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Over the last decade, security forces have set up more than 200 police camps, including Forward Base Camps, to address the security vacuum in Bastar, which comprises seven districts and is larger than Kerala. (Image credit: Bastar Police)

Naxalism on its last legs, what happens to 200-plus police camps in Chhattisgarh?

March 26, 2026 10:00 am

With fewer than 40 cadres remaining in Bastar, the state says 96% of the region is free from Naxal influence.

Chhattisgarh villages get electricity connection

On hills and inside forests, 17 remote Maoist-affected villages in Chhattisgarh finally get electricity

May 17, 2025 8:12 am

The 17 villages are on the hills or surround the hills, covered by dense forests. The district has Bastar region to the south and Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district to the west.

Two cops injured in Naxal IED blast in Chhattisgarh's Bijapur

January 12, 2025 10:04 pm

The explosive device went off at 5pm in the forest of Jaigur village near Jangla.

‘Killing is not the way forward’: In Bastar, Amit Shah promises rehabilitation to surrendered Maoists

December 16, 2024 8:08 am

Addressing surrendered Maoists in Bastar’s Jagdalpur city, Amit Shah said, “After surrendering, you must be feeling happy and your parents even happier. But believe me, I am feeling the happiest.”

Chhattisgarh: Congress demands probe headed by HC judge in Bijapur encounter

May 25, 2024 7:42 pm

The police on May 10 claimed they had killed 12 Naxalites in a forest near Pidia village under Gangaloor police station limits in Bijapur district during an anti-Naxalite operation.

C'garh: Woman Naxal killed, two cops injured in encounter

Chhattisgarh: Woman Naxal killed, two cops injured in encounter

April 29, 2020 1:23 pm

After guns fell silent, body of a woman Naxal and two rifles were recovered from the spot, the official said

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Chhattisgarh cops start learning 'Gondi' dialect to counter Naxalism

June 18, 2019 12:59 pm

While most of the police officials deployed in Dantewada know the state language and Hindi, they are not familiar with Gondi. The three-month course will now enable them to understand and speak the local dialect.

Chhattisgarh: Naxals torch a passenger bus, no casualties

September 08, 2017 2:13 pm

On May 30 this year, Naxalites had torched an empty passenger bus in Narayanpur district, opposing the construction of a road in the Abujhmaad region – considered as a Maoist den.