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Time is now ripe for setting up a Special Tiger Protection Force (STPF), experts and Forest officials say.

The leaders of different forest officers associations have demanded the State government to equip field level forest officials and personnel with weapons

The encounter broke out during the morning hours under Siksod police station limits in the Kanker district.

Naxals hack deputy sarpanch of Kurnapalli gram panchayat to death in Cherla mandal in Kothagudem district branding him as a police informer.

Bijapur: Naxals set ablaze two vehicles and a machine engaged in laying cables of a private telecom company in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Monday. No person was injured in the incident which took place on Sunday evening between Padera and Kakekorma villages under Bijapur police station limits where the cable laying work was […]

Bhopal: Three Naxals, including a woman, collectively carrying a reward of over Rs 30 lakh on their heads, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Monday morning, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said. One of the slain ultras was identified as Nagesh, a Naxal divisional committee member, who […]

Bhopal: Three Naxals, collectively carrying a reward of over Rs 30 lakh on their heads, were killed in an encounter with security forces in Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district on Monday morning, state Home Minister Narottam Mishra said. The killed rebels included a woman. The encounter took place in Bahela police station area in Balaghat district, […]

Sukma: Two Naxals involved in several incidents of violence and carrying a collective reward of Rs 3 lakh on their heads surrendered in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma district on Friday, police said. They were identified as Madkam Jitendra alias Sanna and Gadpa Nagesh, Sukma Superintendent of Police Sunil Sharma said. Madkam was the Maoists’ Military Platoon No-30 […]

Narayanpur: A District Reserve Guard (DRG) head constable was killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Narayanpur district on Wednesday, police said. The skirmish took place around 8.15 am at a forest in Tulargufa-Mungari area under Chhotedongar police station limits when a joint team of various security forces was out on a search […]

Gadchiroli: A group of Naxals allegedly shot dead two villagers on suspicion that they were working as police informers in separate attacks in Maharashtra’s Gadchiroli district, informed Superintendent of Police, Gadchiroli Ankit Goyal. According to police one of the victims is a surrendered cadre. “The victims may have been shot dead in the early hours […]

Narayanpur: Two constables of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) were injured on Tuesday after Naxals triggered serial improvised explosive device (IED) blasts in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, a senior police official said. The incident took place around 9.15 am in Kurusnar police station area when a joint team of the DRG and Indo- Tibetan Border Police […]

The road is being constructed between Chichorguda and Nilawaya villages, considered as a Maoist stronghold.

The incident occurred on Friday evening between Kalmuchhe and Marapi villages, where the road construction work is going on under Prime Minister Gram Sadak Yojna (PMGSY), Kanker Superintendent of Police Shalabh Sinha said.

The gunfight took place in a forest near Jabeli village under Naimed police station area around 6 am when a joint team of different security forces was out on an anti-Naxal operation, Inspector General of Police (Bastar Range) Sundarraj P told PTI.

Kothagudem: Maoists were thwarting development works in agency villages, alleged Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunil Dutt. In a statement here on Saturday he informed the construction of a new bridge over the Gubbalamangi stream at Chintaguppa Dummugudem mandal in the district nearing completion. The bridge was aimed to connect Telangana and Chhattisgarh states. However, the […]

While returning from the encounter, when the team advanced towards the camp, the Naxals fired at our team once again which was retaliated by our team.

Giridih: Suspected Naxals blew up a portion of railway tracks on the Howrah-New Delhi line between Chichaki and Chaudhary bandh railway stations in Giridih. More details are awaited.

The incident took place at Irapnagar village in Bhamragadh tehsil around 2 pm on Friday, during which they also torched one Poclain machine, a senior police official said.

Kothagudem: A Maoist couple, ranked commander and deputy commander, surrendered before Superintendent of Police (SP) Sunil Dutt here on Friday. The surrendered naxals were Basaguda/Jegurukonda section commander, Vemula Nanga alias Three and his wife Podium Adami alias Manjula, both of Thimmapuram village in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh, a statement from the SP’s office said. Nanga […]

The latest incident took place on the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday in Ketulnar village under Kutru police station limits, Inspector General, Bastar Range, Sundarraj P said.