RAIPUR: Members of Sarva Adivasi Samaj have announced a ‘jail bharo andolan’ in Mohla-Manpur district of Chhattisgarh to demand the release of tribal leader Sarju Tekam and to protest alleged atrocities in Bastar.BS Rawte, acting state president of Sarva Adivasi Samaj, in a memorandum addressed to the director general of police has said that there…
RAIPUR: Maoists murdered two brothers for giving their land to the administration to set up a police camp in Bijapur in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar on Wednesday night. Their retaliation came within 48 hours after 10 insurgents, including some senior commanders, were gunned down in an encounter with security forces in Abujhmarh.Maoists kidnapped Joga Madavi and Joga…
RAIPUR: At least seven Maoists including two women were killed in an encounter with security forces in forests bordering Narayanpur and Kanker districts in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh on Tuesday morning.According to a senior police officer, the number of Maoists killed might rise as the encounter still goes on.A police statement said that an encounter…
RAIPUR: Over 64% of Bastar‘s 14 lakh electorate defied the Maoist threat and turned up to vote by 5pm in the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls on Friday. This figure is expected to rise.This is being held in the backdrop of the most aggressive anti-Maoist operations in nearly two decades of insurgency. As…
RAIPUR: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi was talking about the fulfilment of a 500-year-old dream at Ram Mandir in Ayodhya in a Bastar village on Monday, temple bells were ringing 180km away to celebrate the reopening of a Ram temple in one of the worst Maoist-hit areas of Sukma.Security forces have reopened the temple in…
