The BJP on Friday demanded the Army’s role to fight the Maoists menace.
“Unlike the UPA government, there is no dilemma among the BJP’s central leadership on use of the Army against Naxals,” Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, told reporters here.

In an act of savagery that may even put a beast to shame, Maoists had smashed heads of two jawans and slit throats of three others after killing them during their attack on a CRPF contingent at Dhorai on June 29, autopsy reports of the victims suggest.

Top brass of Central paramilitary forces — CRPF, ITBP and BSF — and Chhattisgarh police here on Thursday decided to reorient their strategy to combat Maoist menace in the state in the wake of Tuesday’s massacre of 27 CRPF jawans by the ultras at Dhorai, official sources said. Sources said it has been decided that the CRPF

The killing of 27 CRPF jawans by Maoists at Dhorai, in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, on Tuesday, has once again brought into focus the “lack of expertise and professionalism” of the Central paramilitary force in battling a well-knit and committed unit like the CPI(Maoist), a section of anti-Naxal experts feel.

The retaliatory fire from the CRPF jawans to the Maoist ambush at Dhorai in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Tuesday might have killed 15-20 Naxals, a senior police officer said here on Wednesday.

In the third such major attack in three months which took the paramilitary force by complete surprise, suspected Maoists killed 26 jawans of a CRPF road opening party and injured 15 others in an ambush at Dhorai in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district on Tuesday, the police said.
Rescue teams reached the spot late in the evening and the toll may go up, the police said.

Authorities are reportedly planning to “suspend” the ongoing anti-Maoists operations in Chhattisgarh in view of the monsoon, highly placed sources in the state police headquarters said here on Sunday.

Geologists have discovered a new diamond reserve in Chhattisgarh, official sources said here on Friday.
Experts of Geological Survey of India (GSI) have found a high quality diamond reserve in Jasipur district in the state.

Senior Congress leader and former chief minister Ajit Jogi’s son Amit on Saturday launched a week-long padyatra (foot-march) at Dantewada in Chhattisgarh’s restive Bastar division, coinciding with AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi’s birthday.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday demanded a special session of the Lok Sabha to discuss the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy in the light of safe passage given to prime accused Warren Anderson by the then Madhya Pradesh chief minister Arjun Singh.