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The Central Bureau of Investigation has arrested a senior railway officer and his aide in connection with a bribery case in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district, officials said on Saturday. Searches conducted subsequently at the residential and office premises of the accused officer in Raipur and Bhilai led to the recovery of around Rs 77 lakh cash […]
A man was questioned by Bilaspur Police on Saturday for allegedly taking part in a ‘tantrik’ ritual with a photograph of the Chief Justice of the Chhattisgarh High Court in a bid to secure bail for a relative. The bizarre incident took place at a cremation ground in Devri village under Sipat police station limits […]
Driven out of their quiet villages in Chhattisgarh by crushing poverty, Deepak Ratre and Bhupendra Bhaina journeyed to Jammu and Kashmir in search of a better future but ended up becoming the latest victims of terror, plunging their families into despair. The duo, both in their 20s, were gunned down at the brick kiln where […]
Chhattisgarh Chief Minister (CM) Vishnu Deo Sai met Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Parliament House on Friday and held detailed discussions on key issues related to the state’s development. A key proposal on the table was providing grid connectivity to 461 villages in Bastar, the erstwhile Naxal hotbed. The CM sought special assistance from the […]
A 27-member delegation of Soil and Water Conservation Officers from Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh today visited the ICAR-Central Potato Research Institute, Shimla, under an exposure and capacity-building programme to gain first-hand knowledge of advanced potato research, sustainable production technologies and extension strategies. The officers are undergoing the 131st Batch Officer Training…
A court in Chhattisgarh’s Durg district has directed the police to investigate former India cricketer Rajesh Chauhan over allegations that he duped a man of more than Rs 15 lakh on the pretext of offering him a transport contract with a steel company. Judicial Magistrate First Class Aishwarya Diwan, in an order passed on July […]
The Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed two separate pleas of the Enforcement Directorate and the Chhattisgarh government challenging the bail granted to Chaitanya Baghel, son of former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Bhupesh Baghel, in alleged liquor scam cases. While dismissing the pleas of probe agencies against grant of bail to Baghel, the top […]
Legendary Pandavani folk singer Teejan Bai, who took Chhattisgarh’s traditional storytelling art to audiences across the world through her commanding voice and expressive style, died at AIIMS in Raipur on Sunday after a prolonged illness, doctors said. She was 70. Teejan Bai breathed her last at 3.15 am at the hospital, where she had been […]
A 22-year-old woman refused to marry after finding the groom heavily inebriated during the wedding ceremony, leading to a scuffle at the venue in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district. The woman, identified as Muskan Pradhan, was felicitated by Janjgir-Champa Superintendent of Police Vijay Kumar Pandey at his office here on Thursday for taking a stand against liquor […]
A 23-year-old man hailing from Punjab has been arrested in Chhattisgarh’s Janjgir-Champa district for allegedly sharing sensitive information with Pakistan-based ISI operatives, police said. Sevak Singh, a resident of Tarn Taran district in Punjab, was in touch with people linked to a Pakistan-backed ISI network and discussions about weapons supply through cross-border channels had surfaced […]
