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Topic: Chhattisgarh

State elections are bad news for BJP and not good news for Congress either

While the BJP is going down, the largest opposition party isn’t rising to the occasion.

Why Modi is holding fewer rallies in MP and Chhattisgarh this time than in 2013 assembly polls

BJP leaders say Modi is holding fewer rallies in the 2 states as he is confident of chances of incumbent CMs Shivraj Singh Chouhan and Raman Singh.

Nearly half of Chhattisgarh’s outgoing MLAs had over 95% attendance

According to data released by PRS Legislative Research, the Chhattisgarh assembly’s priority areas over the last 5 years were finance, revenue and taxation.

IED blast in Dantewada as Chhattisgarh goes to the polls, none injured

A police official said Naxals, who had called for a boycott of the polls, detonated the IED early morning in Maoist hotbed Dantewada.

A Rahul-Modi face-off and caste equations at play – here’s what polls in 5 states entail

Political parties are battling it out in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana.

Naxal gunned down in encounter with security forces ahead of polls in Chhattisgarh

The exchange of fire took place in a forest when a team of the Special Task Force (STF) was out on an anti-Naxal operation.

Tears, kabbadi & medicines: How a doctor-turned-IPS officer wins hearts in Naxal-hit areas

Abhishek Pallava, a 2012-batch IPS officer, is the SP of Dantewada, and has been successful in winning over the people through his ‘humane’ approach.

No more official visits for journalists to high-risk areas: Raman Singh after Maoist attack

A day after Maoist attack, govt official says such incidents may go up in view of assembly polls but assures that security will be beefed up.

States told to finalise dates to honour police martyrs at National Police Memorial

Home secretary writes to states and UTs, asks them to hold functions to be attended by CM, governor or Lt Governor at Delhi's National Police Memorial.

If I raised my head 4 inches I would be shot: DD crew member who survived Maoist attack

Lighting assistant Mormukut Sharma tells ThePrint the 3-member Doordarshan team that travelled to Dantewada were not afraid of the assignment.

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Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.