who was arrested by the National Investigation Agency from Ranchi in November last year.
The four-day meeting of RSS 'prant pracharaks' (state organisers) is also expected to discuss the government's move to 'de-toxify' National Council of Educational Research and Training textbooks and sacking of governors linked to the RSS
Sources said the officials decided to place him under arrest after he allegedly failed to answer the questions properly.\n
Essar Power would invest Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) for setting up a 1,000 MW coal-fired power plant in Chhattisgarh, a senior Essar group official said in Raipur on Tuesday.
Dokra, the brass metal art has been in villages of Orissa, Bihar and Chhatisgarh since time immemorial. Now their products are making way into the fashion stores of London, Milan and Paris.
The CBI on Friday filed a chargesheet against Amit Jogi, son of former Chhattisgarh chief minister Ajit Jogi, and 30 others in connection with the murder of NCP leader Ram Avtar Jaggi on June 4, 2003.
The floods so far have claimed 21 lives, official sources said. Eleven people drowned in the floods, seven died in wall collapses and three deaths were caused by snake bites.
The former Union minister, it is learnt, has already written to Congress chief, Sonia Gandhi, explaining his decision to quit the party.
'Painting opponents as the enemy of the State, using fake news, making wild allegations about rival parties, curtailing civil liberties and challenging the Constitution itself are worrying developments.'
UP will be followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra.
Sebi roped in HDFC Realty and SBI Cap after being asked by the Supreme Court to initiate the process of selling Sahara properties whose titles have been deposited with it by the group
Raipur's Nami Rai didn't let marriage or lack of sporting facilities affect her love for fitness.
Delhi has emerged as the youngest assembly in terms of age of elected legislators from the four states, with an estimated average age of about 43 years for members of Legislative Assembly elected in the national capital.
Peace is only possible if the government writ runs large, said Captain Amarinder, making it clear that he did not favour negotiations in Jammu and Kashmir till the Indian Army had an upper hand.
The Union health ministry officials also said India was at the second stage as there is still no 'hard evidence' to say that there has been community transmission of the fast-spreading coronavirus, remarks which may provide anxious citizens with much needed assurance and hope.
The opposition has been critical of the Centre's handling of the situation, accusing it of not doing enough to ease the hardships of the migrant workers, many of whom have lost their jobs during the lockdown which started on March 25.
State sheds laggard tag, emerges as leader among peers.
There is a "high probability" of political leaders coming under a Chhatisgarh-type attack during their panchayat poll campaign in Maoist-hit Jangalmahal in West Bengal, intelligence sources here have indicated.
The Rail Budget will announce introduction of AC suburban trains in Mumbai.
Smriti Irani will reprise her electoral battle with Rahul Gandhi from Amethi.
The Congress said the alliance between the BSP and Jogi's Janta Congress Chhattisgarh has the support of the BJP, which is ruling the state since 2003.
'He gets scared when he faces someone who says I will not back off, he backs off,' Rahul said about Modi.
If the Congress manages to upset its dominant rival, the BJP, in these assembly polls, then it will be a big boost to the opposition for the Lok Sabha polls, while a good show by the BJP will energise its cadres and give a fillip to its hopes of retaining the power at the Centre in 2019.
Valuations are much higher than the consensus earnings expectations warrant and also much too high in historical terms, says Devangshu Datta.
Taking exception to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan not mentioning the death of healthcare workers due to Covid-19 in his statement in Parliament, the Indian Medical Association has published a list of 382 doctors who died due to the viral disease and demanded that they be treated as "martyrs".
"The Army has been deployed without informing the state government. This is unprecedented and a very serious matter," she claimed.
He was allegedly involved in the killings of Asaram's personal doctor Amrut Prajapati in June 2014, his assistant-cum-cook Akhil Gupta in January 2015 and another key witness, Kripal Singh, in July 2015 in different parts of the country, said the release.
Former Chhattisgarh Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Ajit Jogi on Monday made a formal announcement to float a new political outfit.
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