Four black panthers — three cubs in company of their mother — were recently sighted in Achanakmar tiger reserve in Chhattisgarh’s Bilashpur district, nearly 150 km from here, a senior forest officer s

At least eight Congressmen were feared killed as Maoist guerrillas ambushed Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CPCC) president Nand Kumar Patel’s convoy — comprising about 25 vehicles — between Indagaon and Udanti under Mainpur police station, nearly 120 km from here, on Wednesday evening, reports reaching here said.

Maoist insurgents on Sunday damaged the entire 23-km stretch of landmine resistant road from Bijapur to Gangalur — once called “Khooni Sadak” (killer road), for witnessing a record number of casualtie

Insurgent violence showed no sign of letting up in Chhattisgarh with the Maoists killing two villagers, attacking a search party, injuring two CRPF jawans, shooting at a local CPI leader and looting houses in several villages in the Bastar region on Wednesday.

In their second major attack on security personnel in Chhattisgarh in the past 24 hours, Maoists killed 10 policemen by blowing up their anti-landmine vehicle at Gitam under Katekalyan police station in the insurgency-hit Dantewada district early on Friday morning, the police said.

Chhattisgarh chief minister Raman Singh on Sunday assured employment to the Naxals if they give up the path of violence and join the mainstream society.

The military company of outlawed CPI(Maoist) was suspected to be involved in the Monday’s carnage at Amamora in Chhattisgarh’s Raipur district, in which nine policemen, including additional-superintendent of police (ASP) Rajesh Pawar, were killed, police sources said here on Wednesday.

At least ten policemen, including an additional superintendent of police (ASP), were feared killed in a Naxal ambush inside a forest at Ammamala in Raipur district late on Monday evening, police said.

In a brutal act, eyes of an elderly couple, accused of “practising witchcraft”, were gouged out by their own relations at Saura, nearly 65 km from here, the police said on Saturday.

After gunbattles, Naxals have engaged security forces in language war in the insurgency-hit Bastar region of Chhattisgarh.
Almost following footsteps of Naxals, security forces are now learning tribal dialects through a crash course to be able to connect better with the local tribals in the conflict zone. Linguists have been hired to train the Central paramilitary troopers in different tribal languages of Bastar.