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