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Friday, November 7, 2025
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Topic: Bastar

Roads, security camps & a bridge put Bastar villages on poll map. Maoists resist with pamphlets & bombs

Bastar, the heartland of the Maoist conflict, votes 7 November in first phase of Chhattisgarh assembly polls. Several initiatives promise to ease the voting experience this time.

Snipers, underground bunkers, pipe bombs — Naxals’ new strategy ‘to counter aerial strikes in Bastar’

80-page document, originally in Gondi, details strategies to counter aerial strikes through diagrams & images. In last 2 yrs, security forces have denied aerial bombing Bastar.

10 policemen among 11 killed in Maoist attack in Chhattisgarh’s Dantewada

Explosives were hurled at a vehicle Wednesday carrying personnel from the District Reserve Guard (DRG) near Aranpur.

3 DRG jawans killed in encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh’s Sukma

Incident took place between Jagargunda and Kunded under Jagargunda police station limits at around 9 am Saturday, said Bastar Range Inspector General of Police (IG) P Sundarraj.

Trans entrepreneurs to ‘rural secretariat’: How collectors tried to impress PM with ‘good governance’

Prashasan Gaon Ki Ore campaign was undertaken as part of Sushasan Saptah or Good Governance week between 19 & 25 December, as Modi govt aims for international image of inclusivity.

The idea of Dandakaranya as a breeding zone of Maoists took birth at a dinner table

The thirst for land among landless peasants and tribals was at its peak in Andhra Pradesh. It was Indira Gandhi, say veteran Maoist idealogues, who created the thirst.

‘Hello Bastar’: Rahul Pandita’s new book is an investigative account of the Maoist movement

Published by Penguin India, ‘Hello Bastar’ will be released on 2 December on Softcover, ThePrint’s online venue to launch non-fiction books.

Real tribute to Danish Siddiqui is Indian journalists completing his Afghanistan stories

Marie Colvin of Sunday Times, DD’s Achyutanand Sahu, or Hindi journalist Nemichand Jain from Bastar, all died telling stories from a conflict zone.

‘Knocked door down, will enter drawing room now’ — Police & tribal leaders clash over anti-Naxal camp

Bastar officials say protests against security camp in Silger are stage-managed by Maoists. Tribal leaders & activist call the camp illegal & demand probe into 17 May firing.

With its betrayal in Bastar, Congress has abandoned adivasi cause — one that gave it power

A Congress leader who used to call security forces 'evil' told an officer involved in the Chhattisgarh police operation that killed three adivasis in Silger 'not to be deterred by deaths'.

On Camera

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.