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…
HYDERABAD/RAIPUR: Security forces continued their aggressive assault against Maoists, gunning down six people allegedly of the rebel cadre in an intense exchange of fire on Thursday in the dense forests of Telangana‘s Bhadradri Kothagudem district. The area is close to the Chhattisgarh border.The dead included two women. Two commandos of the Greyhounds, an elite anti-Maoist…
NEW DELHI: Six maoist were killed on Thursday in an encounter with police forces in Telangana‘s Bhadradri Kothagudem, near the border with Chhattisgarh, reported news agency ANI citing police sources.Two police personnel also sustained injuries during the exchange of fire. The encounter took place in the forest area near Raghunathpalem in Karakagudem mandal during a…
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: The time has come to deal a “ruthless final blow” to left-wing extremism and liberate the country from this scourge by March 2026, Union home minister Amit Shah said in Raipur on Saturday.Shah, who arrived here on a two-day tour to review security operations and development strategy in Maoist-affected states, said: “Between 2019 and…
RAIPUR: The time has come to deal a “ruthless final blow” to left-wing extremism and liberate the country from this scourge by March 2026, Union home minister Amit Shah said in Raipur on Saturday.Shah, who arrived in the Chhattisgarh capital on a two-day tour to review security operations and development strategy in Maoist-affected states, said:…
NEW DELHI: A video of the Independence Day celebration in Chhattisgarh‘s Mungeli district went viral on social media platforms showing a pigeon released by the Superintendent of Police that failed to fly, drawing comparisons to a scene from the popular web series ‘Panchayat’ season 3.Superintendent of Police Girija Shankar Jaiswal in response to the incident…
RAIPUR: A 27-year-old tribal woman was killed in a Maoist IED explosion in Chhattisgarh‘s Sukma district Sunday, a day after the insurgents had apologised for the death of two minors in IED blasts. Six civilians – three of them kids – have been killed and nine injured in Maoist IED blasts in Bastar division this…
NEW DELHI: Home minister Amit Shah on Tuesday took a dig at TMC MP Sougata Roy’s suggestion to implement the “West Bengal Model” for addressing left-wing-extremism (LWE) in other states, saying, “No state would want to implement the West Bengal Model.” Speaking in the Lok Sabha during question hour, Roy said, “West Bengal was once…
President Droupadi Murmu appointed governors to several states late Saturday night: Haribhau Kisanrao Bagde (Rajasthan), Jishnu Dev Varma (Telangana), Santosh Kumar Gangwar (Jharkhand), C P Radhakrishnan (Maharashtra), Lakshman Prasad Acharya (Assam & additional charge of Manipur), Gulab Chand Kataria (Punjab), Ramen Deka (Chhattisgarh), C H Vijayashankar (Meghalaya), Om Prakash Mathur (Sikkim).K Kailashnathan will be LG…
