January 07, 2025 2:23 am
Chhattisgarh IED Blast: Sources said the forces were returning from conducting their first anti-Naxal operation this year in Abujhmad on Saturday. The IGP said Naxals used an IED to attack the forces.
October 06, 2024 5:14 pm
It was this pinpoint coordination that went into the single largest Maoist encounter in Chhattisgarh’s 24-year history — the toll stood at 31 on Saturday — conducted without the security forces suffering a single casualty.
April 27, 2023 6:59 pm
The 11 people were returning to the Dantewada district headquarters after conducting an anti-Naxal operation when they were killed in the IED blast on Aranpur road, around 50 km from the headquarters.
April 27, 2023 7:24 am
In their letter, the Maoists are learnt to have written that security forces were creating problems for locals, and also mentioned the March 25 visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah to the state, when he attended the 84th CRPF Day in Jagdalpur.
April 11, 2023 4:54 pm
The murders, committed over a span of just one week, sent shock waves through Chhattisgarh. The panic was followed by the usual mud-slinging between the ruling Congress and Opposition BJP.
April 24, 2021 2:39 pm
The Maoists dumped Murli's body near a village at Gangalur in Bijapur district, with a message alongside which claimed the policeman was "executed as decided by a people's court".
April 11, 2021 6:01 pm
Another Naxal attack, 22 more security personnel killed, more calls for action. Amid this familiar pattern that plays out with alarming frequency in Bastar, The Indian Express on the lessons not learnt, and why Naxals continue to hold out in Chhattisgarh.
March 31, 2021 8:29 am
Under an initiative launched last June called ‘Lon Varattu’ (which in Gondi dialect means ‘return to your village’), the state police appeals to those who have turned naxals to come back home.
March 26, 2021 2:44 am
The last rites were held in their respective villages on Wednesday.
May 08, 2019 4:25 pm
Security forces have intensified anti-Naxal operations in Dantewada following the killing of BJP MLA Bhima Mandavi and four police personnel in a deadly attack by rebels in Shyamgiri area of the district on April 9.