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Raipur: A Naxal, carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh on his head, was killed in an encounter with security forces in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Friday, police said. The gunfight took place this morning in a forest near Bindrapani village when a team of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) from neighbouring Dantewada district was […]
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Bijapur: Naxals set ablaze two vehicles and a machine engaged in laying cables of a private telecom company in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Monday. No person was injured in the incident which took place on Sunday evening between Padera and Kakekorma villages under Bijapur police station limits where the cable laying work was […]
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Hyderabad: A pedestrian died in an accident at Narsingi while crossing the road on Tuesday night. The man, identified as K Tandon, 36, a construction worker from Chhattisgarh staying at Narsingi, was crossing the road near the Kali Mandir stretch on Langer Houz road when a speeding motorbike hit him. He was rushed to a […]
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Warangal: With the incessant rains battering many parts of erstwhile Warangal district, mainly Bhupalpally and Mulugu districts, streams and rivulets are overflowing and road connectivity for many villages was cut off in the Agency area. Low-lying areas were inundated causing hardships to the people living those areas. Keeping this in view, the officials of the […]
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Raipur: A Naxal couple involved in several deadly attacks on security forces and carrying a reward of Rs 5 lakh each on their heads surrendered on Monday in Sukma district in Chhattisgarh, a police official said. Madkam Hidma and his wife Kuram Hungi, who are area committee members of the self-styled Kandhamal-Kalahandi-Boudh-Nayagarh (KKBN) division of […]
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Kothagudem: A truck carrying PDS rice load swept away in the flood waters in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh State on Sunday. The engine of the truck stopped due to technical fault while crossing an overflowing Badanala flowing through Mettupalli forests of Bhopalpatnam sub-division in Bijapur district. The driver reached a safe place leaving the truck […]
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Warangal: The week-long ‘Kakatiya Vaibhava Saptaham’, a cultural and heritage festival aimed at reflecting the rich culture, history and other things of the era of the mighty Kakatiya rulers, commenced here on a grand note on Thursday. 22nd descendent of Kakatiya lineage Kamal Chandra Bhanj Deo, who is popularly known as Maharaja of Princely Bastar […]
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New Delhi: Chhattisgarh Police on Tuesday reached television channel news anchor’s residence in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, after an FIR was registered against him following the broadcast of a misleading video on Rahul Gandhi for which the channel had issued an apology. The anchor Rohit Ranjan, however, was taken in custody by Noida Police after he […]
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Peddapalli: In the wake of the sighting of tiger in the adjacent Jayashankar-Bhupalapalli district recently, district forest officials have taken precautionary measures to check its movement. Besides alerting the Sarpanches of villages located along the Manair river in Mutharam mandal, officials have also arranged CCTV cameras in different locations in the forest to find the […]
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By Shubhranshu Choudhary When violence suddenly escalated in Chhattisgarh due to a government-supported anti-Maoist programme called Salwa Judum in 2005, according to some government figures, around 55,000 tribals had escaped to then Andhra Pradesh leaving their homes behind. Economic migration of Gutti Koyas (known as Muria in Chhattisgarh) to the southern part of Dandakaranya forest […]
