Hidma’s two-decade run ends: How forces killed top Maoist leader who stayed faceless for yearsFor years, Hidma was a ghost. Security forces did not even know what he looked like, often interrogating surrendered cadres using a catalog...
20 Nov, 2025, 09.56 AM IST
Hidma’s end marks a decisive moment in fight against Maoist insurgencyMadavi Hidma, a most wanted Maoist leader, was killed in an operation. This happened deep inside forests at the tri-junction of Andhra Prad...
18 Nov, 2025, 01.59 PM IST
Blueprints of a Revolution: How a college in Warangal's NIT engineered India’s Maoist coreREC Warangal, now NIT Warangal, was once the birthplace of India's Maoist leadership in the 1970s and 80s. Radical student politics on camp...
02 Nov, 2025, 01.11 PM IST
After the bloodshed, let there be trustThe killing of Maoist leader Basavaraju in Chhattisgarh marks a significant blow to left-wing extremism in India, where incidents and death...
02 Jun, 2025, 11.20 PM IST
Badesatti becomes Chhattisgarh's first Naxal-free gram panchayat after introduction of Elvid schemeBadesatti, a gram panchayat in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, has become the first Naxal-free area in the state under the Elvid Panchayat Y...
19 Apr, 2025, 03.51 PM IST
View: The last few years have been witness to a great push to improve internal securityNaxalism, meanwhile, has seen a steady decline over the past decade. In 2006, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had stated that the Maoist move...
16 Nov, 2020, 11.29 PM IST
Centre had advised Maharashtra to stay alert and follow SOP in Maoist zonesThe recent attacks in Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh prove that states still remain the hotbed of action.
02 May, 2019, 07.32 AM IST
24 Maoists killed in encounter on Andhra Pradesh-Odisha borderPolice suspect that a top Maoist leader and son of another high ranking cadre might be among those killed in the encounter.
13 Jul, 2018, 10.54 PM IST
Maoists used foxhole tunnel to plant IED in Dantewada: CRPF DG Durga PrasadThe explosion was triggered from 94-metres away through wires causing the Tata 407 vehicle to split into three pieces.
13 Jul, 2018, 07.06 PM IST
Local police didn't favour anti-Naxal operations in South BastarAs per local inputs, the thinly populated Golapalli plateau region is the base camp of Maoist guerrillas and is largely inhabited by their ...
07 Dec, 2014, 05.01 PM IST
No let up in operations to tackle Maoist menace: Rajnath SinghMaking it clear that there will be no let up in operations against the Maoists, Singh said the Central govt was committed to firmly tackle ...
03 Dec, 2014, 03.27 PM IST
Centre wants Chhattisgarh police to take lead role in anti-Maoist operationsAccording to the union home ministry's assessment, Chhattisgarh is second only to Jharkhand in the list of states worst affected by LWE.
28 Aug, 2014, 11.58 AM IST
Home Minister Rajnath Singh orders new ‘anti-Maoist doctrine’ to wipe out naxal menaceThe anti-Maoist doctrine will soon be circulated to all Maoist-affected states by the home ministry for their comments and consent
22 Aug, 2014, 03.00 AM IST
Maoist insurgency drops in UPA regimeThe UPA, which didn’t have much to celebrate on in 2013, is likely to find a fall in Maoist insurgency in the past year as something to che...
20 Jan, 2014, 04.01 AM IST
Bihar too soft on Naxals: Intelligence reportPolitical rivals of the ruling JD(U), especially its ally-turned-foe BJP, are already accusing the Nitish Kumar administration of being “so...
31 Oct, 2013, 05.09 AM IST
Maoists strike again, kill SP Amarjit Balihar and 4 cops in JharkhandThis is the second major attack by Naxals recently after Congress leaders were targeted by the Maoists in Chhattisgarh in May.
03 Jul, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- Naxal violence on the upswing
Chhattisgarh, however, has shown improvement in terms of incidents and casualties.
17 Aug, 2007, 03.06 AM IST