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Topic: Chhattisgarh

Top IPS officer wants to stop risk allowance for CRPF personnel with medical conditions

CRPF IG also suggests forces with medical conditions be removed from Naxalism-hit areas. CRPF personnel say it’s a classic case of IPS imposition.

Women in this photo are not ‘victims of love jihad’. They were caught running ‘sex racket’

Photo shared on Twitter shows 11 women with faces masked. Post says 46 "victims of love jihad", who had been missing, were rescued by Chhattisgarh police.

Five Maoists killed, two jawans injured in gunfight in Chhattisgarh

The gunfight took place early Saturday morning near Dhurbeda village in Narayanpur district

7 Maoists killed in gunfight in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district

Officials said the gunfight broke out around 6 am in a forest near Sitagota village. Seven bodies along with a huge cache of weapons were found at the spot.

A woman among 2 Naxals killed in encounter with security forces in Dantewada

The gunbattle broke out when a District Reserve Guard team was out on an anti-Naxal operation Sunday morning. 

Samajwadi Party leader abducted and killed by Maoists in Chhattisgarh

Santosh Punem contested the state Assembly polls from Bijapur seat on the SP's ticket last year.

Police rescues 26 child labourers from Parle-G biscuits factory in Chhattisgarh

A government task force on child labour had received a tip-off that minors were employed at the Parle-G factory, said the police.

Former Chhattisgarh advocate general lashes out at Congress govt for ‘wrongful dismissal’

According to the former advocate general, he was removed from the post for his opposition to 'defective' investigations launched against opposition leaders.

BJP crushes Congress hopes in Rajasthan, MP & Chhattisgarh, set to sweep all 3 states

Trends show BJP leading in all 25 seats in Rajasthan, in 28 out of 29 seats in MP and in 9 out of 11 seats in Chhattisgarh.

Chhattisgarh isn’t a Rahul-Modi battle, it’s a fight between CM Baghel & Raman Singh

In every general election in Chhattisgarh, BJP has won 10 seats and Congress just 1. However, the 2018 assembly polls may just have turned the tide for Congress.

On Camera

Postcards from Hyderabad—stories Europeans told about the city

For all their colonial underpinnings, postcards from Hyderabad also inadvertently preserve a trace of local memory: a glimpse of a street, a face, a forgotten name.

Navigating Trump’s tariffs is no child’s play. Indian toymakers are losing out on orders, enquiries

Indian toymakers are now exploring new markets, but they want govt to negotiate a trade deal with US soon, introduce incentives and subsidies to make the industry more competitive.

What is Project Sudarshan Chakra, announced by Modi from ramparts of Red Fort

The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.

War of IAF, PAF doctrines: As Pakistan obsesses over numbers, India embraces risk, wins

Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?