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JAGDALPUR: Home minister Amit Shah, who wound up his first visit to this erstwhile ‘Red’ pocket borough since Left-wing extremism was eliminated, on Tuesday listed four dates as milestones in the journey to making Bastar Naxal-free, the first being Dec 23, 2024, when a BJP govt was elected in Chhattisgarh; Aug 24, 2024, when the…
JAGDALPUR: With Left-wing extremism (LWE) crushed, the camps set up by the security forces in the remote Bastar region to run anti-Naxal operations are being repurposed to serve the local population with doorstep delivery of a range of govt benefits, right from Aadhaar and ration card generation to banking and healthcare services.Union home minister Amit…
RAIPUR: In a quiet classroom in Bijapur, far removed from the dense forests that once defined their lives, 85 surrendered Maoists sat down this week to write an exam, most of them for the first time in their lives. For years, these men and women had lived in the shadows of insurgency, cut off from…
RAIPUR: Maoist casualties in Wednesday’s operation by security personnel in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region rose to 18 after six more bodies, including wanted PLGA commander Vella Modiyam, were retrieved Thursday from the gunfight site along the Dantewada-Bijapur border.Nine of the slain guerrillas, who had a combined bounty of Rs 1.3 crore on their heads, were women….
RAIPUR: For years, Kamla, a former Maoist from Bastar in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, ran through forests with a gun on her shoulder. This winter, Kamla is running again – but with a rope in her hand, digging her heels in the red soil as she practises the tug-of-war. Kamla, who laid down arms recently, will…
RAIPUR: A daylong gunfight on the Dantewada-Bijapur border in Chhattisgarh’s Bastar region left at least 12 Maoists and three District Reserve Guard (DRG) personnel dead Wednesday, marking one of the year’s heaviest losses for the outlawed group as security forces pressed deeper into the insurgency’s crumbling stronghold,Another DRG constable was wounded but was said to…
RAIPUR: In another major surrender of Maoists in bulk, 21 Maoists including 13 women gave up violence with 18 weapons in Kanker district of Bastar division in Chhattisgarh on Sunday. The cadres, who were part of the Keshkal division (North Sub-Zonal Bureau), laid down arms under the state’s flagship ‘Poona Margham: Rehabilitation through Reintegration’ initiative,…
Representational image (PTI file photo) RAIPUR/NAGPUR: Chhattisgarh’s Bastar awaits the largest mass surrender of Maoists in its history of Left-wing extremism Friday, with 170 guerrillas lined up to formally lay down arms in what home minister Amit Shah termed a “landmark day” in the battle to purge the country’s Red Corridor of Naxalite influence.“Abujhmarh and…
RAIPUR: In a boost to Chhattisgarh govt’s surrender policy and a setback for banned CPI (Maoist), 103 Naxals, including 49 carrying a cumulative reward of Rs 1 crore, laid down arms before senior police and paramilitary officials in Bijapur district of Bastar division Thursday.Each surrendered cadre was given a cheque of Rs 50,000 as immediate…
