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  Top Naxalite Ramdher Majjhi surrenders; Maharashtra, MP and Chhattisgarh declared Naxal-free

  India | December 08, 2025 13:36 IST

  A reward of Rs 1 crore had been announced on his head.

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  Chhattisgarh road accident: Six friends killed, one injured as car-truck collides in Rajnandgaon

  India | August 15, 2025 18:19 IST

  Chhattisgarh road accident: Preliminary findings indicate that the car’s driver may have fallen asleep while driving. Losing control, the vehicle crossed the road divider and swerved into the opposite lane, where it crashed head-on into a speeding truck.

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  Eight, including six children, killed in lightning strike in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon

  chhattisgarh | September 23, 2024 17:24 IST

  The incident took place at around 1:30 pm in Rajnandgaon district's Joratarai village. The deceased also includes some school children. Earlier on Saturday, a similar incident in Chhattisgarh's Janjgir-Champa district took the life of one individual while eight others got injured.

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  Chhattisgarh: Top Naxal leader killed by his colleagues amid infighting in Naxalite organisation

  chhattisgarh | September 09, 2024 21:47 IST

  Due to the effective action of the security forces, there is panic in the top leadership of the Naxal organization, due to which the local Naxalite cadres are being harassed in many ways by the Naxal cadres from outside, suspecting them of betrayal and rebellion.

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  Railways cancels 72 trains ahead of Raksha Bandhan, 22 routes changed | Check details

  India | August 12, 2024 9:01 IST

  Ahead of the festival of Raksha Bandhan, the Indian railways have cancelled 72 trains while it has diverted 22 trains, which can cause trouble for people looking to travel during the festival.

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  Rajnandgaon Election Results 2024: BJP's Santosh Pandey stuns former CM Bhupesh Baghel

  chhattisgarh | June 05, 2024 7:30 IST

  Rajnandgaon Election Results 2024: Rajnandgaon became a hot seat after Congress fielded former Chhattisgarh chief minister Bhupesh Baghel against BJP's sitting MP Santosh Pandey.

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  Lok Sabha Polls 2024: Ex-Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel To Face BJP's Santosh Pandey in Rajnandgaon

  News | April 22, 2024 15:13 IST

  The Congress party has fielded Baghel from the Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha seat, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) bastion for over three decades, and seen as the turf of its former three-time CM Raman Singh.

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  Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha election: Ex-Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel to take on BJP's Santosh Pandey

  chhattisgarh | April 17, 2024 17:05 IST

  Hot seats in Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The party has named six candidates from Chhattisgarh, including former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel from Rajnandgaon, and Tamrdhwaj Sahu from Mahasamund. The candidates were named a day after the meeting of the party's Central Election Committee.

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  Chhattisgarh: Four women workers killed, 11 injured as pickup vehicle rams into tree

  India | June 11, 2021 13:22 IST

  Four women workers were killed and 11 others injured when a pickup vehicle they were travelling in rammed into a roadside tree in Chhattisgarh's Rajanandgaon district.

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  Protest in Rajnandgaon over resuming of nearby cow dung procurement centre

  News | January 22, 2021 16:27 IST

  Cow dung vendors staged a protest in Rajnandgaon demanding to resume a nearby cow dung procurement centre. "We can't go far to sell cow dung. We want to sell it to our nearby centre only," says a vendor. According to Rajnandgaon Sub-Divisional Magistrate MK Rawte, "Vendors have been asked to sell the dung at a different centres but they are demanding to sell it at the centres where they were selling previously. The issue is being discussed by the authority." Chhattisgarh govt has started a scheme 'Godhan Nyay Yojana' in June last year in which the government procures cow-dung from dairy vendors and farmers. The rate of purchasing the cow-dung is over Rs 1 per kg. The aim of the scheme is to preserving and improving cow shedding, promoting the production of vermicompost and improving the rural economy.

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  Chhattisgarh: Constable shoots wife dead before killing himself

  India | June 20, 2020 12:31 IST

  A police constable allegedly killed his wife before shooting himself with his service weapon in Rajnandgaon district of Chhattisgarh, an official said on Saturday. 

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  COVID-19 in Chhattisgarh: 2 more test positive for coronavirus in Raipur, Rajnandgaon; tally now 3

  India | March 25, 2020 17:53 IST

  Two more persons tested positive for coronavirus in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday, taking the total number of confirmed cases of the deadly infection to three in the state, officials said.

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  4 horses test positive for glanders in Chhattisgarh

  India | August 27, 2019 16:29 IST

  In response to an urgent letter from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, regarding a report that the deadly zoonotic disease was detected in horses in the state, the animal husbandry department of Chhattisgarh issued a circular notifying the municipal corporation areas of Durg and Rajnandgaon as 'controlled areas', imposing restrictions on movement of equines in and out.

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  Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2018: 421 candidates file nominations for first phase of polls

  October 24, 2018 18:35 IST

  The process of filing nominations closed on Tuesday for the first phase of the polls. The nominations will be scrutinised on Wednesday and the last date for withdrawal is October 26.

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  PM Modi to visit Chhattisgarh today

  Politics | February 21, 2016 8:25 IST

  Raipur:A multi-layered security blanket has been thrown over Raipur and Rajnandgaon districts for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tour of Chhattisgarh on Saturday.Modi will launch a number of schemes including the key ‘Rurban mission' at Kurrubhat

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  3 rocket launchers, detonators seized from Naxal hotbed in Chhattisgarh

  India | June 25, 2015 13:35 IST

  Rajnandgaon: In a major haul of Maoists' weaponry, three improvised rocket launchers and two detonators have been seized from a dense forest in Chhattisgarh's Rajnandgaon district, police said today.The rocket launchers were recovered yesterday by

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  Raman Singh wins from Rajnandgaon

  Politics | December 08, 2013 16:54 IST

  Raipur: Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh today won Rajnandgaon Assembly constituency by defeating Congress' Alka Mudaliyar by a margin of 35,866 votes.  Singh got 86,797 votes while Alka could get 50,931 votes.  Alka is wife

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  Security personnel, Naxals exchange fire in Rajnandgaon

  India | September 26, 2013 6:41 IST

  Rajnandgaon, Chhatisgarh: Security forces and Naxals exchanged fire near here yesterday but no casualties were reported from either side, police said.  Acting on a tip-off, a joint team of district police and ITBP launched a