From guerrilla commander to peace talks: Maoist CC leader Rupesh on Hidma, Basavaraju and laying down armsMaoist leader Rupesh, now T Vasudeva Rao, details his surrender after internal debates and the politburo's strategy shifts. He discusses th...
Red battle, end stage: India closes in on Maoists’ last battlefield in BastarSecurity forces are intensifying operations in Bastar to capture two key Maoist leaders, Papa Rao and Barsa Deva, following the elimination...
Protest at India Gate: Delhi court sends 17 agitators to 3-day judicial custodyJudicial Magistrate Sahil Monga was hearing a case registered against the accused persons, including 11 women, at the Sansad Marg police st...
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...
7 more Maoists shot dead in fresh Andhra Pradesh encounterSeven Maoists were killed on Wednesday in an exchange of fire in Andhra Pradesh, a day after top Maoist leader Madvi Hidma, his wife and fo...
Seven Maoists killed in police encounter in Andhra PradeshSecurity forces gunned down seven Maoists in Andhra Pradesh on Wednesday. This follows a similar operation on Tuesday that killed six Maois...
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...
The Naxal story: A shrinking red citadel, road to March 2026 deadlineIn January 2024, the People Liberation Guerilla Army, led by Naxal commander Mandvi Hidma, attacked security forces trying to establish a f...
Three women among five killed on suspicion of practising witchcraft in Chhattisgarh, five detainedIn Chhattisgarh's Sukma district, two couples and a woman were allegedly beaten to death on suspicion of practising witchcraft. Five villag...
Top Maoist leader with role in 16 major attacks dies of COVID-19, say policeAccording to a senior official, Vinod aka Hunga and Vinodanna (60), who carried a reward of Rs 8 lakh on his head, died on July 11 in a for...
View: We are winning against Maoists, but it doesn’t have to come at such high costThe problem begins here. It is not that soldiers do not die in gun battles. The problem, as many CRPF officers would tell you in anguish, i...
Find mediator for commando’s release: CRPF chief to teamThe Centre has asked the Chhattisgarh government to verify authenticity of a letter, purportedly written by Maoists, which said that missin...
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...