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The girl inadvertently stepped over the pressure IED, triggering blast

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

The expansion will enhance Chhattisgarh's total power generation capacity by an additional 6,120 MW

The encounter started in a forest along the border of Sukma and Bijapur districts when a joint team of security personnel was out on an anti-Naxalite operation

The IED blast at Ambeli village in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district claimed lives of eight DRG personnel and a driver

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

The incident took place near Ambeli village under Kutru police station limits in the district when a vehicle carrying security personnel was passing through the road in the naxal-affected area.

Four naxals and a policeman were killed in an exchange of fire in Abuzmaad area of Bastar. The gun fight is still continuing.

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

Mukesh Chandrakar, a 33-year-old journalist, was found dead in a septic tank in Bijapur, with police suspecting the murder is linked to his reporting on corruption

Narayana Rao, has been underground for over four decades and is a close relative of another top most naxal leader, Muppala Lakshmana Rao, who was the general secretary of the CPI (Maoist). Lakshmana Rao also hails from Birpur village.

Dantewada ASP, RK Burman, informed the media that the police learned about the incident via social media. According to reports, the Maoists had planted an IED in the forest, which was triggered when a sloth bear stepped on it. The bear died instantly, while its cubs starved to death as their mother was no longer alive.

The Union Home Minister called upon the security forces to end the Left Wing Extremist problem by March 2026

Though the statement in the beginning said the five villagers were killed by security forces, it later stated that the villagers were missing and suspected to be killed.

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

"The Bayyaram Steel Plant is not just a promise; it is a constitutional commitment made during the formation of Telangana. The BJP's outright refusal to fulfill this commitment highlights their disregard for the backward and tribal communities in Khammam," she stated. On Wednesday, the Centre declared in Parliament that setting up the steel plant at Bayyaram was not feasible and that there were no plans for it.

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

OU EMRC director Raghupathi's short film 'Reaching the Unreached' won the best short film Award at the prestigious 16th International Short Film Festival held in Jodhpur

Additional forces were deployed at Kaleshwaram Lift Irrigation Project (KILP) at Medigadda barrage, Annaram barrage and Kannepalli pumphouse, which are in the forested Mahadevpur mandal in Jayashankar Bhupalpally district.

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