Naxal Attack Sukma

A commando of the CRPF's jungle warfare unit CoBRA was killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Friday, a police official said.

A commando kidnapped by Maoist rebels after a deadly encounter in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, in which 22 soldiers were killed and 31 injured, has been released after more than 100 hours in captivity, the state government said on Thursday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the government is determined to take the ongoing fight against the unrest created by naxals to its logical conclusion.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Chhattisgarh on Monday to chair a high-level meeting in connection with the Maoist attack in the state's Bastar region that claimed the lives of 22 security personnel, a senior official said.

The security forces that were ambushed by Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh on Saturday were acting on what is now being viewed as faulty intelligence. They had received inputs about the presence of two of their top leaders.

Bodies of 17 security personnel were recovered from the jungles of Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, raising the number of deaths to 22 in the worst ever Naxal attack in four years that resulted from an ambush by some 400 insurgents who surrounded the jawans

Three jawans of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of police were injured, one of them seriously, in a blast carried out by maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district Sunday, an official said.

At least 60 Naxals led by local commanders are suspected to have been involved in the deadly attack on a contingent of the CRPF in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district yesterday, a senior police officer said today.

Eight personnel of the Central Police Reserve Force have died after Maoists blew up a mine protection vehicle or MPV, in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

Naxals torched two buses after asking passengers to alight in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district on Friday night, police said.

A top Chhattisgarh police officer today said the forces on February 18 foiled a major Naxal ambush in Sukma district, which was designed on the lines of the last year's Burkapal attack, wherein 25 CRPF personnel were killed

Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were today injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals at a forest in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said.

The CRPF will soon deploy a fresh squad of about 2,000 commandos from its special guerrilla warfare CoBRA battalions in and around the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh to defang the Maoists and their arsenal. Sukma and its adjoining areas have witnessed some of the deadliest ambushes on security forces recently, like the one where 25 CRPF personnel w...

The strategic anti-Naxal operations command headquarters of the CRPF has been shifted from Kolkata to Chhattisgarh by the Centre in the wake of 37 men of the paramilitary being massacred by Naxals in a span of less than two months.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will meet the Chief Ministers of all 10 states tomorrow to strengthen the anti-Maoist strategy. The meeting comes in the shadow of the attack by Maoists on April 24 in Chhattisgarh's Sukma, in which 25 men of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed.

A commando of the CRPF's jungle warfare unit CoBRA was killed in an encounter with Naxals in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district on Friday, a police official said.

A commando kidnapped by Maoist rebels after a deadly encounter in Chhattisgarh on Saturday, in which 22 soldiers were killed and 31 injured, has been released after more than 100 hours in captivity, the state government said on Thursday.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday said that the government is determined to take the ongoing fight against the unrest created by naxals to its logical conclusion.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will arrive in Chhattisgarh on Monday to chair a high-level meeting in connection with the Maoist attack in the state's Bastar region that claimed the lives of 22 security personnel, a senior official said.

The security forces that were ambushed by Maoist guerrillas in Chhattisgarh on Saturday were acting on what is now being viewed as faulty intelligence. They had received inputs about the presence of two of their top leaders.

Bodies of 17 security personnel were recovered from the jungles of Bijapur in Chhattisgarh, raising the number of deaths to 22 in the worst ever Naxal attack in four years that resulted from an ambush by some 400 insurgents who surrounded the jawans

Three jawans of the District Reserve Guard (DRG) of police were injured, one of them seriously, in a blast carried out by maoists in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district Sunday, an official said.

At least 60 Naxals led by local commanders are suspected to have been involved in the deadly attack on a contingent of the CRPF in Chhattisgarh's Sukma district yesterday, a senior police officer said today.

Eight personnel of the Central Police Reserve Force have died after Maoists blew up a mine protection vehicle or MPV, in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh.

Naxals torched two buses after asking passengers to alight in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district on Friday night, police said.

A top Chhattisgarh police officer today said the forces on February 18 foiled a major Naxal ambush in Sukma district, which was designed on the lines of the last year's Burkapal attack, wherein 25 CRPF personnel were killed

Two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel were today injured in an IED blast triggered by Naxals at a forest in Chhattisgarh's insurgency-hit Sukma district, police said.

The CRPF will soon deploy a fresh squad of about 2,000 commandos from its special guerrilla warfare CoBRA battalions in and around the Sukma district of Chhattisgarh to defang the Maoists and their arsenal. Sukma and its adjoining areas have witnessed some of the deadliest ambushes on security forces recently, like the one where 25 CRPF personnel w...

The strategic anti-Naxal operations command headquarters of the CRPF has been shifted from Kolkata to Chhattisgarh by the Centre in the wake of 37 men of the paramilitary being massacred by Naxals in a span of less than two months.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh will meet the Chief Ministers of all 10 states tomorrow to strengthen the anti-Maoist strategy. The meeting comes in the shadow of the attack by Maoists on April 24 in Chhattisgarh's Sukma, in which 25 men of the Central Reserve Police Force were killed.