Bijapur, Feb 7 (UNI) Thirty Maoist cadres, including operatives from the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) companies No. 2, 3 and 7, surrendered today under Chhattisgarh’s rehabilitation policy, dealing a significant blow to the insurgent network in southern Bastar. The surrendered cadres carried a combined bounty of Rs 85 lakh. They laid down arms before…
Raipur, Jan 3 (UNI): Barely 90 days before the March 31, 2026 deadline set for eliminating armed Left-wing extremism from the country, security forces recorded a major operational success in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region. In coordinated anti-Maoist operations across the dense forest zones of Bijapur and Sukma districts, 14 armed Maoists were killed in separate encounters…
By Shishir Roy Chowdhury Raipur/Sarguja, Dec 29 (UNI) A dispute over the construction of an anganwadi building on an ancestral land in Chhattisgarh’s Surguja district has escalated into a grave humanitarian and governance crisis after an elderly tribal woman sought permission for euthanasia, alleging sustained pressure from the administrative machinery and local power structures. The…
New Delhi, Dec 29 (UNI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED)’s Raipur zonal office is conducting a search and seizure action at nine premises in Raipur and Mahasamund (Chhattisgarh), in connection with a Prevention of Money Laundering case connected to the alleged irregularities in payment of compensation for acquisition of land for the Raipur-Visakhapatnam Economic Corridor under…
By Shishir Roy Chowdhury Raipur, Dec 24(UNI) Normal life was disrupted across large parts of Chhattisgarh on Wednesday following a statewide bandh called by several social organisations to protest violence in Kanker district’s Amabeda area and alleged administrative bias in handling cases linked to religious conversion. The shutdown had a significant impact in major urban…
Raipur, Dec 3 (UNI) Three personnel of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) were killed and another injured on Wednesday during a major anti-Naxal operation along the Bijapur–Dantewada border in South Chhattisgarh. The exchange of fire, which began around 9 a.m., has so far resulted in the recovery of twelve Maoist bodies from the encounter site,…
Bilaspur, Nov 4 (UNI) At least six people were killed and several others injured after a passenger train collided with a goods train on the Bilaspur- Katni railway line in Chhattisgarh on Tuesday evening. The collision triggered a massive rescue and relief operation by railway and district authorities, who rushed teams to the spot within…
New Delhi, Oct 18 (UNI) A recent verdict by the Chhattisgarh High Court overturning forest rights granted to a village community in the Hasdeo Aranya region has ignited sharp criticism from Congress leader Jairam Ramesh. The judgment, which cited prior land diversion for mining and claimed that the Forest Rights Act (FRA) of 2006 does…
New Delhi, Sept 3 (UNI) The Enforcement Directorate (ED) is currently conducting extensive search and seizure operations at 18 premises across Raipur, Durg, Bhilai, and Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh. The raids, which began early this morning, targeted the locations of vendors, contractors, and middlemen connected to an alleged misappropriation of funds from the District Mineral Foundation…
Raipur, Aug 18 (UNI) The Election Commission of India (ECI) has tightened its scrutiny of dormant political outfits, serving notices to seven registered unrecognized political parties (RUPPs) in Chhattisgarh that have neither contested polls nor maintained functional offices since 2019. This development comes as part of a nationwide clean-up, with 334 such parties across states…
