Everything you need to know about Korba: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Everything you need to know about Korba: news, reviews, in-depth analysis, opinion and more
Raipur, Feb 20 (IANS) A two-day nationwide strike called by major trade unions Wednesday hit iron ore mining and coal production in Chhattisgarh, officials said.
New Delhi, Feb 13 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Power (Independent charge) Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said that the Government is committed towards sustainable development and rapid expansion of the physical infrastructure in general and the power sector in particular.
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco), a part of the Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta Group, has been conferred an award by President Pranab Mukherjee for its achievements on sustainable development.
Raipur, Dec 20 (IANS) In a major blow to controversy-hit, under-construction thermal power plant of Vedanta Resources-controlled Bharat Aluminium Company Limited (BALCO) in Korba, the Chhattisgarh government has suspended the project's factory licence, the state assembly was told Thursday.
New Delhi, Nov 5 (IANS) Ircon International, the Chhattisgarh government and the South Eastern Coalfields Ltd. (SECL) have signed a pact to build around 300 km of rail corridor for better transportation of coal, a statement said Monday.
Raipur, Aug 29 (IANS) A health official in Chhattisgarh was found to have amassed assets worth Rs.11 crore, which was disproportionate to his known sources of income, a senior Anti-corruption Bureau ACB) official said here Wednesday.
CG PMT result 2012 has been declared. The results are available on the Chhattisgarh CG Vyapam website http://cgvyapam.choice.gov.in/ and http://cgvyapam.gov.in/
New Delhi, Feb 1 (ANI): Union Minister for Power Sushilkumar Shinde today reviewed the progress of NTPC projects for the 11th Plan.
Surat (Gujarat), Jan 21 (ANI): Upset with the detention of 21 diamond merchants by China, diamond merchants in Surat have threatened to end their Chinese operations.
Surat, Jan 17 (ANI): Kin of Indian diamond traders detained in China on charges of smuggling diamonds are praying for their early release.
Surat, Jan 13 (ANI): The detention of 21 Indian diamond merchants by China, which has accused them of being part of a smuggling gang, has sent the Indian diamond industry into a tizzy.
Korba (Chhattisgarh), Jan 12 (ANI): Police arrested three Chinese engineers here on Mondaty in connection with the collapse of an under-construction chimney of Bharat Aluminum Company (Balco) that killed 45 workers on September 23 last year.
Korba (Chhattisgarh), Oct 3 (ANI): Chhattisgarh Police would interrogate employees of Chinese firm SEPCO about the chimney collapse, which killed over 40 people in Korba district.
New Delhi, Oct 1 (ANI): Union Home Minister P. Chidambaram has asked Chinese workers involved in the chimney collapse case to stay back and face investigation.
Korba (Chattisgarh), Sep 24(ANI): Salvage and rescue operations were being conducted to recover bodies, save any surviving person and also to clear the rubble caused by the collapse of a chimney at the thermal power plant site of Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO) in Chattisgarh's Korba district on Thursday.
Korba (Chhatisgarh), Sep 24 (ANI): At least 24 people have been killed and many others trapped after a chimney at the Bharat Aluminium Company (BALCO) thermal power plant in Chhattisgarh's Korba district collapsed on Wednesday.
Raipur, May 26 (IANS) A team of senior government officials was stunned to discover two human skulls inside the cupboard of a clerk during a search of his office to probe complaints of financial irregularities, police said Tuesday.
Raipur, May 23 (IANS) Congress' lone Lok Sabha MP in Chhattisgarh Charandas Mahant is lobbying hard in New Delhi to get a ministerial berth in the Manmohan Singh government, party sources said here Saturday.
Raipur, May 17 (IANS) The Congress, which returned to power in style in New Delhi, suffered a shocking defeat in Chhattisgarh at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). But the party has nevertheless got a new hero in Charandas Mahant, who bagged the lone Korba seat in the state.
Raipur, May 16 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Karuna Shukla, the niece of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is trailing by 12,000 votes in Korba seat in Chhattisgarh, while Congress' Renu Jogi, wife of former chief minister Ajit Jogi, is trailing by over 14,000 votes in Bilaspur, according to latest counting trends.
Raipur, May 10 (IANS) Four members of a family were found murdered Sunday in a forested hamlet of Chhattisgarh, police said.
New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) The Election Commission Wednesday ordered re-ballot in 25 polling stations affected by Maoist violence in Chhattisgarh during the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections.
Raipur, April 22 (IANS) About 2,000 residents were placed under house arrest after a herd of 25 wild elephants created terror in at least 10 villages of Chhattisgarh's Raigarh district, an official said Wednesday.
Raipur, April 16 (IANS) Congress leader Ajit Jogi's political secretary Shailesh Nitin Trivedi was Thursday found unconscious and seriously injured on the roadside in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur constituency.
Raipur, April 15 (IANS) Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla is heading for a photo-finish in Chhattisgarh's Korba parliamentary constituency, which goes to the polls Thursday along with the state's 10 other Lok Sabha seats.
Raipur, April 14 (IANS) 'Save our girl children from the clutches of traffickers, and then ask for votes', is what angry villagers of three Chhattisgarh constituencies are telling candidates when they come canvassing for votes.
Raipur, April 13 (IANS) Chhattisgarh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is struggling to repeat its 2004 result when it won 10 of the 11 Lok Sabha seats in the state that goes to the polls Thursday.
Raipur, March 25 (IANS) Karuna Shukla, niece of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, filed her nomination papers Wednesday as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Korba Lok Sabha seat in Chhattisgarh.
Raipur, March 24 (IANS) A Rashtriya Rifles soldier, who had decamped from Jammu and Kashmir with over Rs.5.9 million meant for his colleagues' salaries earlier this month, has been arrested in his home state of Chhattisgarh, police say.
Raipur, March 23 (IANS) Karuna Shukla, the niece of former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, will battle it out again for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) against old rival Charandas Mahant of the Congress in Chhattisgarh - but she may not be on very firm ground this time.
Raipur, March 21 (IANS) The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which has decided to go it alone in Chhattisgarh and has named potential candidates in several seats, may affect the chances of the two main contenders, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, politicians here say.
New Delhi, March 9 (IANS) The Congress party Monday released a list of six candidates for Chhattisgarh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, including four for reserved constituencies.
New Delhi, Feb 9 (ANI): National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the largest power utility of the country, achieved highest ever monthly generation of 19.2 billion units in January, 2009 with eight power stations of the company achieving more than 100 per cent Plant Load Factor (PLF).
Raipur, Jan 17 (IANS) At least five people were injured when the train they were in was hit by a engine during shunting operations at the railway station here Saturday, officials said.
Raipur, Jan 10 (IANS) A schoolteacher in Chhattisgarh has been arrested on the charge of partially blinding a six-year-old student by inserting a pin in her right eye because she had failed to reply to his question.
Raipur, Jan 8 (IANS) A schoolteacher in Chhattisgarh is on the run after he brutally punished a Class 2 student by inserting a pin in her right eye for failing to answer his question, police said Thursday. It left the girl blind in the eye.
Raipur, Jan 5 (IANS) Dharamlal Kaushik of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was elected speaker as all newly elected Chhattisgarh legislators took the oath of office during the maiden sitting of the third assembly here Monday.
Raipur, Jan 5 (IANS) Dharamlal Kaushik, a legislator of Chhattisgarh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), was elected speaker of the state assembly Monday. The goverenor also administered oath of office to all newly elected legislators during the maiden sitting of the third assembly.
Raipur, Nov 20 (IANS) After a violent start last week, the two-phased Chhattisgarh elections ended Thursday on a peaceful but cantankerous note with the Congress and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) squabbling as voters queued up outside polling booths in the insurgency-hit state.
Raipur, Nov 20 (IANS) Over 40 percent of those eligible to vote Thursday in the second phase of the Chhattisgarh assembly poll had exercised their franchise by noon, officials said here. Polling in the second and final phase was taking place in 51 constituencies.
Raipur, Oct 19 (IANS) The Chhattisgarh police Sunday claimed to have arrested two human traffickers and rescued 40 workers, including 12 women and six minors, following a raid at the Korba railway station, a senior police officer said here Sunday.
Raipur, Sep 30 (IANS) About 850 residents of a Chhattisgarh village have not slept for the past one week as a group of 14 wild tuskers, having a record of killing people, have settled in the village and destroyed standing paddy crops.
Raipur, Sep 30 (IANS) About 850 residents of a Chhattisgarh village have not slept for the past one week as a group of 14 wild tuskers, having a record of killing people, have settled in the village and destroyed standing paddy crops.
London, Sept 10 (ANI): Vedanta Resources plans to spend 9.8 billion dollars in the near future to achieve its goal of becoming the world's leading aluminium producer.
