‘New Raipur’ and ‘New Chhattisgarh’ in old India

Growth in the state and its capital city has reinforced and further accentuated an unequal order and concentration of wealth

Chhattisgarh High Court prevents PSU from evicting forest rights title holders

Chhattisgarh Mineral Development Corporation had started mining in Sarguja district’s Pathrai village, where 50 Individual Forest Rights …

Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups in Chhattisgarh can now access contraceptives

High Court quashes decades-old practice of denying rights to Baigas and other tribes

Like a bull at the gate

Biopiracy

Jatropha germplasm theft in Chhattisgarh

The purification hunt

The Salwa Judum, a counterinsurgency drive in Chhattisgarh leaves tribals stupefied

Chhattisgarh Assembly passes resolution against Hasdeo coal mining

State’s lawmakers urge Union government to cancel coal blocks allocated in forests; Echo long-standing opposition by tribals, activists

FRA comes to the rescue of people displaced by Salwa Judum

The Union Ministry of Tribal Affairs decides to conduct a survey of the displaced people who had fled to Andhra Pradesh and Telengana, in order …

Shaala Sangwari: Killing two birds with one stone

The 'Shaala Sangwari' project in Chhattisgarh's Kabirdham district aims to employ educated Baiga tribal youth by making them teach their …

Is Artificial Intelligence excluding Indian women smartphone users?

Making the effort to create solutions that take a gender lens to solution design, can aid digital inclusion for Indian women

Chhattisgarh forest department expense avoidable: CAG

The department’s actions caused an excess expenditure of Rs 2.03 crore in the year 2014-15, says auditor

Catching them young

Mindless on the Maoists

Modi promises "development" to end the Maoist violence but slashes funds for essential jobs and food programmes

Fair distribution

Women's self-help groups run ration shops in Chhattisgarh

A scoop

Geopolitics of oil, circa 2025

Proposed amendments to Coal Bearing Areas Act will change land acquisition for mining: Experts

The proposed amendments are likely to grant more control to private corporations, make tribal land acquisition easy, say experts

COVID-19: 300-400 Maldhari families from Gujarat stranded in Chhattisgarh

Pastoralists seen as ‘corona carriers’ in state

Raipur: the most polluted city

Unplanned industrialisation is its major undoing

Journalist assaulted by goons in Chhattisgarh

Concrete earth

"All idiot farmers commit suicide"

Shubhranshu Choudhary finds out why farmers’ suicide is such a touchy subject in Chhattisgarh

Forest rights in Bastar: Of tribals being ‘guests’ in their own woods

There is a strong need to recognise locals’ customary rights over forests in Bastar and enhance their capacity to conserve them

Chhattisgarh mining protests continue on Day 5

Since June 7, tribals in Bastar’s Bailadila have been protesting the NMDC’s allotment of mines on the Nandraj hill to the Adani Group

Farmers and smartphone politics

Can pre-poll sops like giving smart phones with internet connectivity to farmers increase farm income?

Lack of water intensifies distress in the Mahanadi basin

Climate change at the global and local levels is reducing water flow in the Mahanadi river, severely impacting agriculture. Tackling that …