Sunita Kumari alias Shanti, an active member of the CPI (Maoist) group headed by Akshay Kherwar alleged that senior CPI (Maoist) leaders in the Koel-Shankh zone committee sexually exploit women in their squad. Sunita gave here statement before police in Lohardaga on Friday after she was nabbed by a team comprising of Town police station in-charge Patras Nag, CRPF deputy commandant Pawan Kumar Singh and assistant commandant Suresh Kumar from Hesal...
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The State Of The War by NIRMALANGSHU MUKHERJI
A war has broken out in some parts of east-central India, especially some regions of the Dandakaranya forests that span across the states of Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Orissa, and Andhra Pradesh. Reportedly, there are thousands of Maoist guerrillas armed with sophisticated weapons confronting a vast array of paramilitary forces assembled by the government of India. Caught in the crossfire are millions of poor, marginalised and historically isolated adivasis. Their habitat, in which...
More »Jairam to tour naxal-hit areas-by Sreelatha Menon
New rural development minister Jairam Ramesh, who declared his intent to focus on naxal-hit areas on the day he took charge, is set to visit these. Ramesh, who his ministry officials describe as a man in a hurry, is setting off to Raipur, Jagdalpur and a few more places in Chhattisgarh. The visit is likely this week, sources said. At the signing of a loan agreement today with the World Bank...
More »Chhattisgarh to file review petition on disbanding SPOs by Neena Vyas
A day after the Centre filed a review petition in the Supreme Court on its order related to black money, the Bharatiya Janata Party too decided to go for a review plea on its ruling disbanding and disarming special police officers (SPOs). Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh, who was here on Saturday, said he had consulted several lawyers on the Supreme Court's judgment on SPOs. “We have 100 per cent made...
More »NHRC favours social audit of govt''s flagship schemes
-PTI Critical over the leakage of funds meant for the rural poor, the National Human Rights Commission has suggested that the government should conduct a social audit of flagship programmes like MGNREGA and ICDS to have an assessment on what is the impact on ground. A top NHRC official said the government''s various studies and reports had shown that there was no match between the programmes and performance as the authorities...
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