New Delhi: Students on Sunday held an anti-Maoist rally in Sukma for safe return of District Collector Alex Paul Menon. The anti-Maoist rally was also held in Dantewada. The Naxals in Chhattisgarh have submitted a list of demands for the safe release of Collector Alex Paul Menon including the cancellation of Operation Greenhunt, and the release of eight jailed cadres. The Naxals have set a deadline of May 25 for...
09:58 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Raipur: Almost 24 hours after abducting Sukma district collector Alex Paul Menon, Naxals on Sunday put forward their conditions to release the IAS officer. The Naxals have demanded the release of eight of their colleagues arrested by the police. They also want anti-Naxal Operation Green Hunt to be cancelled and security forces to be withdrawn from the region. Naxals have given the deadline till April 25, for their demands to...
07:46 PM, Apr 22, 2012
Raipur: It's been almost 24 hours since a district collector was abducted by Naxals in Chhattisgarh. The police on Sunday said that they have received information that abducted Sukma collector Alex Paul Menon was safe even as spiritual leader Swami Agnivesh expressed willingness to mediate between the Naxals and the government. Menon, a 2006-batch IAS officer, was abducted on Saturday at Majhipara village in the district where he was meeting...
05:35 PM, Apr 22, 2012
New Delhi: Nearly 30 detonators and other explosives were recovered from a man travelling in the general compartment of the Hawarah-Mumbai Lokmanya Tilak Express on Saturday. The man was travelling from Raipur in Chhattisgarh to Bankura, West Bengal. Around 30 detonators and 30 gelatin sticks were recovered from him. The man has been arrested. ...
11:58 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Raipur: Army Chief General VK Singh travelled to Leftist insurgency-hit Chhattisgarh's Bastar region Saturday where the Army has a training camp in a jungle stretch, official sources said. General Singh spent a few hours at Kondagaon area, some 220 km of from capital Raipur, and held discussions with jawans regarding the training facilities available to them in the region that has witnessed a string of deadly attacks by Maoists mainly...
09:46 AM, Apr 15, 2012
Raipur: Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar said on Saturday that even though the country became independent in 1947, the battle for achieving social and economic freedom was still underway. "Social and economic freedom can be gained only through parliamentary system and the legislature was exclusively created to achieve this goal. Our parliamentarians and legislators are trying hard to achieve this desired goal by raising the voice of the downtrodden," she...
11:03 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Raipur (Chhattisgarh): A BSF helicopter crashed during a test fly at the Mana airport here injuring three persons, including the pilot, officials said. The chopper came crashing from a height of 100 feet during the test flight, injuring pilot PD Tiwari and two technical officers Anand and Pankaj Pal, Superintendent of Police Diptanshu Kabra said. He added that the injured have been rushed to the hospital where the condition of...
02:16 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Raipur: Maoist militants on Tuesday blew a bridge on a key national highway in Chhattisgarh that connects the state's violence-hit Bastar region to the state capital, police said. The bridge is at Kondagaon on National Highway Number 30 in Bastar district, some 210 km south of Raipur. "It was a massive blast that ripped through the bridge. The traffic on the key national highway, Number 30, was blocked for hours...
01:12 AM, Dec 07, 2011
Raipur: Naxals went on the rampage at several places on the first day of the two-day bandh called by them killing two persons, including an abducted Special Police Officer (SPO), setting on fire some vehicles and rupturing railway tracks. Following these incidents, police have sounded an alert and additional police force has been deployed, officials said. Senior police officials told PTI that in the Naxal-infested Dantewada district, a person named...
06:29 PM, May 21, 2011
Speaking to CNN-IBN after being released from jail, Binayak Sen said he never gave up hope for getting justice. ...
11:30 PM, Apr 18, 2011
New Delhi: The Supreme Court, on Monday, postponed the hearing of the bail plea of civil rights activist Binayak Sen, who has been sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition and links with Naxalites, till Friday, April 15. Sen, 61, has challenged the order of the Chhattisgarh High Court, which had rejected his bail plea on February 10. A professional doctor and a pass-out of the prestigious Christian Medical...
11:41 AM, Apr 11, 2011
Ex-CJI Justice AM Ahmadi told CNN-IBN that the judiciary should be careful in deciding sedition cases. ...
06:14 PM, Dec 28, 2010
New Delhi: It’s the verdict which has left many across India completely shocked. Dr Binayak Sen being pronounced guilty by a Raipur Sessions Court has left human rights activists, leading jurists and writers appalled. A travesty of justice: That is how leading human rights defenders, activists and jurists have greeted the verdict of the Raipur sessions court which held Dr Binayak Sen guity of sedition and sentenced him to life....
11:15 PM, Dec 25, 2010
New Delhi: International human rights group Amnesty International has slammed the life sentence awarded on Friday to activist Dr Binayak Sen by a court in Raipur. In a statement on Saturday Amnesty International said that fair trial standards were violated in the case against Dr Binayak Sen. It has termed the sentence unusually harsh, claiming that since Dr Sen is an internationally recognised human rights defender who has never been...
01:53 PM, Dec 25, 2010
New Delhi: Dr Binayak Sen is accused of being a conduit for Maoists. He's been charged with treason and waging war against the state. Dr Sen was arrested in Chhattisgarh in 2007 and was granted bail 2 years later. He was honoured with Jonathan Mann award in 2008, while he was still in prison. Activists worldwide including Nobel laureates put pressure on the govt for his release. If he is...
08:52 AM, Dec 24, 2010
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