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Court allows police station construction in ‘oxygen zone’, asks Chhattisgarh how it will compensate for lost trees
June 01, 2026 12:00 pm
The Chhattisgarh High Court was hearing the plea filed by a few persons seeking to restrain the authorities from constructing the police station as the site falls within an ‘oxygen zone’.
‘Nothing ever changes’: As summer peaks, village near Raipur runs out of drinking water
May 24, 2026 6:52 am
With borewells and hand pumps running dry, residents of Riwa village on the outskirts of Raipur depend on a handful of solar-powered pumps, standing in long queues each day for drinking water in the middle of a brutal heatwave
Dizzy from extreme heat, electrician falls to death from Raipur airport ceiling
May 21, 2026 10:35 pm
Kuber Chandra Sahu and his colleagues were working on the first floor of the Security Hold Area (SHA) when he fainted and fell.
Chhattisgarh: Chargesheet in tribal murder case links SDM to ‘illegal bauxite commission’
May 21, 2026 4:27 am
Aghariya had said that all three victims were returning home from their fields at around 8 pm, and were about 500 metres from their village when they were attacked by the officer and his men.
Headmaster dies by suicide over ‘pressure to release funds for poorly made Chhattisgarh school’, contractor arrested
April 26, 2026 2:25 am
On April 22, Raju Pujari, headmaster of a school in Palnar and a resident of Cherpal, was found hanging in a forest near his home. Among those allegedly named in his suicide note was the contractor of the school building
From bombmaker to Assembly guest: 120 ex-Maoists step into Chhattisgarh’s ‘temple of democracy’
February 28, 2026 7:22 am
Among them is former central committee member Takkalappalli Vasudeva Rao, who is allegedly involved in major attacks, including the 2003 assassination attempt on Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu.
One dead, witnesses say SDM, men attacked them for no reason, officials admit conduct ‘suspicious’
February 21, 2026 1:47 am
SDM has claimed he went to check illegal mining, probe looks into why he went at that hour, and did not take other officials along
‘Brick by brick’: Behind the ‘conscious decision’ to demolish Maoist memorials in Bastar
February 21, 2026 1:58 pm
Since 2023, security forces have demolished over 100 memorials, which Maoists were using as ‘instruments to maintain fear, dominance, and ideological control within local communities’, officials said
‘Highly unjust’: Chhattisgarh High Court after mother of constable killed in Maoist encounter denied pension
February 14, 2026 1:36 am
The court said the mother is entitled to the pension of her late son even after the death of the primary pensioner — his father
CBI court reverses Baghel’s discharge in sleaze CD case
January 25, 2026 4:45 am
The first case was based on a complaint by Prakash Bajaj, who alleged that an unknown person was repeatedly calling him and claiming to possess a “sex CD” of his “masters” in the then BJP-ruled government, and threatening to make it public unless he was paid.
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