Chhattisgarh Village

A 22-year-old man died after a venomous snake bit him in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, following which locals burnt the reptile alive on his funeral pyre.

Two couples and a woman were allegedly beaten to death on suspicion of practising witchcraft in a village in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Sukma district on Sunday, police said.

The police have received information about the incident and details about it are being collected, a senior police official said.

The Forest department has launched an investigation into the reported death of 18 to 19 monkeys in a village in Chhattisgarh's Bemetara district and recovered four rotten carcasses, a senior official said.

Thirteen remote villages located in the Naxalite-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh will witness hoisting of the national flag for the first time on Independence Day on Thursday, police said.

A 16-year-old schoolboy was beaten to death allegedly by maoists in a village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district apparently on suspicion he was a police informer, police said on Wednesday.

The carcasses were found near a pond in Parsada village in the Pali forest range on Sunday.

Silence hangs over the hillocks adjoining Hidur and Kalpar villages in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district where 29 Maoists were gunned down by security forces in an encounter.

The authorities have imposed section 144 in seven villages after a tiger was spotted over a month ago in Balodabazar, Chhattisgarh.

At least 13 students were injured after the asbestos roof of a government school got ripped off in a windstorm and pieces of bricks fell on them in a remote village in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Wednesday, police said.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the country's growth cannot be imagined without the development of farmers and villages, and asserted that the Modi government was standing shoulder to shoulder with the cultivators.

In a remote tribal village in Chhattisgarh, a helicopter was used to deliver question papers to an exam centre, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister's Office said.

For the first time since Independence, the national flag was unfurled in Puvarti - a village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma where the Maoists once ran a parallel government.

A Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) personnel was hacked to death by Maoistsat a village market in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Sunday, police said.

The face-off took place on Wednesday on a forested hill between Gondpalli, Parlagatta, and Badepalli villages on the Dantewada-Sukma districts border, when a joint team of security forces was out on an anti-Naxal operation.

A 22-year-old man died after a venomous snake bit him in Chhattisgarh's Korba district, following which locals burnt the reptile alive on his funeral pyre.

Two couples and a woman were allegedly beaten to death on suspicion of practising witchcraft in a village in Chhattisgarh's tribal-dominated Sukma district on Sunday, police said.

The police have received information about the incident and details about it are being collected, a senior police official said.

The Forest department has launched an investigation into the reported death of 18 to 19 monkeys in a village in Chhattisgarh's Bemetara district and recovered four rotten carcasses, a senior official said.

Thirteen remote villages located in the Naxalite-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh will witness hoisting of the national flag for the first time on Independence Day on Thursday, police said.

A 16-year-old schoolboy was beaten to death allegedly by maoists in a village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district apparently on suspicion he was a police informer, police said on Wednesday.

The carcasses were found near a pond in Parsada village in the Pali forest range on Sunday.

Silence hangs over the hillocks adjoining Hidur and Kalpar villages in Chhattisgarh's Kanker district where 29 Maoists were gunned down by security forces in an encounter.

The authorities have imposed section 144 in seven villages after a tiger was spotted over a month ago in Balodabazar, Chhattisgarh.

At least 13 students were injured after the asbestos roof of a government school got ripped off in a windstorm and pieces of bricks fell on them in a remote village in Chhattisgarh's Korba district on Wednesday, police said.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday said the country's growth cannot be imagined without the development of farmers and villages, and asserted that the Modi government was standing shoulder to shoulder with the cultivators.

In a remote tribal village in Chhattisgarh, a helicopter was used to deliver question papers to an exam centre, Chhattisgarh Chief Minister's Office said.

For the first time since Independence, the national flag was unfurled in Puvarti - a village in Chhattisgarh's Sukma where the Maoists once ran a parallel government.

A Chhattisgarh Armed Force (CAF) personnel was hacked to death by Maoistsat a village market in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Bijapur district on Sunday, police said.

The face-off took place on Wednesday on a forested hill between Gondpalli, Parlagatta, and Badepalli villages on the Dantewada-Sukma districts border, when a joint team of security forces was out on an anti-Naxal operation.