Raipur, Feb 24 – Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh Wednesday termed Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee’s railway budget ‘disappointing’. He said the budget benefits only the state to which the minister belongs. ‘The rail budget is disappointing for the people of Chhattisgarh, it has let down our expectations,’ the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader told...
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Raipur, Feb 24 – The Chhattisgarh High Court has set March 8 to hear the bail pleas of the three Chinese engineers, arrested for their alleged role in the Korba Bharat Aluminium Company Ltd (BALCO) power plant chimney crash that killed 40 workers. The high court, based in Bilaspur, about 100 km from here,...
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Raipur, Feb 22 – The Chhattisgarh government Monday decided to give more money to its police to tackle Maoist insurgency and said more police stations would be set in extremist pockets. Presenting a Rs.24,685.43-crore annual outlay in the assembly, Chief Minister Raman Singh, who also holds the finance portfolio, said: ‘Chhattisgarh is committed to...
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Raipur, Feb 22 – The Chhattisgarh government Monday hiked by nearly 17 percent the police department budget for fiscal 2010-11 to combat Maoist militancy. Presenting a Rs.24,685.43-crore annual outlay in the assembly, Chief Minister Raman Singh, who also holds the finance portfolio, said: ‘Chhattisgarh is committed to combat Maoist violence and the police budget...
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Raipur, Feb 22 – Chhattisgarh government Monday made a steep hike of nearly 17 percent for police department budget for fiscal year 2010-11 to combat Maoist militancy. Presenting a Rs.24,685.43-crore annual outlay in the assembly, Chief Minister Raman Singh, who also holds the finance portfolio, said: ‘Chhattisgarh is committed to combat Maoist violence and...
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Raipur, Feb 21 – The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) here has registered a case against a senior Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer after the Income Tax department said he owned properties worth Rs.93 crore. The IT sleuths raided the residence and business establishments of IAS officer B.L. Agrawal Feb 4. He was suspended by...
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Raipur, Feb 21 – The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) here has registered a case against a senior Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officer after the Income Tax department said he owned properties worth Rs.930 million (Rs.93 crore). The IT sleuths raided the residence and business establishments of IAS officer B.L. Agrawal Feb 4. He was...
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Raipur, Feb 20 – Police arrested 11 Maoist guerillas in Chhattisgarh Saturday and seized explosives and guns from them, an official said. The arrests were made from Durgkondal area in the state’s restive Kanker district, some 150 km south from capital Raipur, officials here at the police headquarters here told IANS. The rebels were...
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Raipur, Feb 20 – Congress general secretary Digvijay Singh said Saturday that chief ministers and ministers in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh should declare their property details. Talking to reporters here, the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister alleged that the recent raids by the Income Tax department on Indian Administrative Services (IAS) officers in Madhya...
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Raipur, Feb 20 – Chhattisgarh Chief Secretary P. Joy Oommen made a surprise visit to the Maoist-hit Bastar region and promised to develop the troubled rural hinterland in the state. Oommen Friday visited the violence-hit districts of Bijapur and Dantewada and held talks with school students. Bijapur and Dantewada along with Bastar, Narayanpur and...
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Raipur, Feb 19 – An estimated 650 Maoist guerrillas have crossed over from Chhattisgarh’s Bastar forests to West Bengal and Bihar to carry out deadly attacks, intelligence sources said Friday. The rebels belong to the Maoist People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA), the military wing of the outlawed Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist), the sources...
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Raipur, Feb 18 – Residents of a village in Raigarh district of Chhattisgarh are panic stricken after a herd of wild elephants demolished eight houses and have been camping there ever since. ‘A group of wild elephants sneaked into Junwani village Monday night and brought down eight houses creating panic among some 150 villagers,’...
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