Local authorities are deliberating on an ambitious plan to resettle thousands of forest-dwelling villagers across Chhattisgarh's Maoist-affected Narayanpur district in a bid to provide essential services like education and health care. Sources in the administration say the plan is still under consideration at the district level and is yet to be formally presented to the State Government.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) said on Monday that it has bagged a Rs 1,395-crore contract from National Mineral Development Corporation for the setting up a raw material handling system for a
State-run power giant NTPC has run into another roadblock with the Union environment ministry recommending that green clearance for its Talaipalli coal mine in Chhattisgarh’s Raigarh district be de
There are red faces in the Congress over a difference of opinion between AICC Treasurer Motilal Vora and the state unit in Chhattisgarh over the proposal to award a mining lease to a Delhi-based co
The National Mining Regulatory Authority will review sectoral issues and advise the government on policy and strategy, including royalty rates, and would have the power to investigate and launch pr
KORBA (CHHATTISGARH): An immense expanse of fine grey fly-ash stretches out to meet the distant horizon, its flat surface rippled by slow-spinning whirlwinds.
We fly into Raipur, the advice given by civil rights activists ringing in our ears: be careful which hotel you check into, since most report any arrivals—especially of journalists—to the local poli
An agitation in Chhattisgarh against the construction of a dam on the Kurkut river by Jindal Steel is representative of many such popular struggles going on across the country.
