Security forces on Sunday destroyed a Naxal memorial in Khunera jungle in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnand-gaon district bordering Maharashtra, the police said.

A controversy has erupted over the killing of 17 persons in anti-Maoist operations by security forces in Chhattisgarh last week amid questions whether the victims were all Naxals.

Chief Minister Ram

In a strong rebuttal to charges by human rights activists and Opposition Congress that majority of those killed in the Friday’s operation by forces in Basaguda forest in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district were civilians, state home minister Nankiram Kanwar on Saturday said, “Whoever supports or aids Naxals is a Maoist”.

The security forces gunned down 21 suspected Maoists early Friday morning in three separate encounters in Chhattisgarh’s South Bastar.

Chhattisgarh unit of the Congress on Friday constituted an 11-member committee to probe the alleged Naxal encounter in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, claiming that all the 17 people killed in the ov

Union minister of state for rural development Agatha Sangma on Sunday said she has “nothing to do” with her father P.A. Sangma’s presidential bid.

Close on the heels of the exposure of a string of unwanted uterus surgeries in the Aamir Khan show Satyamev Jayate, the Chhattisgarh Medical Council (CMC) on Saturday suspended registration of nine doctors charging them of goading woman patients to remove their wombs.

Recovery of school uniforms in a Naxal camp during recent raids by security personnel in a jungle in Chhattisgarh’s Rajnandgaon district bordering Gadchiroli district in Maharashtra has baffled the fo

One Maoist was on Sunday killed in an encounter with the Border Security Force (BSF) at Pamulbaya in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bijapur district, the police said.

Security forces are yet to put in place a mechanism to counter the Naxals’ new strategy, which the ultras have, of late, employed effectively to attack their targets.

According to intelligence source