A close aide of Naxal leader and spokesperson Gudsa Usendi has been arrested from Durg district of Chhattisgarh, the police said on Tuesday.

The death of rebel top gun Cherukuri Rajkumar, alias Azad, has dealt a big blow to the Maoist movement in India, a press release issued by the central committee of the outlawed CPI (Maoist) here on Sa

Sujata, a central committee member of outlawed CPI(Maoist), has reportedly taken over the charge of Darbha division of the outfit, active in Chhattisgarh’s south Bastar, after the alleged death of Gan

The police on Sunday “detained” an elephant for killing a youth at the district headquarters town of Dhamtari in Chhattisgarh.

In a major breakthrough, security personnel on Wednesday arrested seven Maoists, including six women, allegedly involved in the killing of 3 BSF jawans and two policemen at Bhuski in Kanker district (

Maoist threats to enumerators have halted Census operation in 321 villages in insurgency-hit Bastar division in Chhattisgarh, officials said here on Tuesday.
The Census workers have been warned against entering these villages, where only rebels’ writ runs, forcing the government to suspend enumeration there. The g

Seven Maoist guerrillas, including six women, were arrested in Chhattisgarh on Wednesday for killing five security personnel in an ambush last month, the police said.

Maoists on Sunday ambushed a patrolling party at Etabalka in Chhattisgarh’s Kanker district, injuring two jawans of BSF, the police said.

Blaming the Centre’s wrong economic policies for the price rise, growing poverty and unemployment in the country, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Gadkari on Friday said, “The economist Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has failed the nation.”

Suspected Maoists on Thursday shot dead a former rebel for deserting their cadre at Amenegar under Binnu police station in Chhattisgarh’s Narayanpur district, police said.