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…
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 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: 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…
RAIPUR: Two security personnel lost their lives and four were injured in an IED blast during an anti-Maoist operation in forests of Bijapur district of insurgency-hit Bastar region on the intervening night of Wednesday and Thursday.The injured jawans were being airlifted and brought to Raipur for treatment.Bijapur police said that a joint team of Special…
NEW DELHI: At least four Maoists, including a woman, were killed in an encounter with police on Monday morning in Jharkhand‘s West Singhbhum district, according to officials.The encounter occurred in the Tonto and Goilkera area as part of a police operation targeting Maoist activities in the region. Jharkhand Police spokesperson and IG (Operations), Amol V…
RAIPUR: Eight Maoists — three of them women — were gunned down in an operation in Abujhmarh region of Bastar’s Narayanpur district in Chhattisgarh on Saturday. A security personnel was also killed and two were injured.This is the second encounter in the same region in eight days — seven Maoists were eliminated on June 7…
RAIPUR: Two days after security forces claimed to have killed 12 Maoists in an encounter in Bastar’s Bijapur, local villagers, mostly women, marched to district headquarters accusing police of a fake encounter. Innocent villagers were gunned down while collecting tendu leaves, they claimed.DIG (South Bastar) Kamalochan Kashyap said those killed were Maoists, many of whom…
RAIPUR: At least 12 Naxalites were killed in forests of restive Bijapur district on Friday in yet another fierce encounter between security personnel and Maoists, as the gun-battle continued.According to preliminary information, a team of security personnel were out on search operation when an encounter broke out with Naxalites in the morning near Pidia village…
