Between March 10 and March 17 this year, troopers of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), the CRPF's special Combat Battalion for Resolute Action (CoBRA), and the Chhattisgarh Police's Special Task Force entered Abujmard: a 6,000 sq.km expanse of uncharted forest described, by some, as a liberated territory controlled by guerilla forces of the Communist Party of India (Maoist). Security forces have arrested 13 villagers suspected of belonging to the banned...
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RTI exposes a dam that never was
-The Times of India LOHARDAGA: The Right to Information (RTI) Act has exposed a scam worth over Rs 32 lakh. The report received under RTI has been submitted as supportive evidence in the case that was lodged recently with the Senha police station (Case No. 13/12) under various sections of IPC for cheating the government and the public. The complainant, Ganesh Sahu, a social activist has accused three concerned engineers in the...
More »Cyber war unleashed ahead of Gujarat polls
-PTI Eight months ahead of the Gujarat Assembly polls, the cyber space has become a battlefield between supporters of tech-savvy Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and his opponents. Social networking SITes like Facebook and Twitter, blogs, e-mails, webSITes, video uploading SITes and every possible avenue on the internet is being used to attract the attention of the net-savvy, especially youths, towards Modi. His opponents, chiefly the Congress, which calls him an "internet manipulator"...
More »A tribal force or a forced tribulation-Arvind Sovani
The announcement of an anti-Naxal tribal battalion in Gadchiroli by Maharashtra home minister is little more than a knee-jerk reaction THREE DAYS after a bus carrying 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel was blown up by Naxals in Gadchiroli, Maharashtra, the state home minister announced the setting up of a new anti-Naxal tribal force — a “tribal battalion” recruited by the state reserve police force. Is this new force Maharashtra’s...
More »Chicken pox hits entire village in Madhya Pradesh by Suchandana Gupta
Chandoriya village in Madhya Pradesh's Raisen district is down with chicken pox. Over the past 10 days, the virus has spread through the dalit-dominated hamlet SITuated about 120km north of the state capital. The district administration on Sunday rushed a medical team to Chandoriya. The SITuation went out of control as villagers had more faith in quacks than the government hospital and health centres. They believed the disease came as the...
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