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SUKMA ATTACK 2017
"No choice but to surrender, or else suffer consequences": Bastar IG Sundarraj on Maoist leader Madvi Hidma's encounterIn a strategic operation, security forces successfully took down the notorious Maoist leader Madvi Hidma during a fierce encounter. Known f...
Who was Madvi Hidma? India's top Maoist commander who remained untraceable for years was behind 26 lethal attacksMadvi Hidma, India's dreaded Naxal, who was responsible for leading at least 26 armed attacks was killed in an encounter today. Hidma remai...
Nine Naxalites carrying cumulative bounty of Rs 43 lakh surrender in ChhattisgarhNine hardcore Naxalites, including two women, have surrendered in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, citing disillusionment with the Maoist ide...
‘Emissaries’ finalised to seek CRPF man’s releaseTOI has learnt from reliable sources that the Chhattisgarh police have roped in a set of ‘independent’ emissaries to open a dialogue with t...
Elusive Maoist leader Hidma in spotlight after latest attackAccording to police, Hidma heads the Peoples Liberation Guerrilla Army (PLGA) battalion no. 1, the strongest military formation of the rebe...
Naxal attacks that shook the nation in last few yearsEarlier this year on March 4, three jawans of the Jharkhand Jaguar (JJ), a special unit of the state police department, lost their lives an...
Four Naxals surrender in ChhattisgarhThe cadres, two of them carrying cash rewards on their heads, turned themselves in before Bijapur Superintendent of Police Divyang Patel an...
Naxal commander gunned down by security forces in Chhattisgarh"When the patrolling team was advancing through forest between Perpa and Markamaris villages, around 450 km away from the capital Raipur, i...
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Naxal-hit Bastar deploys 50 drones, 1,000 satellite trackers for assembly pollsIn Naxal-hit Bastar, not a single vote was cast in 53 booths last election.
Hidma, the most wanted but least known Maoist leaderElusive Naxal commander Hidma shot to notoriety with the Jhiram Valley massacre of 2013, in which then-state Congress president Nandkumar P...
CRPF to undertake more counter-insurgency operations in Naxal-hit areasThe director general of the CRPF said the new action plan of the force will be to effectively dominate the area.
Sukma attack retaliation for 2016 encounters, say MaoistsThe DKSZC claimed the Chintagufa-Burkapal attack on Monday April 24 was in retaliation against last year’s encounters that had killed their...
Over 24 CRPF jawans killed in worst Maoist attack in yearsThe deadly assault on the jawans occurred around 12.25 pm in the Kalapathar area of south Bastar region, a Maoist hotbed.
CRPF on defensive after embarrassing RTI responseThe CRPF, in addition to citing section 24(1) (which exempts it from the RTI Act) had said there appeared to be no violations of human righ...
New Anti-Maoist strategy delivers results, Red Corridor shrinks to 58 districtsWhile 75 districts across nine states reported violent attacks by Naxals in 2015, the number came down to 67 in 2016 and dropped to 58 in 2...
Chhattisgarh remained in news in 2017 mostly for wrong reasonsOn April 24, as many as 25 CRPF personnel were killed and seven wounded in Burkapal area of Sukma district in the deadliest attack by Naxal...
Raman Singh's 'Mission Sukma': Air support, hit naxal leaders, developmentRaman Singh also sought changes in the structure of 'unified command' and allow district-level officers to take decisions on anti-maoist op...
Taking on Maoist bastions in the Naxal heartland of Bastar"In the coming days, there will be fierce battles. We will hit the Naxals," warned DM Awasthi, special DG, anti-Naxal operation in Chhattis...