Topic: chhattisgarh
27 Maoists, including CPI (Maoist) chief Keshava Rao, killed in Chhattisgarh; PM, HM hail it as “victory”
At least 27 members of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), including its general secretary and top leader Nambala Keshava Rao, were killed in an alleged encounter with security forces in the Abujhmad region of Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Wednesday morning.
Road collision in Raipur claims 13 lives, 11 injured
At least thirteen individuals, including nine women and four children, lost their lives, and eleven others sustained serious injuries in a devastating crash on the Raipur–Baloda Bazar highway, near Saragaon in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district on Sunday.
Fifteen Maoists killed in encounter in Bijapur, says Chhattisgarh police
At least 15 Maoists were killed by the security forces in an alleged encounter on Wednesday, May amid an intensive drive in the Karegutta hills region of Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, according to police officials.
Chhattisgarh: Dalit teenagers brutally assaulted by factory owner; electric shocks, nails pulled, casteist slurs used
Dalit teenagers were allegedly subjected to brutal assault and torture in Chhattisgarh’s Korba district by the owner of the ice cream factory where they worked, along with his associates.
Church vandalised in Raipur as attacks on Christians rise in Chhattisgarh; Hindu boys in 20s say ‘we did it’
Attacks on Christians have increased in different parts of the country. However, in Central India’s Chhattisgarh, particularly, there has been a massive campaign to brainwash young Hindu men into attacking the community for alleged “forced conversions.”
Hundreds urge CJI to free journalist Rupesh Kumar as he marks 1000 days in jail
As Jharkhand-based journalist Rupesh Kumar completes 1000 days on 11 April, civil society, consisting of activists, lawyers, and journalists, wrote an open letter to the Chief Justice of India (CJI) demanding his immediate release.
