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
Raipur: Five members of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-Maoist) were arrested in a hamlet in Chhattisgarh's southern restive area of Bijapur, police in Raipur said on Friday. The arrests were made late on Thursday by a police team led by district superintendent of police, Avinash Mohanty, in the hamlet amid the forests of Jungla, about 500 km from Raipur. "All the five arrested Maoists had been actively involved...
11:53 AM, Oct 23, 2009
Raipur: A homeopathic doctor who practiced in a Chhattisgarh village and his cousin have been arrested for allegedly making pornographic films on women patients and even employees, police said on Thursday. Ashish Sharma, 32, and his cousin Abhishek Sharma, 25, were arrested late on Wednesday from Adsena village in Raipur district following raids on the clinic. "The villagers had long been complaining of sexual misconduct by the homeopathy doctor Ashish...
12:58 PM, Aug 27, 2009
Raipur: Police have busted a call girl racket operating in a school building in the city with the arrest of eight people, including a teenage bar dancer from Mumbai. Shockingly enough, one of the women arrested in the sex scandal claims ot be a former national athlete was among the four girls found in the brothel. Police sources say Nisha Shetty, who was caught on the scene, claims to have...
11:40 AM, Aug 03, 2009
Raipur: Three people including a National Institute of Technology (NIT) girl student and her boy friend have been arrested for their involvement in the looting of Rs 2 million in the Chhattisgarh capital on Tuesday, police said on Sunday. "We have cracked the Rs 2 million Raipur loot case with the arrest of three people including the kingpin Khushbu, a fifth semester student of NIT and her boy friend Zia-ul-Asim,...
04:01 PM, Jul 12, 2009
New Delhi: Medical Practitioner Dr Binayak Sen is ailing and fears a heart attack. He has spent almost two years in prison now. The Raipur High Court that denied him bail is now dragging its feet on granting him medical treatment at a hospital of his choice. Sen was arrested under the Chhattisgarh Special Public Security Act and the Prevention of Unlawful Activities Act. he has been denied bail twice,...
07:58 PM, Apr 12, 2009
Raipur: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) senior leader L K Advani said on Monday that his party would create a separate Telangana state in Andhra Pradesh if voted to power at the centre. "Whatever the BJP says, it translates into action. The BJP claimed to create Chhattisgarh state and it stuck to its promise. Now I am saying BJP will create Telangana state if voted to power at the centre," Advani...
02:57 AM, Nov 18, 2008
India skipper MS Dhoni looks back on what has gone wrong in the England series so far. ...
01:57 AM, Feb 21, 2008
New Delhi: Virender Sehwag and Gautam Gambhir on Thursday became India's most prolific opening pair as they went pas the tally of Chetan Chauhan and Sunil Gavaskar on day one of the first Test against New Zealand at the Sardar Patel Stadium in Ahmedabad. At stumps, India were 329/3 with Sachin Tendulkar and VVS Laxman in the middle. Here are the other statistical highlights of the game: - MS Dhoni...
10:00 AM, Nov 01, 2007
New Delhi: A law-abiding citizen who was actively involved in community service in Chattisgarh has been put behind bars. His crime? He investigated a few fake encounter cases in the Naxalite hit districts of the state. Dr Binayak Sen has been languishing in Raipur jail for the past three-months. Even though the state government has no incriminating evidence against him, he has been charged with promoting Naxalite outfits in the...
03:31 PM, Aug 15, 2007
A woman was set on fire by her in-laws after her parents failed give dowry. ...
12:48 AM, Jul 26, 2007
Doctors conducted a rare surgical operation to separate 10-month-old conjoined twins Ram, Laxman in Raipur. ...
04:17 PM, May 29, 2007
