An additional 65,000 security personnel, drones and helicopters for transporting poll staff and personnel to ensure violence-free polling have been deployed in Chhattisgarh, where three big incidents of Maoist violence have been reported in worst-affected... read more

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It is important to recognise that while fatalities in single incidents cause great jubilation or distress, they have little impact on the broader trajectory of a protracted conflict. read more

Constable Kalmu Hidma of district police was abducted from Sukma. He was returning from home on Monday when suspected Naxals abducted him near Puswada village under Polampalli police station. read more

Putting its best foot forward to keep the Maoists under check, Union home ministry has decided to place Chhattisgarh and more specifically its worst-affected Bastar division at the heart of the anti-Maoist offensive. read more

Youth, especially first time voters, have defied all predictions and apprehensions in the first phase of polling held in the 12 assembly constituencies of Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division. Young voters led their parents and elders to the polling booth... read more

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Two days after the Chattisgarh Congress brass was wiped out in a naxal strike in the state’s Bastar division, defence minister AK Antony made it clear that there were no plans to deploy army in Maoist zones to tackle Red terror. read more

The death toll in Saturday’s audacious Maoist strike on a Congress convoy in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division rose to 27 after bullet-riddled bodies of state party chief, his son and eight others were found on Sunday morning as reports emerged that the... read more

Maoists killed four jawans of the Chhattisgarh Armed Forces (CAF) and injured another in two separate attacks in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar division on Sunday. read more

Re-polling in 33 booths across seven assembly constituencies in Bastar division here will be held on Monday. read more

Polling began in 12 assembly constituency in the Bastar division of Chhattisgarh. read more