"naxalites"

Jharkhand Police launched a major crackdown on Naxalites, arresting 197, with 10 surrenders and 17 killed since January. A hunt is on for 55 top Maoists with Rs 8.45 crore bounty. Massive arms and explosives have been recovered in operations

Five Naxalites were killed in two encounters with security forces in an ongoing operation in the Indravati National Park area of Chhattisgarh

This drive is part of the Union government's declaration to eliminate Naxalism from India by March 2026

With this incident, naxalites have killed nine people at separate places in the Bastar division, comprising seven districts, including Sukma, this year

In another incident in Narayanpur district joint party of DRG and STF launched a search operation in Abujhmad area on Wednesday following information about the presence of top Maoist cadres

Three to four naxals were said to have been injured in an encounter between the security forces and Maoists in Mandagiri forests of Dhamtari district in Chhattisgarh

The gunfight took place on Saturday morning in a forest under Kistaram police station area in Sukma district where a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-naxalite operation

With this incident, 81 naxalites have been gunned down by security forces in separate encounters in the State so far this year

The gunfight broke out at a forest in Indravati National Park area in the morning when a team of security personnel was out an anti-naxalite operation, a senior police official said

Unga and Sukki left the Maoist party and surrendered before the police, realising that Maoists lost the tribal's support

Insas rifle and a barrel grenade launcher recovered from the encounter site in forest area of Bijapur district

In a statement released to the media, Maoist South Bastar Divisional Committee secretary Ganga says Damodar died while fighting the 'fascist-Hindutva' forces

With this, 14 naxalites have been killed in separate encounters in the State in 2025, say officials

The menace of such hidden explosives can be gauged from the naxal-triggered blast that killed nine persons in the same district, says an official

According to officials, the gunfight broke out in forest of south Abujhmaad along the border of Narayanpur and Dantewada districts when a joint team of security personnel was carrying out an anti-naxalite operation

One US-made M-16 rifle, 14 live rounds, two mobile phones, and one bullet proof jacket from Malakar, a member of the arms and ammunition supply unit of the banned terror organisation, CPI (Maoist),

In yet another counter insurgency operation, two maoists were killed and police recovered a pistol, tiffin bomb, cooker bomb, explosives recovered

A joint party of special task force (STF) and Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) along with District Reserve Guard (DRG) of Narayanpur, Dantewada, Jagdalpur, Kondagaon districts went to the Abujahmad area in anti-naxal search operation

The gunfight began at around 3 am at a forest in south Abujhmaad when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-naxalite operation

Security personnel recovered another IED planted by Naxalites at a different location in the same district, officials said. The first IED blast occurred around 11 a.m. near the newly established Raiguda police camp under the Chintalnar police station area. The explosion happened while a District Reserve Guard (DRG) team, a unit of the state police, was conducting an area domination operation, an official stated. 4o