Soni Sori, 50, an activist from Dantewada said, “I met some women whose kin were among those killed. They told me that police fired at their men when they went to collect tendu leaves.”
Yadav, a senior BJP leader, was talking to reporters at the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur before returning to Madhya Pradesh after concluding his day-long tour of Chhattisgarh, which is also under the saffron rule.
Criticising the Narendra Modi government for stopping the Punjab farmers from marching to New Delhi “using spikes, barbed wires, boulders and walls”, it asked the Prime Minister to directly talk to the protesting farmers.
“There is a strong possibility of 3 to 4 other Maoists getting injured,” said Anjneya Varshney, SP, Bijapur district. Potam had a reward of Rs 1 lakh by the government on his arrest.
Residents in the 18-75 age group, found medically fit, will be eligible for a free travel under the scheme. In the first phase, those above 55 years will be able to avail this facility.
“The outgoing (Baghel) government has emptied the coffers and economically weakened the state,” Sai said and when asked how then will his government implement the promises made by the BJP in the manifesto, he added, “We have a double-engine sarkar and it will move fast.”
Team led by Union Minister Munda to meet Chhattisgarh MLAs
In the first phase on November 7 when 20 seats went to polls, the final turnout was 78 per cent, a marginal rise of 1.53 per cent as compared to 2018.
ITBP head constable Joginder Singh, 45, from J&K’s Samba district, died while providing security cover to a polling party which was on its way back to the district headquarters after the voting in a remote village in the district.
The first phase of voting in Chhattisgarh will take place on Nov 7 for 20 seats of which 12 are in Bastar region
The Tripura Police received a complaint of abduction of a minor girl on May 6.
This is the first time in decades that a tiger has killed a man in the area
“On one side there is the BJP-NDA alliance dedicated to national interest and on the other side, the ‘INDI alliance’ is in the field to create instability in the country,” PM Modi said.
“Terrorism and extremism have started to consume those who have long practised it. In many ways, we are actually going through the perfect storm,” he said.
In its order dated April 7, 2022, the apex court had held that a panchayat cannot claim ownership of the land which has been taken from the real owners from their permissible ceiling limits under the land law in Haryana.
After their son’s body was found inside the private school in Patna, his family alleged foul play.