
April 20, 2006 01:04 IST
Two policemen were killed and 12 injured, three of them seriously...
Thu, Apr 20, 2006
April 07, 2006 01:03 IST
The Chhattisgarh government today sent a strong message to Naxalites by appointing former Punjab top cop KPS Gill as its security advisor.
Fri, Apr 07, 2006
March 30, 2006 22:35 IST
59 suicides reported this month in Vidarbha
Thu, Mar 30, 2006
March 27, 2006 00:22 IST
Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s resignation from the Lok Sabha and from the National Advisory Council has received praise from a very unlikely quarter.
Mon, Mar 27, 2006
March 08, 2006 14:07 IST
Launched to counter Naxailtes in the tribal belts of Chhattisgarh, has the Salva Judum campaign turned counter-productive? Vivek Deshpande travels to Konta in south Bastar to find that this could be just the beginning of a long arduous journey Photos: Shekhar Soni
Wed, Mar 08, 2006
March 02, 2006 01:01 IST
Tuesday's bomb blast at Darbhaguda—about 30 kms from Konta, the southernmost tehsil in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district—was ...
Thu, Mar 02, 2006
March 01, 2006 02:09 IST
The state-sponsored Salva Judum campaign against Naxalites in Chhattisgarh took a direct hit today when Left wing extremists used a landmine...
Wed, Mar 01, 2006
February 27, 2006 02:10 IST
In the last six months, scores have been killed in the war between Naxalites and the government-backed tribal army, Salva Judum, in South Ba...
Mon, Feb 27, 2006
February 27, 2006 01:02 IST
The RSS sprang a surprise today by reverting to the good old days when they had no official spokesman. Ram Madhav, the outfit’s only me...
Mon, Feb 27, 2006
January 30, 2006 00:53 IST
After his controversial piece hinting at the possibility of the Gujarat government’s involvement in the Sanjay Joshi sleaze VCD episode...
Mon, Jan 30, 2006
January 30, 2006 00:18 IST
A Three-member team of aircraft giant Boeing, led by company’s Asia region senior vice president (commercial) Dinesh Keskar, today visi...
Mon, Jan 30, 2006
January 23, 2006 01:24 IST
The cotton farmers of Maharashtra are a frustrated lot and are finding bizarre ways to vent their anger against the authorities. The farmers...
Mon, Jan 23, 2006
January 19, 2006 01:08 IST
They have come back again. After going into hiding for over a decade, Naxalites struck in the Nagzira region allegedly attacking a protectio...
Thu, Jan 19, 2006
January 16, 2006 01:35 IST
In their first big strike in recent times in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra, Naxalites attacked a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) camp, ...
Mon, Jan 16, 2006
January 10, 2006 01:19 IST
Senior RSS ideologue M G Vaidya has said that ‘‘a highly ambitious Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’’ from Gujarat could be behi...
Tue, Jan 10, 2006
December 23, 2005 00:00 IST
An Indian mechanical engineer is rapidly emerging as the dairy industry’s wunderkind, with his invention helping in early detection of ...
Fri, Dec 23, 2005
December 09, 2005 00:00 IST
Less than 20 days after Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil ordered a crackdown on moneylenders for ‘‘making life miserable for th...
Fri, Dec 09, 2005
November 25, 2005 01:38 IST
For a decade after Vidarbha began showing the first signs of an agrarian crisis that manifested in a spree of suicide by cotton farmers, the...
Fri, Nov 25, 2005
November 20, 2005 00:00 IST
THIS textile town on Nagpur-Hyderabad highway betrays a grave example of irony, literally. The man who made history by mapping thousands of ...
Sun, Nov 20, 2005
November 18, 2005 01:38 IST
The carcass of a five-year-old tiger found in Tipeshwar sanctuary area has left forest officials confused. Even as they hope it’s not t...
Fri, Nov 18, 2005
November 18, 2005 01:14 IST
The dire straits in which the cotton farmers of Vidarbha find themselves in can be directly traced to the whimsical implementation of the Mo...
Fri, Nov 18, 2005
November 16, 2005 00:55 IST
They have funds for their employees, not for farmers. Ganpat Nire of Kosara village, situated on the Maharashtra-Andhra Pradesh border in Ya...
Wed, Nov 16, 2005
September 30, 2005 00:00 IST
After facing criticism for years of failure in developing its own Bt cotton, the Central Institute for Cotton Research (CICR) now has someth...
Fri, Sep 30, 2005
September 25, 2005 00:00 IST
WHEN local businessman Prakash Khemka was browsing through the August issue of Reader’s Digest, his eyes lit up when he turned to page ...
Sun, Sep 25, 2005



