Chhattisgarh Maoist Attack

Maoists attacked an iron ore mining site in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Saturday and killed an employee of a private firm after torching six vehicles and machinery, the police said.

A commando kidnapped by Maoist rebels after a deadly encounter in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, in which 22 soldiers were killed and 31 injured, has been released after more than 100 hours in captivity, the state government said on Thursday.

Dreaded Maoist Madvi Hidma has emerged as the mastermind of the last weekend's massacre of 22 security personnel by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region and the audacious attack has brought him into the limelight once again.

The last rites of Sakhamuri Muralikrishna, one of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldiers killed in the recent Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh, was held today with full police honours at his native Gudipudi in Sattenapalli Mandal of Guntur dis

Two days after a Maoist attack left 22 security men dead in Chhattisgarh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday visited a CRPF camp in the remote Bastar region and exhorted jawans to continue their fight against the Maoist menace with courage and c

The anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh was "poorly designed and incompetently executed", said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, a day after a senior official denied "intelligence failure" after 22 security personnel were killed in an ambush in Bastar.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Chhattisgarh on Monday to chair a high-level meeting in connection with the Maoist attack in the state's Bastar region that claimed the lives of 22 security personnel, a senior official said.

The security forces that were ambushed by Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh on Saturday were acting on what is now being viewed as faulty intelligence. They had received inputs about the presence of two of their top leaders.

Bodies of 17 security personnel were recovered from the jungles of Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, raising the number of deaths to 22 in the worst ever Naxal attack in four years that resulted from an ambush by some 400 insurgents who surrounded the jawans

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today held a high-level meeting to review the security situation in Chhattisgarh in the wake of the killing of 22 security personnel by Maoists in the state, officials said.

Around 400 Maoists, armed with light machine guns, ambushed security forces deployed for a special operation in Chhattisgarh, killing at least 22 and injuring 30 others, besides decamping with over a dozen sophisticated arms, officials said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday expressed grief over the killing of security personnel in an encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh.

The wedding invitation cards of Devkaran Dehari lie undistributed at his home in Chhattisgarh, his family and friends in numbing grief that the popular youth would never come back home.

Five police personnel have been killed and 14 injured after Maoists targeted a bus carrying 27 DRG (District Reserve Guard) troops in Chhattisgarh's Naryanpur district on Tuesday evening

A soldier of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was killed in a blast of a pressure improvised explosive device (IED), planted by Maoists, in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Friday, the police said.

Maoists attacked an iron ore mining site in Chhattisgarh's Narayanpur district on Saturday and killed an employee of a private firm after torching six vehicles and machinery, the police said.

A commando kidnapped by Maoist rebels after a deadly encounter in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, in which 22 soldiers were killed and 31 injured, has been released after more than 100 hours in captivity, the state government said on Thursday.

Dreaded Maoist Madvi Hidma has emerged as the mastermind of the last weekend's massacre of 22 security personnel by Maoists in Chhattisgarh's Bastar region and the audacious attack has brought him into the limelight once again.

The last rites of Sakhamuri Muralikrishna, one of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) soldiers killed in the recent Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh, was held today with full police honours at his native Gudipudi in Sattenapalli Mandal of Guntur dis

Two days after a Maoist attack left 22 security men dead in Chhattisgarh, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday visited a CRPF camp in the remote Bastar region and exhorted jawans to continue their fight against the Maoist menace with courage and c

The anti-Maoist operation in Chhattisgarh was "poorly designed and incompetently executed", said Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, a day after a senior official denied "intelligence failure" after 22 security personnel were killed in an ambush in Bastar.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Chhattisgarh on Monday to chair a high-level meeting in connection with the Maoist attack in the state's Bastar region that claimed the lives of 22 security personnel, a senior official said.

The security forces that were ambushed by Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh on Saturday were acting on what is now being viewed as faulty intelligence. They had received inputs about the presence of two of their top leaders.

Bodies of 17 security personnel were recovered from the jungles of Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, raising the number of deaths to 22 in the worst ever Naxal attack in four years that resulted from an ambush by some 400 insurgents who surrounded the jawans

Union Home Minister Amit Shah today held a high-level meeting to review the security situation in Chhattisgarh in the wake of the killing of 22 security personnel by Maoists in the state, officials said.

Around 400 Maoists, armed with light machine guns, ambushed security forces deployed for a special operation in Chhattisgarh, killing at least 22 and injuring 30 others, besides decamping with over a dozen sophisticated arms, officials said.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday expressed grief over the killing of security personnel in an encounter with Maoists in Chhattisgarh.

The wedding invitation cards of Devkaran Dehari lie undistributed at his home in Chhattisgarh, his family and friends in numbing grief that the popular youth would never come back home.

Five police personnel have been killed and 14 injured after Maoists targeted a bus carrying 27 DRG (District Reserve Guard) troops in Chhattisgarh's Naryanpur district on Tuesday evening

A soldier of the Indo Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was killed in a blast of a pressure improvised explosive device (IED), planted by Maoists, in Narayanpur district of Chhattisgarh on Friday, the police said.