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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

If fundamental right to property can be taken away, so can all the others: AG Mulgaokar

If this step even partially achieves its desired results, there will be so much dislocation in the country’s economic structure as to prove a national calamity, advocate AG Mulgaokar wrote in 1969.

Niti Aayog recommends fully decriminalising 12 offences under new I-T Act to ‘foster more trust’

Recommendations appear in Niti Aayog’s Tax Policy Working Paper Series–II. It says there is a need to shift away from fear-based enforcement to trust-based governance.

India, UK sign £350 mn deal for Martlet. What are these Lightweight Multirole Missiles

In service with the British military since 2019, it is also known as the Martlet missile. Ukrainians have also deployed these missiles against Russian troops.

CJI, IPS, IAS & Homebound: A wake-up call 75 years in the making

Education, reservations, govt jobs are meant to bring equality and dignity. That we are a long way from that is evident in the shoe thrown at the CJI and the suicide of Haryana IPS officer. The film Homebound has a lesson too.