In a significant development, tribals of Sithram panchayat, a Naxal stronghold in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, on Monday virtually raised a rebellion against the militants, asking them to stop taking away their children to draft them in the Maoist cadre, intelligence reports said.

Intelligence has tipped off the police about a reported plan by Naxals to siege Raipur, sources disclosed here on Sunday.

Naxals have of late created two new divisions in Chhattisgarh along its borders with Orissa and Maharashtra apparently to retain consolidation of their base in Bastar region in the wake of increasing pressure on them by forces, intelligence sources said on Saturday.

The Naxals’ military capabilities have of late been hit hard due to their fast depleting arsenal, a Maoist commander arrested recently in Chhattisgarh’s insurgency-hit Bastar region has disclosed.

Large stones with intricate motifs engraved on them dot the beautiful landscapes of interior Bastar of Chhattisgarh.

In a bizarre incident, a student of a school in Bhillai, nearly 25 km from here, on Wednesday resorted to a prank spreading the rumour of a bomb in the institute to “bunk classes”, the police said.

Family members of a school teacher from Chhattisgarh, who went missing at the Indo-Pak border at Wagah three weeks ago, on Sunday appealed to chief minister Raman Singh to take steps to locate him.

Family members of a school teacher from Chhattisgarh, who went missing at the Indo-Pak border at Wagah three weeks ago, on Sunday appealed to chief minister Raman Singh to take steps to locate him.

Sounding a warning that Naxal problem was getting out of control, Chhatti-sgarh home minister Nank-iram Kanwar on Saturday strongly favoured deployment of army to tackle the left wing insurgency.

Researchers, who recently made a sensational discovery of tree fossils dating back to some 250 million years (Jurassic age) in the tribal village of Shankarpur inside north Sarguja forest division of