Tag: Chhattisgarh

Audit Exposes Rs 660 Crore Healthcare Equipment Scandal in Chhattisgarh

June 29, 2024 admin

A recent audit has brought to light significant irregularities in the procurement practices of the Chhattisgarh State Medical Services Corporation Limited. The audit, covering the financial years 2022-23 and 2023-24, reveals that medical equipment and reagents worth ₹660 crores were acquired without any corresponding budget allocation. This revelation comes from a letter by the Accountant…

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1 Killed In Chhattisgarh Factory Explosion, Huge Smoke Clouds

May 25, 2024 admin

Bematara explosion: Soon after being alerted, police and rescue teams rushed to the site New Delhi: One person was killed and six were injured in a blast at an explosives manufacturing factory in Chhattisgarh’s Bemetara district today, officials said. The explosion occurred in the unit located near Pirda village in Berla development block, a district…

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3 Injured After Head Of Big Drill Machine Hits Moving Train In Chhattisgarh

May 19, 2024 admin

Railway has ordered a senior administrative grade level inquiry into the incident. (Representational) Raipur: Two passengers and a sanitation staffer were injured after the head of a big drilling machine crashed into a moving train on the outskirts of Chhattisgarh’s capital Raipur on Sunday, officials said. The incident took place around 10 am when the…

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Chhattisgarh Security Personnel Killed In Accidental Firing In Dantewada During Anti-Maoist Operation

April 25, 2024 admin

File photo Raipur: A District Reserve Guard (DRG) constable was killed and another policeman injured due to an accidental discharge of a firearm in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada district, officials said on Thursday. The incident took place at around 11 pm on Wednesday when a joint team of the DRG and Bastar Fighter, both units of state…

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Retired Bureaucrat Arrested By Probe Agency In Chhattisgarh Liquor Scam

April 21, 2024 admin

The officer retired from service last year. Raipur: The Enforcement Directorate has arrested retired Chhattisgarh IAS officer Anil Tuteja in connection with an alleged liquor scam linked money laundering case in the state, official sources said on Sunday. The federal agency had detained the 2003 batch officer from the Economic Offences Wing (EOW)/Anti Corruption Bureau…

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Soldier Recounts 4-Hour Op In Which 29 Maoists Were Killed

April 17, 2024 admin

The Maoists were armed with Kalashnikovs, Light Machine Guns, small arms like INSAS On the night of April 15, a search party from the Border Security Force (BSF) and the District Reserve Guard (DRG) were on patrol in the dense jungles of Hapatola in the Kanker district of Chhattisgarh. The personnel came from different command…

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8 Maoists Killed In Encounter With Security Personnel In Chhattisgarh

April 2, 2024 admin

The gunfight took place at around 6 am in a forest near Lendra village (Representational) Raipur: In a major anti-insurgency operation, eight Maoists were killed in an encounter with security personnel in Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh today, the police said. Bijapur district comes under the Bastar Lok Sabha constituency, which will go to polls in…

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On Camera, Boy Slips From Father’s Arms, Falls To Death In Raipur Mall

March 20, 2024 admin

The child was rushed to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries and died. Raipur: A routine outing turned into a nightmare for a family as their one-and-a-half-year-old child died after slipping from his father’s arms and plummetting to the ground below at a popular shopping mall in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur on Tuesday. CCTV footage…

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Chhattisgarh Declares ‘Article 370’ Film Tax-Free In State

March 8, 2024 admin

The film, directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale and starring Yami Gautam, was released on February 23. Raipur: The BJP government in Chhattisgarh on Friday declared the Bollywood film “Article 370” as tax-free in the state. Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai declared the film, which centres around the abrogation of provisions of Article 370 of the…

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Local BJP Leader Shot Dead By Maoists In Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur: Cops

March 6, 2024 admin

The latest incident took place at around 5 pm in the village. (Representational) Bijapur: A local leader of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was shot dead by Maoists in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on Wednesday, a police official said. The victim, Kailash Nag, a construction contractor by profession, had given his JCB machine for a…

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