Raipur: A small village in Sukma that had little claim to fame apart from showing up on the ‘low-literacy chart’ has suddenly been catapulted to the limelight as all 11 youths who had joined Maoists and taken up arms against govt, surrendered on Friday.Badesatti is the first village in Bastar division to be tagged ‘Maoist-free‘….
RAIPUR: Home minister Amit Shah referred to Maoists in Chhattisgarh‘s Bastar as “brothers” and urged then to surrender their weapons and join the mainstream, assuring them protection and integration into the country’s development. “I’ve come to request all Naxalite brothers: lay down arms, join the mainstream. You are our own. No one rejoices at the…
RAIPUR: Less than a week after warning BJP workers to quit party or die, Maoists killed a BJP worker, Kudiam Mado, in Bijapur on Wednesday, accusing him of working as a police informer. Last Wednesday, Maoists kidnapped and killed two local BJP workers, who were former sarpanchs. Thirteen BJP men and three from Congress have…
Women marched from Lendra to Jagdalpur for 25km to meet collector RAIPUR: Some 25 women from a panchayat in Bastar – mostly ‘bahus’ who have married into the villages – walked over 25km to the Jagdalpur district headquarters on Wednesday to demand toilets, saying they are embarrassed to have to go out to relieve themselves.The…
RAIPUR: At least 14 suspected Maoists were killed in a fierce encounter going on between security forces and Naxalites in forests of Narayanpur district of Bastar division on Friday.Preliminary information from police said that the encounter broke out in Abujhmarh forests alongside borders of Naryanpur and Dantewada districts around 1 pm. A joint team of…
NEW DELHI: As counter-Naxal forces brace to meet the March 2026 deadline set by home minister Amit Shah for ending Left-wing extremist (LWE) violence, the CRPF has augmented its strength in the Maoist bastions of south Bastar (Chhattisgarh) by deploying an additional 4,000 personnel.The force’s four battalions, comprising 4,000 troops, were recently ordered to leave…
RAIPUR: Nine Maoists were killed in a fierce encounter in forests bordering Dantewada and Bijapur districts in Bastar division of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday. Security personnel have recovered weapons from the encounter site including SLR, .303 rifle, 315 rifle and the Naxal bodies.According to Dantewada superintendent of police Gaurav Rai, a joint team of troops from…
RAIPUR: At least three Maoists, all women, were gunned down by security forces on the border of Kanker and Narayanpur districts in Bastar region, police said on Thursday.This is the first major gunfight in over a month and takes the number of Maoists killed this year to 192 – an average of almost one a…
RAIPUR: The opposition in Chhattisgarh, Congress , has alleged that the security forces in Bastar were under tremendous political pressure to get quick results on the anti-Naxal front, leading to fake encounters of innocent tribals, planting of muzzle-loading guns to brand them as Maoists and also make more arrests in insurgency-hit tribal Bastar region. Addressing…
RAIPUR: A Maoist was killed in a gunfight with security forces in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar Saturday. This takes Maoist death toll in Chhattisgarh this year to 141, eight this month.Police said an encounter took place in Tumar Gatta and Singavaram villages in Jagargunda when a team of District Reserve Guard was out on…
