Twelve civilians, including two minors, and five Naxals were killed in the controversial encounter with security forces at Sarkeguda in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district on the intervening night of June

For impoverished Chhattisgarh, which is also struggling to counter the red surge witnessed in tribal-dominated Bastar region, a ray of hope has, perhaps, come from an unlikely quarter, an adivasi yout

Chhattisgarh police has detected sleeper cells of the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI), a banned fundamentalist outfit, following the recent recovery of live bullets in garbage at different p

For Punit Ram, a youth in a Chhattisgarh town, “hi-tech love” proved disastrous when he found his “lady love” to be a transsexual, Muni, and was accused of ditching “her”.

A remote village in Chhattisgarh witnessed a heartening incident of a Naxal victim’s brother being forced to turn his motorcycle into a bier to carry the body to the local police station from the near

Local tribals in the “liberated zone” of Bastar in Chhattisgarh get a sinking feeling when the first monsoon shower hits their areas as Maoists appear in their villages in no time to herd them to the fields to engage them in agriculture operations as bonded labourers.

Naxals, who could establish a foothold in 58 districts, have been facing stiff resistance from two tribes in the country, one in Central India and the other in the eastern part, for the past three dec

In a replay of the recent shocking and shameful incident of molestation of a helpless girl by a mob at Guwahati, a “lover” couple was stripped, paraded naked and then filmed by a group of youth in the

Defending their action in the June 28-29 “encounter” with Naxals at Sarkeguda in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, in which 17 tribals, including a number of innocents, were said to be killed, the CRPF

Right to Information (RTI) activist Ramesh Agrawal was shot at by two bike-borne youths at a busy market place in Chhattisgarh’s industrial town of Raigarh, nearly 120 km from here, on Saturday.