1 DRG jawan was also killed in the operation in Bijapur. Union Home Minister Amit Shah has set a deadline of March 2026 to eradicate Maoism from the country.
Explosives that killed 10 police personnel & a civilian Wednesday believed to have been placed under road using method called ‘fox-digging’ that creates a cavity under the surface.
Personnel belonged to District Reserve Guard (DRG), a Chhattisgarh force designed to carry out anti-Maoist operations. Wednesday's attack altogether killed 11 people, including the driver of the vehicle.
At a time when 3 BJP workers have been killed in the state, allegedly by Maoists, in less than a week, tribal-dominated Bastar has taken centrestage ahead of assembly elections.
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.
Each acquitted tribal ThePrint met in Burkapal village, the site of 2017 Sukma Maoist attack, has a story to tell. So do the police, which still doesn't consider villagers to be innocent.
CRPF jawan, identified as Rakeshwar Singh Manhas from Jammu, has been missing since Maoists attacked a security team Saturday. CRPF says negotiations are on to rescue him.
One might argue that families of soldiers deserve better compensation than farmers because the latter don't die in the line of ‘duty’. But what about sanitation workers?
On 24 August 1949, Jaipal Singh Munda, the driving force behind the Jharkhand movement, argued for political representation and self-governance for the tribal community in the Constituent Assembly.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
Excellent news indeed.
Every single Naxalite must be exterminated.